Category: Competition
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Australian swimmers slam media for continued focus on Olympic debacle
Australian Commonwealth Games swimmers have reacted strongly to repeated questions about the team’s London Olympic Games campaign, which was notable for disappointing performances in the pool and bad behaviour out of it. However, senior squad member and 100-metre breaststroke world champion Christian Sprenger thinks while it was “bizarre that they still bring that up” there…
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Lauren Boyle’s dad stuck in Siberia
Lauren Boyle has yet to hear whether her father will arrive in Glasgow in time to see her opening race. Allan Boyle was on Virgin Atlantic flight VS251 from Shanghai to London which was forced to make an emergency landing in Irkutsk, Russia, after the Airbus A346 developed “a technical issue”. He and his partner,…
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Michael Jamieson aims for gold and new world record at Commonwealth Games
Scottish swimming hopeful Michael Jamieson says he plans to secure gold at the Commonwealth Games. But he’s not finished there. The Glaswegian star also wants to claim a world record in his hometown. Jamieson’s desire to make history is so strong that the record time of two minutes and seven seconds is the first thing…
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Australian swim team on high alert after swimmer shows norovirus symptoms
Australia’s swim team fears a gastro outbreak after quarantining one of their leading swimmers with the symptoms of the norovirus that has ripped through more than 50 staff at the Commonwealth Games athletes’ village in Glasgow. News Corp has been told that one of the female athletes on the swim team has been quarantined from…
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James Magnussen and Cameron McEvoy unlikely rivals in Glasgow
The battle between James Magnussen and Cameron McEvoy for Australia’s – and potentially the world’s – freestyle sprint crown is shaping as swimming’s newest rivalry but the friends are such unlikely combatants that neither really believe that rivalry is the correct description. Dual world champion Magnussen is an alpha-male personality, tall and solidly built and…
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Matt Abood finally gets his Commonwealth Games chance in Glasgow
No one would have blamed Matt Abood if, during the course of his unlucky journey, he decided that it was all too hard and gave swimming away. The freestyle sprinter has made three world championship teams for Australia and was a member of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay team that won gold in Shanghai in 2011,…
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Eamon Sullivan retires dues to ongoing shoulder problems
Former freestyle world record holder Eamon Sullivan has announced his immediate retirement from competitive swimming due to ongoing shoulder injury concerns. Once holder of the 50m and 100m freestyle world records, West Australian Sullivan – who won two Olympic silver medals in Beijing – had been plagued by shoulder issues in recent times. The 28-year-old…
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Swimming Australia #OurTeam Fast Facts 4
When they are not training or racing ‪#‎OurTeam‬ surfs, dunks, sleeps, eats, rests, rides, walks, slides, shops, cooks, tweets and dreams about what it means to ‪#‎Swim4Gold
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Camille Muffat retires after quarrel with coach
Read NBC Sports and original story on L’Equipe France’s Camille Muffat, a rival to U.S. stars Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky, has abruptly retired due to a dispute with her coach, according to L’Equipe. “I have taken a big decision to stop swimming,†she said, according to L’Equipe, translated by Agence France-Presse. “[The disagreement with…