Swimmer's Daily

  • If the Christmas excess still isn’t budging and you’re thinking about getting round to some exercise – how’s this for motivation? In a few weeks, Ben Hooper, a former policeman, will try to become first person to swim the Atlantic Ocean – more than one thousand, eight hundred miles of it. But it’s not only the huge distance he’ll have to overcome – there are sharks and jellyfish too. Simon Vigar went to see him in training.

  • Watch our waterside video interview with Team Speedo USA swim star and Olympic gold medallist, Jessica Hardy. We chat Disney movies, sport and people watching with the 11-time world record holder.

  • The victory of the Hungarian capital to host the event, which carries a whopping HUF 49bn price tag, was announced in May 2015. Two of the competition venues will be located in Margaret Island: a brand-new indoor swimming pool complex for swimming, diving and synchronized swimming, and the existing Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium for water polo. Open water swimming and high diving events will he held at Lake Balaton. A total of 5 billion viewers are expected to tune in to the event at some point of the two-week championship.

    See Hungary Today

    https://youtu.be/C0JTGlo26_w

  • Excitements arrived to the Kombank Arena on the second day of the championships: in the men’s competition Hungary and Greece produced a thriller, ending in the first tie of the event (8-8), while the Serbian women offered their best against Germany but finally they lost 13-14.

    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Croatia CRO (White) Vs Spain ESP (Blue) Women 13 HERRERA Patricia ESP Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day02 11-01-2016 Photo G. Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Germany GER (White) Vs Italy ITA (Blue) Men 11 RESTOVIC Marin GER 1 Stefano Tempesti ITA GK C Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day02 11-01-2016 Photo G.Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Serbia SRB (White) Vs Germany GER (Blue) Women 10 VUKOVIC Jelena SRB Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day02 11-01-2016 Photo G.Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Hungary HUN (White) Vs Greece GRE (Blue) Men 7 AFROUDAKIS Christos C GRE Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day02 11-01-2016 Photo P. Mesiano/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    (L to R) 3 GARIBOTTI Arianna ITA; 6 MAHIEU Geraldine FRA ITA (white cap) Vs. FRA (Blue Cap) Croatia – Serbia Women LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day02 11-01-2016 Photo G.Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia

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  • Badger Swim Club is one of the most successful clubs in the United States, training many of the worlds greatest swimmers and coaches. World Sport sat down with head coach John Collins and Puerto Rican Swim Team member, Eric Culver, as they discuss the perfect backstroke.

  • 75-year-old László Kiss will continue coaching Hungary’s national swimming team after having initially tendered his resignation in the midst of a highly publicised brawl between the country’s swimming federation and Katinka Hosszú, the world’s number-one female swimmer.

    Mr. Kiss changed his mind after receiving the backing of 110 colleagues – including five-times Olympic champion Krisztina Egerszegi – and a personal phone call from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who in a Friday radio interview pledged to act as a mediator between the conflicting parties.

    Read Hungary Today

  • Many of us would steer clear of a cheetah encounter, but not for this tourist.

    Gareth Poley, a digital and media creative director from Auckland, New Zealand, was filmed stroking a tame cheetah as it sipped water from a game reserve’s swimming pool in South Africa.

    See The Telegraph

  • Stockholm’s largest swimming centre, Eriksdalsbadet is making waves after deciding to introduce segregated jacuzzis, following reports of groping beneath the bubbles.

    Sweden may have an international reputation for promoting gender equality, but the Eriksdalsbadet complex – home to one of the most popular public swimming pools in Sweden – is introducing segregated hot tubs for the first time.

    The move follows reports by increasing numbers of women, who claim they have been groped by men as they relax in the giant bubble baths.

    “We’ve got a lot of requests, especially from women, to split the jacuzzis,” Sara Franzén Shilwan, the head of unit at Eriksdalsbadet told The Local, but refused to reveal the number of complaints made.

    However she confirmed that there had been a noticeable rise in November and December last year.

    Read The Local