Swimmer's Daily

  • Read NBC Sports and Der Standard

    Austrian swimmer Dinko Jukic will reportedly skip the world championships in July and August at Barcelona following an ongoing dispute with his national federation.

    “The worlds this year will take place without me,” Jukic was quoted as saying in Tuesday’s online edition of Austrian newspaper Der Standard. “As long as not everything has been cleared, I won’t swim for the federation anymore.”

    In August, the federation banned Jukic for 10 months for verbally attacking three of its officials during the European Championships three months earlier. The swimmer was in disagreement with the officials about when to return to Austria after the competition in Debrecen, Hungary.

    The suspension led to a wave of negative publicity, prompting federation president Paul Schauer to step down three weeks later.

    Jukic successfully fought his suspension in court, but the federation under new president Christian Meidlinger has appealed the verdict and stripped Jukic of his state funding for athletes.

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    Image courtesy of Manfred Werner – Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0

  • See Russia Beyond The Headlines

    Yevgeny Bezruchenko, a two-time world open water swimming champion and the director of Moscow’s MySwimSchool, shares some of the secrets of marathon swimmers with Moskovsiye Novosti.

    (Read full text for explanations…)

    1. You have to work with your fists
    2. No one likes to swim in dirty water
    3. Grease up
    4. What swimmers have in common with squirrels
    5. Man vs. shark

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    Image courtesy of Steven Fruitsmaak, CC BY-SA 3.0

  • Read gulfnews.com

    To be held at the Hamdan Bin Mohammad Sports Complex, Dubai has already attracted a record 85 countries for the six-day competition. The last championships held in Lima, Peru had a mere 58 nations.

    Commonly known as ‘Junior Worlds’ and first hosted in 2006 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this championship has grown to become the mainstay of junior swimmers seeking a breakthorough in the senior category.

    The Dubai 2010 Competition Pool

  • See WALB

    The Center for Disease Control says a growing number of people who swim in public pools are getting sick.

    Most are getting infections from bacteria.

    So the Florida Department of Health in Lee County recommends testing those pools yourself before you dive in.

    Bacteria could be swimming along with you and your kids.

    “It’s scary and I try not to think of it when I bring my kids here,” said Alicia Williams, who visits the North Fort Myers Community Pool with her grandchildren.

    WALB.com, Albany News, Weather, Sports

  • Clever gal, now she won’t get wet, “Susan swimming and singing in the rain in Blackrock, Galway.”

  • “China’s Sun Yang has amazed the long distance swimming world by winning double gold at the 2012 Olympics. He’s without doubt the man to beat in the 400 and 1500 meters.. but there’s a South African who feels he can do just that come Rio 2016. Dan williams reports”

  • Borut sends his greetings, Martin and him are back from their Lake Powell spring tours, returning there in October but before then arranging a series of tours in the beautiful Dalmatian coast area of Croatia. Go see strel-swimming.com, the summer trips are almost fully booked.

    They arrange video analysis also, y’know

  • Just a scene from the training a day before the LEN 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. I remember it as a day focused on getting and trying out ‘supersuits’, some even wearing two at a time.

    Training before Rijeka 2008

  • 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.