Swimmer's Daily

  • This film was produced by The Reporters’ Academy, a media production company run by young people, tasked with the mission of telling the stories of Oceania’s swimmers at the World Championships in Kazan. 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.

  • If you’re looking to cool off from the hot weather, you need to know what waters are safe to swim in, which ones you should stay away from.

  • A group of boys from Beaconsfield Heights pool boys perform a synchronized swimming routine Wednesday, August 15, 2015 at the pool in the Beaconsfield area of Montreal. Their coach, Chris Callard, always wanted to do synchronized swimming when he was younger, but was told it was only for girls.

  • Seven years after declaring independence from Serbia, Kosovo has competed in the World Swimming Championships for the first time in Russia.

    Despite not recognising the country’s passports, Russian authorities made an exception for this event.

    The country has never previously participated in swimming at a World Championships or Olympic Games.

    In February, Kosovo officially joined swimming’s World governing body FINA.

    The team is hoping its debut in this year’s World Championships in Kazan will inspire other young Kosovans.

    Al Jazeera’s Avni Ahmetaj reports from Pristina.

  • A glass “sky pool” is planned to be suspended between apartment blocks in London’s new Nine Elms quarter, close to Battersea Power Station.

    The 25-metre-long pool will link two blocks of apartments that form part of the 2,000-home Embassy Gardens development by London architects HAL, now in its second stage.

    At five metres wide and three metres deep, the pool will allow residents to swim between the two buildings while enjoying views of London through the pool’s completely transparent 20-centimetre glass casing.

    Intended to resemble an aquarium, the pool was designed by architecture firm Arup Associates with specialist advice from structural design engineers Eckersley O’ Callaghan and aquarium designers Reynolds.

    The residential blocks, developed by the Ballymore Group, will also feature a rooftop bar, spa and orangery. An additional bridge forms a second link, allowing residents and visitors to walk between the buildings as well as paddle.

    See for instance dezeen.com

  • Charlotte Samuels, of Ridgewood, is preparing to swim 20 miles from Long Island to the Jersey Shore. This should be no problem after what she accomplished last summer, swimming the 28-mile Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, the 20-mile Catalina Channel.

  • Your personal fitness tracker, now with lap counting technology.

    Swimmers, now it’s your time to Shine.

    https://youtu.be/be30GagUvrY

  • South Korean wind surfer Wonwoo Cho got his first ride in an ambulance the other day, taken to a Rio de Janeiro hospital with dehydration, vomiting, a headache and dizziness.

    Cho is one of four athletes to have “officially” fallen ill so far at the week’s Olympic sailing test event in Rio de Janeiro’s polluted Guanabara Bay. Officials acknowledge the reporting is incomplete with many teams and some of the 300 athletes skittish about disclosing illnesses.

    The 20-year-old Cho on Wednesday was back to “50-60 percent” strength and out training, 24 hours after his hospital stay. He said he doesn’t know “the exact reason why I got so sick.”

    His coach has fewer doubts.

    “Probably it’s from the water,” Danny Ok, Cho’s coach and an exercise physiologist, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “It’s kind of a sad story.”

    Ok described the water as “smelly” and added: “Especially in the bay, it’s terrible. I can’t imagine how they can have racing in this area.”

    Read for instance The Southern

    https://youtu.be/nOt8UdyskIY

  • At four years old, Eva Dunham is like a little fish in the water. Swimming laps, doing somersaults and not wanting pool time to end.

    “I’m very proud of her, she’s worked hard,” said her mom

    Jessica Dunham knows her little girl got a second chance after a near tragedy at the family pool two years ago. One second she could see Eva on the back porch. And the next?

    “I found her face down floating in our family pool. By the time I got to her she was completely lifeless, blue,” Jessica said.

    See wnyt.com