Swimmer's Daily

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  • A Paralympic swimmer from Inglewood, Jamal Hill has blazed through boundaries. Once fully paralyzed from the neck down, and now top ranked in the United States, he teaches us that nothing – and no one – can put a limit on his ambition if he doesn’t impose one on himself. As soon as I met Jamal, I knew I had to document his journey.

  • The International Swimming Federation (FINA) was forced to deny any involvement in leaking the positive drug result to the public.

    Executive director Cornel Marculescu has been very vocal in his distaste for Mack Horton’s stance against Sun Yang.
    Horton infamously refused to stand on the podium with Yang following allegations the Chinese athlete was tampering with blood samples to avoid a drug test.

    Marculescu told reporters the act had brought swimming into “disrepute” but vehemently denied any involvement in leaking Jack’s positive test.

    He said he would not comment further on the matter because a final decision had not been made.

    He also said Jack was “not the only one, there are another two. But we need to finish the case.”

    The two other athletes are understood not to be Australians.

    It remains unclear whether they were involved in the world championships in South Korea and the “facilitators” ASADA is concerned about.

    See 7News

    https://youtu.be/BX5zGuQerCM

  • Sacramento is one big step closer to having its first Olympic-sized swimming pool. And that’s not all: water slides, a meeting space and shaded bleachers are part of the plans as well.

    The Sacramento City Council is set to approve $14.4 million in funding for the North Natomas Community Center and Aquatics Center – the last piece of funding needed to make the long-awaited $45 million project happen.

    The center, being built at North Natomas Regional Park, will feature the city’s first 50-meter competition pool with 13 diving boards and lanes. It will also feature a 25-meter pool, four water slides, a shallow kids’ pool, and a kids’ rope course and play area, according to renderings created by BCA Architects. Reclining chairs, cabanas, an open lawn and shaded bleachers facing the 50-meter pool are also planned.

    The pool will be attached to a community center, featuring a large meeting space, locker rooms and bathrooms, James Christensen, facilities manager, told the City Council Tuesday.

    See Sacramento Bee

    https://youtu.be/w3W5-NA32bc

  • Swimmer Hicham Boufekane doesn’t just view Mike Thompson as a coach, bur rather a part of his family.

  • Hungarian swimmer Tamas Kenderesi has apologised for “thoughtlessly touching” a nightclub dancer after being arrested on sexual harassment charges during the world championships.

    The 22-year-old Olympic bronze medallist has been banned from leaving the country while police investigate the incident at a bar in Gwangju, around 330km south of Seoul, at the weekend.

    Kenderesi has admitted making contact with his accuser but denies charges of sexual harassment.

    “After coming back from the toilets and heading towards the dance floor, I touched the backside of a Korean girl who was working as a dancer at the club,” the swimmer said in a statement.

    “I did not even stop behind her - I took only a single, perhaps thoughtless move, which seriously angered this girl who filed a complaint against me.

    “Realising the seriousness of the situation, I was absolutely cooperative throughout the entire process,” added Kenderesi, who finished last in the men’s 200m butterfly final last week.

    “I deeply regret what happened and I wish to beg for the Korean girl’s forgiveness. But I strongly deny that I’m guilty in any kind of sexual harassment.”

    Read Channel News Asia and Hungary Today

     

  • KXAN’s Gary Cooper reports she’s not letting that experience stand in her way.

  • Last week, a North Carolina man became a notorious microbial killer’s first confirmed victim this year. The 59-year-old Eddie Gray had unknowingly come across a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a man-made lake near Fayetteville in mid-July; 10 days later, he was dead.

    Since the brain-eating amoeba was first recognized and named, in 1970, grisly reports of its disastrous attacks have made headlines nearly every year. About 97 percent of confirmed cases in the United States have been fatal. But the infection is also incredibly rare, and the small sample size leaves the epidemiologists who study it and the doctors who encounter it with their hands tied. It may be one of nature’s most perfect crimes.

    Read The Atlantic