Swimmer's Daily

  • instabeatStuff is happening for Lebanese entrepreneur Hind Hobeika and her team of engineers – Since launching their Indigogo fundraising campaign last week to help get the Instabeat swimming monitor to market, they have now raised $11,145 dollars of the $35,000 goal, with 57 days left. Wamda asks if this is ‘The Arab World’s Hottest Hardware Startup this Year?‘

  • A scene from the 2013 Faroese Youth Swimming Championships. I smell a bit of Bieber fever here with those JB hearts on the tank top and everything :-)

    Awesome outfits seen at MU 2013

  • Read for instance Mail Online and ninemsn

    Residents of Australia’s tropical north know that you don’t go swimming in the sea at night because that’s when crocodiles are most dangerous.

    But French fisherman Yoann Galeran didn’t know the rules and happily dived into the waters off Arnhem Land – which is why he ended up with his head firmly between the jaws of a saltwater croc.

    “It felt like a big stone or something coming on my head and I just thought for sure that is a croc and I started to think the only thing to do was to move my body as much as I can,” Mr Galeran told AAP.

    He said the animal was still living in a place where children played and needed to be killed.
    “I think they need to do something with him, probably kill him. He is very cheeky,” Mr Galeran said.

  • Icelandic-born Sindri Þór Jakobsson (21) was one of the two Norwegian national team members who were in the room when Alexander Dale Oen was found lifeless during their altitude camp in Flagstaff, USA last year. He competed at the following Debrecen 2012 Europeans and the Dutch Open, but was struggling with the traumatic experience. Read bt.no (in Norwegian)

    – I took a four-month break from everything related to swimming last summer. I didn’t event want to get close to a pool, he admits.
    – I spent a lot of time thinking about stuff and reflecting on what had happened. But then the desire gradually came back, and of course I missed the milieu.

    Now at the Bergen Swim Festival, he was third in the 100 butterfly with a time of 54.14, and only 0.09 seconds from his Norwegian record in the 200 fly, with a time of 1:57.29 behind Eindhoven 2012 European silver winner Viktor Bromer in 1:57.13. And most important, he seems more hungry and motivated than ever, according to Norway’s national head coach Petter Løvberg.

    The other guy, 20-year-old Sverre Næss, is unfortunately still not back in swimming. National coach Løvberg: “To me who am committed to building upon a new culture, it is important to have new blood. Those two boys were on the rise. Now Sindri proves that he is back, and I hope deeply that also Sverre returns. Nothing would please me more”

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    (Sindri at the Debrecen 2012 Europeans)

  • See KPLCtv.com

    There’s a new swim team coming to Lake Charles, but there’s more to it than just competitive swimming. This new swim team is helping save lives.

    The new swim team called the “Foreman Reynaud Streamliners” will practice at the Foreman Reynaud Community Center.

    Swim Coach Brian Cain said his goal is to get more people in the community involved with swimming.

    “At a younger age, my brother was affected by drowning and I saw not only the effects it had on the family itself but also the people in the community that knew the people and specifically my brother who helped try to save the young man,” Cain said.

    KPLC 7 News, Lake Charles, Louisiana

  • Read The Sydney Morning Herald

    James Magnussen, Tommaso D’Orsogna, Cameron McEvoy, Eamon Sullivan, Matt Targett and James Roberts will be fined an undisclosed amount and were handed suspended sentences. They will now be free to take part in the national titles which start next week, and be eligible for selection for this year’s world championships in Barcelona.

    See also Adelaide Now

    News Limited can reveal it was sprinter Targett who, despite being a ringleader and supplier of Stilnox last year, escaped further punishment for the incident involving Coutts at a time when the team was supposedly rebuilding culture and morale.

  • Read The Australian

    There has been much discussion in Australia’s swimming ranks about the drop-off in the distance ranks in the past five years and anecdotal evidence from coaches that the new generation of swimmers was unwilling to do the work required for the toughest event on the pool program.

    But Horton, in Year 11 at Caulfield Grammar, said it was the challenge of the 1500m that attracted him.

    “It’s just so hard,” Horton said.

    “A lot of people wuss it. It separates the men from the boys. It’s the competition to see who’s the toughest.”

  • See Radar Online

    As RadarOnline.com‘s  sneak peek shows, Lochte has a real soft spot for his family, saying,”Without family, I don’t know where I’d be.”  Recalling his Olympic experience last summer, he says, “I remember the first time I won a gold medal.  I did something I never thought I’d be able to.  Having my family there to support me was everything.”  The athlete then starts crying and says, “It’s the first time I’ve ever cried on camera” and lets out an expletive that’s bleeped out by E!

  • See MTV

    MTV News caught up with Lochte to talk about his most recent endeavor, and the Olympic athlete explained the show’s main goal is to raise “swimming awareness” and make it bigger than it was at the Olympics.