Category: Organization
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Australian swimmers call for calm after president Nettlefold’s resignation
Read ABC Grandstand Sport Australian Olympic swimmers have expressed hopes that the sport’s latest controversy will not affect sponsors or preparations for next month’s World Championships. […Â ] Olympic silver medallist Brenton Rickard said on Monday that the Australian squad needed to remain focussed on the championships, which will be held in Barcelona. “Obviously it could…
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Geoff Huegill on the crisis in Australian Swimming
Swimming Australia boss Barclay Nettlefold has resigned from his post over inappropriate comments to a staffer. Olympian Geoff Huegill discusses.
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Prince William Backs Learn To Swim Campaign
See for instance Shropshire Star The Duke of Cambridge has recorded a video message in support of the Amateur Swimming Association’s (ASA) vision that every child has the right to learn to swim. William outlines the importance of children being confident in water in his message which follows an ASA report that claims more than…
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Swimming Australia inquiry called off as president Nettlefold resigns
Swimming Australia has sunk to a new low, with its president today resigning in disgrace after lewd comments he made to colleagues surfaced. There is obviously bad blood between the parties involved as Nettlefold describes the matter as ‘a personality attack on me […] that needs to be dealt with too’, while Swimming Australia CEO…
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Karamana river pollution ‘sinks’ champion Indian swimming club
Read The New Indian Express The heavily polluted Karamana river, which has literally turned into drainage canal, can, ironically, boast of moulding swimming champions who even took part in international events. However, the advantage is now lost as the river, having turned a dump yard, is no longer fit for swimming, leaving the swimmers in…
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Duncan Goodhew coaches youngsters at new pool in Chester-le-Street
Read Sunderland Echo Former Olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew gave youngsters a coaching session to mark the refurbishment of their pool. The pool, at Chester-le-Street Leisure Centre, is now more energy efficient after British Gas upgraded the building’s heating and lighting. Duncan, 56, whose son is studying at Northumbria University, said: “Modernised heating and ventilation means…
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Anger in Manchester as council spends £300k on hosting Australians
Read Manchester Evening News A furious row has broken out over £300,000 of taxpayers’ money being spent on bringing elite Australian swimmers to Manchester – as public baths in the city face being shut in budget cuts. The cash is being paid to Swimming Australia Ltd to cover the cost of hosting the Aussie team…
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Swim Ontario bans club ignoring ban on coach Cecil Russell
Read The Star Cecil Russell was banned for life — twice — from coaching swimmers because of his involvement in illegal steroid and ecstasy rings. During a 1997 murder trial he admitted to helping burn the body of a dead drug associate. But none of it stopped him from coaching his own talented children —…