Swimmer's Daily

  • “You are invited to support peace and justice in a location of your choice through CongoSwim. Learn more at congoswim.org. Kambale Musavuli of Friends of the Congo learned to swim as an adult and braved the roughest current and waves during the crossing of the 22 mile length of Lake Tahoe in California with Keris Dahlkamp. Colette (Coco) Ramazani led a healing ceremony on the lake and launched her Breaking the Silence tour with CongoSwim. As a survivor of war and systematic rape, Coco bravely speaks out to dissolve the ongoing myth that the conflict in eastern Congo is tribal or ethnic and inspire people in the West to deepen our understanding of international links to the atrocities in her country.”

    Congo Swim 2013 from Congo Justice on Vimeo.

  • Sedbergh School Swimming from Joe Unsworth on Vimeo.

  • Just a photo from our night off after the finals Friday night August 2 during the FINA 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. The Joan Gamper Trophy friendly between home team Barcelona and Brazilian club Santos. Not much of a soccer spectator myself … but when you are leading 8-0 with 7 minutes to go, I guess you are safe :-P

    I think we won

  • See The Guardian

    A 24-year-old woman from Iran will this weekend make history in London by becoming the first female triathlete to take part in a world championship under the green, white and red tricolour of the Islamic republic’s flag.

    Shirin Gerami will join 8,500 athletes from 83 countries taking part in the PruHealth world triathlon grand final in Hyde Park, competing in full Islamic dress through a 1,500 metre swim, a 40km bike race and 10km run. […]

    Officials at Iran’s national triathlon federation told Gerami this week that she can participate in the London event. She will be competing in a full hijab that will cover her body from head to toe, a dress she has worked on to make sure it meets Iran’s requirements. Organisers of the London grand final have also agreed to provide a tent for her to be able to change clothes as soon as she gets out of the water.

  • Read The Journal

    The 24-year-old received the Nancy Riach Memorial Medal in recognition of her three medals at the European Short Course Championships and her first 400 IM World Short Course Championships gold in Istanbul last December, where she improved on her European record.

    Ahead of the awards, Miley launched the new ‘Hannah Fleet’ of Scottish Gas vans featuring the image of the world and European champion to highlight her role as ambassador, as well as Scottish Gas’s continuing support of Scottish Swimming at all levels.

  • The very first heat in the very first meet, three young girls readying themselves for the launch of the 2013-2014 swim season here in the Faroe Islands.

    First meet of the season 2013-2014

  • See ABC13

    Investigators found that Hernandez, 27, died after receiving an apparent electric shock in the hotel pool. Witnesses tell investigators he saved his 10-year-old brother and his mother, after they and other guests felt what they believed to be a series of shocks and could not swim. Police say Hernandez went into cardiac arrest and later died.

  • See 9News

    Early Thursday morning, Roy Ortiz was driving to work when the world literally crumbled underneath his car.

    He went nose first into the rising flood waters and was trapped fearing the worst.

    “I’m completely stuck right there. So, I have to wait,” Ortiz said.

    He could not get out of the car, but he did manage to find his way to the back seat where he found a small pocket for him to breathe.

    “Only my head can fit right there in that space,” Ortiz said.

  • Via Laughing Squid

    In the short film “The Devil’s Pool,” filmmaker Casey Neistat recounts his single-minded mission to swim in Devil’s Pool, a notoriously dangerous natural pool at the edge of Victoria Falls in Southern Africa.