Swimmer's Daily

  • Just a photo from the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey.

    Team Bahrain, Jordan and Germany on deck at Istanbul 2012

  • Read Global Times

    China can’t decide whether swimming star Sun Yang is in the doghouse or not.

    Sun spent a week in detention last month after ­being caught driving without a ­license. He didn’t make many friends on the inside after insisting on a vegetarian diet to avoid the risk of eating contaminated meat: Prison rules dictate that all inmates must eat the same meals.

    There was talk at the time that Sun might be banned from competition for more than a year, but Shang Xiutang, ­deputy head of the Chinese Swimming Administrative Center, now says he could resume training “soon.”

    Sun Yang on top of the BCN2013 men's 1500 free podium

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  • adolph-kieferSee SwimmingWorld

    Today’s edition of The Morning Swim Show looks back on the stellar career of Adolph Kiefer, who Swimming World is calling on to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

  • Read ELLE

    We are here to learn how to swim. By we, I am referring to the two dozen or so men and women between the ages of 20 and 60 who are huddled at the edge of the Y pool on East 14th Street in New York City. Though we haven’t yet dipped a toe in, we’re all wet because a large sign in the locker room ordered us to shower before entering the pool area. Many of us are wearing impractical bathing suits that have never seen water. Because we are also required to wear swim caps, we look very strange—the neat contours of our bodies and protruding goggles give us the appearance of wary extraterrestrials visiting an unknown planet. …

    SEWY masters meet

    (Image courtesy of MissMessie, CC BY-SA 2.0)

  • A Depeche Mode concert in the Boxen venue Saturday night, and now Myrtha is working around the clock to have the pools ready for the 2013 European Short Course Championships in Herning, Denmark, starting 10 days from now.

    Saturday night

    Monday morning

    Post by EM i svømning 2013.

  • See svomming.no

    Norway’s national coach Petter Løvberg has selected 9 swimmers for the European Short Course Championships in Herning, Denmark, 12-15 december 2013. Seven qualified and 2 more were selected to strengthen the relays, while still being allowed to take part also in individual events.

    The Norwegian team for Herning 2013:

    • Cecilie Waage Johannessen, Bergens Svømme Club
    • Lavrans Solli, Bergens Svømme Club
    • Sindri Thor Jacobsson, Bergensvømmerne
    • Susann Bjørnsen, Setermoen SK
    • Monica Waage Johannessen, Bergens Svømme Club
    • Henrik Christiansen, Lørenskog/Rælingen Kappsvømmingsklubb
    • Henriette Brekke, Stavanger Svømme Club
    • Elise Næss Olsen, Asker SK
    • Markus Lie, Bergensvømmerne

    Lavrans Solli at Debrecen 2012

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  • “The annual Nairobi swimming association gala came to a close Sunday after two days of swimmers trying to outdo each other at the Moi international sports swimming arena. The event attracted participants from as far as Mombasa and Nakuru with most swimmers in search of Africa championships qualifying times.”

  • Read for instance daijiworld.com

    In an achievement that would make every person in Udupi and the coastal region proud, ace swimmer Gopal Kharvi on Sunday December 1 set a new Guinness World Record by swimming a distance of 3 km with his hands and legs bound.

    Kharvi started his swim from St Mary’s Island at 7.37 am with hands and legs bound in iron cuffs. He reached Malpe beach mainland at 10.20 am, covering a distance of 3.07 km and thus setting a new record.

    http://youtu.be/hWdNi2Rhc2I

  • See Channel3000

    The YMCA of Dane County has informed the members of the YDC United swim team their program is being relocated from the Lussier Family West YMCA facility to other facilities across town.

    The announcement is being met with concern by parents of the approximately 300 children participating in the swim team program. Some parents say they enrolled their children in the program earlier this year because the Westside YMCA was located near their homes and made it possible for them to get their kids to practices on time.

    “We set up our life so that our kids can have these opportunities,” says Kristen Velyvis, a parent of a child in the program.

    http://youtu.be/Tz2XvwtfCdk