Swimmer's Daily

  • Kirstie Kasko is a hard-working Paralympic swimmer training for the upcoming games in Rio. To reach her goal, not only does she have to train hard, but she also needs to raise the funds necessary to facilitate this high performance training. This is a story of a young swimmer’s dream, her challenges, and the people who’ve rallied behind this special young lady.

  • The OSS Bantham Swoosh is on 2nd July 2016. It’s a 6km swim in a sandy bottomed estuary in Devon, culminating in a “swoosh” as the ebbing tide is funelled through a narrow section of river, speeding you along over the riverbed at up to four times your usual swimming speed.

    See outdoorswimmingsociety.com

  • Customers share why they love SwimTopia. SwimTopia Founder, Mason Hale and Director of Sales & Marketing, Elli Overton explain why they are so passionate about serving swim teams.

    See SwimTopia

  • Short documentary about artist, photographer and outdoor swimmer Vivienne Rickman Poole.

  • This weekend, two Russian explorers, Maxim Astakhov and Alexander Gubin, have set a new world record for deepest ice dive as part of their work with the Russian Geographical Society. The two men descended 102 meters (335 feet) during an 80-minute dive in the White Sea, just outside the Arctic Circle, as part of the Russian Geographical Society’s 13 Seas of Russia project.

    It’s a huge achievement, not least because ice diving takes all the challenges of deep sea diving and adds a few more for good measure. […]

    The biggest—and most terrifying—difference between ice diving and other dives involves access to the surface (and wonderful, necessary things like air and solid ground). Sea ice can be several meters thick, and divers’ only way past the ice is the human-sized entry and exit hole carved by the dive team.

    See Atlas Obscura

    https://youtu.be/fizpqmDhGr0

  • For 72 hours here, Katie Ledecky got to see how the other half lives. The half that doesn’t necessarily need to swim 70,000 grueling yards every week in practice to achieve its goals. The half that measures its times in fractions of seconds, not whole ones. The half that doesn’t set or threaten world records every time they jump in a pool — and that sometimes finishes fourth, or 18th.

    For one weekend only, Ledecky, the 18-year-old freestyle phenom, got to experience life as a very good sprinter, not the all-time-great distance specialist she has become. Her program for the Arena Pro Swim Series Orlando event, held at the aging but oddly charming YMCA Aquatic Center, featured none of the events she has come to dominate internationally, with world records in each: the 400-, 800- and 1,500-meter freestyles.

    Instead, she shortened up and went heavy on the sprints — racing the 50, 100 and 200 freestyles, plus the 200 and 400 individual medleys. It was a curious program, designed not to maximize victories but to break up the monotony of an intense period of training, as Ledecky builds toward what is shaping up to be a historic performance in August’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

    Read The Washington Post

    2016 Arena Pro Swim Series at Orlando Women’s 100m Free A Final

  • I was six months old when my dad was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

    Being so young and seeing my dad go through his fight with cancer was hard to really understand.

    He passed away on the day of my first ever swimming carnival. I was just seven years old.

    My mum said I wasn’t going and I said to her, “But I have to go, I have to swim for my dad”. So I went — my grandparents took me.

    Read news.com.au

    https://youtu.be/erllyCC2oAo

  • Italian former Olympic swimming champion Federica Pellegrini accidentally left her address and mobile phone number for all to see when she posted a photograph on Twitter on Friday.

    The 27-year-old Pellegrini, whose Twitter account @mafaldina88 has 455 000 followers, tweeted on Friday morning that she had been subjected to a random doping test and posted a photo of documents relating to the control.

    The slight problem was that her number and address were clearly visible on the documents.

    Almost immediately, she received numerous tweets urging her to hide the number, although others asked if they could add her on messaging app, WhatsApp.

    After a few hours, Pellegrini deleted the tweet and added a new message.

    “Good. I have done it..thank-you for your messages of encouragement and congratulations. But obviously I have now changed my number,” she wrote.

    Read Sport24 and The Local

    Photo by br1dotcom

  • The eel swam in his own, otherwise empty tank at the FairPrice Ultra supermarket in the Changi Business Park in Singapore. He noticed that the neighboring tank had tasty prawns, so he slipped over the barrier and had a snack.

    YouTube user itedaniel recorded the eel then returning to his own tank.

    See Neatorama