Swimmer's Daily

  • Azat Kadyrov, Director General of Kazan 2015
    interview conducted on April 25, 2015

  • Championship Swimming – Preparing for competition with George Haines. How George Haines prepared his teams for the championships – it takes you through the last three weeks before the big meet. Basic by today’s standards, but revolutionary for the time.

  • An intruder made an unwelcome splash when he invaded the final of the men’s 10m platform final, won by Tom Daley at the Diving World Series.

    The young man evaded security staff to make a dash for the diving boards at the London Acquatics Centre on Sunday night.

    He pulled off his tracksuit to strip to Speedos as he rushed up the stairs, closely followed by the guard.

    But he could not be stopped and jumped into the pool – to boos from the crowd.

    Read The Telegraph

  • The 20-year-old freestyle and butterfly star made the bold decision after last month’s selection trials to leave coach Vince Raleigh at Chandler and move across Brisbane to join Michael Bohl’s squad at St Peters Western that is fast becoming Australia’s top young talent team.

    It meant that McKeon would no longer train alongside her older brother, 200m and 400m freestyle gun David, but this move is certainly no family feud with the siblings to remain in the same share house but just drive in a different direction to training every day.

    It is the second time in a year that McKeon has changed coaches, after she and David moved to Brisbane from Wollongong last year where they were coached by their father Ron.

    Bohl said McKeon was trialling in his squad up until the Australian swim team next race at a grand prix meet in Canberra on May 15 but for now the move was working out well.

    “She will give it a trial through to the Canberra grand prix in a couple of weeks and then make a decision more long term after that,” Bohl said.

    “I think she is just at that point where she is not quite sure and I guess with kids it’s probably happening a lot around Australia people if they’re going to make changes it’s probably now or just after worlds with the Olympics next year,

    “It is important they find the situation that they feel comfortable in.

    “You don’t know what a program is like until you try it.

    Read Herald Sun

  • A North Carolina couple’s black lab is in the doghouse after crashing a pickup truck into a swimming pool. The pooch didn’t have her paws on the steering wheel but she was pawing the pedal to the metal.

    Their pet named Caroline rarely left home without the couple, Mike and Ruth Smith. But when they made a grocery run the dog got spooked.

    “And when she gets scared, she’ll go down on the floorboard of the truck,” said Michael Smith

    Ruth Smith was driving but now she had 90 pounds of scared dog on her foot and despite Michael’s efforts to pull her off, the pickup continued to go faster.

    Ruth tried to keep the truck straight and aimed for a wooden fence. There it plowed through the fence and to the surprise of all, into a swimming pool.

    Other than a few cuts to Michael Smith, everyone else made it out fine. The dog-driven Dodge truck however, is done.

    See NBC2

  • Tim Ferriss, best known as the author of “The 4-Hour Workweek,” has built a career around dissecting the techniques of the world’s elite performers and packaging them in a way anyone can use.

    He’s worked with experts to learn Brazlian Jiu-Jitsu, how to race a rally car, and how to become conversational in a language in just three months.

    The skill he’s most proud of learning, however, is long-distance swimming, Ferriss tells Business Insider.

    In 2008, at the age of 31, he not only overcame a lifelong fear of drowning, but became a practiced swimmer.

    With the right teacher, in about a week he went from not being able to swim to swimming 40 laps at a time. A few months later, he could swim a mile in open water.

    He says the experience was “mind-blowing” and changed his perspective on how skills could be learned. It forced him to ask himself, “If I thought this was impossible, what other things do I think are impossible that are completely achievable?”

    Read Business Insider.

  • One moment the US fishing enthusiast was posing triumphantly with his prized catch — the next, a hungry sea lion was dragging him underwater to what he feared would be his certain death.

    Dan Carlin had reeled in a number of yellowtails from his nine-metre boat in waters off San Diego, California, when his wife Trish asked him to smile for a photo, 10 News reports.

    The 62-year-old accountant grinned and held up one of the fish when a sea lion sprang two metres from the water and latched onto his hand in an effort to snatch the tasty treat.

    His wife’s incredible photo captures the moment the predator bit into Mr Carlin’s hand, just before it dragged him six metres underwater.

    See ninemsn