Swimmer's Daily

  • The swimming legend speaks to the media while in town for the Arena Pro Swim Series at Austin competition which featured several other Olympic and World champions.

  • Swimming under the ice january 16th 2016 on Brakstadvatnet a little north of Bergen. The air was -10 c below and the ice was around 15 cm thick.

  • Orenda Experience through the eyes of a Coach & Swimmer

  • Olympian and mom, Amanda Beard explains what sets Aqua Sphere products apart – comfort, quality, versatility

    https://youtu.be/-xKXvBJ-G6Y

  • Jim Phillips is a Deadwood local, who is raising money for area swim teams, by doing something not many of us could. Next Monday, Phillips will swim from sun up to sun down at the Deadwood rec center. But, it’s not just a Monday… it will be his 70th birthday.

    See Black Hills FOX

  • Serbia: as usual, Greece: second time after 1999

    An extraordinary day in the Kombank Arena, with the first penalty shootout of the tournament which might be decisive on the spots in the Olympic Qualification Tournament (the Germans won over Slovakia). Followed by three women games, all ended with exactly the same result: 11-10! And finally the two quarter-finals in the evening which saw the Greeks defending brilliantly against Spain while host Serbia was back in form and downed the Russians with ease.

    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Netherlands NED (White) Vs Greece GRE (Blue) Women 11 PLEVRITOU Eleftheria GRE Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day09 18-01-2016 Photo P. Mesiano/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Malta MLT (White) Vs Romania ROU (Blue) Men 13 TIC Marius Florin GK ROU 4 GHEORGHE Mihnea Andre ROU Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day09 18-01-2016 Photo P. Mesiano/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    8 KESZTHELYI Rita HUN LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Women HUN – RUS Hungary (White) Vs Russia (Blue) Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day09 18-01-2016 Photo G. Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    10 FILIPOVIC Filip SRB LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Men SRB – RUS Serbia (White) Vs Russia (Blue) Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day09 18-01-2016 Photo G. Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    12 MARIANI Naida POR LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Women POR – TUR Portugal (White) Vs Turkey (Blue) Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day09 18-01-2016 Photo G. Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    TEAM GERMANY LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Men SVK – GER Slovakia (White) Vs Germany (Blue) Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day09 18-01-2016 Photo G. Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Spain ESP (White) Vs Greece GRE (Blue) Men 5 FOUNTOULIS Ioannis GRE Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day09 18-01-2016 Photo P. Mesiano/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia

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  • Wildlife officials are trying to figure out exactly how a shark got into the swimming pool at a South Florida condo complex.

    The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers responded to the Mariner’s Cay condominium in Hypoluxo last week after a woman found a live five-foot blacktip shark in the pool.

    The woman told officers she saw two young men running from the pool, which is located near the shoreline of the Intracoastal Waterway. The officers removed the shark from the pool and returned it to the ocean.

    Read CBS News

    Photo by jbylund

  • A typical day in the life of a swimmer.

    https://youtu.be/ERnwlzC7FDQ

  • A suburb of the German city of Bonn has forbidden adult male refugees from visiting the town’s public pool, a city spokesman announced on Friday. After women at the municipal pool in Bornheim had begun complaining of sexual harassment, said the spokesman, it was clear that immediate action should be taken to protect the rights of the women.

    Initially the men, who live in a shelter in Bornheim while they await the results of their asylum applications, were given access to the municipal pool as part of a small package of benefits. Soon, however, women began going to the manager saying the men’s behavior was unacceptable.

    While none of the incidents amounted to anything illegal, the city said it was important first and foremost to make it clear to the men that in Germany, the rights of women are sacrosanct.

    “Once our social workers tell us that they have got the message, we’ll terminate the measure,” said Markus Schnapka, head of Bornheim’s social welfare office.

    Read Deutsche Welle (in English)