Swimmer's Daily

  • Cody Simpson is one step closer to the Olympics.

    On Saturday, the 23-year-old Australian singer — who is also an avid swimmer â€” revealed that he had qualified for his first Olympic trials.

    “I’d love to share this personal milestone and let you in on my current journey as an athlete that I’ve kept relatively low key until now,” he wrote on Instagram alongside a triumphant pool-side photo.

    Although Simpson was dedicated to swimming as a young child — even winning two gold medals at the Queensland Swimming Championships when he was 13 — he said his career was cut short “when I was given an opportunity in music that I couldn’t refuse.”

    “I have had the chance to experience and learn so much as a musician from touring around the world, releasing albums, performing as a leading man on Broadway, publishing a work of poetry, traveling with and speaking at the United Nations on environmental and oceanic matters and much more. For this I will be forever grateful,” he wrote. “Now almost exactly 10 years later, here I am once more.”

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  • Chinese Female Diver Fu Mingxia won the platform-diving world championship in 1991 at the age of 12, making her the youngest diving champ of all time. She is also famous for being one of the youngest Olympic diving champions, having earned gold at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona when she was just 13 years and 345 days old. Throughout the 1990s, Fu dominated the sport with her repertoire of extremely difficult dives.

  • An ice hole was carved into the frozen Irtysh River for brave locals to take a dip on the opening day of the winter swimming season in Omsk, Russia

  • This is Brian and this is his story. Brian, who has autism, used to love swimming with his family all summer long. In an unfortunate event, Brian sustained a seizure while in the water. Luckily, he was okay but was traumatized from the incident and has not wanted to return to the water since. Watch to see how the Swim Whisperer methodology can help swimmers overcome trauma and return to their happy place, the water!

  • Have you ever noticed everyone that swims the 50 freestyle in the Olympics has a very similar swim technique? It’s not a coincidence that the fastest way we (currently) know how to swim is with a straight or nearly straight arm recovery. Obviously, there are consequences to this technique as it drains energy very quickly. In this video Olympic finalist Brad Tandy demonstrates how to get the most coupling energy out of the freestyle recovery while head coach Devin takes the campers through a series of swim drills in order for them to learn this technique for the first time.

    The length and speed of the straight recovering arm adds significant power to the pulling arm and kick. This requires a very aggressive and fast body rotation that amplifies or ‘couples’ the energy-giving yourself the optimal performance.

  • Whether it’s a dip in the shallow end or going deep into the sea – we’ve probably got a record for it.

  • Relive the men’s 15 highest scored Final Dives from the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. By claiming the gold medal, Chen Aisen from China scored the highest dive in the 10m platform with a score of 108. Moreover, he also claimed the gold medal with his partner Lin Yue in the synchronized 10m platform. Enjoy watching them perform!

  • NSW Police Force in partnership with Surf Life Saving NSW, Royal Life Saving Society – Australia and @Northern Beaches Council launched a video today which was funded by Study NSW.

  • Olympic swimmer and diabetes advocate Gary Hall Jr. was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) 21 years ago, but hasn’t let the disease hold him back from greatness. Hall’s talents and drive have helped him win 10 Olympic medals, including five gold medals, three silver medals, and two bronze medals. That same sense of willpower also helped Hall through his diagnosis of T1D in 1999, which forced him to consider the effects the disease might have on his career and his life. After a brief hiatus from swimming, Hall returned to the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000, striking gold yet again. Join us as Gary Hall Jr. shares his story with our T1D group, OneTalk.