Swimmer's Daily

  • camilla-pedersenRead Jyllands-Posten (in Danish)

    “It’s been a storm without equal. It has gone around the world, and my phone has been red hot since Tuesday, says Michael Krüger, national coach of the Danish Triathlon Federation, now at third day waiting for news about the Danish European champion Camilla Pedersen, who crashed her bike Tuesday night.

    Camilla Pedersen suffered serious injuries in the back of the head, including a fractured skull and internal bleeding, even though she wore a helmet. She was put in artificial coma at Odense University Hospital, where she both Tuesday and Wednesday was on the operating table.

    “She’s still in a critical state, but reasonably stable at the moment, ” says Michael Krüger Friday morning, who as a personal trainer for Camilla Pedersen is very touched by the situation. “Doctors say that the first 72 hours are the most difficult in this kind of injuries. There have also been ups and downs, but tonight we have over the first three days, ” said Michael Krüger.

  • Yesterday on a single breath of air, Stig Severinsen sets a new official Guinness World Record by diving 500 feet (152.4m) below the ice in a frozen lake in East Greenland where nobody has ever been diving before!

    Post by Stig Ã…vall Severinsen.

  • “Great ‘behind the scenes’ footage taken from a recent photoshoot with the Dutch Team in Rome. Watch as Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Jacco Verhaeren and the rest of the team get made-up for the shoot! Looking good guys!”

  • Via the17thman

    “While the world celebrates marathon swimmer Diana Nyad’s historic swim from Cuba to Key West, Florida, a Central Ohio woman said her husband completed the same journey nearly 35 years ago. Faye Poenisch, widow of Walter Poenisch, said her husband completed the same swim at the age of 68. Walter Poenisch began marathon swimming at the age of 49. A baker and rodeo man by trade, Walter bet a restaurant owner in Jamestown, New York, that he could beat him.”

  • 20130905-182442.jpgMore than a decade ago, record-setting free diver Francisco “Pipin” Ferreras of North Bay Village lost his wife, Audrey Mestre, when she drowned attempting to exceed his world depth mark in a plunge to 561 feet off the Dominican Republic. […]

    Ferreras, now 51, retired from competitive diving after his wife’s death. He dissolved his company, the International Association of Free Divers, and did some photography and promotions work.

    But now he is announcing a comeback: an attempt in 2014 to break the “no-limits” world record of 702 feet set by Austria’s Herbert Nitsch in 2007 off Greece.

    See Challenge of Science

  • Just a photo from the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. The Nepalese swimming team taking a group photo up on the medal podium. Awesome phone cover, btw.

    Nepal taking a group photo at BCN2013

  • Read NewstalkZB

    The NZOC and Swimming New Zealand have lifted their expectations for Kiwi swimmers heading to next year’s Commonwealth Games.

    Qualifying times have been released , and in some events they’re faster than current New Zealand records.

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    (Lauren Boyle on the BCN2013 medal podium)

  • Three-time Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Natalie Coughlin showing her support for Olympic wrestling. Coughlin won 12 Olympic medals overall.

  • tripedalia-cystophoraSee story on the Onion

    Just one day after Diana Nyad completed her record-breaking swim from Cuba to Florida, a local box jellyfish expressed its deep disappointment Tuesday morning at narrowly failing to achieve its lifelong dream of killing the 64-year-old swimmer. “From the time I was just a young ephyra, I’ve dreamt of the day I would sting Diana Nyad so many times that she’d die,” said the highly venomous Tripedalia cystophora, who reportedly faced numerous adverse conditions throughout the 103-mile swim including choppy currents, varying water temperatures, and Nyad’s special facial gear and skin cream that protected her from jellyfish stings.