Swimmer's Daily

  • Open Water Olympian, Chloe Sutton, demonstrates the 3 sighting techniques for open water swimming

    https://vimeo.com/145151372

  • Behind the scenes of our Swimmer photoshoot

  • Mike Boyd is familiar with Gladwell’s 10,000, that being the approximate number of hours of practice supposedly required to master something. He wondered how long it would take him to learn to kickflip on a skateboard. It took him about 5 hours and 47 minutes, but some of that was him just fooling around, seething in pain, etc.

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  • In a revealing new interview with Sports Illustrated, Olympic hero Michael Phelps spoke about his time in a rehabilitation facility, his regained appreciation for swimming … and the dark moments of his life following a 2014 arrest for driving under the influence.

    In the interview, Phelps recalls hiding out at home following his arrest, when a police officer pulled him over in Maryland going 84 mph in a 45-mph zone. Phelps failed two field sobriety tests and was given a breathalyzer. He blew .14, which is over the .08 legal limit, and was arrested.

    Days later, hiding out in his home, Phelps had his lowest moments.

    From Sports Illustrated:
    News organizations were camped nearby, looking for a glimpse of Phelps, who did not leave the town house for four days. “I was in a really dark place,” Phelps says. “Not wanting to be alive anymore.”

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    https://youtu.be/E8zpwE0NdW4

  • Find out what makes US swimmer and Olympic gold medallist, Nathan Adrian, tick as we give him the Team Speedo interview treatment, and chat cartoons and non-pool based sports.

  • Watch the moment when a seal jumps on to a whale and goes for a ride! Captured off the Baja Peninsula of Mexico while on a whale watching tour.

  • Clifton Park, NY – Shenendehowa’s Julia Samson has six Section II individual titles and eight Plainsmen records to her name. But even that wasn’t enough for Shen to prevail in a Tuesday afternoon swim meet.
    Maggie Wyngkowski and Elaine Lipkin helped lead Niskayuna to a 97-89 win over its rival.
    Samson remains one of the most sought after recruits in New York State, with Ivy League colleges atop her list of finalists.

  • Lucky shark cage divers got a close view of a Great White in Gansbaai, South Africa

  • In 2007 Michael Ventre attempted to swim the English Channel. After 13 hours of swimming he was making no headway against the tide and was pulled out of the water in sight of the French coast. He wasn’t disheartened: after all, 13 hours of swimming is still a huge achievement. And that experience taught him something: he had endurance. In the words of Dory in Finding Nemo, he could “just keep swimming.” In 2011, on his third attempt, he successfully crossed the Channel.

    With the Channel under his belt Michael went on to swim two more Oceans Seven crossings: Molokai and Catalina. But that wasn’t quite enough. He wanted an extreme challenge, a swim that had never been attempted before.

    “I began Googling the world’s longest swims,” says Michael. “That’s when I came up with the idea of swimming from New York to London as it hadn’t been done before.”

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