Swimmer's Daily

  • A projection system run 500 days before the start of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero has the world’s most decorated Olympian, Michael Phelps, picking up two more gold medals in what would be his fifth trip to the Games. 

    The projection system, run by the Dutch company Infostrada Sports and posted by NBC Sports, has Phelps winning the 200-meter individual medley and 100-meter butterfly — both events he’s won gold medals in for the last three Olympics. 

    The Rodgers Forge native already has 22 total medals, including 18 golds (11 individual golds), and 13 individual medals. These two individual medals would give him 15, the all-time record for individual medals by a male or female. 

    Of course, Phelps has to go to Brazil and compete for these to either be a possibility. He hasn’t officially said one way or another whether he would compete in what would be his age-31 summer. But since he returned to competition, most everyone thinks he will. 

    Read The Baltimore Sun

    http://youtu.be/HbcJR3KTowY

  • “For me the conflict was really basic, really human. I want to be accepted, I want to belong”.

    Find out more about Mark’s story and how sport can contribute for a better world at www.olympic.org/idsdp

  • Two people have a brave dog, Nico, to thank for their rescue after rip currents swept them out about 100 yards off the shore at a Venice County beach in California.

    Nico’s owners adopted him about six months ago and say he had no prior ocean experience before they got him.

    Once the grateful, exhausted swimmers were back on the beach they asked Nico’s owner, Dan Clark, if he was a trained rescue dog.

    Dan said, “This is the first I’ve ever seen him do anything like that.”

    See WPTV

    https://youtu.be/c2I6VrpcLrI

  • At the Norwegian Short Course Championships in Kristiansand last week, Henrik Christiansen took yet another huge step towards world class level, when he demolished 4 of his own Norwegian records over 4 days , in the longest events.

    Read simma.nu/no, SwimmingWorld  and see the videos attached below.

    19 March 2015 – 800 free 7:38.58, was 7:43.26 from Stavanger 3 April 2014

    20 March 2015 – 400 free 3:41.81, was 3:42.75 from Doha 5 December 2014

    21 March 2015 – 1500 free 14:37.44, was 14:47.55 from Stavanger 5 April 2015

    22 March 2015 – 400 IM 4:09.79, was 4:12.32 from Doha 4 December 2014

    Featured photo courtesy of the Norwegian Swimming Federation

  • Kylie Palmer, Jake Packard, Leah Neale and Taylor McKeown discuss their memories of the Australian Dolphins Swim Team and what it takes to make it.

  • Finnish Freediver Johanna Nordblad set a new Guinness World Record for freediving 50m / 164ft horizontally under ice on 14th March 2015.

    Read Deeper Blue

    http://youtu.be/Ia8DrZpztUA

    http://youtu.be/R5b_nNEXmf8

  • Right, totally swimming irrelevant … but today we witnessed a total solar eclipse here in the Faroe Islands, which was an intense experience. Or as our tourist board likes to dub it, unbelievable

    As if the official videos weren’t enough, Faroese band Hamferð managed to video a live performance including a spectacular view of the solar eclipse in the background. Watch it.

    My wife’s cousin filmed this from just down the hill where we stood. He was lucky, while we only caught a tiny tiny glimpse of the solar eclipse itself, from up on the hill.

    Here is one of the official videos from today

  • The Columbia Police Department has closed its investigation into sexual assault allegations made by deceased University of Missouri swimmer Sasha Menu Courey.

    Menu Courey committed suicide in June 2011, after which ESPN discovered that she alleged to have been raped by Mizzou football players. ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” first reported the allegation in January 2014 as part of a story on sexual assaults on college campuses. Menu Courey, 20 at the time of her death, had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

    Detectives were unable to identify a suspect after reviewing evidence and taking multiple statements during the last year. The case was reported to Columbia police on Jan. 27, 2014, nearly four years after the alleged assault in February 2010. There was no forensic evidence in the case and police could not locate any video evidence of the assault. Some of the statements gathered from witnesses interviewed by police, including at least three former Mizzou football players, was considered hearsay while other potential witnesses refused to cooperate with police.

    “Although several people have speculation on the identity of a subject who may have sexually assaulted Sasha, there is no information available to clearly establish that this person actually committed the act,” read the 44-page report released by Columbia police on Wednesday.

    Read St. Louis Post-Dispatch