Year: 2014
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Grant Hackett’s former coach says team officials gave Olympian Stilnox
Read The Guardian Grant Hackett’s former coach says the Olympic swimming champion’s Stilnox addiction is the price he paid for his success in the pool. Hackett’s long-time mentor Denis Cotterell says the triple Olympic gold medallist was given the sleeping medication by team officials who didn’t tell him it was addictive until he’d been taking…
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Grant Hackett back on track after Stilnox rehab: ‘I’m proud I got help’
See Sydney Morning Herald, ninemsn, ABC, news.com.au Olympic swimming champion Grant Hackett has left rehab saying he feels proud he had the courage to seek treatment for a sleeping pill addiction.The triple gold medallist spoke about his experience at Los Angeles Airport on Wednesday for the first time since checking himself into a US rehab…
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2014 Australian Swimming Championships – McEvoy & Coutts
Highlights from the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships, here Cameron McEvoy talking about the men’s 200 meter freestyle and Alicia Coutts talking about the women’s 100 butterfly.
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Katie Ledecky visits new rec center dedicated to her grandfather
See kfyr-tv This past weekend was the grand opening of the brand new Williston Recreation Center. On Saturday, the lap pool was opened and the 2012 800 meter Olympic champion, Katie Ledecky, came to swim the first lap in the pool dedicated to her grandfather Edward Hagan. Ledecky has family in the Williston area that…
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Winter swimming competitor dies
Read Yle An elderly Russian swimmer who participated in the World Winter Swimming Championship in Rovaniemi, northern Finland has passed away. The man competed in the 450-metre endurance race in the 70 – 74-year old age group. The veteran Russian swimmer took ill while competing while competing during the competition’s opening day on March 20.…
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Melanie Schlanger in the swim despite doctor’s orders
Read Sydney Morning Herald Some sporting careers do not travel the easiest path, and so it is with Melanie Schlanger, for whom it would not seem normal if she was not battling an illness or injury in preparation for a major competition. Schlanger has defied doctor’s orders to compete in Brisbane this week at the selection trials…
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Ryan Cochrane’s career is coming down to a “lot of lasts”
Read Brandon Sun Ryan Cochrane’s illustrious swimming career, he says, has come down to a “lot of lasts.” He’ll compete at the Canadian swimming trials this weekend in Victoria to make the team for what will be his last Commonwealth Games. Next summer will mark his last world championships. The 2016 Rio Games will be…
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Swimming still on Alicia Coutts’ mind
Read ninemsn For someone who has contemplated retirement, Alicia Coutts can’t seem to stop thinking about swimming. Even when the five-time London Olympic medallist sat down to plan her 2015 wedding the sport seemed to creep into her subconscious. Coutts, 26, has adopted a year-by-year approach despite being inspired by a post-2012 Olympic chat with…
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Lovemaking lands bottomless woman at bottom of well
See The Local via Arbroath Spanish daily ABC reported that the Ciudad Real woman had been having sexual relations with a man when the cover on a waterwheel well shaft became dislodged. She plunged 10 metres into the hole near ‘Playa Park’ – a waterpark popular with local youths as a venue for romantic liaisons…