Swimmer's Daily

  • Read LifeNews

    Jessica Long grew up in Baltimore but that’s a long way from where she was born. The Paralympics swimmer was born in Russia and adopted by American parents and the Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia gave her an opportunity to meet her parents.

    Long was featured on NBC’s Olympic coverage in primetime Saturday. The 20-minute feature, “Long Way Home: The Jessica Long Story,” chronicled her rise to becoming a world class swimmer. The double amputee has won 2 Paralympic gold medals.

    An NBC film crew followed Long as she retraced her early life with a trip back to Russia and meeting her biological parents for the first time.

    http://youtu.be/QkqXQVIU2is

  • Read The Australian

    Olympic gold medallist Grant Hackett is seeking treatment in a US rehab centre for an addiction to the prescription drug Stilnox.

    The former swimming star left for the US yesterday, just days after he was found wearing a singlet around his waist in Melbourne’s Crown Casino while apparently searching for his four-year-old child.

    The 1500m freestyle champion, who said he was “deeply embarrassed” and ashamed about the incident, is now seeking help after a meeting with his family.

    It is understood Hackett, 33, flew to the Gold Coast to see his family, including his parents Margaret and Neville, his brother Craig and his wife Nicole, and manager Chris White, before the decision was made to seek professional help overseas.

    A spokesman for Hackett told the Herald Sun Hackett was “currently in transit to seek treatment for a dependency to Stilnox medication.

  • We went whale watching on the Baja this weekend, for an excursion as a part of the Live Different Academy program (www.livedifferent.com), and unfortunately, Chelsea got smacked in the head by a whale’s tail. Luckily, she was fine and we got it on video!

  • kevin-murphyRead Express

    Swimmer Kevin Murphy was in training for his 35th crossing of the English Channel when he felt a gripping pain in his chest.

    However his record-breaking feats of endurance have taught him to battle through pain and over the years Kevin has overcome numbing cold, fatigue and jellyfish stings so he wasn’t going to succumb to what he mistook for a bad bout of indigestion.

    Instead he finished the three-quarter mile swim, had dinner and went to bed. He woke in agony in the early hours of the next morning and instinctively knew that he was having a heart attack.

    “I’ve never known pain like it,” recalls Kevin, who first swam the Channel when he was a teenager. “On the way to hospital I was biting the strap of my wife’s handbag. I really thought I was breathing my last.”

  • This annually staged elite-level competition is organised around seven meets and takes place in some of the world’s most amazing natural water bodies, either freshwater (lake, rowing course, river) or saltwater (sea).

    The 2014 circuit of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup kicks off in Patagones-Viedma (ARG) on February 1, then continues in Manzanillo (MEX) on April 5, Setubal (POR) on June 28, Lac St. Jean (CAN) on July 24, Lac Magog (CAN) on July 31, Lac Megantic (CAN) on August 9, Chun’an (CHN) on October 12, and concludes in Hong Kong (HKG) on October 18.

  • Olympic athlete, Nathan Adrian (USA) shares his swim tips to help you reach your fitness goals.

  • Read Coca-Cola Journey

    Like many Olympians, Alyssa Anderson felt a bit directionless upon returning home from London in August 2012. A 16-time collegiate All-American, she had just reached the pinnacle of the swimming world by winning a gold medal as part of the U.S. women’s 4×200 meter freestyle relay team.

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    At 22, Anderson decided it was time to make the leap from the swimming pool to the talent pool, but after competing in a sport with no off-season since she was 7 years old, the Granite Bay, Calif. native was uncertain where her path would lead next.

    “I was lost,” she recalls.

    Weeks later, she got an email about an opportunity to intern at Coca-Cola through the International Olympic Committee’s Athlete Career Program. Anderson had studied marketing in college and saw the Coke job — which would entail supporting the company’s sponsorship of the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi — as a perfect fit.

    “I told myself, ‘this is what’ I’m going to do,’” she says. “Coke was the company we’d always talked about in class, and they’re the longest-running Olympic sponsor. I knew I couldn’t pass it up, so I applied that day.”

  • Grant Hackett, says he’s embarrassed about being caught on camera, half-naked, searching for his four-year-old son.

    The former swim champion was snapped in a hotel foyer, after one of his twins went missing.

    Epic quote: “When I discovered him missing, I went in hasty pursuit – but perhaps with a swimmer’s sense of dress”

    Here is a glimpse of Hackett himself explaining the situation

  • A quite uncensored Q&A with Mark Foster, including weird echo glitch and a glimpse of the interviewer and all, courtesy of sportslobster. Including a brief talk about Ian Thorpe also.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPBCpvMeA-A&feature=share