Swimmer's Daily

  • Floyd Mayweather Jr. took his training for his upcoming megafight against Manny Pacquiao to the pool.

    Mayweather posted an Instagram video of himself doing boxing exercises in the pool before going for laps to swim with his strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza, a former member of Pacquiaoโ€™s corner, overseeing his training.

    The WBA and WBC welterweight titleholder has been trying different training methods as part of his preparations for the May 2 showdown. Just last month Mayweather made news after he showed another video of himself chopping wood as part of his training.

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  • It’s a life-saving skill many people learn as kids, but an alarming number of Americans say they don’t know how to swim. CBS2’s Alex Denis speaks with some people who are overcoming their fears and finding out the water is just fine.

    Finally Learning To Swim

  • A man posing for a picture Sunday while holding his โ€œtrophy fishโ€ was attacked by a sea lion which hauled him over the side of a boat into the water, a San Diego Fire-Rescue official said.

    The 62-year-old victim, who was not identified, was holding a fish posing for a picture near the Hyatt Mission Bay Marina at 2:40 p.m. being taken by a friend when the marine mammal attacked.

    โ€œThe man was bitten by a sea lion and pulled into the water,โ€ San Diego Fire-Rescue spokesman Lee Swanson said.

    A 300-pound sea lion grabbed the fish and pulled the man over the side into the water and dragged him 20 feet through the water.

    โ€œWe estimated that he was in the water for 15 to 20 seconds. At that point, the sea lion let go and he was able to jump back into his boat,โ€ said San Diego lifeguard Lt. John Sandmeyer.

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  • Pool deck? Or dance floor? You be the judge… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRN0XHv0yuY #AusChamps15 #TeamGreenAndGold

    Posted by Australian Dolphins Swim Team on Monday, April 6, 2015

  • A Japanese woman has become the first 100-year-old to complete a 1,500m freestyle swim in a 25m pool.

    Mieko Nagaoka, who only took up swimming at the age of 82, already holds the record in her age category for the same distance in a 50m pool.

    She completed the latest feat in just over one hour and 15 minutes, using backstroke all the way.

    She was the only person taking part in her age range – 100 to 104 – at the competition in Matsuyama on Saturday.

    Nagaoka already dominates the world record board for her age group, as awarded by the international swimming federation (Fina), holding 24 titles over both short and long distances.

    Her latest achievement is now expected to be recognised by Guinness World Records.

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  • Beyond the Black Line is a program for our young female & male swimmers, teaching them the importance of a young persons journey through their teenage year growing up on pool deck.

    Coming Soon – Beyond the Black Line

  • Highlights from Day 2 of the 2015 Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimming Championships.

  • Swimming legend Michael Phelpsโ€™ return to the sport is clearly not going as per plan, with the 29-year-old currently excluded from the USA swim team for the World Championships in Russia and the Pan-American Games in Toronto later this year after he was found guilty for a drunken-driving offence in September last year.

    However, Cathy Bennett, Phelpsโ€™ first swim instructor, has no doubt he can make it to the team for the 2016 Olympics to be held at Rio de Janeiro.

    โ€œHe will give his 150 per cent. If the past proves true, he can achieve great things. Heโ€™ll be a leader,โ€ said Bennett, who was in the city on Saturday to launch the Michael Phelps Swimming programme — a grassroot-level swimming programme for enthusiasts of all ages and abilities.

    Phelps won an unprecedented 22 Olympic medals, including 18 golds, and is widely regarded as the best swimmer of all time.

    โ€œIโ€™ve known Michael since he was four. He is a fierce competitor. His biggest asset is his ability to adjust in the pool; he works really hard and completely understands water.

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  • Grant Hackett missed out on a medal in the 200 metres freestyle final at the Australian swimming championships in Sydney on Sunday night, but his swim felt as good as a win for the Queenslander with his fourth place and time assuring he will go to the world championships.

    The former two times Olympic champion’s fourth place time of 1 minute 46.84 seconds in the event won by Cameron McEvoy of Queensland qualifies him for one of six places Swimming Australia can select for the 4x200m relay squad for the world titles at Kazan in Russia in August.

    In one of the strongest fields assembled for a 200m final, Hackett, racing in lane three in the Sydney Olympic Aquatic Centre at Homebush, was in fifth place after 50 metres, then fourth at 100 metres and dropped to sixth at 150 metres before finishing strongly in fourth place.

    The race was won by McEvoy, the defending champion from Queensland in 1:45.94. In second place was David McKeon, also of Queensland, in 1:46.33, while another Queenslander Thomas Fraser-Holmes was third in 1:46.83. Hackett’s training partner Daniel Smith finished fifth in 1:47.27.

    It was a race of remarkable feats, especially by Hackett, considering he only resumed training from a six year spell from swimming six months ago.

    Asked how making the Australian team felt compared to winning an Olympic gold, Hackett said: “In many ways it’s a different sort of achievement.

    “If you asked me 10 years ago [about] making a relay team and that being the only thing I was on the team for that would be bitter disappointment.

    “But now it’s like one of the biggest achievements of my life to make that team after such a long amount of time off โ€“ and in only such a short preparation.

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