Swimmer's Daily

  • 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

  • As the world’s largest open water swim, the HBF Rottnest Channel Swim is a truly iconic Australian event. Starting against the backdrop of stunning Cottesloe beach at dawn, swimmers make the 19.7km crossing to Rottnest Island. For more HBF events visit: http://www.hbf.com.au/living-well/events/events-calendar

  • Read for instance Perth Now (but of course, NSFW alert)

    About 1000 swimmers bared all at Cobblers Beach on Sunday morning for the Sydney Skinny, setting a new world record for the largest nude ocean swim.

    “This event is easily misunderstood. It’s not just about running around naked.”

    In its second year, the event attracted young and old including a man in a wheelchair who was assisted by his carer and two women survivors of mastectomies.

    Event creator Nigel Marsh said the event aims to promote a positive body image and was summed up by “unbelievably happy looks” on the faces of the two women who spotted each other out of the crowd of nude bathers and embraced.

    Mr Marsh said the community swim was a chance to “be utterly authentic and stick two fingers up at all those ludicrous, airbrushed images of bodily perfection in the magazines”.

    See also www.thesydneyskinny.com.au

  • kameron-killamSee FOX23 and Tulsa World

    BAPD told FOX23 they arrested Kameron Killam and his friend Ryan Johnson for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute to a minor.

    Our FOX23 team went to Broken Arrow to find out more on the school’s response to the coach’s arrest.

    This park is where police say a Broken Arrow public school assistant swim coach and his friend were attempting to deal drugs to a teenage girl early Sunday morning.

    Sunday night, we found out from Broken Arrow public school that Killam has been fired.