Swimmer's Daily

  • 13 -17 December 2017. These are the dates of the LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships in Royal Arena the new state of the art multi-purpose arena in the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen.

    When the Danish Swimming Federation, Sport Event Denmark and Copenhagen in the autumn 2015 won the LEN European Short Course Championships to Copenhagen ahead of Poland and Italy the date still had to be clarified. Together with its Danish partners and the European Swimming Federation (LEN) Danish Swimming Federation has worked to find the optimal date for the event.

    – Following discussions with Sport Event Denmark, Wonderful Copenhagen, TV and LEN we have chosen the dates from Wednesday 13 to Sunday 17 December, says Mads Bang Aaen, tournament director, LEN European Short Course Championships 2017.

    LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2017 will be the first sporting event to be staged in Royal Arena the brand new state of the art multi-purpose arena,

    – We are really looking forward to being the first sporting event in Royal Arena. In 2013 we created a festive celebration of swimming at the LEN European Short Course Championships in Herning, and we now look forward to building on this past experience in order to add yet another world class layer to the event, says Mads Bang Aaen.

    The event will attract more than 850 swimmers, coaches and team officials from more than 40 countries.

    Press release from the Danish Swimming Federation

  • After a near death experience and diagnosis with a form of heart disease (ARVC), TCU swimmer Evan Schmitzberger has a new role with the team and a new look on life.

  • Moken sea gypsies in Thailand have an extraordinary ability to overrule an automatic reflex of the eye which allows them to see with amazing clarity under water. But recent studies show that any child can learn this trick.

  • Amazing freedive through the ruins of a sunken city, performed by one of the last free-roaming Sea Nomads left, on the way back from a Project Moken Expedition.

  • A racehorse has survived a two-hour swim, covering 11km, after being scared during a training run on a beach in Brisbane, Australia.

    Rebel Rover was being trained in chest-high water at Sandgate beach when he unseated his rider and headed deeper.

    The five-year-old gelding was picked up by the Brisbane Water Police and a marine rescue unit.

    “He was in about four metres of water and he was swimming quite freely,” said Volunteer Marine Rescue’s Glen Philip.

    Rebel Rover, with a track record of misdemeanours, has only recently made a comeback after being banned for misbehaving in the stalls.

    Trainer Brad Smith told ABC News that horses could swim, but did not normally do so very much.

    “Any other horse, 20 minutes would probably see them out, but this horse – he must have a pretty amazing lung capacity,” he said.

    Read BBC

    https://youtu.be/1_7Pje_hgvQ

  • Radio and TV presenter, Nana Akua, (aka LadyXsize) has signed up to take part in the Swim London 2016 project which aims to give more than 200 adults who don’t currently swim, the opportunity to learn. She is also aiming to be part of a special relay event to be held during the London European Aquatics Championships in May.

  • A swimmer got quite the surprise when he nearly swam into a shark. Sergey Sverdlov caught the encounter on camera.

    https://youtu.be/_qj-twRQUV0

  • A trip around the 2km lap of the elite 10k swim course in Abu Dhabi. Feb 2016.

  • How far can you trust a footprint? Dinosaur footprints are fascinating but there’s a question over how reliable they are at providing information about the palaeobiology of the creatures that made them. While certain prints have been used as evidence that dinosaurs could swim, new research now suggests that the picture is not so clear.

    Read Laboratory Equipment

    Photo by James St. John