Swimmer's Daily

  • Surgery scars are an unsightly problem for many but now there may be a way to soften their appearance without chemicals or medication. Jamie Howard, a physical therapist in Center City, says she’s had success using the Graston technique. It was first developed for athletes, to loosen muscles, tendons, and scar tissue under the skin. Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is said to be a devotee. Read 6ABC Action News

  • The resort my wife visited earlier this month, on a field trip with 9th grade students and fellow teacher and parents. A huge, former airship hangar transformed into Tropical Islands, complete with fake horizon and everything. By pure coincidence, another Faroese party visited at the same time, bringing the total tally of Faroese visitors up to 50, or about 1‰ of the total Faroese population. And oh yes, she recommends it.

    The Tropical Islands resort near Berlin, Germany

  • One and a half billion people in the world have to use contaminated water, the main vehicle for disease. In Africa, 4 out 5 deaths are linked to water. The lack of drinking water is one of the fundamental causes of hunger, disease and poverty. Read Arena International and see AMREF.

  • Aqualillies and what appears to really be Psy doing the Gangnam Style ‘synchro style’. As commented a couple of times on YouTube, ‘slightly disturbing’.

  • 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