Swimmer's Daily

  • At London 2012, Chad Le Clos beat defending Olympic champion and world record holder Michael Phelps to win the Men’s 200m Butterfly.

    Can he win his second gold medal at Rio?

  • The 2016 Junior Swimming Championships will be held in HódmezÅ‘vásárhely (HUN) from 6 to 10 July 2016, see ejsc2016.hu

  • Mansfield’s double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington says GB swimmers could inspire a new generation of stars, with a strong performance at May’s European Aquatics Championships in London.

    Adlington won gold in the 400m and 800m at the Beijing Olympic Games, before winning two bronze medals in the same events at London 2012, making her Britain’s most decorated female Olympian ever alongside rower Katherine Grainger.

    Her performances in the latter were in front of a raucous home crowd and undeniably helped encourage youngsters to take up the sport.

    And history could be repeated later this summer with the London Aquatics Centre Queen Elizabeth Park hosting the 2016 European Aquatics Championships.

    Read Chad

  • The Lords and Ladies are looking for another national title at the DIII Championships in Greensboro, NC. Let’s go Kenyon!

  • The arena Swim Keel is a multi functional tool, designed to be used by beginners or advanced swimmers, as either a kickboard or a pull-buoy. Listen as Igor Bonnet, Category Manager of Equipment for arena explains how to use it.

  • A determined solo swimmer dubbed “the tractor” has completed an epic 60km swim from Geelong to Brighton.

    Mike Gregory and two other swimmers set off from the sea baths in Corio Bay on Friday afternoon, but only Mr Gregory made the distance, stepping ashore in Brighton yesterday afternoon after 22 hours and 35 minutes in the water.

    His two companions, Paul Hoffman and Steve Klugman succumbed to injury and fatigue and withdrew from the swim, which raised money for quadriplegic Melbourne teen Will Murray.

    See Herald Sun

  • Autopsy results show a rare heart condition contributed to a Dartmouth College swimmer’s accidental death at a Florida pool.

    Tate Ramsden of Nashville, Tennessee, died Dec. 26. A Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office report said the 21-year-old was swimming laps underwater when he went into distress.

    An autopsy report released Friday by Dr. Russell Vega, chief medical examiner for Manatee, Desoto and Sarasota counties, listed drowning as the cause of death. A contributing cause of death was arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, a rare disease of the heart muscle.

    The condition is inherited and causes abnormal heart rhythms.

    Read WMUR

    https://youtu.be/GGaju_2vT8w

  • It’s verging on criminal to allow a public asset as glorious as Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour to be used for little more than water traffic. Harbourside plans have been much talked about and an authority to oversee development has been proposed, but it could yet be years before any of its ideas come to fruition. Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has pre-empted the decision-making by suggesting that there is no better place to go for a lunchtime swim or to fish. He’s not entirely wrong, though the thought that an hour is all that’s needed to get from the office to the lapping waves to take a dip or cast a line and grab a bite to eat before returning is nothing short of demented.

    In a blog posting last week, Leung envisaged a swimming platform near the IFC from which office workers could take a 20-minute dip during their lunch hour as an alternative to going to the gym. Praising fishing as a good way to relax, he also suggested a 45-minute break to sit by the shore and cast a line. Understandably, he has been ridiculed for a host of reasons, among them the time constraints faced by workers, the low quality of harbour water, heavy ferry and pleasure-boat traffic and the impracticality of going fishing for such a short time during the hottest and busiest part of the day. Put that down to someone out of touch with everyday people.

    Read South China Morning Post

    Photo by pasuay @ incendo

  • As if we didn’t already have enough drama surrounding the Columbus Aquatic Center, Jeff Pischko, head swimming coach for the Columbus Hurricanes, tells me he’s afraid the city is about to lose a huge swim meet. […]

    So what’s the problem?

    It’s shocking, you might say.

    The people with Georgia Swimming, which controls such meets, say they need an aquatic center that does not have to shut down when lightning is in the vicinity. Georgia Tech’s Olympic Aquatic Center, which lately has hosted the meet, is such a place.

    Read Ledger-Enquirer