Swimmer's Daily

Month: March 2011

  • Danish Open 2011 Start List

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    The Danish Open 2011 start list is ready, promising quite a few high quality races, especially in the long distance events. In the women’s 1500 freestyle, we have Norway’s Elin Slaatmo trying to take on European champion and World silver medalist Lotte Friis, and in the men’s 1500 freestyle, Faroe Islands’ European silver medalist Pál…

  • Passage: Mark Taylor, 50

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    University of Houston head coach Mark Taylor passed away late Friday evening of an apparent heart attack in Austin, Texas. His wife, Lorrain, and his two sons, Troy and Zane, survive Taylor, 50. Taylor had just completed his ninth season as head coach for the Houston swimming team. Before that, he coached teams in Denmark,…

  • Sympathy messages from the stars to Japan

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    Japanese breaststroker Kosuke Kitajima has a very touching list of sympathy messages here on his website, that shows how close-knit the international swimming community really is. There is a message from Norwegian Alexander Dale Oen, who won silver behind Kitajima at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. From American Jessica Hardy who knows Kitajima personally, Oussama Mellouli…

  • 50 kick training in Michigan

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    Michigan Wolverines testing their kick speed here at the Donald B. Catham Natatorium. Wu Peng 28.0, Mark Patton 28.8. Nice.

  • Danish politicians step in to help Lotte Friis

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    Per Stig Møller Culture Minister of Denmark is to put pressure on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), to clear up its rules on the possibility of clenbuterol traces from contaminated food in doping tests.

  • Middlebury College suspends most of women’s swim team over hazing

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    Middlebury College has suspended for the rest of the season all of its female swimming and dive team members except for the freshmen in a tough response to the latest report of hazing on the Vermont college’s campus. Little is known about what happened in early February at a swim team party, but the school…

  • British Swimming and the BBC announce new 4 year rights deal

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    British Swimming today announced a four year rights deal with the BBC to broadcast swimming and other aquatic sports in the run up to the 2012 Olympics, the Commonwealth Games 2014 and beyond. Also, they partner to launch the Big Splash, a UK-wide mass-participation campaign, to get people in the pool.

  • Lotte Friis fears possible doping conviction

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    The Danish world champion Lotte Friis tells sporten.dk, that she fears the possibility of a positive doping test, because she cannot control 100% what she eats. She is backed up by Jens Evald chairman of the Danish Anti Doping Association, who says that there is a hole in the current WADA regulation, making innocent athletes…

  • Swimming in chlorinated water may cause bladder cancer

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    A new study by Spanish researchers has warned that swimming for long hours in chlorinated water could increase the risk of developing bladder cancer. According to the study, regular swimmers are at increase risk of absorbing cancer-causing chemicals called trihalomethanes (THMs) through the skin. The risk is small, but significant enough for the researchers to…