Swimmer's Daily

Year: 2011

  • “Mr Unstoppable” training for his Mississippi swim

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    Injured Marine Jay Platt trains to cross the Mississippi River handcuffed, shackled and blindfolded. And yes, he managed to complete the swim.

  • Alshammar and Le Clos overall winners of the FINA World Cup

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    It’s official, Therese Alshammar (SWE) and Chad Le Clos (RSA) are the overall winners of the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2011, each receiving US$ 100,000 in prize money in addition to their thousands won in individual races. For Alshammer it is her second time in a row, winning in 2006, 2007 and 2010, and taking…

  • Johnny Weissmuller and Duke Kahanamoku

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    Joel McKenna at the17thman found this gem, Johnny Weissmuller appearing at what seems to be a clip from the 1957 episode of “This is Your Life” honoring Duke Kahanamoku, also featuring Sam and (I think) David Kahanamoku.

  • Thorpe 53.59 and 26th in the 100 butterfly

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    Ouch, there have been a lot of headlines these past weeks about the ‘Thorpedo’ flopping, bombing etc, and now even a full second improvement in the 100 butterfly from the World Cup leg in Beijing earlier this week doesn’t bring him closer to the final in Tokyo than a 53.59 and 26th spot in Tokyo,…

  • Waterproof your iPhone by spraying NeverWetâ„¢ on it ?

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    NeverWetâ„¢ is a patent-pending, silicon-based superhydrophobic spray-on coating or paint by Ross Nanotechnology that deflects nearly all liquids, heavy oils, ice, corrosion, bacteria etc so extremely much better than for instance Teflon, that NeverWet-infused materials “have remained under seawater for over a year and reemerged completely dry.” It will apparently make anything waterproof that you…

  • Van der Burgh named South Africa’s best swimmer

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    Multiple gold-medallist Cameron van der Burgh held off strong challenges from fellow swim stars Natalie du Toit and Chad le Clos to be named Swimmer of the Year’ at the SA Annual Aquatic function held in Johannesburg today. Swimming SA’s awards committee took into account performances set between the period of May 2010 to April…

  • 2 named in swim team sex abuse suit deny allegations

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    Swim coach Amanda Cox and former head coach John Diercks yesterday denied any wrongdoing after being named in a lawsuit alleging a culture of pedophilia surrounding youth swimming. Doesn’t look good though, Cox says she had no idea Wheat was molesting anyone until the night before he was arrested, but the victim’s attorney Jonathan Little…

  • Ian Thorpe and Tiger Woods “in sad pursuit of faded glories”

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    Alrighty then, blunt talk by Claire Harvey on The Sunday Telegraph, who finds it “excruciating to watch these two men struggling for glories that never appeared to make them happy in the first place”: Since the age of about 17 Thorpe has seemed – and I know this sounds odd – particularly uncomfortable as a…

  • Female swim coach named in Indy lawsuit

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    McCutcheon High School swim coach Amanda Cox is now named alongside USA Swimming, Indiana Swimming and others, in the civil lawsuit involving former swim coach Chris Wheat, convicted last year of sexually molesting a girl who was 14 years old at the time. Read wlfi.com McCutcheon swim coach named in lawsuit: wlfi.com