Swimmer's Daily

  • Read the full story on SwimmingWorld

    With less than three months to go until the 2013 European Short Course Championships held in Herning, Denmark, the meet organizers are working diligently to ensure that people will get “an experience they will always remember,” when the championships start on Dec. 12.

    Jyske Bank Boxen, venue of the 2013 European SC Swimming Championships

  • See kstp.com

    Boy Scouts showed off their underwater basket weaving skills Sunday.

    The scouts were at Square Lake in Stillwater. They dressed in full scuba gear and were 20 feet deep in the lake as they weaved the baskets.

    Venture Crew Advisor Dave Tengdin said, “Everybody makes jokes about taking classes in underwater basket weaving. And we figured you know what, let’s make sense, let’s just have underwater basket weaving.”

  • See CNN, via MSN

    Phillips lost the ring in two weeks after he got it back in ’74, when it got caught in the pop top of a beer can he tried to open on a boating trip with his future wife. He was also currently in the hospital recovering from brain surgery, and battling cancer when Tovin found him to return it (even getting down on one knee with a jewelry box to do so). Phillips was overwhelmed by the symbolic return to such a happy time in his life. “Thank you, Lord, that I got it back,” Phillips told CNN.

  • “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