Swimmer's Daily

  • Medal winners in the women’s 100 meter butterfly at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Liu Zige (China), Ilaria Bianchi (Italy) and Gemma Lowe (Great Britain). See the result list here.

    Istanbul 2012 women's 100 fly medal podium

  • Via PetaPixel

    Portugal’s Krypton Films, in collaboration with production company Moonlighting and marine support company Frog Squad, recently succeeded in filming what they claim to be South Africa’s first ever underwater time slice for an Aqua Das Pedras mineral water commercial.

  • Cap & Goggles had this breaking news story, yesterday, quickly confirmed by NBC

    Michael Phelps is about to launch a comeback. He’ll soon be returning to training; in fact, he’s rumored to be arriving in Colorado Springs, at the Olympic Training Center, in the next few days. Maybe he won’t show. Perhaps he’ll read these publicized rumors and get spooked and insist that he’s still happily retired on the links. The man has nothing to prove to anyone. He’s the greatest Olympian of all time, regardless of whether or not he ever touches chlorinated water again.

    Michael Phelps

    NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral Phelps doesn’t sound so convincing himself, but the swimming world is abuzz, the story even reaching Danish main media already.

     

    Is this tweet coach Bowman a clue?

    Image courtesy of Marco Paköeningrat, CC BY-SA 2.0

  • resident-evil-revelationsRead for instance Forbes

    In order to promote Resident Evil Revelations, Capcom is filling a swimming pool in London with faux blood and gore, and inviting fans to come bobbing for prizes in the murky depths. For free, grab one of the 200 tickets here on Monday 20th May from 9:00am (UK time).

    Miss Cakehead has commissioned Pictographik to receate the iconic set of British swimming pool rules with a Zombie twist. Awesome :-)

    zombie-pool-rules

    Here is a game trailer

  • Read Business Standard

    Two weeks after confirming a comeback attempt, Rice said that opportunities in business and her previous shoulder injury is keeping her from contesting the 400m individual medley and take up swimming again at the Glasgow event.

    Rice regretted that she has not fully recovered from the shoulder injury, unsure whether or not she should consider her future at the pool, after an extended lapse.

    Stating that her comeback depends on whether she can handle swimming 60 km a week, Rice said that she is yet to begin training in the pool after taking a post-London Olympic sabbatical, even as she is preparing to launch her own swimwear range.

    See also safm

  • Ah nice, read WCTV.tv

    CDC researchers collected water samples from filters at 160 public pools, booth indoor and outdoor, located in the metro-Atlanta area. They found “poop” in nearly 60 percent of the pools, with tests revealing 58 percent of the water samples were positive for the bacteria Escherichia coli, or E. coli. […]

    The high percentage of E. coli contamination suggests some swimmers may be having a “fecal incident” in the water, the CDC said, or that some people simply aren’t showering themselves thoroughly enough before they enter the pool.

  • Read New York Post

    Lochte appears on first glance to be a beautiful catastrophe, the likes of which has not seen since Jessica Simpson made befuddled musings over chicken and tuna on MTV’s “Newlyweds.”

    Lochte is mesmerizing, and not just because he’s got a way with pickup lines and tightly fitting T-shirts and says his life “is like a Seinfeld.”

    He makes up words like “enfidence” — which is similar to “emphasis” but with added moxy — and “recipitate,” which is indescribable.

    He’s managed to take a career in swimming — a sport people generally care about for about eight days in a four year period — and make himself a brand. A whole brand built around the perception that he has nary a brain cell to spare.

    As it turns out, he’s a charming fellow with an especially good relationship with his mom, and a desire to help out charitable causes.

  • catlin-seaview-sviiWe’ve mentioned the Catlin Seaview Survey before, where underwater footage is recorded for scientists and the rest of us to enjoy and use, in order to assess the state of coral reefs over time. They have been using a pretty high-tech 360-degree panoramic camera called the Catlin Seaview SVII, but with smart phone camera capabilities advancing so fast, we can help out too. Read PC Mag

    At Google I/O on Thursday, Catlin Seaview Survey director Richard Vevers appealed to divers and developers to assist in the project. Vevers and his team use the survey’s own $50,00 Seaview SVII underwater cameras on their mapping dives, but he said new 360-degree photography capabilities built into Android phones like the Galaxy S4 can replicate that work.

  • Lithuania’s RÅ«ta MeilutytÄ— and USA’s Jessica Hardy head-to-head at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey, here I think in the preliminary heats. Meilutyte ended up winning the final in a new championships record of 1:03.52, see the result list here.

    Meilutyte and Hardy racing at Istanbul 2012