Swimmer's Daily

  • Olympic champion Ian Thorpe has won this year’s Australian Human Rights Medal for his charity Fountain For Youth‘s work with Indigenous children. See ABC

  • A photo from the spectator stands at the Sinan Erdem Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, venue of the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)

    Practice at the Istanbul 2012 World Championships pool

  • Not swimming related, but fun :-D

  • Don’t take my word for it, but I think this is an invention of our local head coach, Rúni Gaardbo, here at FLOT in Toftir, Faroe Islands: The kids are divided into two teams that must stay behind the lane ropes. The kickboards are arranged in pairs upright as shown on the photo, equal amounts on both sides, and each team is given an equal amount of many (soft) balls. The guys in the middle are assistant coaches resupplying the players with balls stuck in the middle lane. First team to shoot down all kickboards has won. Some choose to attack, some choose to defend. We call it ‘plátubólt’ (‘board ball’), and it is extremely fun :-)

    A fun game in our local pool

  • “Like swimming in noodle soup”, he said afterwards, describing the experience of swimming in the shallow fresh water lake Vatnið (“the lake”) in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, back in June 2010. Jon Hestoy here to the right, President of the Faroese Swimming Federation, and to the left Jón Bjarnason, coach of Pál Joensen, helping young swimmer Erna Katrin Olsen with her zip lock.

    The President looking forward to an open water swim

  • A short quick fix promo of some of the best explosive shorebreak clips from Clark Little Photography.

  • Read USA Today

    The most successful Olympian in history sat for an interview with Costas Tonight this week and credited the team’s viral Call Me Maybe video for bonding the team. The clip, which has over 10 million views on YouTube, was a sensation this summer before London.

    “It’s funny to say it now, but that Call Me Maybe video we did really brought us together,” Phelps told Costas. “There are some of us who didn’t really want to do it, felt kind of weird doing it, but I think it really just shows how we are as a team.”

  • “Saint Nicholas, the inspiration behind Santa Claus, was celebrated throughout Germany today. Saint Nicholas was filmed in the Sea Life aquarium in Munich swimming with sharks, promoting the holiday season in a somewhat original fashion.”

  • A hype video for Delta State‘s swimming and diving team.