Swimmer's Daily

  • Two years ago, Hunter Wright became the youngest athlete to successfully swim the Magellan Strait. At the time he was only 17-years-old, becoming the sixth person in the United States to complete the swim.

    With one world record under his belt, Wright is ready for another.

    Hunter is planning to swim in the chilling waters of the Arctic Ocean. He’ll swim from Point Barrow, Alaska to the city of Barrow wearing only a speedo and cap.

    “It’s about a 4.4 miles swim. Water temperature ranges from 32 to 40 degrees and nobody in the world has ever attempted it,” Wright explained.

    The challenging and chilling swim will only be the beginning of a much larger plan for Wright.

    “One of my goals is to swim Antarctica. And but that’s the most southern swim in the world and I wanted to do the most Northern swim in the world to just start out and kind of get a warm up going before Antarctica,” Wright said

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  • Rani is a golden retriever who has caught dozens of fish as well as some turtles. Watch her snatch a big bluegill out of the water.
    She puts the bread right under her mouth for bait.

  • In an act of sportsmanship one league official described as “absolutely incredible,” Metuchen High School senior Michael Spark presented his Greater Middlesex Conference Championships first-place medal to the swimmer he believes is “its rightful owner.”

    Spark finished second in the 100 backstroke at the Jan. 29 conference championships to Latvian-born Rich Fortels of Monroe, who broke a 14-year-old meet record in the event only to have his 51.30-second time nullified on a technical rules violation that state Sen. Samuel Thompson, 12th legislative district, called “absurd.”

    After learning that conference officials last week rejected the appeal of Monroe on behalf of Fortels, who was disqualified for wearing his Peddie Aquatics club team swim cap that did not give him a competitive advantage, Spark, who was awarded first place during the Jan. 29 meet, went to Monroe High School on Monday to present Fortels with his championship medal.

    “You beat me fair and square,” Spark said during a meeting with Fortels in Monroe Athletics Director Greg Beyer’s office. “You broke the meet record. You proved to everyone that you are the better athlete and the better swimmer. You were the clear winner. You beat me by three seconds. You deserve all the recognition. I want you to take this.”

    See USA Today High School Sports and mycentraljersey.com

  • Let’s face it, swimming does have a reputation for being a sport that for whatever reason seems to attract more white people than people from ethnic minorities. Which is a great shame.

    You’ve only got to go to a gala and most of the officials and most of the competitors are white even those galas in mixed urban areas such as North London where I live.

    I think it is changing (slowly) but anything that can be done to encourage more people to participate in the sport from different ethnic backgrounds has to be a good thing.

    Enter the community swimming group, Swim Dem Crew (pictured above), which has just been recognised at the annual British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards (BEDSA) for their outstanding work encouraging adults from all backgrounds to learn how to swim.

    Read more on Goggleblog

    https://youtu.be/oz4FsxVEJQk

  • A suburban school in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru had an unexpected visit from a male leopard on Sunday morning. Since it was a holiday, there were no children in the school, but the ten-hour-long effort to capture the animal left six people injured.

    Read Mashable

    https://youtu.be/qCc4TUy51T0

  • Courtesy of Australian Dolphins Swim Team

  • Courtesy of Australian Dolphins Swim Team

  • As the six-month countdown to the start of the Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro hit calendars across the world, one of Team USA’s biggest stars quietly wrapped up a training session in San Diego.

    Swimmer Ryan Lochte spent the past three weeks living at the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center while training at several high school pools across the county with his teammates on Swim Mac Elite based out of Charlotte, North Carolina.

    Lochte, who turns 32 in August, aims to represent the U.S. in his fourth Olympics.

    “I remember when it was my 1st Olympics and I was one of the youngest guys on our USA team, and now I’m the oldest guy on the USA team, so it’s weird” said Lochte.

    See NBC San Diego

  • A 10-year-old boy has been raped at a public swimming pool in Vienna, according to local media reports.

    Local newspaper Kronen Zeitung described the assailant as a 20-year-old Iraqi refugee, who was arrested at the scene of the incident in late December.

    It was reported that the child was taken to hospital for treatment over “severe” injuries.

    Austrian police did not initially release details of the rape, which took place on 22 December at the Theresienbad pool, in order to protect the victim, according to Kronen Zeitung.

    Read The Independent