Swimmer's Daily

  • Because she can

    Faa Sai at Elephant Nature Park thinks that sprinkler pressure in the field is not strong enough. She break the pipe and makes their own fountain and enjoy her dancing.

  • Special early-bird registration fees for the first 50 registered participants, December 15-21

    On Sunday, May, 25, Palamós will see the second out of 5 competitions comprising the Oceanman circuit, 2015 international open water swimming series to be held in Spain and Italy.

    The biggest novelty and a definite highlight of the second running of the Oceanman Palamós is its 9.5km (Oceanman distance) coastal course down the waters of Morro del Vedell, La Fosca beach and the Formigues Islands, framed by a landscape of unique natural charm and a vibrant sea front. The event as well features half-distance course (4.5.km Half-Oceanman) along with a non-competitive popular race  (2km) ideally suitable for the novice open water swimmers.

    In Palamós, as in the rest of the Oceanman competitions, the organization reserves  10 slots for the  top ranking  competitors in each category for the European Oceanman Championship to be staged in Benidorm (Spain) on October, 25, 2015.

    For more information and registrations visit: http://oceanman-openwater.com/en/oceanman-palamos/

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  • Featuring Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Sarah Sjöström, Katinka Hosszu, Ruta Meilutyte, Daniel Gyurta and Gregorio Paltrinieri.

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  • Mystery still surrounds the coaching debacle hovering over top Olympic swimming medal hope Lauren Boyle.

    After calls for government intervention around Boyle’s situation – she has spent six months now without a coach – it is understood Associate Minister of Sport Murray McCully visited the Millennium Institute of Sport, site of High Performance Sport New Zealand’s headquarters, on Friday.

    HPSNZ refuses to say whether Crown employees met McCully and discussed the Boyle situation.

    Three weeks ago FairfaxNZ revealed elite sport bosses have spent six months trying – and failing – to find a coach for world and Commonwealth swimming champion Boyle. HPSNZ chief executive Alex Baumann admitted an Olympic medal could be at stake but denied there was a need for ministerial intervention.

    Already a “disappointed” Boyle has opted out of defending her 800m world short-course title, citing inadequate preparation.

    Read stuff.co.nz

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  • Hannah Miley, the two-time Olympian, is turning down tomorrow’s season’s glitzy BBC party in Glasgow to put on a show of her own in the Scottish capital at the Scottish Gas National Short Course Championships.

    The 25-year-old multiple Commonwealth champion was among several Scottish swimmers invited to the Sports Personality of the Year production at Pacific Quay, but explained that her priorities were dictated by a combination of her own schedule and a sense of duty to spectators at the Commonwealth Pool.

    “I can’t go because the 400 IM, 200 breaststroke and 200 free are on the last night and they’re finals I can’t really miss,” she said, after adding another two Scottish titles to her long list of achievements on the opening day of the event.

    “I’ve not really been able to do a lot of evenings and award ceremonies because for me it’s all about the long-term gain and for me the focus is on making that team in the summer, so if that means I can’t do a night out and get glammed up then so be it.

    Read Herald Scotland

  • Short-course 1500m world champion Spain’s Mireia Belmonte broke the discipline world record by almost three seconds at her national swimming championships on Friday.

    The new mark of 15 minutes 19.71 seconds, set during the Spanish short-course championships at Sabadell, takes over from New Zealander Lauren Boyle’s previous world record mark of 15min 22.68sec.

    Belmonte won four titles at the recent Doha 2014 short-course worlds with gold in the 200m butterfly, 400m medley (where she won both in world record times) and also the 400m and 800m freestyle.

    Read SBS

  • Two scientists have broken the record for the longest time spent living underwater, as of 11:28 a.m. EST today.

    The biologists, Bruce Cantrell and Jessica Fain, have spent nearly 10 weeks in Jules’ Undersea Lodge, which bills itself as “the only undersea hotel on Earth” and is located just off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. …

    Cantrell and Fain, respectively a biology professor and biology instructor at Roane State Community College in eastern Tennessee, decided to live underwater to learn more about marine biology and educate students about the ocean. They’ve hosted a series of weekly educational videos, all available on YouTube, about their time living underwater, which they’ve dubbed Classroom Under the Sea.

    The videos are aimed at teachers and students from middle school and older. The trip was funded by the college and other groups, and its official sponsor is Diversity in Aquatics, an organization devoted to “decreasing the rate of drowning deaths worldwide” and teaching people about water safety.