Swimmer's Daily

Month: May 2011

  • MSS interviews George Bovell

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    Olympic bronze medal winner George Bovell III has relocated his training base to his home of Trinidad and Tobago, working with his former coach, looking “to coach my own coach to coach me”. And then he spear-fishes as cross-training :-) “At this stage in my career, after swimming 20 years, I think I’ve pretty much…

  • The Race Club interviews Lars Frölander

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    Gary Hall Sr speaking with Swedish legend Lars Frölander here, 5 time Olympian and 2000 Sydney Games Gold Medalist in the 100 meter butterfly. At 36 years old he is swimming as fast as ever and looking strong to be on his 6th Olympic team! How does he do it? Via theraceclub.net.

  • Rebecca Soni feature on Trans World Sport

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    “Standing 1 meter 73 tall and weighing in at 64 kilos, Soni doesn’t have the imposing build that many modern-day swimmers possess. However, she more than makes up for that with an uncanny ability to focus when it matters.”

  • Kaitlin Sandeno After The Olympics

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    After making the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Team, Kaitlin Sandeno battled injury and missed qualifying for the 2008 squad. She sought other opportunities, but is now back in the sport of swimming, giving private lessons to kids looking to improve and hone their stroke. By gosh, I think someone has a shorter pool than we…

  • Rogan auctions off medals for charity

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    Austrian swimmer Markus Rogan raised $40.000 for children in Ethiopia and India this evening, by auctioning off his Dubai silver and bronze medals at a Tesfaye/ Zukunft für Kinder fundraiser in Vienna. Tesfaye means “my hope”, and is a child sponsorship project founded in 2008, currently supporting 100 children aged between 4 and 19 years,…

  • Swedish sports people reveal sexual abuse

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    Former high jump world champion Patrik Sjöberg revealed in his memoirs published earlier this week how his former coach and stepfather Viljo Nousiainen molested him from he was 11 years old until he about the age of 15 had “the body of a grown man”. This after also former high jumper Christian Skaar Thomassen told…