Swimmer's Daily

  • Read Saudi Gazette, I guess need-to-know for those who will attend the Doha 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)

    Qatar has launched a campaign urging tourists and foreign residents to respect the country’s dress code.
    The campaign says a visitor or a resident in Qatar is required to wear “decent clothes.”

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    “Women should avoid wearing any garments that are too tight, too short or translucent such as mini-skirts or sleeveless dresses,” according to a campaign poster posted on the campaign’s Twitter account @reflect_respect.


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  • Press release courtesy of dna

    Four of England’s brightest swim stars teamed up to take on Scotland and Wales this weekend to complete the British Gas SwimBritain challenge.

    London 2012 Olympian Aimee Willmott joined forces with British Gas Championship multi-gold medallist swimmers James Guy, Siobhan Marie-O’Connor and breaststroke swimmer Adam Peaty for a very special training exercise and some friendly competition as they prepare to represent their nation this summer.

    Facing them on the starting blocks were Robbie Renwick, Craig Benson, Lewis Smith and Craig McNally for the Scotland contingent. Welsh swimmers Georgia Davies, Calum Jarvis, Jemma Lowe and Tom Laxton who completed the trio of teams competing in the Battle of SwimBritain race.

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  • See Fstoppers

    Over the past couple years we’ve all seen Benjamin Von Wong rise to the occasion time and time again with shoot after epic shoot. This time is no different, when he heads back underwater (this time in the untamed wild ocean of Bali) to attempt a shoot surrounded by a coral-covered shipwreck. In Von Wong’s words, “everything is more complicated underwater.”

    This is the first of two videos he’ll be releasing, this one focused on planning and the stuff you have to consider when doing something like this.

  • See WIST

    Jim Reiser is a good swimmer.

    His students will soon be good ones too.

    “Children drown without a sound,” Reiser said. “They drown quietly. They drown quickly.”

    With Memorial Day weekend here, the founder of the Swim Lessons Company is preaching safety.

    He said many people think they’re good swimmers when really that’s not the case.

    “Especially us men,” Reiser said. “We overestimate about three times as much as women.”

    wistv.com – Columbia, South Carolina |

  • See MailOnline

    Arsenal star Lukas Podolski once again demonstrated his fun side as the forward threw a jorunalist into a swimming pool at Germany’s training camp.

    Podolski, 28, has developed something of a reputation as a practical joker during his time with Arsenal and here he showed why as he picked up an unsuspecting journalist and dunked him in the hotel pool.

    A tweet from another journalist at the event suggested that the reporter in question was fine as was his iPhone whilst Podolski quickly ran to the other side of the pool.

  • See Wave3

    Memorial Day weekend brings huge crowds to public pools and water parks opening for the season. But three incidents in Florida are reminders that drowning isn’t the only possible danger in a pool.

    wave3.com-Louisville News, Weather

  • See WPTV

    Lifeguards in Daytona Beach rescued more than 100 swimmers from dangerous rip currents this weekend.

    Red flags are still out Monday warning beachgoers about dangerous swimming conditions. On an average day, beach patrol said they will rescue a dozen people.

    “All hands are on deck for the whole weekend,” said Cpt. Tammy Marris of Volusia County Beach Rescue.

  • Australian swimming legend Dawn Fraser has praised the efforts of Kieren Perkins at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games after the gold medallist revealed he almost missed the 1500m final due to a panic attack.

  • 15 May 2014 in Ski, Norway, a 25-year-old former swimmer was sentenced to three years in jail for firebombing sport director Frank Pedersen’s residence back in January 2011, when Pedersen, his wife, three daughters (11, 13 and 17) and two other youngsters were sleeping inside. See øb.no via simma.nu/no

    Frank Pedersen speaking at the 2012 Aqua Clinic in Holstebro, Denmark
    Frank Pedersen speaking at the 2012 Aqua Clinic in Holstebro, Denmark

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