Swimmer's Daily

  • A short film by Paula Marinkovic & Alexandra Menk starring Melissa Gil, Diana Salom, and Kalia Aguera. Get a glimpse into the aquatic lifestyle of these amazing women!

  • Read Mail Online, Rebecca Adlington, the golden girl of British swimming, has revealed that she will not race at the next Olympic Games in Rio in four years’ time – and may even have swum in her last event.

    ‘Rio is out of reach,’ she said last night. ‘I’ll be 27 then, and swimming, especially for distance swimmers, is a young person’s game. Do I want to carry on and not get any faster? The answer is No.

    She also has a theory about why she (and the rest of the Brits) didn’t perform as expected (or hoped) at the London Games:

    ‘I think the reason I swam slower in the Olympic final than at any point during the year is because our first trials last March were too early. Most of the British swimmers swam their fastest times before the Games, too.
    ‘We have a 15-week cycle, which is why we all swam so well in our June trials. But it was too long to hang on to that form for London.
    ‘The first trials would have been better held in April. I’ve trained and raced well all season, but swam slower when it mattered. I wasn’t upset with the bronze in the 800m. It was the time that bothered me.’

  • Uh oh, maybe he’ll make an impression of Seth MacFarlane ? :-)

    Read for instance TheDeadBolt and Celebrity-Gossip.net

    At the iHeartRadio Music Festival on Friday, MTV News was able to snag a few minutes with Ryan to ask him about the possibility of making a cameo on SNL. Lochte revealed that he did receive a call from producers and could possibly appear on the show as early as this Saturday.

  • Stunning waterfront plans have been unveiled for Brazil 2016’s Olympic Park – designed by British designers who made London such a success. The park will be built on the former Brazilian grand prix track in a striking triangular layout spread over 300 acres, accommodating among other things 20,000 journalists at the Media Centre, the Olympic and Paralympic villages and (drum roll) the Aquatics Centre. Read more here on Mail Online

  • TMZ chatted with Olympian Ryan Lochte about Seth McFarlane’s absolutely BRUTAL portrayal of him on the season premiere of “SNL.”

    My personal opinion? – TMZ come off as the dumbest of them all, for not even google’ing their Nile vs Amazon question, and discovering that it is not that simple:

    The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in recent years some Brazilian and Peruvian studies have suggested that the Amazon is longer by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal canal

  • Tragedy has struck the production of Disney and Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger summer blockbuster after one of its crew members sadly passed away earlier today. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that he was prepping a tank, possibly cleaning it, when someone noticed no bubbles from the gear were surfacing. Apparently he had a heat attack, investigators treat it as a “natural death.” Read for instance TMZ and TheHDRoom

  • “As I held my breath underwater, the 200-pound anaconda slid leisurely beneath me — inches from my face. The endless, scaled form with a head the size of an anvil is a creature from nightmares (including my own) and native myths.” Read and watch ABC News Explore

  • LEN TSC Chairman Søren Korbo handing Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) some kind of trophy at the Istanbul 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships, for winning bronze in the women’s 100 butterfly (time 56.02).

    Jeanette Ottesen on the Istanbul 2009 podium

  • A short film by Biologist Austin Gallagher describing his fears and fascinations associated with sharks.