Swimmer's Daily

  • Press release from the Danish Swimming Federation

    Denmark bids for the LEN Short Course Championships 2017 with an impressive bid based upon a solid success in 2013 where Denmark played host to the event. In 2017 Copenhagen will stage the event in a brand new, state of art Multi Arena. Members of the LEN Executive have just visited Copenhagen and are very positive about the bid.

    – What we have seen these last days fully assures us that Denmark once again aims at raising the bar in terms of hosting the LEN Short Course Championships, says Paulo Frischknecht, member of the LEN Executive upon his visit to Copenhagen, where he discussed the Danish bid and inspected the venues etc.

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  • A snorkeler who thought he had found human remains in the Colorado River actually came across fake skeletons sitting in lawn chairs.

    One skeleton was holding a sign that indicated they were placed there in August 2014 in an area of the Cienega Springs boat launch in La Paz County.

    Sheriff’s deputies met with members of the Buckskin Fire Department, who sent one of their divers down to investigate near a loading dock near Park, AZ.

    The diver who located the bogus remains described the scene as “an underwater tea party.”

    “Someone went to a lot of trouble to make sure they didn’t go floating away,” La Paz County Sheriff Lt. Curt Bagby said.

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  • More than most public figures, elite athletes capture the limelight for better or worse. With constant media attention personal issues become public affairs and can damage or ruin careers. In a recent episode ofSCI TV, industry expert Katharine Nohr discusses how to approach risk management in sports, covering high profile athletes Justin Gatlin and Michael Phelps.

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  • Council instead voted to increase drought emergency from stage two to three

  • The South African Masters Swimming Championships took place recently in Johannesburg. Several world records were broken, but one of the most amazing accomplishments at the event was that of the oldest competitor, 90 year-old Kascha Kloos.

  • Sunday 3 May, 2015 marks the 30 year anniversary of IRONMAN Australia in Port Macquarie. Check out the swim highlights from Hastings River with the weir crossing. Pro Results out of the water:

    Male:
    1. Graham O’Grady (44:55)
    2. Luke Bell (44:57)
    3. Pete Jacobs (44:58)

    Female:
    1. Lisa Marangon (51:58)
    2. Michelle Gailey (52:53)
    3. Christie Sym (53:00)

  • Matt Biondi talks about training philosophy

  • It won’t be long before the pools, lakes, and beach waters are filled with kids and adults. Knowing how to swim can be the difference between life and death.

    So at what age should you start thinking about swim lessons? The folks at the YMCA in Montgomery recommend you start with a class for parents and toddlers if your child is under the age of three.

    “That acclimates the parent and the toddler to the water and the aquatic environment,” said YMCA Aquatic Director Daniel Blazer. “It also allows parents to learn some techniques to get them ready for the next stage of stroke development.”

    While this stage is more about getting comfortable in the water, the “real” swim lessons can start by the age of three. And the more advance lessons can start at the age of six. Swim teachers say the more exposure your little one has to the water the more they will like it.

    “The lesson not only teaches stroke development, it also teaches water safety, how to have fun in the water, and some emergency rescues skills if they’re ever needed,” Blazer said.

    And when it comes to swim lessons there is no age limit. They start with babies and go all the way up to adults of any age. Instructors say it is a little tougher for most adults to pick it up, but they eventually get the hang of it. It can truly be a life saver and open up a whole new world of fun.

    See WSFA

    WSFA.com Montgomery Alabama news.

  • In 1968, Mark Spitz promised his fans that he would bring home no fewer than six gold medals from the Mexico City Olympics. Instead, the swashbuckling swimmer took silver in the 100-meter butterfly, bronze in the 100-meter freestyle and two gold medals in his team relay events.

    Meanwhile, he came in last in the 200-meter butterfly and didn’t win any solo race.

    His take? He could do better.

    “I considered myself a failure,” Spitz, now 65, told IBD from his home in Los Angeles.

    Still, he knew that worrying about drowned dreams was a waste of time. So he focused his goggles on 1972 and the Munich Games.

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