Swimmer's Daily

  • TV commercial for Braun’s Silk Epil line of shavers, featuring German Olympic swimmer Britta Steffen.

    There is also an English spoken version featuring UK synchronized swimmer Jenna Randall

  • Returning from the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships, coach Finn Zachariassen and swimmer Sindri Þór Jakobsson came to closed doors at their Bergen base, all municipality swimming pools closed because of strike. This is of course a major crisis, with Jakobsson vying for an Olympic spot at the Dutch Open in Amsterdam in two weeks. They make do with dryland for the time being, crossfit and bicycling, but have to find a wetter solution fast. Via BT.no

    Update: Jakobsson has found water, but the rest of the team is still struggling, see comment.

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  • Sisters Rachel and Valerie Gasparini found a bear in their backyard pool in Monrovia, California in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains on Monday, May 28, 2012. So scary, but luckily John was coming over :-P

    Read more here on Z6Mag

  • “Americans love to swim: 93 million people do so and spend $1.4 billion on suits every year. For professional swimmers, this means both lucrative sponsorship and a deep-pocketed support organization — USA Swimming raises about $100 million a year, from its nearly 300,000 members’ registration fees, taking a share of about a sixth of that money for its own revenue. Much like running, swimming is a sport in which the elites are supported by the hobbyists. The cut from member registration — about $16 million in 2011 — keeps the elites afloat.” Lochte is set to earn about $2.3 million this year, read more here no CNN Money.

  • John Cheever reading one of his most famous stories, “The Swimmer” at 92nd Street Y on December 19, 1977.

  • As sole provider of public Wi-Fi in the Olympic Park this summer, BT claims it will be the largest high density Wi-Fi venue deployment ever, including 1,000 access points at nine Olympic venues, and 500,000 across London by the times that the Games begin in July. They already have 475,000 hotspots up and running. Access will be free for BT Broadband customers while millions of other smartphone users will apparently have use included in their contracts due to agreements with a number of UK and international network providers, and others the opportunity to by pre-paid Wi-Fi vouchers. Read TechWeek Europe and ZDnet

  • A British Olympics fan has paid £33 to officially change his name from Thomas Manly to Thomas Steve Redgrave Matthew Pinsent Linford Christie Ian Thorpe Daley Thompson Chris Hoy Seb Coe Carl Lewis Steve Ovett Jonathan Edwards Ben Ainslie Usain Bolt Manly. “It’s not every year we get the Olympic Games – it is history in the making and I wanted to be part of it.” Read the Mirror

  • Part of the Mare Nostrum 2012 series, hosted by Club Natació Sant Andreu, the club of Erika Villaécija, bronze winner in the 1500 freestyle at Debrecen 2012. This weekend June 2nd and 3rd, see event details here, including start lists featuring swimmers like Rebecca Adlington, Erika Villaécija and Mireia Belmonte, Keri-Anne Payne, Kristel Kobrich, Sergey Fesikov, Suzaan van Biljo, Jason Dunford, Evgeny Korothyskin, Hannah Miley, Brent Hayden, Tommaso D’Orsogna, Sinead Russell, Alexianne Castel, Cameron van der Burgh, Felipe Lima, Sophie Edington, Chad Le Clos, Therese Alshammar, James Goddard, David Carry, Sebastien Rouault, Luca Marin, Joeri Verlinden, Michael Rock, …

  • Italy’s Federica Pellegrini ready for the women’s 200 freestyle prelims at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. She won that event but suffered a few days later in the 400 freestyle, not advancing to finals, resulting in a series of medical test to make sure that everything is all right. In other news, she says she has only had three loves in her life, all swimmers. What on earth is that on her right elbow?

    Federica Pellegrini at Debrecen 2012