Swimmer's Daily

  • Read The Star

    Young American swimmer Missy Franklin will be at the glittering Laureus World Sports Awards at the Istana Budaya on Wednesday.

    The California native has been unstoppable, winning four gold medals at the 2012 London Olympics, followed by an unprecedented six gold medals at one World Championships. She won the 100m and 200m backstroke, 200m freestyle, 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle and 4x100m medley at last yearโ€™s World Championships.

    And all that at the age of 18. It is no wonder that sheโ€™s earned the nickname โ€œMissile Missyโ€.

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  • Read ABC27

    A central Pennsylvania school district is debating whether to retain a popular swimming coach after someone complained anonymously about his job as a bartender at a strip club.

    Twenty-nine-year-old Baron Leonard tells the Altoona Mirror he works two other jobs to make ends meet. That means he works four jobs, counting his $2,530-a-year part-time coaching position at Hollidaysburg Area High School and his bartending job at Club Coconuts in Altoona.

  • See KTLA

    A 4-year-old boy died after walking away from his home and being found in a pool in Castaic on Friday afternoon, according to the Sheriff’s Department. Rick Chambers reports for the KTLA 5 News at 10 on Friday, March 21, 2014.

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  • Read CBC

    This summer the Halifax Harbour will host its first open-water swimming competition in more than 50 years, according to Swim Nova Scotia.

    Swim Nova Scotia, the umbrella organization for all swim clubs in the provinceโ€‹, will host the event July 27.

    Swimmers will start at the Cable Wharf, go around George’s Island, and return. […]

    Halifax Harbour was off-limits to swimmers for decades, until a new sewage-treatment plant cleaned the water.

    halifax harbor photoPhoto by eutrophication&hypoxia

  • See CCTV

    Chinaโ€™s most famous swimming star Sun Yang is once again training with the national. The athlete was reprimanded by State General Administration of Sports, after he was caught driving without a license last November.

    SunYangโ€™s fortunes appear to be improving after a troublesome past five months, as the Chinese swimming federation lifted a ban prohibiting the double Olympic champion from training and competing.

    After serving seven days in jail in November for driving without a license, Sun was slapped with an indefinite ban by the Chinese swimming federation and the Zheijang College of Sports. Both organizations lifted that ban Thursday, allowing Sun to return to the pool.

    Sun is a little bigger than before as he is about 10 kilos heavier due to a lack constant national team training.

    “Sun Yang put in a lot of effort in todayโ€™s training, as he knew what he need to do and trained very hard. He has a positive attitude and is working well with our instructors, I think it will help Sun get back to the shape he wants to be.” said Li Chunlei, Sunโ€™s Trainer.

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  • See The Indy Channel

    Isaac Griffith has walked for the first time since being swept away by a rip current at Siesta Beach near Sarasota.ย Doctors also moved him out of the intensive care unit Friday.

    The Indiana University football player was on spring break when currents swept him into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday.

    “He’s doing great,” said his father, Shannon Griffith, while holding back tears.

  • stilnox photoRead news.com.au

    Swimming Australia is going to help every member of the national swim team sleep naturally after declaring that the use of sleeping pills, including Stilnox is now banned.

    SA has joined with the NRL to ban the prescription drug in a move to repair its battered image and win back the respect of swimming fans. To combat athletesโ€™ reliance on sleeping pills, Swimming Australia, ยญtogether with the Australian Institute of Sport, has begun a widespread study on sleep hygiene of their elite swimmers.

    Swimmers have been surveyed and are being monitored on a range of bedtime variables, including how many hoursโ€™ sleep they get each night, the amount of time spent on iPads and iPhones prior to sleep and the ambience of their bedrooms, at home and away during competition.

    Photo by See-ming Lee ๆŽๆ€ๆ˜Ž SML

  • daniel-smithRead news.com.au

    Aged 14, Smith won eight national titles in the single greatest gold medal haul since Ian Thorpe.

    He was touted as the next Thorpedo and, in Miami coach Denis Cotterellโ€™s eyes, the best trainer heโ€™d encountered since Grant Hackett.

    But if Ian Thorpe canโ€™t cope with being Ian Thorpe, how can a 14-year-old boy?

    Smith thought fame and fortune would fall in his lap and behaved like he was a rock star when in fact heโ€™d proven nothing at all.

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  • audioflood-ipodSee Audioflood

    For the Swimmer:

    Rather than staring at the same black line across the bottom of your lane, over, and over, and over again, many swimmers like to plug into a waterproof music player and add a little variety to their laps. Shape Magazine put together a 30 minute playlist for just those people: