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“Susan Kenedy talks one on one with Olympic gold medalist and world swimming champion Katie Ledecky about her performance at the world championships and life outside of swimming.” http://youtu.be/bPDLZ7zzOq8

A poster seen outside the Speedo tent at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona. He turned up with his right leg in a boot cast, because of a golf accident.

Read The Australian Olympic swimmer Scott Miller will fight a drug dealing charge, his lawyer has told a Sydney court. The Olympic silver and bronze medallist was charged last month with supplying a prohibited drug of an indictable quality. Police allegedly discovered 7.75 grams of the drug ice when they searched the former sports star at Potts Point in Sydney on July 20. A video from two months ago

Fanny Lecluyse (GOLD Swimming Team), her physiotherapist Manu Wemel (Callewaert-Wemel) and coach Wauter Derycke on SpartaNova. Fanny Lecluyse on SpartaNova (subtitles) from SpartaNova on Vimeo.

Eamon Sullivan and mom Pam on how he started swimming because of asthma, on his swimming and on his many injuries. Raising An Olympian: Eamon Sullivan (Australia, Swimming) from Karoliina Tuovinen, Editor on Vimeo.

Courtesy of The Race Club “During our Summer Swim Camps 2013 Gary Hall Jr. spoke to Campers about the importance of Pre Race Ritual Routine. “Gary is well known for his “pro-wrestling like” antics before a competition; frequently strutting onto the pool deck in boxing shorts and robe, shadow boxing and flexing for the audience.” He talks about how you can use simple techniques during your own swim training program that can teach you how to trigger ‘the zone’ and Race at your very best.”

Read ABC Swimming Australia’s ‘Stilnox six’ have escaped any further punishment from the AOC for their behaviour at London 2012, but have been warned that any further breach of conduct could render them ineligible for the Rio 2016 Olympics. Eamon Sullivan, Matt Targett, James Magnussen, James Roberts, Tommaso D’Orsogna and Cameron McEvoy were involved in a controversial bonding session before last year’s London Olympics which involved taking the sleeping drug Stilnox. A video from 6 months ago

Read Herald.ie An Irish distance swimmer had to abandon a historic attempt to swim from Ireland to Wales after he began to show signs of hypothermia. Steve Redmond (47) was advised by his support team to quit the 80km swim five hours after he left Wexford in an attempt to make the crossing to St David’s. The west Cork swimmer, who last year won the Seven Oceans Challenge by swimming the most difficult sea channels on the planet, was today said to be “very disappointed” by the decision.

Read ninemsn Australia’s controversial men’s freestyle relay team will be punished by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) on Friday. The six Australian men’s freestyle swimmers face sanctions including loss of AOC funding as a result of their ill-fated bonding session before last year’s London Olympics. The swimmers – Eamon Sullivan, Matt Targett, James Magnussen, James Roberts, Tommaso D’Orsogna and Cameron McEvoy – have already been fined and given suspended sentences by Swimming Australia. But the specific penalties from Swimming Australia have not been detailed, beyond the sport’s peak body saying the swimmers were fined and given “deferred suspensions for breaches…

Just a photo from our first day of training at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Pál Joensen and coach Shannon Rollason in picture.