Swimmer's Daily

  • “I look like a Hungarian tennis player!” :-P

    Post by Australian Swim Team.

  • diana-nyad-maskThe media world is exploding in news about how a community of marathon swimmers is now questioning whether Diana Nyad actually accomplished the feat to swim the 110 miles from Cuba to Florida. See for instance philly.com, 10News, Ocala.com, ABC Action News, pnj.com, Las Vegas Guardian Express, The Vancouver Sun, ESPN, cbs12.com, …

    On social media and the online Marathon Swimmers Forum, long-distance swimmers have been debating whether Nyad got a boost from the boat that was accompanying her – either by getting in it or holding onto it – during a particularly speedy stretch of her swim. They also question whether she violated the traditions of her sport – many follow strict guidelines known as the English Channel rules – by using a specialized mask and body suit to protect herself from jellyfish.

    “When you know how hard it is, you kind of want those details,” said Andrew Malinak, a Seattle long-distance swimmer who crunched the data available from the GPS positions tracked on Nyad’s website and concluded that he didn’t trust what he saw.

    Nyad’s navigator and one of the swim’s official observers told the Associated Press over the weekend that Nyad didn’t cheat and that she was aided during the rapid part of her swim by a swift current. And neither Nyad nor her team ever said she would follow English Channel rules, developed for swimming the waters between England and France. Those rules outlaw neoprene wetsuits and contact with a support boat. Nyad wore a full non-neoprene bodysuit, gloves, booties and a silicone mask at night, when jellyfish are a particular problem, and removed the suit once she got over the reef on her approach to Key West.

    http://youtu.be/Dd9atzCLTnE
    See also The Marathon Swimmers Forum here, here, and here

    In an entirely different attack, Frontpage Mag writes that Diana Nyad ‘desecrated 50,000 graves’

    Many Cubans completed the hundred-mile journey on flotation devices most of us wouldn’t board outside a backyard swimming pool. Many more died horribly in the attempt from dehydration, sunburn, drowning, sharks and machine-gunnings by Diana Nyad’s hosts and facilitators. Diana Nyad describes Castro-regime apparatchik Jose Miguel Diaz Escrich as a “good friend.” Escrich runs the Castro-regime’s Hemingway Marina from where Nyad started her swim and from where the patrol boats and Soviet helicopters would depart to machine-gun desperate freedom-seekers.

  • Because he can

    http://youtu.be/sfN97KE-v7k

  • The women’s 100 meter butterfly medal podium at the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. From left to right Sweden’s silver medal winner Martina Granström, Norway’s gold medal winner Ingvild Snildal and Israel’s bronze medal winner Amit Ivri. See the result list here.

    Debrecen 2012 Women's 100 Fly Podium

  • See Fox28

    While Notre Dame traveled to Michigan over the weekend, a former Wolverine trekked his way to Irish country Saturday.

    2012 Gold Medalist Tyler Clary was on hand at the Notre Dame Swim Clinic helping young swimmers learn some new techniques. Clary won the gold in London in the 200M backstroke.

    “It’s so cool to come in and do what we love to do, which is swim,” said Clary. “I get to teach kids to swim which is special for me because I’ve been in the position before where I’ve learned from people who’ve come back from the Olympics”

    Fox 28: South Bend, Elkhart IN News, Weather, Sports

  • “Alessandro De Rose made his Cliff Diving World Series Debut back in July, during the fourth stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series in Malcesine (Italy). Watch and listen on how and why the Italian took up such an extreme sport!”

    “And when you see that the water is coming, you stretch your body, you squeeze your bum in and try to stay really tight and look forward, because if you look down, the water will punch and break your mouth”

    Nice, now I’m definitely not doing that ! :-P

  • Breaking news on TV2.no (in Norwegian)

    ‘Right now it is unthinkable to go into water,’ says Ingvild Snildal who is staying away indefinitely. Snildal announced already last year that she would take a sabbatical year, and now regrets having then changed her mind and soldiered on because of new surroundings in Bergen. ‘I regret it a bit. I should probably have taken a break as planned and then returned. I can not do anything about it now, so now I’ve better do what is right today.’

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    TV2 journalist and himself recent Norwegian national team member Sander Smørdal notes in his article on TV2.no that Norwegian swimming is now devoid of high profile swimmers after the last 1.5 years events. The 2012 European Champions Sara Nordenstam and Ingvild Snildal will not have full focus on swimming this fall as Nordenstam is to take part in TV Norge reality-show ‘71° nord‘, and Ingvild Snildal now reveals that she has chosen to take a break from top swimming.

  • camilla-pedersenRead Lokalavisen.dk (in Danish)

    An emotional triathlon national coach Michael Krüger told Lokalavisen Esbjerg Monday morning, that Camilla Pedersen is being woken up in 10 to 14 days at the earliest. There are no significant changes in her condition, which remains critical but stable.

    “And it may unfortunately be even longer than that. This because Camilla has been medicated so heavily. She has been given maximum sleeping pills in six days now, and even if the figures had improved, and the alarm had been canceled, she should be stepped out slowly. Unfortunately, the numbers have not improved, ” says an emotional coach who is just about to write a status message to the union’s website.

  • Via Geeks Are Sexy

    RIO from SCIENTIFANTASTIC on Vimeo.