Swimmer's Daily

  • Nick and Colleen Anthony have spent summers at the pool, been on swim teams and even played underwater hockey in college. They have grown up swimming. Nick starting at age 9 and Colleen at age 6.

  • For decades, the Fairfax Swim Club has been an important part of Fairfax. But unless it can raise a lot of money, it will be gone in September.

  • 12-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte has been suspended from competitive swimming for violating an anti-doping rule. Lochte spoke about the suspension Monday, conceding that he broke the rules as an athlete, but was very clear the substance he took through an IV was not illegal. Dana Jacobson reports.

  • The four-time Olympian is raising awareness for water safety by providing free swimming lessons.

  • Construction delays at two key Olympic venues could force Tokyo Games organizers into a reshuffle of test event schedules, the organizing committee said.

    The Olympics Aquatics Center, which will host swimming and diving events as well as the Sea Forest Waterway, venue for the rowing and canoeing events in 2020, were two months behind schedule, according to organizers.

    Both venues will be completed well before the Games’ opening ceremony on July 24, 2020, but organizers may have to shift test events to allow for the delays.

    “We have been informed that the two venues have a delay compared to the original schedule,” said Tokyo 2020 spokesman Masa Takaya.

    “We are working closely with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) and the respective federations to be able to sort out and possibly modify the test event schedule.

    “Other than that, the schedules on the permanent venues are absolutely right on track.”

    Read Reuters

  • He shot to fame as New Zealand’s first medallist in the pool at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, and now teenage swimmer Lewis Clareburt is eyeing up even more success.

    The 19-year-old has even managed to capture the attention of one of swimming most famous coaches with Doug Frost coming in to coach the Kiwi.

    “I’m quite impressed actually – and his whole attitude has been really good,” Frost said.

    Frost coached Australian swimming legend Ian Thorpe to his five-medal haul at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, but now he’s helping out at Wellington’s Capital Swim Club in the build up to the Pan-Pacific Championships next month.

    It’s an opportunity Clareburt says he is taking full advantage of.

    See TVNZ

    https://youtu.be/Ag5ob2kN-ck

  • Eszter Pryor, a former diver with the Ohio State University Diving Club, has filed a lawsuit claiming she was sexually abused by former assistant coach William Bohonyi beginning when she was 16 and when he was 27. Pryor is now suing Bohonyi, along with the Ohio State University Diving Club, which employed him, and USA Diving for turning a blind eye. Pryor and her lawyer, Robert Allard, join Megyn Kelly TODAY to open up about her allegations.

  • A lawyer for a former Stanford swimmer whose conviction on sexual assault charges led to the extremely rare recall of a judge tried to convince an appellate court Tuesday to overturn his client’s conviction — on the novel grounds that the athlete wanted “outercourse” with his intoxicated victim, not intercourse.

    “Outercourse,” his lawyer Eric S. Multhaup explained to the three poker-faced justices, is sexual contact while fully clothed. Turner had his clothes on when he was caught by two Swedish graduate students making thrusting motions on top of a half-naked, intoxicated, unconscious woman, his lawyer noted.

    The hearing is the latest development in a high-profile case that led last month to the recall of the judge, who gave Turner what many considered a lenient six-month jail sentence for the sexual assault outside a campus fraternity party in 2015. It was the first time in 86 years that voters have recalled a judge in California.

    Although Turner wound up serving only three months, he is required under a state law to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life because of his conviction on the charge of attempting to rape an intoxicated person. The jury also found Turner guilty of two counts of digital penetration. He has moved back to Ohio and was not at Tuesday’s hearing.

    Multhaup focused Tuesday on trying to convince the justices to overturn the attempted rape charge, arguing there wasn’t sufficient evidence for the jury to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Turner never intended to rape the woman, he said.

    But the justices appeared skeptical of his argument. The panel has 90 days — until late October — to issue a ruling.

    “I absolutely don’t understand what you are talking about,” Justice Franklin D. Elia said, adding that the law “requires the jury verdict to be honored.”

    Read The Mercury News

  • Bob Bowman, the longtime coach of Michael Phelps and former CEO of the North Baltimore Aquatic Club, on Monday acknowledged “poor judgement” for his role in alleged “inappropriate” text messages that a former U.S. Olympic swimmer said were sent to her from his phone.

    Last week The Orange County Register reported allegations from Olympic medalist Caroline Burckle, 32, who said she received text messages and a voicemail from a phone belonging to Bowman in May 2011. The paper reported that Burckle said the messages were sent by Bowman and Sean Hutchison, both former U.S. national team coaches, and that she had been “haunted” by the incident.

    She also told The Register that Bowman later apologized to her.

    Bowman responded Monday to inquiries from The Baltimore Sun, saying in a statement: “I regret the exercise of poor judgment in being involved one evening seven years ago with inappropriate communications.

    “I promptly apologized to the person to whom the communications were sent, and my apology was accepted,” he continued. “I have nothing further to say at this time.”

    Read Baltimore Sun and SI