Swimmer's Daily

  • The Australian Associated Press reports on the case of Sam Kanizay, a Melbourne 16-year-old who spent about a half-hour soaking his legs, sore from sports, at Dendy Street Beach in Brighton on Saturday.

    He emerged with his legs dripping in blood.

    “As soon as we wiped [his legs] down, they kept bleeding,” Sam’s father, Jarrod Kanizay, said. “They ate through Sam’s skin and made it bleed profusely.”

    And they left doctors stumped. But there have been theories aplenty, according to The New York Times and the Associated Press: Some were sure that sea lice, a group of crustaceans known as isopods, were responsible.

    The head of the Dolphin Research Institute points the finger at another group of crustaceans called amphipods; another marine expert speculates it was jellyfish larvae.

    As for Thomas Cribb, a parasite expert at the University of Queensland, “It’s not a parasite I’ve ever come across.”

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  • Preconceptions about places we’ve never been are formed in a multitude of ways: what we read, watch or hear about it, and sometimes even the people who are from there – whether we like them or not. Occasionally, there are areas we have no idea about. For me, that was a section in the heart of England: the south Midlands. Then I went to swim there.

    “What’s this area called?” I had asked Bryn Dymott, my swimming guide for the day. Bryn had met me off the train in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, and had rapidly transported us into … well, just where had he taken us?

    “Swimmer’s paradise,” he said. “Or rather, river-swimmer’s paradise. We don’t have the sea.”

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  • At this week’s U.S. Open, Ryan Lochte sits down exclusively with USA Swimming to talk about getting back into competition mode.

    Ryan Lochte talks about his motivation to return to the pool as well as his appreciatiion for his fans.

  • Imagine the triple times Olympic gold winning national team getting together again to compete in their home country, at the Worlds Masters Championships, 10 years later. In a country that absolutely loves your sport. (more…)

  • Enjoy this underwater breaststroke footage of Olympic 100m Breaststroke Champion, Adam Peaty!

    https://youtu.be/1-MnnQd4afo

  • Researcher will swim entire length of Tennessee River to promote water quality awareness

  • Olympic champion Swimmer Adam Peaty answers Quickfire questions in Victoria Derbyshire programme

  • With gold medals and world records under his belt, who else is more qualified to teach Kate Garraway how to perform the breaststroke than Adam Peaty?

  • Since I learned how to swim, I always tried to improve my stroke and feel the difference between different techniques. Once I felt how a good breakout should be like, I never forgot it. It is a game changer. The first few strokes are so fast that you immediately feel the difference between a good and a bad breakout.