Swimmer's Daily

  • We try out 30 days of cold therapy to see how it affects our life, mood and mental health. Watch and see how we get on.

  • Freestyle swimming drills aren’t the most exciting part of swim training but they are essential for improving our stroke. There are a group of common ones we all use for working on the major areas of front crawl and they do their job well. Here are the swimming drills you didn’t know you needed!

  • After a ten-month break due to the Coronavirus pandemic that has highly impacted the world of sport, FINA is delighted to announce the return to competition.

    The Men’s Water Polo World League 2020 resumes on Friday as the European teams will play a three-day tournament in Debrecen (HUN) from January 8-10, 2021.

    In order to conclude the European rounds for the 2020 edition of the World League, which took place over three Game Days (12 Nov 2019, 17 Dec 2019, 11 Feb 2020), the men’s teams are left with a single tournament in Hungary in order for them to secure a berth to the Super Final to be held from June 26 – July 2, 2021.

    The competition’s schedule in Debrecen unfolds as follows:

    Day 1 – Friday 8 January

    GAME 1 SRB v ESP
    GAME 2 CRO v MNE
    GAME 3 FRA v GRE
    GAME 4 ITA v HUN

    Day 2 – Saturday 9 January

    GAME 5 LG1 v LG3
    GAME 6 SRB v LG4
    GAME 7 WG1 v WG4
    GAME 8 ESP v WG3

    Day 3 Sunday 10 January

    GAME 9 LG5 v LG6
    GAME 10 WG5 v WG6
    GAME 11 LG7 v LG8
    GAME 12 WG7 v WG8

    The eight teams selected for the Magyar tournament correspond to the first two teams in each of the groups that had played so far the European preliminaries. The 2020 rankings before the competition was suspended were as follows:

    GROUP A: 1. Italy, 6 pts (2W); 2. Greece, 3 pts (1W, 1L); 3. Georgia, 0 pts (2L)

    GROUP B: 1. France, 4 pts (1W, 1L); 2. Hungary, 3 pts (1W, 1L); 3. Russia, 2 pts (1W, 1L)

    GROUP C: 1. Serbia, 6 pts (2W); 2. Croatia, 3 pts (1W, 1L); 3. Netherlands, 0 pts (2L)

    GROUP D: 1. Montenegro, 6 pts (2W); 2. Spain, 3 pts (1W, 1L); 3. Ukraine, 0 pts (2L)

    At the end of the week in Debrecen, four teams will qualify for the event’s Super Final and will face the best non-European teams of the InterContinental Cup which will be played in Indianapolis (USA) from April 26- May 2, 2021.

    Daily news reports and photos about the tournament in Debrecen will be available on FINA website and on FINA social media throughout the weekend.

    The Women’s European preliminaries will resume on February 2 for the Game Day #5 in various European cities.

    The last FINA competition (all disciplines combined) was held on March 6-8, 2020 when the first leg of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series was staged in Paris (FRA).

    Press release from FINA

  • The first cold wave in 2021 hit Beijing on Wednesday.

    The highest temperature dropped to minus 17℃, with a wind level of 8 to 9.

    Some winter swimming fans smashed the ice on a frozen lake in Shichahai, a historic spot in downtown Beijing.

    An elderly winter swimming fan, nearly 70, has maintained this habit for about 20 years. He once challenged winter swimming at minus 25℃.

    https://youtu.be/hyIH5sBM958

  • Learn more about Swimming at Robert Gordon’s College.

  • Despite his long career in freediving, Boris Milosic (Croatia) still had to train five times a week in preparation for this attempt to set a new record for the furthest distance walked underwater in one breath.

  • A Raleigh man was arrested for sexually assaulting a child he coached at a swim club in High Point, police said in a news release.

    Aaron Philip Key, 27, of Raleigh, is charged with 12 counts of statutory sex offense with a child by an adult and six counts of indecent liberties with a child.

    On Nov. 2, 2020, a juvenile victim reported being sexually assaulted over multiple years by their swim club coach.

    See CBS17

  • A group of elderly swimmers jump into Beijing’s freezing waters as the mercury dips to minus 11 degrees centigrade just past midday, ahead of the coldest lows in three decades expected Wednesday night.

  • Captain Colby Biondo received an award for going above and beyond the call of duty during a 2020 incident.