Swimmer's Daily

  • Luca Urlando is a swimmer hoping to make it to Tokyo next year. He’s only 18 and had the games not been postponed, he would have been the first high schooler on Team USA since Michael Phelps.

  • Here is a total body weight workout for swimmers brought to you by the LRC Swim Team!

    3 Rounds of 10 exercises
    1 Round – 30 sec
    2 Round – 40 sec
    3 Round – 50 sec

    1. High knees
    2. Push up
    3. Mountain climber
    4. Bear walk
    5. Burpees
    6. Suicide plank
    7. Squat jump
    8. V up
    9. Lunges
    10. Dish rock

    Doing all 10 movements back to back (No rest!) and take 1 minute break between set! Let’s do it together💥!

  • Chad le Clos became a swimming superstar overnight with his gold and silver medals at the London Olympics, a lot was expected of the Durban-born le Clos in Rio de Janeiro where he came away with 2 silver medals to make the 24-year-old South Africa’s most decorated Olympic swimmer.

  • As a teaser to our mini-documentary on shark attacks, here is a brand new clip featuring a particularly clingy shark.

  • A local long-distance swimming sensation has powered her way across the English Channel.

    Sixteen-year-old Vera Rivard of Springfield, New Hampshire, and Derby, Vermont, finished her swim from Dover, England to Wissant Beach in France Tuesday night just before midnight. She started at 9:38 a.m. and finished at 11:48 p.m., with over 14 hours in the water.

    She encountered rough conditions, with air temperatures almost 58 degrees and the water temperature 63 degrees. She’s just the 1,676th person to make the crossing since 1875 and the second American to finish the swim in 2020.

    See WCAX

  • Birkirkara St. Joseph is synonymous with Open Water Swimming and the annual Channel Competition is a long awaited event by open water swimmers.

  • The circulating seal enclosure is cool and all, but is nobody going to address the fact that this guy seems to have a pet seal in his pool? Is that a thing that’s allowed now? Because the last time I asked about it I ended up on a list.

    See Geekologie
    https://youtu.be/39t1ul5iaxw

  • A 15-year-old was electrocuted after he accidentally touched wires from an interior light at a motel swimming pool over the weekend, Harris County Precinct 4 said.

    Officials told ABC13 this happened Saturday at the North Villa Inn at 16510 North Freeway.

    According to authorities, someone removed a pool interior light, exposing the wires. While the teen, identified as Khaleel Marcos Reynolds, was swimming, he touched the wires.

    Emergency crews were called to the motel. Reynolds was rushed to the hospital, where he later died.

    See ABC13

  • A 29-year-old man drowned in a Destin pool Monday while reportedly doing swimming and breathing exercises, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.

    First responders were called to 4111 Commons Drive around 3:30 p.m. where Brennan May was found limp on the pool bottom. May lived at the address.

    Witnesses say May was a Navy diver attending the Naval Explosives Ordnance Disposal School at Eglin, according to the sheriff’s office.

    “They told deputies he had been swimming the length of the pool underwater as training,” deputies say in a release. “May had reportedly come up briefly and chatted with his wife before going back underwater and lying on the bottom. After he had been in the water for a number of minutes, his wife went to check on him. She found he was limp and not breathing.”

    May was pulled from the pool by bystanders who assisted with rescue breathing and CPR until first responders arrived. He was transported to the Destin E.R. where he was pronounced dead just before 4 p.m.

    See WEARTV