Swimmer's Daily

  • Ocean Gravity is a short film that rewrite the rules of the underwater world and takes us this time into the world of the weightlessness.

    Via Snapzu

  • The 3rd edition of the International Student Swim Meet Eindhoven (ISSME) will take place on 15-17 May 2015, consisting of a day of swimming related workshops and a swim meet held in the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swim Stadium in Eindhoven, Netherlands. All students are invited, see their facebook page.

  • These guys had the bright idea on a hot summers day to take an excavator to the creek and have some fun.

    Courtesy of newvideo on YouTube

  • South Korean Olympic swimming champ Park Tae-hwan has failed a doping test, his agency said on Monday, blaming the result on an illegal injection administered by a local doctor.

    Team GMP, the swimmer’s agency, confirmed an earlier report that the 25-year-old tested positive in a recent World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) test. In a statement, the agency claimed that a South Korean doctor gave him an injection that unbeknownst to Park contained a banned substance.

    “As a world class swimmer, Park Tae-hwan has been extremely careful about what he takes, and he hasn’t even taken cold medicine so that he wouldn’t fail doping tests,” the statement read. “Park is more shocked by this result than anyone else.”

    Park competed at the Asian Games in the South Korean city of Incheon last September and passed multiple doping tests during the event, Team GMP said.

    The agency said Park received free chiropractic treatment at a local hospital about two months prior to the Asian Games, and received a shot that led to the positive test.

    “At the time, the hospital offered to give Park an injection and he repeatedly asked if it contained any illegal substances,” the statement said. “The doctor said there would be no problem. And yet it turned out the injection contained a banned substance. With our team of legal experts, we’re trying to determine why the particular hospital injected Park with an illegal substance, and we’re preparing to hold it civilly and criminally liable.”

    Read Yonhap News

  • A woman has been left devastated after she found her father’s blackened, charred body inside a malfunctioning sauna. Dennis Antiporek, 68, left a note for his family saying he was going to relax in the sauna at his condominium complex in North Miami Beach, Florida, on Sunday.

    See Arbroath

  • Alexander Wolff of Sports Illustrated on how USA Swimming has become more mainstream under the leadership of Chuck Wielgus

    Courtesy of USA Swimming on YouTube

  • Cate and Bronte Campbell have #SuperSeriousFun dressing up for Swimmer of the Year
    See them race at the 2015 BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series.

  • Jellyfish do not have bones, a brain or a heart, but what they do have is incredible swimming skills, finds new research.

    Jellyfish can detect the direction of ocean currents and swim strongly against them, according to the study, which is published in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology. The research adds to the growing body of evidence that creatures without brains, such as carnivorous plants, can still be clever.

    “Detecting ocean currents without fixed visual reference points is thought to be close to impossible and is not seen, for example, in lots of migrating vertebrates including birds and turtles,” co-author Graeme Hays of Deakin University in Australia said in a press release.

    See Discovery

    http://youtu.be/LJK05paadF0

  • Breeja Larson will be very busy this summer, preparing for the world championships … and a wedding. She talks about planning her racing schedule around her May wedding date, and why swimming at the Arena Pro Swim Series in Charlotte might be a good distraction from last-minute wedding planning.

    See SwimmingWorld