Category: Competition
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Teen swim star Kyle Chalmers almost ruins Olympic dream after AFL mishap
AUSTRALIA’S teen superfish Kyle Chalmers almost ruined his Dolphins swim team debut this year after his desire to play just one First XVIII AFL game for his South Australian school left him with a broken wrist and torn ankle ligaments. Chalmers, 17, revealed from Australia’s staging camp in Doha before the world titles starting August…
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China’s Sun Yang set for four events in Kazan world championships
China’s controversial Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang will probably compete in four events at the world championships starting in Russia this week, a report said Monday, a year after a secret three-month doping ban. Sun, a triple gold medalist at the 2013 Barcelona worlds, is expected to line up in the 200-meter, 400-meter, 800-meter and…
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SA swimming team named for Kazan
Swimming South Africa (SSA) announced a five-member squad on Tuesday, revealing a significant cut from the 17-member team that competed at the 2013 showpiece in Barcelona. The South African contingent would be spearheaded by defending 100m and 200m champion Chad le Clos and fellow Olympic gold medallist Cameron van der Burgh, who earned gold and…
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Don’t rush greatness
In their first Olympics, in Barcelona in 1992, Penny Heyns came 33rd and 34th in her events. In his Olympic debut in Beijing in 2008, Cameron van der Burgh did not make it out of the semi-finals. Ryk Neethling took fifth in the 1500m freestyle in Atlanta and Sydney, and eighth in the 400m freestyle…
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Ryan Lochte faces his smallest Worlds schedule ever after throwaway 2014
Ryan Lochte is swimming his fewest individual events at major international meet in 11 years at the World Championships in Kazan, Russia, in a little more than two weeks. He’s coming off what he called probably the worst year of his career, which followed the worst injury of his career in November 2013 and retirement…
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Olympian Julia Wilkinson talks TO2015 with Canada’s best swimmers
Olympian Julia Wilkinson talks TO2015 with Canada’s best swimmers.
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Recruited by Harvard for the women’s swim team, he’ll jump into the pool as a man
She was the quintessential recruit for the women’s swimming team at Harvard University: a nimble breaststroker with a fierce work ethic and sharp intellect. But when Schuyler Bailar jumps into the school’s Olympic-size pool this fall, he instead will be a member of the men’s team, the first openly transgender collegiate swimmer in U.S. history.…
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Chad Le Clos shares his Water Instinct
Olympic 200m & World 100m & 200m Butterfly Champion, Chad Le Clos expresses his water instinct. He explains that for many swimmers it’s about the feel of the water, but for him it runs much deeper. What is your #waterinstinct?