Swimmer's Daily

  • On this episode we’re talking about 3 ways to keep your pool water warm to make the season just a little longer.

  • Chinese Olympic swimmer Sun Yang revealed his expectations for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.

  • Watch 2016 Chef de Mission Kitty Chiller, Australian Swimming Team Head Coach Jacco Verhaeren and swim team members Bronte Campbell, Emily Seebohm and Grant Hackett talk about the Swimming Australia Rio protocol camp.

  • Olympic and world champion Ruta Meilutyte had surgery on a broken elbow after falling off her bicycle.

    The Plymouth-based Lithuanian, 18, suffered the injury on Friday and had the operation on Monday.

    “It’s going to be a four-week process before she’s back in the water doing regular-type swimming,” her coach Jon Rudd told BBC Sport.

    “It’s not too desperate at all with us being well over 40 weeks away from the Olympic Games.”

    Read BBC

  • On the Morning Swim Show, Craig Lord, leading journalist and authority on political issues in competitive swimming, sits down with Brent Rutemiller, Publisher of Swimming World Magazine to discuss the 11 grievances against FINA and why the American Swim Coaches Association voted to replace FINA rather than reform it.

    See Swimmming World

  • “CBS This Morning” is kicking off a new series, “Pushing the Limits,” where we profile seemingly ordinary people doing remarkable things. Katie Ledecky is called “the best swimmer on the planet.” She started building her legacy at age 15, winning her first gold medal at the London Olympics. She’s broken 10 world records, one of them, almost by accident. Norah O’Donnell spoke to Ledecky on how she sets — and beats — her personal bests.

    http://youtu.be/vubMuQ4VP54

  • The day before the formal competitive start of the 2015 AIDA Individual Depth Championships (#aidaworldchampionship) has seen some fallout from the recent error that caused the dive line to be set 10m deeper than expected during a World Record attempt by Guillaume Nery and helped contribute to a black out and squeeze to the French Freediver.

    Judges Robert King (World Championship Jury Vice President) and Ute Gessman have resigned their positions on the World Championship jury.  They will be replaced by Fran Rose (as Senior Judge) and Alexander Russu with Kimmo Lahtinen as back-up.

    This unprecedented move, just a day before the competitors take to the dive platform to compete for the World Championships, has been received with mixed reviews by the wider community.  Some divers and athletes are unhappy that senior experienced judges are allowed to resign just before the competition starts, whereas others have seen the move as the judges taking responsibility by an incident widely regarded as serious in nature.

    Read Deeper Blue

    Photo by jayhem

  • This video is a collaboration project with local diver/videographer William Mariano. He produced a majority of the clips featured, while I worked on editing. We teamed up with members of the group “CSUMB Freedivers”. Spending the entire summer diving every spot from Monterey to Carmel.

  • A Peeping Tom took pictures of an 11-year-old state gold medallist swimmer and four young women inside a bathroom at the Hang Jebat Stadium in Krubong.

    One victim, a 20-year-old factory worker, told police they were taking a bath together after swimming practice when they spotted a hand holding a camera-phone, recording them.

    She said they only realised it when a flash appeared from the device during the 7.45pm incident on Wednesday.

    They were in the bathroom near the aquatic centre of the sports complex.

    When the five girls screamed, they heard the footsteps of someone running away.

    Read AsiaOne