Swimmer's Daily

Month: July 2011

  • Lifeguard critical, swimmer drowned after breath-holding exercise

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    One man training to be a Navy SEAL was dead and a off-duty lifeguard in grave condition yesterday after trying to do breath-holding exercises in a public pool in Staten Island, practicing techniques similar to those used in military training. About 20 people were swimming in the pool staffed with 2 lifeguards and 5 other…

  • Swimming the American Way – Forbes Carlile

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    A gem here on Google Video, almost 40 minutes of historical US swimming video footage, as seen through Australian eyes. “Swimming the American Way”, a film by Forbes and Ursula Carlile, from when they in 1965 toured North America and visited legendary Doc Counsilman at the Indiana University.

  • Graeme Moore trying out a Disney-class ice bath

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    Great picture of South Africa’s Graeme Moore, here in Roland Schoeman’s Lockerz-photos. I wonder what kind of kid gets that kind of tall and narrow pool, so yes, lets’ buy them all and make ice baths out of them :-) Who needs a $6000 ice bath when you can rock the $50 Disney version like…

  • Canada preparing for Shanghai in Singapore

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    Singapore is definitely a hotspot for world class swim training at the moment, with the national teams of Australia, Sweden, South Africa, Canada, Iceland and our own Pál Joensen from the Faroe Islands preparing there for the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships. Here is a nice video from the Canadian camp.

  • Oprah Winfrey finds swimming to be the great metaphor of life

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    “Started out the week taking swimming lessons,” Winfrey said in an email Tuesday night. “Moving beyond my amateur doggy paddle. Learning the breast stroke today”. Admitting that for years she had been afraid of the water, she’s finally learned to go with the flow. “This I’ve known forever is the great metaphor of life,” the…

  • CAS will decide on Cielo and the others on July 22

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    The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced today that it has scheduled it arbitration of FINA’s appeal against Cesar Cielo, Nicholas dos Santos, Henrique Barbosa and Vinicius Waked as well as the Brazilian Swimming Federation for July 20 in Shanghai, partially via video conferencing. They promise that it will take only half a day, and…

  • Chinese slang for swimming is “boiling dumplings”

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    In China the public swimming pools are generally too crowded for swimming, leaving ordinary people no option but to stand on the spot, “boiling dumplings” as they say. Regular schools do not have swim teams and there is no network of community swimming clubs so the majority of training and racing in Chinese pools is…

  • How about an underwater bedroom suite for two ?

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    A little over five years ago, Conrad Maldives Rangali Island opened the very first all-glass, undersea restaurant, offering guests the chance to eat 16 feet below sea level of the breathtaking tropical Indian Ocean. Now in celebration of this, they turned the Ithaa restaurant into a temporary private Hilton-class bedroom suite for two, complete with…

  • Shanghai pools closed in preparation for the World Championships

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    As probably a natural result of hosting the event, seven or eight swimming pools in Shanghai have temporarily been transformed into training centers for athletes competing in the 14th FINA World Championships, forcing members there to find another pool until next month. Nearby pools are taking advantage of the situation by hiking the already relatively…