Swimmer's Daily

  • At the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, visitors might expect menacing displays of underwater predators but the new 1.2 million gallon shark exhibit is designed to turn fear into fascination. A stainless-steel cage offers visitors the chance to go up close and personal with sharks like the great hammerhead, silvertip, and tiger shark. Weekend TODAY’s Kristen Welker and Peter Alexander venture into the water for a behind-the-scenes look.

  • Antonio José Silva, President of the Portuguese Swimming Federation, and candidate for President at Europe’s Continental Organisation LEN, today launched his Election Manifesto and stressed that this was “on behalf of the entire team of Europe 4 All Aquatics.”

    Mr. Silva said: “It is a great honour for me to represent E4AA as a Presidential candidate for the elections on 5 February. I am happy that this Manifesto is the fruit of many open discussions with Member Federation colleagues and represents the views of, and feedback from, the European aquatics community.

    “This Manifesto states our desire for change and a commitment to democracy, integrity, transparency, and development. But as well as our belief in “Unity in Vision” you will also see that for each of the Manifesto Pillars objectives, there are also clear and practical action plans for the first 100 days. Should we be honoured to achieve your support, we will work quickly, and decisively with fixed priorities and timelines. We look forward to working with you to design and achieve a bright future for our beloved sport of aquatics.”

    The Manifesto details how the over-arching vision of E4AA will be underpinned by four supporting pillars:

    1            Integrity, Transparency and Good Governance

    2            Our Sport: Accessible for All

    3            Aquatic Disciplines: Learning and Working Together

    4            Sustainability: Making LEN Fit for the Future

    Josep Varvodic, the President of the Croatian federation, and a candidate for Vice President in the LEN elections said:

    “The preparation of this Manifesto has been a positive team effort and we will continue to work in this way. Between now and February 5 many of our colleagues will speak up about key Manifesto topics on the E4AA communications’ platform, where we are also looking forward to revealing more information about our growing group of supporters.”

    The candidacy of Mr. Silva for the Presidency of LEN has been fully supported in letters from the Presidents of the Portuguese Youth and Sports Institute, the National Olympic Committee of Portugal, and the National Paralympic Committee of Portugal.

    Manifesto Links here:

    https://bit.ly/E4AAManifesto

    https://we.tl/t-DTJcfEyPpr

    Press release from Europe 4 All Aquatics

  • In the last 12 years creating Youtube videos, I’ve had two strokes that have received a huge amount of feedback from people. Dan Smith’s easy 1:10 100m free and Lukasz Wojt’s Ironman Swim. Let’s take a look at Lukasz Wojt’s stroke from underwater and see what makes him so fast.

  • For 30 years, on the first day of the new year, members of the Fair Oaks Dolphins swim team have honored a tradition: jumping in Lake Natoma at dawn.

    While it’s not a traditional polar bear plunge, meaning subfreezing water- it may as well be, for the water they’re about to enter was indeed snow recently. And it was fed immediately by the neighboring Sierras.

    See ABC 10

  • Drew Kibler of Carmel sealed a new sponsorship deal while in college.

  • A man in his 60s has drowned on a Gold Coast beach, hours after it reopened to swimmers following ex-tropical cyclone Seth’s huge swell.

  • There are some unique and interesting terminologies used on the swimming pool deck and if you’re relatively new to the sport or you simply train on your own it can be a little confusing when you go to join a swim group! Heather is here with some of the top phrases to get you up to speed!

  • We wanted to announce an exciting product we have been testing alongside our channel partner Phlex. Meet the WAVE headphones, a fully waterproof solution for swimmers to train with music.

    With 16GB of internal storage AND Bluetooth 5.0 on board, you’ll never run out of tunes. These headphones are used by some of the swimmers on our squad and we couldn’t recommend them enough.

    Check them out here: www.phlexswim.com/products/wave-headphones/

  • Brazilian Nicholas Santos has been competing at the highest level of swimming for two decades. He is the current World Record holder in the Men’s 50 SCM Butterfly (tied with Sebastian Szabo). He medaled in the 50 Fly at 2015, 2017, and 2019 LCM World Championships.