Swimmer's Daily

  • YOG ambassador Chad Le Clos gives some expert tips on how turn in the pool.

  • YOG ambassador and Olympic gold medal winner Chad Le Clos talks about his training and his goals and targets.

  • PETA has slammed Kim Kardashian over her dolphin ride in Mexico.

    The reality star has come under fire from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, who called Kardashian “intrusive” and “dangerous” for swimming with dolphins at Vallarta Adventures in Puerto Vallarta.

    Earlier this week the mother of one posted a video on Instagram of herself and her jewellery designer friend, Kristen Gipson, taking part in a double dolphin ride.

    Read CTV News

    http://youtu.be/Hvt8-6EJDXM

    Photo by HotGossipItalia

  • Berwick RNLI have issued a warning to children spotted swimming in the River Tweed during the recent warm weather.

    Lifeboat personnel are concerned that many are unaware of the risks they are exposing theselves to due to the strong tidal currents.

    Hazel Bettison of Berwick RNLI said: “We’ve had reports of children enjoying the nice spell of weather and swimming in the river.

    “This is very dangerous. The river has strong tidal currents and there have been many cases of people getting into trouble over the years.”

    The warning comes as the RNLI reveals that 29 people accidentally lost their lives around the north of England coast last year – the highest number in four years.

    Read Berwick Advertiser

    Photo by summonedbyfells

  • Jeremy William Kemeny, 40, faces charges of two counts of lewd acts after the 18-year-old victim, who paid rent at Kemeny’s home, reported finding a video that showed her in the bathroom, Maj. Joseph Manning said.

    Officers searched his home on Rocking Horse Lane late Thursday and seized the desktop computer where the victim found the video, as well as two laptop computers, Manning said.

    “Our main priority was getting the evidence so it wasn’t destroyed,” he said.

    Kemeny has been arrested in Beaufort County before, though police are still working to determine what became of a 2009 charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

    According to a 2009 news release that remained on the police department’s website Thursday, Kemeny was accused of impersonating a 16-year-old boy on MySpace, a social networking website, to correspond with two 13-year-old girls and convince them to send him sexually suggestive photos. On Friday, 14th Circuit Solicitor Duffie Stone said he had no information on that arrest.

    Read The State

  • Read SwimVortex:

    Trevor Tiffany, chairman of Myrtha USA, spokesperson for A&T Europe S.p.a.’s Myrtha Pools division and the man who stripped off and took to the water with plastic bottles in Barcelona last year in an attempt to show that the company simply could not detect any evidence of a significant current, now acknowledges that there is evidence on the clock and results sheets from Barcelona to suggest that there was a current in the pool.

    The current controversy was first brought to light by the blog AstuteCrunch, SwimVortex and SwimmingWorld Magazine, shortly after the Barcelona 2013 World Swimming Championships.

    We had a little part in the story also, while SwimSwam’s expert Braden Keith in contrast dismissed the theory, noting that the scientists at the Indiana University Counsilman Center of Swimming Performance were ‘a group that falls under the auspices of the department of public health, rather than engineering or statistical measurement’:

    While we await the Counsilman Center’s full report, we sit and pray that they find better information than that which they’ve provided. While we don’t have the backing of Indiana University here at SwimSwam, we have taken plenty of statistics classes, certainly enough to conquer this basic math, and enough to see even bigger flaws in the accusations than the supposed ‘flaws’ in the pool.

    As mentioned also in The Wall Street Journal, Myrtha is devising an instrument to detect water currents and will test it at the upcoming European championships in Berlin. Myrtha spokesman Trevor Tiffany says the new instrument will be “far more sophisticated” than the improvised test used in Barcelona.

  • And gets back to eating apples and carrots. Filmed at Budapest ZOO (Hungary), 19. 6. 2014.

    http://youtu.be/gJ_3BN0m7S8

  • Watch as Olympic gold medallist Chad le Clos runs you through some tips on how to execute the perfect starting dive into the pool.

  • ‘Do water aerobics in your pool with the AGYS concept. A simple product (rope, fasteners and pipe) for maximum efficiency.’

    http://youtu.be/HQ70RrbRDko