Swimmer's Daily

  • Streamline Dolphin Kick is easily the most important swimming skill you are going to need to improve your times, and is often referred to as the fifth stroke in swimming!

  • FINA is pleased to announce the FINA Swimming World 2021 calendar, which will be composed of six legs from September to October 2021 across Asia, the Middle-East and Europe.

    The first Cluster of the 2021 season will be contested in Singapore (SGP) and Jinan (CHN) in September with final dates to be confirmed soon. The circuit will then move to the second Cluster as Berlin (GER) and Budapest (HUN) step in to stage the event from October 1-3 and October 7-9 respectively. The third and final Cluster will be staged in Doha (QAT) from October 21-23 and finally in Kazan (RUS) from October 28-30.

    All the stops of the 2021 World Cup will be competed in 25m-pool and are qualifying events for the postponed FINA World Swimming Championships 25m to be held in Abu Dhabi (UAE) from December 13-18, 2021 (see announcement here).

    The successful annual circuit of the FINA Swimming World Cup distributes around US$ 2.5 million in prize money.

    2021 FINA Swimming World Cup calendar:

    Cluster #1
    1.    Singapore (SGP) – September tbc *
    2.    Jinan (CHN) – September tbc*

    Cluster #2
    3.    Berlin (GER) – October 1-3
    4.    Budapest (HUN) – October 7-9

    Cluster #3
    5.    Doha (QAT) – October 21-23
    6.    Kazan (RUS) –October 28-30

    *The World Cup could kick-off in either of these Asian cities, dates will be confirmed at a later stage

    Despite the 2020 host cities of the Swimming World Cup continuously showing their interest to stage the competition this year, the recommendation of the FINA Task Force appointed to review the situation is to postpone it to next year in order to ensure the safety of the athletes and all stakeholders involved.

    Read the official FINA press release

  • Australian swimmer Chloë McCardel breaks the men’s world record.

  • A 27-year-old man drowned in Lake Conroe Saturday after he jumped off a boat.

  • WR Holder and Olympian Craig Beardsley comments on his technique and talks about the current and past great Butterflyers that we admired

  • A decision will have to be made by the end of next month as to whether next year’s Island Games go ahead, according to Guernsey’s chief minister.

    The Channel island is hosting the event, which is currently set to be held from the 3rd – 9th July 2021.

    See Energy FM

  • A man jumped onto a great white shark and punched it to save his wife when it attacked her at a beach in Australia.

  • That old cliché about the Southwest—“It’s hot, but it’s a dry heat”—is so firmly rooted in Arizona that when it’s muggy outside, locals are wont to demand an explanation. In Phoenix, they have been known to blame artificial lakes and swimming pools for unwanted humidity.

    “Like folk wisdom everywhere, this line of reasoning is widely accepted as true because the evidence seems overwhelming,” the Arizona Republic wrote in 1985. “In short, so the theory goes, excessive use of water has ruined the quality of desert living.”

    The idea is more than a little paradoxical. Pools and lakes are supposed to offer some relief from summer heat. Could they actually be making Phoenix more miserable? It’s an apt question during the city’s hottest summer on record. Just on Friday, the mercury there soared to 117, tying the highest temperature on record in August.

    For decades, scientists have investigated how land-use affects Phoenix’s blistering desert climate.

    In the 1980s, scientists at Arizona State University looked into the matter, charting measures of humidity over time. If pools were changing the air’s moisture content, the city should have grown more humid as it developed. But their analysis found that humidity hadn’t actually risen at all.

    “Many residents thought atmospheric moisture was increasing due to the increase in golf courses, man-made lakes, and swimming pools,” Sandra Wardwell, lead author of the 1986 analysis, said in an email. But that idea was wrong, she said. If anything, absolute humidity had actually declined.

    Read The Washington Post
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  • A missing teen swimmer was taken to the hospital in critical condition after being rescued from the American River on Saturday, the Sacramento Fire Department said.

    The department said the female swimmer was pulled from the river near 28th and B streets shortly before 9:15 p.m.

    A witness on the scene said the swimmer was a teenager and fire officials were able to confirm she is 17.

    See CBS Sacramento