Swimmer's Daily

  • Amy and Tammy discover their inner mermaids by going swimming, having one of the best days in a long time! On a more serious note, Amy opens up to David about her fears regarding the surgery… here’s a hint: what’s a four-letter word that starts with B and ends with Y? 👶

  • A teenager tries to swim to Spain using plastic bottles as flotation devices. Reports say the boy is about 13 or 14. He’s one of 1,500 children and nearly 8,000 total people to seek refuge in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave at the tip of Morocco. Spanish soldiers watch as the boy struggles to finish the swim. The boy then makes his way to the beach, casts off his floatation devices, and runs to scale a wall. Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.

  • A strange underwater creature known as the vampire fish is making a comeback to the American River.

  • With swimming pools around the country opening back up, over 18’s now allowed to return their club training, and swimming lessons starting again; for this week’s episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast we talk through the stages you can get involved in swimming and wanted to explain that it’s never too late to start swimming.

    It really can be at any stage of your life. For example: having swim lessons as a child in the Swim England Learn to Swim Programme, having swimming lessons for beginners, or having adult swimming lessons.

    We know some people may have a water phobia or are too self-conscious to start swimming for the first time, but it’s a fantastic life-saving skill that we’re sure you’ll enjoy the more you do it!

    We also talk about the journey of swimming lessons for kids and as well as giving some swimming lessons beginners tips for those of you that haven’t been to any swimming lessons before.

  • Shayna Jack’s drawn-out anti-doping case has finally been given a hearing date, with the appeal against her reduced two-year ban scheduled for June 28 and 29.

    Jack’s appeal will take place through a videolink, with the Australian swim star defending herself over two days in front of a panel of three ­arbitrators.

    It is expected Jack’s defense team will again call on several high-profile witnesses to vouch for her character, including coaches and swimmers likely to be picked on the Dolphins squad for this year’s Tokyo Olympics.

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  • Two local athletes qualify for Olympic Team Trials

  • At Port Fairy’s East Beach, even in the bitterly cold months of winter, it’s a normal sight to see a group of people in nothing but bathing suits, submerging a man right into the ocean in a wheelchair. The man in the chair is Jim Pevitt and he is being helped into the ocean for his daily ritual: an icy ocean dunking.

  • Once 3 On Your Side got involved, a Waddell man finally got his new swimming pool finished 12 months after the job started.

  • British record holder and 2020 Olympian Molly Renshaw joins us for this week’s show.

    The Loughborough National Centre swimmer recently broke the 200m Breaststroke British record at GB Trials in a time of 2.20.89. Qualifying for her second Olympic Games, Molly talks of her troubled relationship with Olympic trials and the moments that shaped her into the swimmer she is today.

    We break down her impressive trials swims whilst looking ahead to her goals for the 2021 European Championships and the impact of the ISL on British swimming.

    It’s all about mental preparation and technique with Molly as she gives an insight into how she replaces her negative thoughts and goes for gold.

    Enjoy and ‘be brave’ with Molly Renshaw.