In between Olympics, legendary U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz was a star for Indiana from 1969-72. He finished his Hoosiers career with four team national championships and eight individual NCAA titles. Watch six of those titles here.
Sophomore Augusta Lewis was named the SCIAC Women’s Swimmer of the Year for the second year in a row after winning three individual championships at the 2020 Championships in meet record times, taking the 200 IM, the 400 IM and the 200 breast. She currently ranked No. 4 in the nation in the 400 IM as she turns her sights to the NCAA Championships the next month.
International swimming authorities worked to protect three-time Olympic champion Sun Yang from being banned from the sport in a doping case, according to a Swiss supreme court document.
A verdict in the case against the Chinese swimmer is expected within days from the Court of Arbitration for Sport. But a federal court document shows that swimming governing body FINA supported arguments by Sun’s lawyers to have an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency thrown out early last year in a pre-trial dispute over an alleged conflict of interest for the agency’s lead prosecutor, American lawyer Richard Young.
The swimmer’s lawyers appealed to the Swiss Federal Tribunal, which dismissed their procedural objections weeks before a rare public hearing held by CAS last November.
“In the course of the proceedings, the swimmer and FINA raised a plea of inadmissibility because of the allegedly late filing of the (WADA) appeal brief,” said the Swiss federal ruling, dated Oct. 28.
Had Young, who previously prosecuted doping cases involving Lance Armstrong and Marion Jones and is based in Colorado, been considered ineligible for the case because of his past work for FINA, the WADA appeal could have technically missed its deadline and allowed CAS to decline jurisdiction.
Instead, Young stayed on the WADA team for the public hearing.
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The Detroit Public Schools Community District has placed a swimming teacher on administrative leave after the death of a student.
‘Considering the developing situation with the “coronavirus”, and especially the temporary measures indicated by the authorities, the organizing committee of the Trofeo Città di Milano has decided to suspend the event scheduled for this weekend 28 February – 1 March 2020.’
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The ‘Iceman’ is the same distance as an Ironman – 3.8K in -2ºC (28.4ºF) water and then 180 km of swimming and a 42.2K marathon on the icy steppes of Antarctica. Unofficial time 40:45:33 according to DR (in Danish), not including a 27-hour snow blizzard bringing the total time up to 72:54:09. Impressive.
Anders has officially completed The Iceman!!!❄️💙🙌
40 hours – 45 minutes – 33 seconds (not official time). #LIMITATIONSAREPERCEPTIONS #7FORTHESEVENTH #PROJECTICEMANLIVE
— Project Iceman (@anders_hofman) February 25, 2020
There are many ways to enter a swimming pool. Some normal, some…not so normal. How you choose to get into a swimming pool, is entirely up to you. Here are a few of our favourites!
Over the last year, the advocacy group Global Athlete received responses from 491 athletes spread across six continents, about 200 of whom identified themselves as Olympians or Paralympians, and the rest of whom compete at an elite level in their country or at an international level. The responses painted one of the most thorough pictures of the long-documented reality of competing at the highest levels of Olympic sports: Hardly anyone gets rich, while the majority are poor and largely beholden to the bureaucracies that fund this diverse cross-section of what are, by and large, niche sports.
As part of the survey, athletes who said they did not consider themselves financially secure were given the chance to explain. There were 89 responses, most of which sounded similar themes:
—“Can’t train without funds but trying to get work around training is not easy and continually told if you miss sessions you don’t get selected.”
—”No stable job, living off casual work, and supported by my mum. My sport provides no money for me.”
—”Paycheck depends on how I preform at a major championships once every 2-4 years. If I do not preform well in one moment I cannot financially support myself.”
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A highlights reel from our Junior School Swimming Carnival.
