Paralympic double gold medallist Ellie Simmonds OBE meets up with David Walliams to talk about their shared love for swimming, her interest in dance and Little Britain
David Walliams is taking part in SwimBritain this year, and anyone who signs up can be in with the chance to join his team at the London Aquatics Centre later this year and swim with him.
YOG ambassadors Michelle Wie and Chad Le Clos talk about their sporting heroes in the build up to the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games.
Lifeguard Lab “Toyo” helps people get into the pool. I know one or two swimmers who could use a dog like that, especially before morning practice.
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Guillaume Néry is a champion freediver, and his sport exposes practitioners to carbon dioxide narcosis, which can lead to, among other symptoms, powerful hallucinations. This short film is inspired by Néry’s experiences and the things he thinks he sees during a deep water dive.
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Mathew Stanley captured this GoPro footage of a baby seal climbing on his board and playing with him and a friend in the water.
We caught up with Matt to get the low down on what happened:
“Me and my friend Andrew Flounders were out enjoying some summer waves when this little guy came along and scared the hell out of Andy because we didn’t know what it was! It nudged his foot from underneath,†he explained.
After an hour or so of playing around with the pup, the guys decided to head back to the shore, but the little guy hadn’t finished and tried to follow them up the beach. “When we got home Andy rang the local marine wildlife authority to make them aware of what occurred just in case the seal was unwell… He didn’t seem unwell when he was surfing in like a pro!â€
Toronto Zoo’s polar bear cub explores the zoo’s Big Polar Bear Habitat for the first time and gets ready for his summer swim. Humphrey, born in November, seems a little shy about jumping in off the rocks, but he wades in and chomps on some rushing water like a pro.
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High Performance Sport New Zealand, which allocates government funding for elite sport, will carry out a reviews of all the sports it funds that competed in Glasgow.
Triathlon failed to win a medal in Glasgow and swimming relied on Lauren Boyle and para swimmer Sophie Pascoe to win medals.
Both sports each received about $2 million in funding from the sports body this year.
HPSNZ chief executive Alex Bauman, himself a former Olympic swimming champion for Canada, is disappointed at the lack of depth in swimming and triathlon.
“While in swimming you know we have Lauren who performed well and obviously Sophie Pascoe, we would have liked to have seen a few more medals there, and triathlon I’m sure they would have been gutted with the performance even though Andrea came fourth, they were hoping to get two medals, so we’ll have to take a look at that for sure.”
The most dominant distance swimmer of her generation serves meals to the homeless once a month.
Maryland teenager Katie Ledecky also collects, assembles and repairs bicycles for developing countries instead of attending classes every other week during the school year.
The Stanford-bound swim star volunteers with the Wounded Warrior Project at the Walter Reed Bethesda Naval Medical Center and is a member of Help2 0, a group that raises awareness and money to benefit the construction of water wells in developing countries.
Ledecky and Cal sophomore Missy Franklin — the young faces of American swimming — are competing at the Phillips 66 U.S. championships Wednesday through Sunday in Irvine.
Ledecky, 17, isn’t just another dedicated swimmer churning through chlorinated pools mornings and evenings. She describes herself as a devout Catholic who embraces the religion’s call to service.
“My faith has always been important to me,” Ledecky said in a recent interview. “It defines who I am.”
Most know her as an Olympic gold medalist, world-record holder and four-time world champion.
Swimmers competing in the Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim had more than just other competitors to worry about.
