Swimmer's Daily

  • Check out USA Swimming’s newest attraction Surf Omaha that will be featured in the 2016 Aqua Zone at the U.S. Olympic Trials – Swimming this upcoming June! For full details on the attraction and the Aqua Zone visit www.usaswimming.org.

  • Featuring Eamon Sullivan

  • The Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will not be cancelled and the mosquito-borne Zika virus will not affect the Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said.

    Speaking in Los Angeles on Monday, IOC President Thomas Bach expressed confidence that there will be good conditions for athletes and spectators at the Rio Games in August, despite the explosive spread of the Zika virus across the Americas.

    But President Dilma Rousseff’s chief of staff, Jaques Wagner, has urged pregnant women to not travel to Brazil for the Olympics because of the risk posed by the virus.

    “The risk, which I would say is serious, is for pregnant women. It is clearly not advisable for you to travel to the Games because you don’t want to take that risk,” he said.

    The unprecedented warning, issued just over six months before the opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro, came after the World Health Organization declared an emergency over the virus, suspected of causing microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, in babies.

    No vaccine or treatment currently exist for the virus.

    See aljazeera, USA Today, CCTV, AFP, africanews, …

    https://youtu.be/C9SulgQ5pZQ

  • Four-time Olympic Medalist, Cullen Jones, discusses what it means being a role model and an Olympic champion in the African-American community despite the misconceptions and stereotypes that swimmers of color face. He shares his thoughts on swimming becoming a more inclusive sport and how he one day will pass on the torch to the younger generation.

  • In the second of our ‘Moments in Time’ series we focus on the extraordinary story of Eric Moussambani at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

    We talk to Eric about his unique preparations to represent Equatorial Guinea for the Games, his training facilities and schedule as well as his experience with swimming. The Men’s 100m Freestyle race he was to be involved in became one of the most memorable moments in Olympic history.

  • For the person who gets a sinking feeling every time they set foot inside a museum, at last the perfect destination.

    Accessible only to snorkelers, divers and sea life, Europe’s first underwater museum is opening in waters off the Spanish island of Lanzarote.

    The Atlantic Museum, based on the seafloor of Las Coloradas bay, has begun installing a set of sculptures by international artist Jason deCaires Taylor inspired by “the defense of the ocean.”

    See CNN

    https://youtu.be/dqHWh6RT0hc

  • What do you think is the best way to swim through a group of alligators?

    If you said there isn’t a ‘best way’ to do such a crazy thing then you’re right.

    But Charles Wieand doesn’t roll like that and he decided to take a dip with the creatures using an inflatable crocodile lilo.

    A YouTube video, from Outdoor Adventure channel, showed the 34-year-old slaloming through eight foot alligators at Florida’s Everglades Outpost.

    ‘It’s definitely one of the craziest ideas I’ve ever had,’ the comedian (he would have to be) said.

    See Metro

  • There were unfortunately a lot of no-shows at the FINA World Aquatics Gala “Soirée des Etoiles”, especially between the swimmers. But that just made 2015 best male diver He Chao rule even more.

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