Swimmer's Daily

  • Parents of students at Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach want to know what got their kids sick Thursday night.

    They tell 10 On Your Side more than half of the Princess Anne swim team got sick Thursday night during a meet at Maury High School in Norfolk.

    Swimmers say as soon as they got in the water they noticed something strange bubble up inside.

    “Maybe 10 minutes later, I started feeling a little sick. My stomach started feeling queasy,” Junior Thomas Rios said.

    Rios went to the locker room and threw up. He wasn’t the only one. Most of the 32 swimmers on the team were sick.

    See WAVY

  • A common stereotype about black people is that they can’t swim! We did a series of tests with people of all races to prove once and for all if the worst swimmers are black. Find out if it’s true in this weeks episode!

  • ASA writes

    The latest Sport England Active People Survey figures show that over 2.5 million adults continue to enjoy swimming each week.

    The statistics also show that over the last six months there has been a five per cent growth in open water swimming, and over 250,000 adults have improved their swimming ability through teaching and coaching.

    In addition, since April more than 25,000 people aged 45 and over, and 17,800 more people from black, asian and minority ethnic communities have started swimming more regularly. Swimming Clubs and competitions have also seen an increase.

    ASA Chief Executive, Adam Paker, said: “We are encouraged by the latest Active People results which confirm swimming remains the most popular participation sport in the country.

    But BT Sports writes

    The number of people taking part in swimming regularly has continued to fall in England despite a sharp rise in the number of women participating in sport at least once a week.

    Sport England’s chief executive Jennie Price said swimming has “an awful lot to do” after announcing an overall increase in participation with a big rise for sports such as running and gym attendances.

    Swimming experienced another fall of 39,300 to just over 2.5million. Football (down 66,600 to 1.81million) and cycling (down 24,300 to 2.03million) also had drops in numbers taking part, while tennis, cricket, boxing and rugby union had increases.

    The number of women playing sport has increased by 148,700, with the overall figure for both sexes being 15.74million in the 12 months to the end of September, up by 245,200 compared to June.

    Sport England believes its ‘This Girl Can’ campaign which targeted women has had a big impact, with a promotional video being watched more than 37million times on Facebook and YouTube alone.

    In terms of swimming, Price told Press Association Sport: “Swimming is only down 30,000 in these figures but over the year it has lost 180,000 participants. That remains a lot, and although it is good it has not continued to drop as sharply swimming has got an awful lot to do.

    “The good thing is they acknowledge now they have a real problem and that there is a long hard road ahead, rather than just claiming the figures are not being measured correctly.”

  • Suspended former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan is scheduled to return home on Saturday from a Japanese training camp with hopes of competing in next year’s Summer Games still up in the air, informed sources said Friday.

    Park, serving a doping ban, began training in Japan in September, after struggling to find proper facilities at home. In March, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the men’s 400-meter freestyle received an 18-month ban from FINA, the international swimming governing body, after testing positive for testosterone the previous fall. The suspension began retroactively on Sept. 3, 2014, the day FINA collected his samples.

    Under FINA’s anti-doping policy, Park isn’t permitted to train at facilities operated by the government or by his national swimming federation. He had been working out at a public pool in Seoul since June, but he could only train there two hours a day.

    Park, 26, had been scheduled to work out at Hosei University in Tokyo but ended up in Osaka instead. He was later joined by his long-time coach Roh Min-sang.

    Read Yonhap News Agency

  • The Netherlands’ Ranomi Kromowidjojo, who equaled her own world record in the women’s 50m free with a time of 23.24, was named Speedo Female Athlete of the Meet.

    See USA Swimming

  • Olympic champion Matt Grevers (Lake Forest, Ill.) set a short-course meters world record in the 100-meter backstroke and Team USA swimmers totaled nine American records Saturday to clinch a seventh consecutive Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool title, 155-107, over Europe at the Indiana University Natatorium.

    Grevers, who set an American record leading off last night’s 400m medley relay, topped that performance Saturday with a time of 48.92 seconds to win the men’s 100m back by nearly 1.5 seconds.

    See USA Swimming

  • On the women’s 400m medley relay, Manuel hit the water even with the European squad and pulled away down the stretch to touch in 3:45.20 to eclipse Team USA’s four-year-old world record. Courtney Bartholomew (Holland, Mich.), Katie Meili (Colleyville, Texas) and Kelsi Worrell (Mt. Holly, N.J.) swam the first three legs of the American- and world-record-setting relay.

    See USA Swimming

  • The Kirk Family YMCA and Bohemian Robot Photography has teamed up to keep kids safe in the water.

    Underwater pictures will be showcased in a book that will be sold in the Spring.

    All the profits will help the YMCA and fund it’s Y-Splash program which teaches young kids water about safety.

    See WDBJ7

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  • This weekend in Bergen, the Norwegian Swimming Federation will host the 2015 Nordic Championships, in the magnificent AdO Arena, featuring 219 swimmers from 9 Nordic Countries including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

    The meet landing page is here on medley,no, with links to among other things the invitation, time schedule, live timing and live streaming.

    There is also the Nordic Swimming Championships 2015 facebook page.