Swimmer's Daily

  • As California finally holds a statewide high-school swim meet, elite swimmers face a dilemma: whether to compete for their school or focus on bigger things

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  • James Magnussen is to seek a second opinion after being advised to rest his injured shoulder less than three months before he defends his 100 metre freestyle title at the world swimming championships, the Australian reported on Wednesday.

    The 24-year-old, who will be gunning for a third successive gold in the blue riband event in Russia in August, was given the advice by a consultant after tearing a muscle under his left shoulder blade.

    His coach, Mitch Falvey, told the newspaper Magnussen would probably be forced to skip Mare Nostrum races in Canet-en-Roussillon and Monaco next month.

    “Anything he does at racing intensity aggravates it,” he said.

    Read SuperSport

  • A man got the scare of his life when a curious killer whale swam up to his paddle board and had a nibble. The board fortunately didn’t taste like food and the man did not have the appearance of a Sea World handler, so the whale let it slide.

    See Mashable

    https://youtu.be/R-qK68a24dI

  • Sometimes a step backwards can be beneficial in moving moving forward again… well, this is hopefully applicable to 2012 London Olympics swimmer, Karin Prinsloo.

    That’s why Pretoria based Prinsloo is not too worried about missing the World Swimming Championships in Russia later this year.

    ‘It would have been nice to compete at World Championships, but because of a back injury and having my tonsils removed as well I missed out on many hours of quality training. I considered competing at the Mare Nostrum Series in Monaco in an effort to qualify for Worlds, but then decided against it,’ Prinsloo said.

    ‘If I had qualified, my training program would have been disrupted. I would have had to do a build-up for Monaco and then I would have had to taper down before the World Championships. Now I can focus only on getting racing fit for the next season.

    ‘I have started to do some gym training this week to strengthen my body. It is the first time in 18 months that I am back in the gym. I would not have been able to do so if I were going to compete at the World Championships.’

    Read All Africa

    https://youtu.be/rltsnJhD5wA

  • Rip currents can often be seen from the beach as a cloudy stretch of water in between areas of high wave action.

    The other current is called a structural current. These currents occur along break walls and the many concrete piers along the shoreline. They form when high waves throw water against the structures. That water has no where to go but further out into the lake.

    “They can be pretty fast and some of the measurements that they’ve done recently have been twice faster than Michael Phelps can swim,” Dodson said.

    The best way to keep yourself and others safe from these currents is to stay dry when waves are high — and steer clear of the pier. But sometimes we don’t realize how dangerous a situation is until we’re in it.

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  • Team Uganda won 6 medals in total most being bronze while one was a silver in the just concluded Cana Zone 4 swimming championship that were held in Angola. Nine countries participated in the championship South Africa emerged eventual winners, but Ugandans are happy by the performance they put up during the tournament. Team Uganda has acquired enough experience and exposure to enable them compete at a higher level.

  • She’s one of the most decorated Olympic athletes in United States history .. but Amy Van Dyken says the biggest accomplishment of her life is STANDING again … after severing her spinal cord last year.

  • Though acute otitis externa is often called “swimmer’s ear,” not everyone who jumps into the pool or lake this summer will get the infection.

    “Typically, swimming isn’t a problem,” said Dr. Gregory H. Esselman with Aiken Ear Nose and Throat.

    The phrase “swimmer’s ear” refers to a “swelling and pain in the skin of the ear canal,” he continued.

    The ear canal is “the narrow, tubelike passage through which sound enters the ear,” according to The American Heritage Stedman’s Medical Dictionary.

    “A common source of the infection is increased moisture trapped in the ear canal, from baths, showers, swimming or moist environments. When water is trapped in the ear canal, bacteria that normally inhabit the skin and ear canal multiply, causing infection of the ear canal,” as stated by the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

    Other factors that the American Academy of Otolaryngology lists that could cause the infection include “excessive cleaning of the ear canal with cotton swabs or anything else,” “contact with certain chemicals such as hair spray or hair dye” or “a cut in the skin of the ear canal.”

    Esselman also recommends avoid “cleaning the wax out of your ear,” as the wax can help ward off infection.

    Read Aiken Standard

  • Cullen Jones, a two-time gold medalist who trains in Charlotte, talks about training for a third bid to make the U.S. Olympic team, his motivation and the lure of competing in front of the home crowd.

    https://youtu.be/g4fLdXGRYog