Swimmer's Daily

  • A promotional video for swimming volunteering at Burnham-on-Sea Swimming Club in Somerset, filmed by local students on a BTEC Extended Diploma Media Production course.

  • Update: The Russian Swimming Federation writes here about Efimova being temporarily suspended for a possible anti-doping rule violation.

    Four-time world swimming champion Yuliya Efimova has become the latest high profile Russian athlete to have failed a doping test for meldonium, it has been widely reported this evening.

    Efimova, the 100 metres breaststroke champion at last year’s home World Championships in Kazan, is Russia’s leading swimmer, having also won a 50m world title in 2009 and the 50 and 200m double in 2013 in addition to a London 2012 Olympic bronze medal over 200m.

    But the 23-year-old is already a controversial figure, having served a 16-year ban from the sport for a previous failure for banned prescription steroid DHEA in 2013.

    She claimed to have inadvertently taken the steroid from a supplement she bought at a store in California, where she was training, and that a salesperson assured her the supplement was “doping-free”, though DHEA was clearly listed as an ingredient on the label.

    Efimova was stripped of her five titles at the 2013 European Shortcourse Championships in Herning, but many criticised how her 2013 World Championships performances survived and that she was able to return in time for Kazan 2015.

    The Russian Swimming Federation is “aware” of her failure for meldonium, a source told the TASS news agency today.

    Read Inside the Games

  • World Champion Swimmer, Natalie Coughlin, talks about her passion for nutrition and why she chose to partner with Luvo.

  • ESPN: Outside the Lines. A look at the training regiment of High School swimmer, Michael Andrew.

  • A drama about 20 year old girl is torn about her decision of. taking her father off of life support. Camila is a great swimmer capable of reaching the olympics. Her father David has parkinson’s disease and afraid he has become a burden to her daughter. Camila ends up finding out the reason as to why her father ended up in a coma, making it even more difficult to remove him from life support.

    https://vimeo.com/158959520

  • The LSTV Sideline team travelled to Sheffield’s Ponds Forge to provide you with all the action from the British Universities and College Sport Long Course Swimming Championships 2016.

  • Checking my stroke and offering some technique tips to think about. Swimming in my Endless Pool, practicing in a new blueseventy wetsuit. This Helix is the same as 2015, but with slightly shorter legs for an easier/quicker transition, and also with some custom printing.
    There’s lot’s of different ways to swim, but here is my take on what you could try to help your swimming. If you need to, wear flippers when practicing. Be sure not to slow down or tense up your recovery. Keep your arm relaxed and drop it into the water (not tensed and placed gently). Let me know what else you struggle with and I’ll post more specific vids. Hope this helps some one out there.. :)

  • Rebecca Adlington, the former Olympic swimmer, has announced that she and her husband Harry Needs have split after just 18 months of marriage following a series of rows since the birth of their first child.

    The 27-year-old double gold medallist said the separation from fellow ex-swimmer Needs, 24, was “on amicable terms” and insisted the pair “remain close friends”.

    The couple tied the knot in August 2014 at a rural wedding venue in Staffordshire and Adlington gave birth to their daughter in June last year.

    Read The Telegraph and Rebecca Adlington

    It’s after much thought and sadness that we confirm our separation. It is on amicable terms and we still remain close friends. We move forward with respect for one another and our focus and commitment is on parenting our gorgeous daughter Summer. This will be our only comment on this private matter.

    https://youtu.be/p5CdPlX1VgA

  • This is some of the best footage of the Olympic champion swimmer in action, especially from underwater. In the movie the swim was speeded up–here it is slowed down so you can appreciate Johnny’s technique. Most “official” videos from competition were filmed strictly from the deck, and do not show his efficient freestyle.

    https://youtu.be/7sQyRhWMNrs