Swimmer's Daily

  • Saturday 29 August 2015, the canals around the Danish parliament in Copenhagen were venue for the 9th Round Christiansborg and Krüger Relay, where a record number of almost 3300 swimmers participated.

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  • The World Swimming Championships in Kazan offered the opportunity for the Pacific island swimmers to provide an insight into their thoughts about the sport.

    They tell us how they got into swimming, outline the dedication and commitment that is required and also offer valuable viewpoints about the fun that can be had and real life lessons that young people can benefit from by getting in the pool.

    The Reporters’ Academy is integrated into the world of media, education and employment, dedicated to changing the lives of young people across Oceania and the UK.

  • Endurance swimmer Anna Wardley will attempt a world first in 2015 with her Balearic Swim Challenge. Partnership opportunities available.

  • Typically, tying a model up and throwing her to the bottom of a pool isn’t a recommended practice for both legal and moral reasons. However, this new music video for the song “Lydia” by Highly Suspect dares to do just that. You begin to realize something is a bit odd as the video rolls on and on — there are no cuts, meaning Marina Kazankova actually had to hold her breath during the entire 4-minute-plus video.

    See PetaPixel

  • At the World Championships in Kazan, Ryan Lochte used a new freestyle turning technique, pushing away from the turn while still on his back, and then utilising his powerful dolphin kicks until turning to a prone position just before surfacing at the 15m mark.

    https://youtu.be/_0chtVhd6fs

    While this is no problem in normal freestyle swimming, the regulation in medley does not allow dolphin kicks while in a supine position, which FINA now clarifies.

    The rules state that the last leg of medley is to be swum freestyle, and that freestyle here is any other style than backstroke, breaststroke or butterfly. Backstroke is defined as when the swimmer is lying on his or her back, which means that dolphin kicks in a supine position is also backstroke. And backstroke is as mentioned one of the styles that are not allowed in the freestyle leg of medley.

    The FINA officials have been clarifying this at the ongoing World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore, that the “Lochte technique” is punishable by disqualificiation. An official interpretation will be published shortly, according to swimsportnews.de

    Read swimsportnews.de (in German)

    (and please excuse me if there are errors in my translation here)

  • Images and setup time-lapse of a studio that I put together in a pool to photograph two swimmers.

  • Meet Ben Hooper, the man who’s swimming from Senegal to Brazil in a bid to become the first person to swim the Atlantic Ocean.

    More people have landed on the moon than have swum an ocean in full, Ben is hoping to add his name to that list. It’ll take him around 120 days of swimming in two sessions, totaling around 2000km. He’ll sleep on a support boat over night to avoid the risks of sharks and jelly fish.

    Speaking to Caroline Barker he said he was motivated by “a little bit of ego… I’d be a liar if I said there isn’t an element of me trying to push myself and see what I’m capable of, but I think this is something so much bigger, it’s about showing that nothing’s impossible.”

    See BBC

  • Swimming’s world governing body has cleared Chinese Olympic champion Sun Yang of any wrongdoing following complaints over his behavior at this month’s world championships in Russia.

    FINA executive director Cornel Marculescu told Reuters the altercation that led to a complaint against Sun was the result of overcongestion in the warmup pool in Kazan and did not warrant further action.

    “There was a misunderstanding in the pool,” Marculescu said.

    “In Kazan, we have over 1,000 swimmers, so the preparation pool became very crowded.”

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  • Austrian Long Distance Swimmer Sale Savel swims round the Island of Jersey (Channel Islands/English Channel). 10h48, about 58km / 36Mi (tidally assisted).