Swimmer's Daily

  • jeanette-ottesenAccording to Dagens.dk, Danish sprint queen Jeanette Ottesen and coach Shannon Rollacon decided this March to make drastic changes to her crawl technique, including switching from straight-arm to bent-arm recovery. One of the consequences being, that she will not be defending her 100 meter free world championship come Barcelona 2013.

    – It changes my crawl completely, og it also means that he doesn’t want me to swim the 100 meter until the new technique is completely incorporated, she says about Shannon Rollason’s plan, the new head coach of the Danish national training center.

    – When the technique is in place, I will start swimming the 100 meter again. We will see how it goes. At least at the European Championships in Herning in December, I expect to be competing in it again, she says.

  • irish-swimming-high-techRead Galway Independent, siliconrepublic and Swim Ireland

    Swim Ireland has teamed up with NUI Galway with a view to developing a new high performance analysis system for competitive swimming. The development work is well under way on the new system which utilises innovative kinematic sensing technology. The new technology which is in test mode is being designed to deliver performance information in real time both to the swimmer and his/her coach.

    The technology is the brainchild of PhD student Robert Mooney who is a former Swim Ireland employee. The development team is led by Professor Gearóid Ó Laighin of NUI Galway’s Discipline of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

    Funding for the research is being provided both by Swim Ireland and by the Irish Research Council’s Enterprise Partnership Scheme. It is hoped to have the prototype system up and running by early 2014.

  • pablo-jose-perezRead The Washington Post and Cayman Islands News

    Police have now named the two men who died in separate water-related incidents this weekend. Pablo Jose Perez Larza, a member of the Uruguay Special Olympic team, who was in the Cayman Islands to participate in the Butterfield 800 meter swim, was found dead in the ocean off Seven Mile Beach on Saturday afternoon during the race. Suspected of having a cardiac arrest while competing, the police confirmed Monday that there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. In a second incident, Joseph Edward Johnson of Flagstaff, Arizona, who was visiting the Cayman Islands on vacation, drowned at Rum Point on Sunday when he got into difficulties in rough waters around the reef. An attempted daring rescue by the police helicopter unit was unable to save the man’s life.

  • Read MailOnline and Daily News

    Sunday’s episode of “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?” shows the 28-year-old Olympic swimmer taking a difficult call from his on-and-off girlfriend, British junior sales manager Jaimee Holler.

    Lochte turned off his microphone and took the phone call privately. When he returned to the cameras, the medal-winner admitted that Holler had ended their four-year long-distance relationship.

  • Uh oh, read webflakes

    After exercise comes comfort, obviously, as Federica also talks about her daily life outside of training to show us that she doesn’t spend her entire life in the water. Thus, the newspaper L’Indépendant published* one of the swimmer’s tweets last week, in which she revealed one of her beauty secrets, namely a glass and a bottle of wine from Corbières, Castelmaure’s 2011 Cuvée No. 3 to be precise.

     

  • An American boy is the first to emerge from big bathe in Lake Ontario. We need to get those steam whistles back in open water swimming.

    http://youtu.be/7_gOqxt72Z4

  • “Nine hundred twenty-seven swimmers, 122 race events, three 50-meter pools and 72,000 square feet — it’s all part of the 11th Annual National Black Heritage Championship Swim Meet.”

    http://youtu.be/7DZbVuPCZa0

  • Chloe McCardel is doing final preparation for her world-record swim from Cuba to the USA without a shark cage or wetsuit. Angela Cox spoke to her about the attempt.

    http://youtu.be/3eRbTTmOtJk

  • Male swimmers often show up with quite a beard at the big meets, to be shaven off just before it counts (or not, if it doesn’t). Slovenia’s Peter Mankoč is one of those that can intimidate also in this department.

    A manly looking Mankoč at Rijeka 2008