Swimmer's Daily

  • The 11-time Olympic medalist sits down with Lara Spencer and Josh Elliott.

  • Ryan Lochte has had the time of his life since winning five medals at the 2012 Summer Games in London. He’s been seen partying with Prince Harry in Vegas, has shot cameo appearances for 90210 and 30 Rock, and he’s been hired as a special correspondent for E! to cover events during New York’s Fashion Week. Not to mention, the athlete has fans and women constantly swooning over him, but it looks like he’s found someone he likes — Miss USA Olivia Culpo. Read OK!

  • Oussama Mellouli is no stranger to pain. As a champion endurance swimmer, he swims an average of four hours a day to train for some of the toughest events in the pool and open water competitions. But this year the athlete went beyond even this magnitude of physical struggle.

    During the last swimming competition of the London 2012 Olympics, Mellouli swam 10 km against the world’s top athletes. He did so while suffering from a virus, two herniated disks in his back and a rotator-cuff injury…and won gold.

  • An international crew of six astronauts are training for a caving adventure designed to prepare them for spaceflight. There are many similarities to spaceflight such as a lack of day–night cycle, sensory deprivation, minimal hygiene and the necessity to work as a team and solve problems together.

    After a week of training they entered the caves to spend six days living and working underground.

  • A new interactive website called Seafloor Explorer needs the public’s help to identify objects and seascapes in a few million underwater photos. The project is starting with 100,000 images, but there are more than 40 million in all. The photos come from the HabCam group, an underwater habitat-mapping project at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Via POPSCI

  • Cool, I guess the tree was there first, and the stands maybe only temporary :-)

    A tree up through the Budapest 2010 spectator stands

  • According to Pat Bradley, one of the cameramen who documented US atomic tests during the 1950s, the Wahoo and Umbrella underwater explosions were more amazing than a atmospheric nuclear explosion. Watch this stunning video and listen to him explaining his experience of living these explosions just 2.5 miles away. Read Gizmodo

  • There is still a stigma surrounding mental illness in our society, and because of this, it’s sometimes difficult to ask for help. But that’s exactly what Libby Trickett, one of Australia’s most successful swimmers, did after suffering a bout of severe depression following her retirement in 2010.

    She later returned to competitive swimming, having realised that she really missed the exercise and the cameraderie. And it was an extraordinary comeback – last month she won her fourth Olympic gold medal as part of the women’s 4×100 relay team at the London Olympic Games.

    Read more here on ABC Sydney and listen to the podcast below

  • It is a scene you never saw in an episode of Flipper but swimmers are being warned not to approach an over amorous male dolphin who’s been sexually bothering snorkellers, swimmers and scuba divers in the waters off Grand Cayman, in the Caribbean. Read more here on the Mirror

    Videographer Michael Maes was filming when the dolphin approached him on Monday and began “courting” with him.

    He said afterwards: “This is an animal with 500 pounds of pure muscle … It’s seven feet long and it’s got amazing strength. I dive with sharks and I know a couple of tricks you can do to make sharks keep their distance. They’re shy.

    “This dolphin was not. I tried those tricks, but he tackled me on every single one of them. They’re very intelligent. Don’t play with them, you’re on the wrong side of the odds,” said Mr Maes.

    Warning, video probably NSFW if your not researching dolphin mating behavior