Swimmer's Daily

  • A Walnut Creek officer saved an elderly man who drove into a swimming pool. Authorities said the man suffered a medical emergency which led him to crash into the pool.

  • First responders in Colorado Springs responded to a report of a missing swimmer in the water at Red Rock Canyon Open Space.

  • 100m Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers takes us through his addiction of pain in order to be the best. But his medals are never enough as he enjoys being in the limelight and being called a hero in Australia.

  • In February 2020, Welsh ice swimmer Cath Pendleton made history by becoming the first person to swim a mile in the icy waters inside the polar Antarctic Circle. An unlikely world record holder, the mum-of-two and NHS worker – also known as the Merthyr Mermaid – only started cold water swimming in 2015. Now the 49-year-old has set her sights on duplicating the feat on the other side of the planet, inside the Arctic Circle. And today she’s joining us from her makeshift training ground – a freezer in her shed!

  • Gaming giant Razer has partnered with a small company called Clearbot to help design an autonomous trash-collecting boat that can identify floating garbage in the water, catalog it and then collect it into a waste container. The collaboration is part of Razer’s Go Green with Razer initiative to help startups working on sustainability and green technology projects.

    Clearbot’s website: https://www.clearbot.org/
    GO GREEN WITH RAZER: https://www.razer.com/eu-en/go-green/…

  • On this week’s episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast, we speak to GB deaf swimmer, Nathan Young about the lack of funding the UK government gives to help him on his journey to become a Deaflympic Champion.

    After the huge success of British Swimming at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the UK government has now given more funding towards Olympic and Paralympic Sport in the lead-up to the Paris 2024 Games. Sadly for our guest Nathan, even though he is one of the top deaf swimmers in the world, he won’t get any part of that funding at all.

    We also talk about his current campaign of trying to build up exposure of GB deaf swimming, how he thinks that the Deaflympics should be on a level playing field with the Olympics and Paralympics, and what it’s like being a swimmer living with the disability of having your hearing impaired.

  • LEN proudly announces its new partnership with the global leader in the pool and wellness equipment, Fluidra. The partnership deal is for four years, from 2021 through 2025 and LEN recognizes Fluidra as its “Official Partner” for temporary swimming pools and equipment.

    “We are happy to welcome Fluidra among our partners, it’s an honor for the LEN Family to have such a highly rated multinational company behind us”, LEN President Paolo Barelli said upon announcing the new partnership with the Spain-based firm, specialized in several fields of aquatics, including pool and wellness facilities construction.

    “European Aquatics constantly prove its quality as the leading continent in the world and LEN is committed to supporting its national Federations, athletes, coaches, and officials to maintain this top-level” president Barelli added. “To achieve this goal, we need great partners, and having Fluidra on board, we are confident that we’ll have more success in the coming years and offer more support to the future hosts of the premium LEN Events.”

    Ignacio Elburgo, General Manager of Fluidra Engineering said: “With this agreement, we give continuity to the alliances we are building with major world organizations in the field of aquatic sports, a discipline that is closely linked to our activity. We hope that this partnership will continue for many years to come, as it is an honor for us to support LEN in its events, as well as to contribute to the improvement of the facilities for the use of athletes. This sponsorship complements the agreements already in place between Fluidra and the Swimming Union of the Americas (UANA), the Oceania Swimming Association (OSA), and the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN). In this way, the company continues to demonstrate its firm commitment and collaboration with the major continental organizations.”

    Fluidra, within its activity, it stands out for the extensive offer of innovative products and services, as well as connected solutions, and operates in more than 45 countries with more than 135 sales branches and 35 manufacturing centers globally. Its supply chain is robust and efficient, benefitting from strategically distributed logistics hubs that support manufacturing and distribution centers, as well as a diverse product portfolio that includes some of the world’s best-known pool equipment brands such as Jandy, AstralPool, Polaris, Cepex, Zodiac, CTX Professional, and Gre among others.

    Press release from LEN