Swimmer's Daily

  • day 41/366 [swimming in your ocean]Read cnhi news service via Opposing Views

    An unidentified 54-year-old man in Crossville, Tennessee was robbed while he was distracted by a woman swimming nude in his backyard pool on Saturday.

    According to CNHI News, a woman and a man approached the victim’s home, but the woman sent her male accomplice away to get some cigarettes. The woman then asked the victim if she could swim naked in his pool, which he agreed to.

    The victim and the woman spent 20 minutes in his backyard while she skinny dipped. However, her male friend never returned with the cigarettes because he was inside robbing the man’s house, say police.

    Image courtesy of Cristina Ivan, CC BY 2.0

    ABC News reports that the violated man is former Mississippi deputy officer Stephen Amaral.

    Amaral says he was tricked by his own neighbors

  • See King5.com

    Olympic swimer and world record holder Ariana Kukors joined guest host Meeghan Black to talk about why she’s teaming up with LifeWise Health Plan of Washington to launch Actively Northwest, an online lifestyle magazine that features stories, tips and other resources to help people live healthy and fit lives. Ariana hopes to use her new position as Director of Health Inspiration for LifeWise to help motivate, support and encourage others in their health and fitness journeys. For more information about Actively Northwest, visit the website:  www.ActivelyNorthwest.com

  • Hungary’s Zsuzsanna Jakabos and USA’s Celina Li readying themselves for the women’s 200 IM at the FINA 2012 World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany. There was a slight difference in height, also without Jakabos stretching out. See the result list here.

    Jakabos and Li at the Berlin 2012 World Cup meet

  • “Be fast, be wild, be cool. A great water experience.” See swimtheisland.com

  • See this Kickstarter fundraiser. It looks very interesting, but supporters please move fast to help them launch this product, as their deadline is running out in 4 days.

    Lo Swim was launched in 2009 by Sheeva VanGemeren and Annie Babicz with the Signature Training Bikini. As former college swimmers, (UC Davis and Cal, respectively) we had the privilege of receiving feedback from some of the best swimmers in the country. Our greatest compliment? “It stayed on better than a one-piece during run and dives!”….from an Olympian.

    Not only are we helping to bring beach worthy fashion trends to athletes, but we firmly believe that our suit provides the most customized fit of any product on the market. After initial strap and draw cord adjustments, all of your energy can be directed towards training – no need to worry about shifting, slipping or suit movement of any kind. The straps are adjustable in two ways, so you can adjust the back straps to make a “T” shape or “Y” shape, depending on whats more comfortable AND if you switch it up, you avoid swimmer tan lines!

  • Read Hürriyet Daily News and see bosphorus.cc

    Hasan Emre MusluoÄŸlu from Turkey received the gold medal among the 1,532 swimmers at the 25th Bosphorus Cross-Continental Races yesterday in Istanbul, marking his fourth consecutive win.

    Another Turkish swimmer, Bertuğ Çoşkun, and Russia’s Evgeny Bezruchenko came in second and third respectively. Musluoğlu finished the 6.5-kilometer race across the Bosphorus in 39.13 minutes. Russia’s Evgenia Nikolaeva won women’s race in 43.59.

    Here is a video from last year, featuring MusluoÄŸlu and Mark Spitz

  • chris-desantisGentofte Svømmeklub announces today that Chris DeSantis will be their new head coach starting 1 August 2013, now with their current head coach Stefan Hansen moving on to become assistant head coach at the National Training Center. DeSantis is well known also as blogger for instance at The Swim Brief.

    ‘Chris will get to use his Master of Science in positive psychology, a science dealing with the “appreciative approach” that the club wants to build on. Chris has previously been an assistant coach at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he worked for 4 years with quality swimmers from around the world. His experience in cultural development from Georgia will also come into play in Gentofte next season. Chris has coached swimmers who have qualified for the World Championships, European Championships, World University Games and the NCAA Division 1 Championship. Since he arrived in Denmark in April, he has worked with Sigma 2, which consists of junior and age-group swimmers. Because of this, he has gained a good knowledge of Danish swimming.’