Swimmer's Daily

  • See NBC Miami

    Health officials are warning people not to swim at North Shores Beach after a strain of bacteria known to cause infections was detected in the water.

    The Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County issued a swimming advisory for the waterfront area at 73rd Street and Collins Avenue in Miami Beach after a two samples showed levels of enterococci that exceeded state and federal health standards.

    Officials say entering the water could put swimmers at an increased risk for illness.

  • Read Herald Sun

    Grant Hackett and Ian Thorpe will be invited back into the Australian team as mentors after Swimming Australia launched a scheme to help swimmers handle the pressure of life in and out of the pool.

    Hackett and Thorpe are in rehabilitation to overcome personal battles they have suffered since their careers ended, prompting Swimming Australia to take a far more active approach to the “life balance” of their athletes.

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    Photo by Doha Stadium Plus

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  • Read NBC Sports

    Italian Olympic champion Federica Pellegrini wants to swim in a fourth Olympics before calling it a career.

    “I want to swim in the Olympics of 2016, then I will leave,” she told Italian magazine Grazia, according to Italian reports. ”I want to be a wife, mother, with a quiet job.

    “I am a very private person. I do not believe that, after my swimming, I’ll still want to be in the spotlight.”

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    Photo by The Wolf

  • See FINA

    How to use the device:

    • At the start, the toes of both feet must be in contact with the end wall or face of the touchpad.  Bending the toes over the top of the touchpad is prohibited.

    • The ledge may be adjustable to 4 cm above or 4 cm below the water level.

    • The ledge is a minimum of 65 cm in length.

    • The ledge must be 8 cm in height, 2 cm at the width with 10 degrees of slope.

    See the detailed diagram of the device

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  • And Laura Sogar, but this video is mostly about Megan’s skydive

  • uk_sport_logoSee swimming.org

    British Swimming is to consider a formal appeal following UK Sport’s disappointing announcement that Water Polo and Synchronised Swimming have been unsuccessful after additional representations were made against a loss of funding for the women’s Olympic sports.

    The decision follows last month’s announcement that UK Sport was to withdraw funding from the two aquatic sports. British Swimming challenged the decision by presenting strong cases for continued funding to UK Sport last week but the original decisions have now been upheld.

    “This is a very dark and sad day for British sport – especially for women’s sport,” said British Swimming Chief Executive David Sparkes.

  • Read People Daily

    The Chinese swimming national team lifted the ban on Olympic champion Sun Yang’s on Wednesday.

    Sun, the first Chinese man to win an Olympic swimming gold with his victories in the 400 and 1,500-meter freestyle at the London Games, was suspended from training and competing indefinitely last November after he was given seven days of detention as punishment for driving without a license.

    Sun was suspended from all the competitions and training by the Chinese swimming team last November after he was caught driving without a license in a car accident in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province. He was banned by the Zhejiang College of Sports as well as the national team.

    The college lifted Sun’s ban earlier Wednesday and asked the national team to let the swimmer back to training.

    “The national team welcomes Sun,” said Shang Xiutang, deputy head of the Chinese Swimming Administrative Center (CSAC). “We always hope he can realize his mistake and come back. We hope he can do better in the future.”

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  • See Sharkfest Swim

    What could be more sensational than swimming in the waters off the iconic Statue of Liberty, the most well known lady in the United States? The swim will start just outside the security zone of Liberty Island and will go past the historic Ellis Island and the Colgate clock on the Jersey City shoreline, then into the Morris Canal to finish at Liberty Landing Marina in Liberty State Park with a view of the new Freedom Tower in the background.

  • Swimming Australia National Head Coach Jacco Verhaeren talks about what makes a good start – from ‘off the blocks’ to the ‘break out’.