Swimmer's Daily

  • High School swim team upset over closed pool

  • It’s already 10 years ago, that the Olympic Games Beijing started!
    Reason enough, to bring you the top 10 moments from Beijing 2008. From the Opening Ceremony over Maarten van der Weijden in Open Water Swimming and Matthias Steiner in Weightlifting to Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps!

  • This is how I get train and get ready for Pan Pacific Championships with Team USA.

  • FINA is celebrating its 110th Birthday! The celebrations in Lausanne went along with the inauguration of the FINA headquarter. IOC president Thomas Bach also joined the party to and brought a very special prize. Enjoy some impressions of the event and the new headquarter office!

  • Half rhino, half whale. As we hit the halfway point of the Great British Swim Ross reflects on how his body is adapting to suit the challenge and gives us three reasons why he is in love with the Scottish coast.

  • The Stanford swimmer whose light sentence after a sexual assault conviction had both his appeal and request for a new trial denied.

    The latest legal step in the controversial case of Brock Turner came Wednesday when his appeal to have his convictions overturned was rejected by a California appeallate court on Wednesday.

    In an earlier hearing about the appeal, Turner’s attorney argued that since his client was clothed during the assault, Turner participated in “outercourse” rather than intercourse.

    The latest decision rejecting the appeal, which was written by a panel of three judges, affirms the decision to convict Turner on three counts: sexual penetration of an unconscious person, sexual penetration of an intoxicated person, and assault with intent to commit rape. The decision details Turner’s arguments against each conviction, along with the rebuttals from the appellate judges.

    See ABC News

  • A Connecticut high school swim coach lost his job after a vigilante group said they busted him trying to solicit sex from someone he thought was a teenage boy.

    Nicolas Daddabbo, 26, from Plainville has not been charged with any crime, but a group of self-proclaimed predator hunters recorded what they say is video evidence of Daddabbo driving to meet a 14-year-old boy, Fox61 reported this week.

    “I’m looking for my friend Mike,” Daddabbo can be heard telling, Nito, the founding member of the Pop Squad, as he drives up to a home in Bristol.

    “You work around children, swim coach or something correct?” Nito asks Daddabbo.

    “Mmmhmm,” says Daddabbo, who coached kids Bristol Eastern High School, and most recently coached adults at the Meriden YMCA.

    See New York Post

    https://youtu.be/3ZuLnUjVVks

  • The Dutch rule the lake, great Brit 1-2 in diving

    The Netherlands captured their 4th gold in five open water swimming events in Loch Lomond after Ferry Weertman won another outstanding finish in the team event. Russia’s winning streak was halted at four in Edinburgh: after they won the mixed 10m synchro, Britain’s Grace Reid and Alicia Blagg finished 1-2 in the women’s 3m.

    Shleikher Nikita RUS Timoshinina Iuliia RUS gold medal Mixed 10m synchronized platform final Edinburgh 11/08/18 Diving Royal Commonwealth Pool LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Giorgio Perottino / Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Shleikher Nikita RUS Timoshinina Iuliia RUS gold medal Mixed 10m synchronized platform final Edinburgh 11/08/18 Diving Royal Commonwealth Pool LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Giorgio Perottino / Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Reid Grace GBR gold medal Women’s 3m springboard final Edinburgh 11/08/18 Diving Royal Commonwealth Pool LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Giorgio Perottino / Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Reid Grace GBR gold medal and Blagg Alicia GBR silver medal Women’s 3m springboard final Edinburgh 11/08/18 Diving Royal Commonwealth Pool LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Giorgio Perottino / Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Reid Grace GBR gold medal, Blagg Alicia GBR silver medal, Punzel Tina GER bronze medal Women’s 3m springboard final Edinburgh 11/08/18 Diving Royal Commonwealth Pool LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Giorgio Perottino / Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Shleikher Nikita RUS Timoshinina Iuliia RUS gold medal, Lee Matthew GBR Toulson Lois GBR silver medal, Fandler Florian GER Wassen Christina GER bronze medal Mixed 10m synchronized platform final Edinburgh 11/08/18 Diving Royal Commonwealth Pool LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Giorgio Perottino / Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Team NETHERLANDS Gold Medal VERMEULEN Esmee VAN ROUWENDAAL Sharon SMITS Pepijn Maxime WEERTMAN Ferry Glasgow 11/08/2018 Open Water Swimming Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Andrea Staccioli /Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Team Event 5km Glasgow 11/08/2018 Open Water Swimming Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Andrea Staccioli /Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Team NETHERLANDS Gold Medal VERMEULEN Esmee VAN ROUWENDAAL Sharon SMITS Pepijn Maxime WEERTMAN Ferry Team GERMANY Silver Medal BECK Leonie Antonia KOEHLER Sarah MEISSNER Soeren WELLBROCK Florian Team FRANCE Bronze Medal GRANGEON Lara AUBRY David POU Lisa OLIVIER Marc-Antoine Team Event 5km Glasgow 11/08/2018 Open Water Swimming Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Andrea Staccioli /Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto
    Marc Antoine Olivier FRA Best Athletes Glasgow 11/08/2018 Open Water Swimming Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park LEN European Aquatics Championships 2018 European Championships 2018 Photo Andrea Staccioli /Deepbluemedia /Insidefoto

    Dutchman Ferry Weertman managed to out-touch Kristof Rasovszky (HUN) in the men’s 10km final (based on the equal times, the Hungarians lodged a protest and requested the Jury d’Appeal to declare a tied gold medal but the officials upheld the original decision based on the photo finish). Two days later Weertman rushed to the finish shoulder-by-shoulder once more, this time with – or rather against – Florian Wellbrock. Though the young German, winner of the 1500m in the pool, managed to upset the Olympic champion twice in this year in Gravelines and Balatonfured, this time Weertman proved again that in the final sprints he is simply unbeatable. He used all his power to gain the necessary advantage and hit the panel 0.6sec ahead of the German, securing the 4th victory to the Dutch in Loch Lomond. (So far, only the men’s 5km title landed ‘outside’ the Netherlands, won by Rasovszky.)

    This also means that Sharon van Rouwendaal, also part of the winning team, claimed her 3rd gold here after having come first in the 5km and the 10km already. The bronze went to the French who needed some boost after modest performances in the previous events. Their top man Marc-Antoine Olivier, who was the star of last year’s World Championships, could step onto the podium for the first time here – though he stayed a bit longer to receive the 2017 LEN Award from President Paolo Barelli.

    Some 50km away in Edinburgh, the Russians extended their winning streak to four events in diving. In the mixed 10m synchro GB’s pair Matthew Reid and Lois Toulson took over the lead after three rounds but Nikite Shleikher and Yulia Timoshinina regained the top spot in the fourth and managed to keep a tiny but still golden margin of 1.83 points.

    And based on the prelims, a fifth Russian victory was also on the horizon as champion of the 1m event Mariia Poliakova finished atop in the morning. After two rounds all seemed to set for a double for her but she missed her dive in the third round and fell apart for the last two to drop to 11th. To the joy of the locals, the two Brits Alicia Blagg and Grace Reid stepped up and enjoyed a brilliant battle which also involved Germany’s Tina Punzel.

    A couple of points separated the three divers before the last round, where Reid produced another brilliant dive (her last two attempts earned the two highest scores in the final) and that put them to the first place for the first time in the day. And she stayed there as her rivals came up with less convincing dives, Blagg dropped to the second place and Punzel had to settle for the bronze medal.

    The last day of the European Championships offer the best of the action in aquatics: the classical 25km race in open water swimming and, after the women’s 3m synchro, the most awaited event of the diving meet, the men’s 10m platform final.

    For detailed results, medal tables, visit www.len.eu

    Press release from LEN, photos courtesy of Deepbluemedia/Giorgio Scala