Swimmer's Daily

  • Sun Yang, a three-time Olympic champion and one of China’s most celebrated athletes, had his eight-year ban from swimming suddenly overturned Wednesday by Switzerland’s federal court, which upheld a challenge questioning the neutrality of one of the panelists who had issued the penalty.

    The Swiss federal court’s decision came after lawyers for Sun presented evidence that the chairman of the three-member panel that issued Sun’s ban in February had made racist comments about China on social media.

    The ruling was a rare encroachment on the body that issued the suspension — the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which is based in Lausanne, Switzerland — and it means that Sun, whose competitive career was effectively ended by the doping ban, is free to resume swimming at least until his case is heard by a different panel at the sports court.

    Read The New York Times

  • Danish freediver Stig Severinsen has smashed the existing Guinness World Record in longitudinal swimming underwater with a 202-meter (663-foot) swim in the Sea of Cortez off Mexico.

  • Setting a World record is already impressive, but winning by this margin is just mind-blowing 🤯

  • David Alleva, Ph.D. swam competitively as a child and teenager. He then went on to represent Indiana University at the NCAA level, majoring in biology. He culminated his swimming career on the professional marathon swimming circuit while obtaining his Ph.D. in immunology, have 12 papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and winning races from the United States to Italy. Ultimately, he was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Swimmer in its Class of 1992. Dr. Alleva then went on to become a scientific leader in drug discovery and the development of immunotherapeutics and vaccines in several biopharmaceutical companies. He has published over 30 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. He developed one of the first antigen-specific immunotherapeutic clinical candidates for Type 1 diabetes and is currently the Executive Director of immunotherapeutics at Akston Biosciences. In this WOWSA Live interview with Steven Munatones, Dr. Alleva summed up the lifelong benefits of interval training by competitive swimmers and collegiate swimmers in a uniquely profound way.

  • Australians are being urged to be aware of the conditions of where they choose to swim this summer after 235 coastal deaths were recorded around the country last year.

    SLSA’s General Manager Coastal Safety Shane Daw told Sky News one of the biggest risks for swimmers was complacency, urging people to be aware of their surroundings before entering the water.

    “It doesn’t matter where it is, what we’ve found is that drowning deaths and other coastal fatalities can happen almost in any spot of Australia,” he said.

    Mr Daw said last year saw the fourth highest number of drowning deaths in the past 16 years.

    Males between the ages of 15 and 36 were also found to be the largest percentage in drownings, with alcohol involved in about 23 per cent of all drownings.

  • Orange Fire Department crews have recovered the body of a man who died when a wall of the swimming pool he was digging in Orange collapsed around him.

    The collapse was first reported at 10:52 a.m. Saturday in the 6200 block of East Cliffway Drive, said Orange Fire Capt. Ryan O’Connor. The man was digging with four other men when part of a wall collapsed around him, and he was buried up to his shoulders, O’Connor said.

    Early Sunday morning, firefighters called a construction company to bring in a crane to help them haul out thousands of pounds of dirt from the backyard where the pool is located, the Orange County Register reported.

    Read NBC Los Angeles

  • A 2018 study revealed only 13% of our oceans are considered truly wild, but what’s worse is this (scary) statistic has gone relatively unnoticed. Why? Well, partly because the sea (and its inhabitants) require a bigger “voice” to be heard. To quote the great Sir David Attenborough “This is a communication challenge rather than a scientific one. We need to make it easy for the world to understand the issues and to enable an increasingly urban population to connect with nature and feel a shared responsibility for it.” Which is exactly why last weekend myself and the Talker team took to the water (equipped with a plentiful supply of bananas) in support of Talisker and Parley on their mission to Rewild Our Seas and created this short film (see link here for more information: https://www.rewildourseas.com)