Swimmer's Daily

  • Nearly 400 swimmers braved the waters of Casco Bay on Saturday morning to take part in the 32nd annual Peaks to Portland swim race.

    Nearly 400 swim in Peaks to Portland race

  • Russia’s Vladimir Morozov happy with his victory in the men’s 50 meter freestyle at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Also in picture, USA’s bronze winner Anthony Ervin.

    Morozov after winning the Istanbul 2012 World Champs 50 free

  • Jamaica’s Alia Atkinson leading the women’s 50 breaststroke heat 8 at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, 2012. Behind her Sweden’s Jennie Johansson. Atkinson went on to win silver in the final the day after, see all results here.

    Alia Atkinson (JAM) breaststroke at Istanbul 2012

  • Read The Washington Post

    In a letter sent by Athletic Director Craig Littlepage on June 27 and signed by Bernardino on June 30, one day before he abruptly announced he would be retiring after 35 years leading the Virginia swimming and diving program, Bernardino was instructed not to speak negatively about the university or the athletic department in exchange for certain benefits from the school.

    Bernardino will continue to be paid his annual base salary of approximately $104,000 and receive university benefits through March 31, 2015, even if he takes a new job elsewhere. He and his wife also still have access to university fitness facilities and his family will keep their season tickets to all Virginia sports.

    (Bernardino in a video not directly related to this story)

  • http://youtu.be/4ruXjmSlejI

  • “Traditionally we used to recommend swimming as a good sport for people with asthma because the environment in a swimming pool is warm and humid, and those conditions are good when you are breathing hard. They generally don’t tend to cause the type of breathing problems that we see with the field sports.”

    “We want to restore our patients to normal exercise capacity. We’re not particularly pushed on what sport they do, once they are able to do what they need to do and their asthma doesn’t interfere with that. So it can be field sports, it can be swimming, it can be any sport they want. We don’t have a favorite sport”

    (more…)

  • An Andalusian story featuring Cordoba’s Rafael Muñoz Perez

  • The story from the other day, explained by these two nice ladies. Thanks for explaining our nature to us, ahem :-)

    Here is a guy explaining it

  • Read University Chronicle

    A man from Maryland swam for five hours to find help for his family. The family was boating off the Eastern Shore of Maryland when their boat capsized during a strong storm

    John Franklin Riggs scaled rocks on the shoreline after dark and then knocked at the first house he found after swimming for over three miles Wednesday.