Swimmer's Daily

  • See 9News

    The man, whose head is only centimetres from the mouth of the lemon shark, has been bagged on social media for the stunt performed while snorkelling off the Pacific island of Bora Bora recently.

    The lemon shark moves gently through the water as the snorkeler, dressed in board shorts and flippers, approaches and swings himself underneath the big fish, wrapping his hands around it.

    Remarkably, the shark barely reacts to the swimmer hitching a ride and continues moving slowly through the water until its passenger lets go.

    http://youtu.be/wiSB9_NJce8

  • Head and Shoulders Presents Cam you Can! with Cameron van der Burgh!

  • Read People Daily

    Despite having finished his seven-day detention for driving without a license, China’s Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang remains the center of controversy.

    Sun’s relationship with teammates was questioned this time as a local newspaper reported on Nov 17 that the 400m and 1,500m freestyle Olympic champion has become a supercilious athlete after winning fame and fortune with elite results.

    “He’s always coming and leaving alone unlike others who stay together. And he almost has no friends on the team,” an athlete of the Chinese national swimming squad was quoted anonymously by Southern Metropolis Daily as saying.

    Sun Yang enters the Palau Sant Jordi BCN2013 arena

    “Before building his name in 2010, he used to be an easy-going guy who kept close bonds with us. But after improving his performance and winning the World Championships and Olympics, he’s become an arrogant person, who barely talks with us,” said the athlete.

    According to the report, Sun also showed no respect to some veteran swimmers such as Zhang Lin and Wu Peng, who used to perform better than him at international events.

  • See Nottingham Post

    Nottingham’s very own Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington shocked her fellow campers last night on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here when she confessed that she always pees in the pool.

    Team mate Joey Essex couldn’t resist probing the gold medallist about her swimming secrets during a Snake Rock campsite chat.

    The Mansfield Olympic hero quashed Joey’s fears that peeing in a swimming pool would make the water turn purple.

    http://youtu.be/ItXKsL0tzIk

  • Read SwimmingWorld and see ABC

    Supporters of a popular Phoenix swimming pool lost a last chance effort Tuesday to save their home.

    Hundreds of supporters were at Phoenix City Hall Tuesday to appeal to city commissioners during the city council meeting. The council was considering a re-zoning request that would demolish the pool at the Brophy Sports Facility and replace it with a housing development.

    “I love this place. I love swimming. I live nearby and there’s no place else like it around here. There’s so much history,” said Phoenix Swim Club member Jack Riggs.

    Riggs and other swim club members have been using the Brophy pool since 1988. Since its construction members say the pool has hosted Special Olympics events and been used by Olympic athletes to train.

  • How to overcome the fear of swimming with your face in the water by Julie Johnston

  • butterfly-wingRead for instance BBC, livescience and nature

    US engineers at MIT in Boston have developed a new way of texturing surfaces that they believe could make for the “most waterproof material ever”.

    Inspired by ridges found in nature on the wings of the Morpho butterfly and the veins of nasturtium leaves, they added tiny ridges to a silicon surface that made water bounce off it 40% faster than the limit of the previous lotus leaf gold standard.

    “We believe these are the most super-hydrophobic surfaces yet,” said Prof Kripa Varanasi, whose work is published in Nature journal.

    “For years industry has been copying the lotus. They should start thinking about copying butterflies and nasturtiums.

    The new “super-hydrophobic” surface could keep clothes dry and stop aircraft engines icing over, they say. I’m thinking textiles :-)

  • See the official championships landing page and videos from tonight’s finals on SuperLive

    Summary

    erik-perssonErik Persson (1994) broke the Swedish record in the men’s 200 breaststroke, with a time of 2:07.07 beating Martin Gustavsson’s 2:07.66 record from the 2003 Swedish SC Champs. 9 more swimmers made the Swedish roster (Céline Bertrand twice) for Herning 2013, to join the 10 already pre-selected.

    Qualified Swedes for Herning 2013 in tonight’s events:

    • 400 free M – Mattias Carlsson and Adam Paulsson
    • 200 IM W – Stina Gardell, Louise Hansson, Céline Bertrand and Nadja Salomonsson
    • 100 IM M – Sebastian Holmberg
    • 100 fly W – Sarah Sjöström, Josefin Lindkvist
    • 100 breast W – Jennie Johansson, Joline Höstman, Sophie Hansson and Jessica Billquist
    • 200 breast M – Erik Persson and Simon Sjödin
    • 800 free W – Céline Bertrand

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  • IMG_5630-225x300 (1)See Fox4News

    Schlitterbahn, a water park in Kansas City, Kan., is building the tallest, fastest water slide in the world.

    The Verrückt (which means “insane” in German) Meg-A-Blaster will make its debut next May when the park opens. The company recently shared photos and video of construction of the new 17-story thrill slide.

    On the ride, four-person rafts will plummet down from the tower and speed across a five-story hill.

    Schlitterbahn is a family-owned and operated company based in New Braunfels, Texas. Schlitterbahn began its first park, Schlitterbahn Waterpark Resort, in 1979. Since then, Schlitterbahn has developed three waterparks located in Texas and one in Kansas City, Kan.

    Verrückt – KC 2014 from Schlitterbahn Waterparks on Vimeo.