Swimmer's Daily

  • First man home was Ger Wilkes, from Malahide and a member of North Dublin swimming club.

    “The hardest bit thinking people are coming up behind you, thinking, ‘Am I doing enough?’ I knew I was in the lead from about the Hal’penny Bridge. It was only a matter of hanging on then. O’Connell Bridge is liking going through a big dark tunnel, but it’s great. I put a lot of training in during the year, so I’m delighted, but shattered.”

    Rachel Lee, a member of Guinnness swimming club and a paramedic with Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB), was greeted by cheers from many of her colleagues on duty by the quayside, as she came in first in the women’s race.

    “I can’t believe it. I’m delighted,” she said. The hardest moment for her, she said, was “finding the finish point at the end”.

    See the Irish Times

    http://youtu.be/jlx3-SAWnv8

  • Sudbury’s Derald Balson competes in swimming at a national le​vel at the age of 86.

    That’s pretty impressive but consider also that he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis more than 40 years ago.

    Swimming using only his arms, he won two gold medals last month at the Canada 55 Plus Games in Strathcona County, Alberta.

    “A lady said to me once, you remind me of a seal,” Balson recalls.

    “And I said, ‘Gee, they’re not very nice looking things.’ And she said, ‘Yes, but did you ever see them swim?’ I said, ‘Yes, I have.’ She said, ‘You know how their tail fin goes just like that? That’s what your legs do.’”

    See CBC

  • Police are appealing for information about this man who was caught on camera rifling through a purse a Birmingham swimming baths.

    See ITV

  • Kyiv wants its combat dolphins back, but now they’re swimming for Russia.

    Read Foreign Policy via KiyvPost

    http://youtu.be/P0mJqjcfGwM

  • An 81-year-old Korean War veteran is making a big push to raise money for a local war memorial by making the one and a quarter mile swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco in the 19th annual Alcatraz Invitational on Sunday.

    Wally Stewart got in some final training laps at the Finley Aquatic Center in Santa Rosa Thursday morning.

    See ABC7

  • Sun Yang has always been different from China‘s other top swimmers, as much a maverick as a pioneer.

    And not just because he is the first Chinese man to win an Olympic swimming gold medal. Or that he spent time in jail.

    While most of China’s best swimmers prefer to keep a low profile, Sun just cannot escape the spotlight, courting drama and controversy wherever he goes.

    Read Reuters

  • Lewis is the first to complete long distance swims in every one of the world’s oceans – including the waters around the melting ice cap. He’s witnessed retreating glaciers, coral bleaching and changing patterns of migration, and now focuses on raising awareness of the fragile maritime environment. He’s also swum across a lake on Mount Everest to highlight the melting Himalayan glaciers. Aside from his environmental message, Lewis reveals his survival methods for extreme challenges.

  • Whether they’re playing water polo, water volleyball, or just swimming around, kids love having a blast in our lake!

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  • Swimmers at SwimMAC Carolina, a nonprofit organization where world record holders and Olympians train, are using LumaLanes(tm), a system of computer-controlled pacing lights that, when placed at the pool bottom, show the swimmers their ideal pace.

    Endorsed by David Marsh, the head coach, CEO and executive director at SwimMAC, the technology behind LumaLanes was developed and tested at the University at Buffalo more than 15 years ago.

    The upgraded technology has been designed to be completely mobile. It includes LED, or light-emitting diode, strips that can be rolled out at the beginning of practice and rolled up at the end. Compatible with the Apple and Android operating systems, the system is controlled via smartphone, tablet or laptop.

    Each lane can have up to 10 swimmers, each with their own pace color, and up to eight lanes can be connected together, with each lane running at different intervals. The training sets can be created and stored in advance of practice, and they can be created and modified during practice and stored for later use.

    See University of Buffalo