Swimmer's Daily

  • Robben Isand to Blouberg, Freedom Swim 2014 – Ryan Stramrood, Kieron Palframan, JC van Wyk.

  • ‘On April 26, 2014 the first edition of the Zoot Swim Games event brought together 60 participants in the 300m competition heats and 200 participants in the 1.5K non-competitive swim held in Barcelona.’

  • See klkntv.com

    This June, it’ll be six years since the accidental death of Joshua Collingsworth. At two-and-a-half years old he drowned in his family pool.

    “We thought we had all the things in place to protect our son with the pool,” his mother Kathy said. “But, it was just a false sense of security.”

    In that time of despair, the Collingsworth family says they put Joshua to work from up above. Drowning is the number one cause of death in children four and under, now the family is trying to change that statistic. They started the Joshua Collingsworth Memorial Foundation.

    News, Weather and Sports for Lincoln, NE; KLKNTV.com

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  • Via gay.net

    Just as he did for the Emporio Armani Fall-Winter Eyewear and Underwear 2013-2014 campaigns, Italian swimmer Luca Dotto strips down for the iconic design house’s behind-the-scenes video for their Spring/Summer 2014 campaign.

  • Sharks in Lake Michigan? We call them “loan sharks”. Let’s face it, there are sharks everywhere. The Chicago Sharkfest Swim will be a 1-Mile triangular shaped course in Lake Michigan starting and finishing at the Ohio Street Beach next to Olive Park. Anticipated water temperature should be in the low-mid 70’s.

  • Simon Holliday, Hong Kong resident, and English Channel Swimmer, planning to swim from Hong Kong to Macau on May 24th, 2014 in order to raise funds for Ocean Recovery Alliance and it’s Grate Art project. This is a 35km challenge, in a straight line, but the course depends on weather and currents, not to mention high speed ferries shuttling gamblers to Macau every 15 minutes! You can help support this swim, Simon’s great efforts, and be part of the solution in helping to clean our ocean, by going to www.justgiving.com/Simon-Holliday.

  • Via Digital Journal

    The Race Club recently announced their first Instagram Giveaway. Fans of the premier swim club can now follow The Race Club’s Instagram and be entered to win a prize worth $120.

    Ideal for competitive or recreational swimmers, fans follow The Race Club’s Instagram profile and tag two friends in the photo associated with the contest. That fan is then automatically entered to win 3 instructional swimming DVDs, a $120 value.

    “We have the greatest fans and we wanted to give something back to them. These instructional videos are great for a swimmer at any level. Besides providing a high quality camp for competitive and recreational swimmers alike to improve on their swimming technique, we pride ourselves on providing superior instructional videos making our coaching available to the masses not just our campers,” stated Gary Hall Sr., Technical Director of The Race Club.

  • See myfoxphoenix.com

    There is so much focus on drowning prevention involving little ones that we do not often think of teenagers drowning especially in pools.

    But this weekend a terrible reminder as two teens drowned in pools; one at a home in West Phoenix and the other in the pool at an apartment complex.

    Everyone who heard the stories this weekend had the same reaction surprise that a 13 year-old and 17 year-old got into trouble and drowned in a pool.

    A 13 year-old boy climbed an apartment pool fence and drowned Saturday afternoon. Later that day, a 17 year-old girl drowned while at a pool party in the same West Phoenix neighborhood.

    “You get to thinking that someone’s 12 or 13 years-old or older, that they’re going to be fine in the water, and that’s not the case,” said Lori Schmidt.

    FOX 10 News | myfoxphoenix.com

  • Read NY Daily News

    It was a little less than a year into her swimming comeback and, at age 40, Dara Torres was blazing through her heats during the 2007 swimming nationals in Indianapolis.

    “I swam really fast and my coach (the late Michael Lohberg) said, ‘Everyone is talking about you.’ I’m like, ‘Cool.’ He’s like, ‘No, no. Not cool. They all think you’re not doing it the right way.’ And I said, ‘We have to do something about that,’” Torres recalls. “Imagine putting your heart and soul into something your entire life and having someone say that you must be cheating.”

    That was the stark reality Torres says she faced that summer while she prepared for the 2008 Beijing Olympics — only a year after giving birth to her daughter, she was smack in the middle of a steroid era, where there was intense scrutiny throughout all sports on doping issues.

    “Mind you I understand. (The media) has had many athletes look you in the eye, and say, ‘I have not taken PEDs.’ And then they’re either in jail or (not playing) anymore,” says Torres, who competed in her first Olympics in 1984. “But I was just dumbfounded. I’d never experienced that before.”

    Image courtesy of Karen Blaha, CC BY-SA 2.0