Swimmer's Daily

  • 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

  • The Missile was midway through talking about his Canterbury Bulldogs when Wippa had to mysteriously disappear. Then shortly after Russell Crowe called up to talk to the Olympic swim star about the Rabbitohs, riding horses and that golden Oscar he won. Via the17thman

  • 26-year-old Phillip Beach was arrested in Seabrook near Galveston, Texas, on Friday after the harbour master in the nearby shipyard alerted local police to what appeared to be a theft in progress. When police arrived, they saw Beach swimming in the channel tethered to a 44-foot sailboat named the Flying Pearl that he was attempted to tow behind him as he swam for deeper water. Read more here on Arbroath

  • Smart thinking here, putting the program on the backside of the accreditation. And that ad at the bottom, well that was a free first beer at that disco, downtown ! :-)

    Fancy Aqua Clinic 2012 Accreditation

  • Behold Anne Forsell’s almost free swim resistance parachute solution, demonstrated by René Thomsen and a swimmer at Berns. You tie a string to a plastic bag and a belt, and presto, a chute for instance for when on a training camp. If it is good enough for Stefan Nystrand, it is good enough for you ! :-)

  • Nice footage from this summer, two girls having fun in and around water.

    Gopro Movie from Lauren on Vimeo.

  • “Kenyan swimmers registered mixed results on the 1st day of the African Senior Swimming Championships at the Moi Sports Center Kasarani, with South African swimmers dominating most of the events. Jason Dunford won silver and bronze in the men’s 50 meter backstroke and 200 meter freestyle respectively. However Emily Muteti and Martha Opiyo failed to spackle in the women’s 400 meter individual medley.”