Swimmer's Daily

  • “My festive episode of #askkerianne ”

  • “So you discovered treadmills weren’t too chummy and thought swimming might be more up your street. Caution: surfaces become slippery when wet.”

    http://youtu.be/C5aTaPIBsqQ

  • Ryan LochteRead The Daytona Beach News-Journal

    1. Lochte wins five Olympic medals

    Swimmer Ryan Lochte had a somewhat disappointing London Olympics based on his high expectations. But the Spruce Creek product still enhanced his reputation as one of the sport’s all-time greats, winning five medals, including two gold — in the grueling 400 individual medley and the 4×200 freestyle relay.

    Lochte had an epic U.S. Olympic Trials showdown with Michael Phelps, winning two events and finishing second in two others. But it was Phelps, again, who shined brightest at the Olympics, winning four more gold medals and two silver for a total of 22 medals in his remarkable career.

    Lochte, meanwhile, upped his career Olympic medal count to 11 — five gold — from his three Olympic appearances. He’s planning one more Olympic foray at Rio de Janeiro in four years.

    After taking some time off to enjoy his growing fame and dabbling in some acting, Lochte got his next four-year interval off to a rousing start — winning six gold medals, a silver and a bronze at the Short Course World Championships in Istanbul earlier this month. He set world records in the 100 and 200 IM and was named Male Swimmer of the Meet.

    Photo courtesy of JD Lasica, CC BY-NC 2.0

  • Gary Hall Sr speaks with The Race Club campers at the Florida Swim Camps in Islamorada. He talks about fast swimming technique and the three laws of motion that reign over us.

  • NBC Charlotte has named Ricky Berens as its Person of the Year. With 63 percent of the viewer vote, Berens took home the award. The Charlotte native edged out fellow nominees Beverly Howard, Brenda Stevenson, Leon and Sandra Levine and David Marsh. Read wcnc.com, via the17thman

  • OMG – Phelps, Lochte, Adlington et al. were right all along, via the17thman:

    Scientists are now confirming that Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte’s admission that they urinate in the swimming pool is really not such a big deal after all.

    ‘Urine is essentially sterile so there isn’t actually anything to kill in the first place. Urine is largely just salts and water with moderate amounts of protein and DNA breakdown products,’ biochemist Stuart Jones when asked about urinating in a pool.

    Read Mail Online

    Personally, I’m still with British PM David Cameron. It is a matter of taste :-P

  • Earlier in December, at least one unidentified swimmer was videotaped riding a sperm whale off the coast of Florida – and hours later the animal was dead. Now a federal investigation has been launched into what killed the endangered species. Read Guy Harvey Magazine

  • “Hannah Miley reckons she’s on course for even more glory after learning how to drown out the pressure of expectation.

    The Garioch swimmer just missed out on a podium place at London 2012 but hit back with medal-laden displays at the European and World Short Course Championships.

    She won a gold and two silver medals at the European Short Course event in France last month and followed that up with gold and bronze medals at the world event in Turkey earlier this month.

    Now the 23-year-old has her sights set on the World Long Course Championships in Barcelona in the summer before the small matter of defending her Commonwealth 400m individual medley title in Glasgow in 2014.”

    Read more here on the Daily Record

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  • Our youngest practicing start jumps on his very first (official) swim lesson, back in August 2012. His technique is a bit, ehm, ‘a leap of faith, we’ll work on the entry later’ :-P

    Jump!