Swimmer's Daily

  • York County swimmer Coleman Stewart wants to earn a spot on Team USA for the summer Olympics in Tokyo.

  • Chef de mission Mark England believes there will be “some special moments in the pool” after 24 swimmers were added to Team GB for this summer’s rearranged Olympics in Tokyo

  • Zoe Skirboll has spent much of her life swimming and training, all with one goal in mind.

  • Do you like to swim? How about swimming in the dark? How about swimming across LAKE TAHOE in the dark? THAT is Haydee Acebo’s mission, to set a world record! She joins Dina to talk about the attempt, and the causes that she’s supporting!

  • The first-ever United Nations (UN) Resolution on Global Drowning Prevention (A/75/L.76) has been passed at the UN General Assembly’s 75th Seventy-fifth session on Wednesday 28th April.

    This is a historic occasion and a sign that the UN is deeply concerned that drowning has been the cause of over 2.5 million preventable deaths in the past decade but has been largely unrecognized relative to its impact. The Resolution was proposed by Bangladesh and Ireland, and co-sponsored by over 25 member states.

    In welcoming the Resolution, the International Life Saving President Mr. Graham Ford AM said, “The International Life Saving Federation welcomes the UN Resolution on Global Drowning Prevention, and expresses its extreme gratitude to Bangladesh and Ireland, all nations who co-sponsored and supported this historic and lifesaving resolution”.

    The UK lifesaving charity, and ILS Associate Member, the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI), has been a driving force in support of the Resolution. ILS wishes to acknowledge their leadership and thank them for their tireless efforts.

    The Resolution invites the World Health Organization (WHO) to assist the Member States in their drowning prevention efforts and to coordinate actions within the UN system among relevant UN entities.

    “ILS commits to working in partnership with WHO, UN specialized agencies including UNICEF and other global, regional and subregional organizations to raise awareness of drowning and increase global drowning prevention action in all regions of the world”, said Mr. Ford.

    The Resolution proclaims 25 July each year as the ‘World Drowning Prevention Day’ to raise awareness of the importance of drowning prevention and the need for urgent coordinated multisectoral action to improve water safety, with the aim of reducing preventable deaths.

    The Resolution affirms that drowning is preventable and encourages all UN Member States to develop drowning prevention programming in line with World Health Organization recommended interventions, namely, barriers, supervision, swim skills, rescue and resuscitation training, boating regulation, and managing flood risk and resilience.

    ILS encourages all Members to review the UN Resolution on Drowning Prevention, draw it to the attention of their members, stakeholders, and communities, and factor its recommendations into their plans and efforts for drowning prevention. The resolution can be found in the six UN languages here: https://www.undocs.org/en/A/75/L.76

    See the press release from the International Life Sving Federation
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  • “Michael was my hero. I loved the guy, worshipped the guy. And then I had to beat the guy.”

    It’s been nearly 10 years since South Africa’s Chad Le Clos out-touched swimming legend – and his childhood hero – Michael Phelps in the men’s 200m butterfly at the Olympic Games London 2012.

    Le Clos, who recently qualified for his third Olympics in Tokyo 2020, remembers that race like it was yesterday.

    “I wouldn’t trade that moment” for anything, Le Clos said in Episode 4 of Time Machine, an original series that takes Olympians back to their biggest achievements. “If I could go back right now in a time machine, I would do that. I want to do that – for real.”

    See Olympic Channel

  • This week on our Tagline podcast, we unpack one of the great sports ads of the past decade, Droga5’s Michael Phelps spot for Under Armour, made for the 2016 Olympics. We look at how the spot shed new light on the world’s greatest swimmer, how it was expertly concepted and crafted, and how it was ahead of its time in broaching the difficult subject of Olympic athletes and mental health.

    Listen to Tagline

  • Experienced cold water swimmer Joe Kennelly shares how he and his friends Joe (76), David and Kevin safely enjoy freshwater swimming in cold water.