Swimmer's Daily

  • Bernard wants to relax in the pool but Lloyd has other plans. He wants to teach Bernard how to become a good swimmer – or at least how not to drown.

  • Alicia knows the cost of the War on Cancer. She wants to obliterate it. Will you help? 1/3 of cancers can be prevented by a healthy lifestyle. This March, push yourself 1/3 FURTHER/FASTER/HARDER and let’s obliterate cancer once and for all.

    See Alicia’s story now at: http://www.themarchcharge.com.au/

    https://youtu.be/erllyCC2oAo

  • Steve Backshall has an amazing experience as he swims with two whales who interact with him.

  • Goofy learns to swim – more or less – in this classic Disney cartoon short.

  • Married life is bliss for dual Olympian Alicia Coutts but she is not quite ready to let go of her first love – swimming.

    Coutts, 28, admitted it was very tempting to walk away from the pool for good after tying the knot in September.

    A chronic shoulder injury that refused to go away provided another pretty good excuse for the five-time Olympic medallist.

    Coutts has confirmed she will hang up the togs – but only after one last hurrah.

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  • Take a look at 5 of the most dangerous places to swim in the world, courtesy of Simply Swim

    Often we talk about the best places to swim, whether that be in open water, or our favourite water parks. But today we’re going to be counting down the top five places NOT to swim!

    Photo by sidibousaid60

  • The International Olympic Committee has reportedly identified 43 potential refugee athletes to compete at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. As many as 10 will be selected to compete on a team as “a message of hope” at this summer’s Games.

    According to IOC President Thomas Bach, the 10 athletes selected will compete on “Team Refugee Olympic Athletes”. The selection depends on the specific sports’ qualification criteria.

    “We have all been touched by the magnitude of this refugee crisis,” Bach told reporters. “By welcoming this team of refugee athletes to Rio, we want to send a message of hope for all refugees of the world.”

    Among the 43 potential athletes is a 17-year-old swimmer named Yusra Mardini, who fled Syria with her family. Along with a group of 20 other refugees, she used an inflatable boat to travel to Turkey. When the boat began deflating, she and her sister pushed it to shore by kicking in the water for three and a half hours. All passengers on the boat — none of whom were swimmers — arrived safely.

    Mardini, who now lives in Germany, is one of several athletes to have received funding from a $2 million IOC scholarship fund for refugees.

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  • Despite an outbreak of the Zika virus, Michael Phelps says his fiancée and newborn son will accompany him to the Rio Olympics.

    Nicole Johnson is due to give birth to the couple’s first child in May. She is with Phelps this week at the Arena Pro Series meet in Orlando (NBC Sports Live Extra, Friday and Saturday at 6 p.m. ET), one of the key tuneup events for the Olympics that begin Aug. 5.

    Zika has become an epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean since last fall. The virus is mainly spread through mosquito bites and has been potentially linked to birth defects.

    “We’re not worried about it,” Phelps said. “I think if you go into any Olympics, there’s always something that comes up.”

    Of course, it would be a different story if Johnson was scheduled to deliver after the games.

    “If she was pregnant, she definitely wouldn’t go,” Phelps said. “But she’s fine about it. She’s not missing it. And I wouldn’t want the little guy to miss it either. He won’t be able to remember it. But he’ll have a story to tell.”

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  • If humans were meant to swim, we’d have flippers, gills and, ideally, inflatable air bladders. This goes some but not all of the way to explaining how games heroes like Master Chief, Claude from GTA 3, Altair and John Marston react so poorly when they come into contact with water.