Swimmer's Daily

  • For the first time, fans will be able to follow their swimming heroes live on their digital devices with Network Ten’s industry-leading digital platform, tenplay, set to live-stream all the finals action each night of the 2015 Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimming Championships.

    Ten Sport’s Mel McLaughlin and Lachy Reid, along with expert commentator Nicole Livingstone, will bring viewers all the action each night from 6.30pm AEST on tenplay and later on ONE, as the nation’s best swimmers secure their spots on the team for the upcoming FINA World Championships.

    “We are excited for Network Ten to bring a new element of digital broadcast to the Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimming Championships,” Swimming Australia CEO Mark Anderson said.

    “More and more people are using digital devices to watch sport now and it’s great that no matter where you are in Australia, you can tune in to see the swimmers race for a spot on the Australian Dolphins Swim Team.

    Read Swimming Australia

    Good news for swimming fans! #AusChamps15 will be live-streamed via www.tenplay.com.au! Details here: http://www.swimming.org.au/article.php?group_id=68113&id=2

    Posted by Australian Dolphins Swim Team on Monday, March 30, 2015

  • Anna is 16 and preparing for the baccalaurate. Her biggest dream is to go to the Olympic Games to represent her country, in the discipline that has been her body and soul since childhood, swimming. Every day Anna swims in the Club des Nageurs de Paris she chose to join. As part of the Elite group, coached by Yves, she organizes her time between pool, gym, school and family life. This schedule leaves little time for Anna to live her teenage life.

  • Tom Brady is known for taking a risk or two and sacrificing his body on the football field. Fans love that.

    But when he goes on vacation and decides to jump off a crazy-high cliff just for the thrill of it? That’s a little different.

    Such was the case this weekend as Brady posted a video on his Facebook page. Brady is seen at first contemplating the plunge. Someone (Gisele?) asks at the top of the video, “Are you going to jump, Tom?” […]

    Needless to say, this all turned out well. At least, the dive did.

    The Facebook feedback from his fans was definitely not as positive.

    See Business Insider

  • A game of charades with the Miami crew, featuring Jordan Harrison, Thomas Fraser-Holmes, Dan SMith, Matt Levings, Amy Levings and Grant Hackett.

  • Can you swim directly after eating?

    https://youtu.be/at2bMcJUNrM

  • 1st Ice Swimming World Championships, 1km fastest heat, 20.03.2015 Murmansk

    • Lane 1 Evgeni Rabinovich
    • Lane 2 Sergio Salomone
    • Lane 3 Craig Lenning
    • Lane 4 Christof Wandratsch
    • Lane 6 Henri Kaarma
    • Lane 7 Albert Sobirov
    • Lane 8 Eduard Khodakovski

  • Canada’s track and field team has lost one of its most promising young sprinters.

    Daundre Barnaby, who competed for Canada at the 2012 London Olympics, died in a swimming accident at a national team training camp in St. Kitts on Friday. He was 24.

    “He was a very nice guy, he had ‘peace love and unity’ as his slogan for the team,” said Peter Eriksson, Athletics Canada’s head coach. “And he was a very important part of our 4×400 relay team, and also he had a great future as a 400-metre runner. We expected a lot from him in the years to come.”

    The runner from Brampton, Ont., was swimming recreationally with teammates when he disappeared. Eriksson said he apparenlty lost his footing and was dragged away by an undertow.

    Read The Globe and Mail

  • Josh Stewart had an unexpected experience when he dived into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru in search of a giant manta ray.

    After encountering a 15-feet manta he tried to photograph’s the ray’s underbelly—a common practice to ID the manta—when the cheeky animal decided to take the diver on a quick swim.

    Pushed by the ray, Stewart was forced to somersault under water before the animal swam away.

    “I was just swimming down as I usually do to capture a manta ID shot and before I knew it, I was engulfed in the wings of this massive manta as I tumbled through the water,” Stewart told GrindTv. “I suffered no injuries but it was certainly a big surprise.”

    See The Weather Report

  • South Korean Olympic swimming gold medalist Park Tae-hwan, serving an extended suspension following a positive drug test, was decidedly non-committal about his future on Friday.

    Facing the press for the first time since getting slapped with an 18-month ban by FINA, the international swimming federation, earlier this week, Park said it was premature to talk about competing in the future.

    Park said he was so devastated about the positive test last year that he briefly contemplated retirement but added it was “inappropriate” for him to talk about his future after disappointing so many people.

    “I think it’s important for me to first apologize to the people I’ve let down and take time for some self-introspection,” Park said. “Swimming is everything to me. It’s all I’ve ever done and not being able to compete is hugely shocking. It’s as if my whole life has been taken away from me in an instant. It makes it difficult for me to think about retirement at this point.”

    Read Korea Times

    Photo by KOREA.NET – Official page of the Republic of Korea