Swimmer's Daily

  • Vicki Buck, 67, from Looe in Cornwall is one of the top 10 women swimmers in the Swim England Masters Swimming Club, so when she found out that she needed her right hip replacing her first question was “why me?”

    https://youtu.be/DJoxya26-Eg

  • Originally from Puerto Rico, US Olympian (1980-1984) Jesse Vasallo makes a plea to help the residents of Puerto Rico and the American Virgin Islands.

  • Olympic gold medalist swimmer Tom Shields chatted with Digital Journal about his prolific career in swimming, and he offered advice for aspiring swimmers.

    Shields won the gold medal in the 4 x 100 medley at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. “That was great! It was a dream come true, obviously. It was super-awesome to represent my country,” he said.

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  • Carlos Arthur Nuzman, head of Brazil’s Olympics committee, has decided to step away from the games’ governing body, according to a statement by the National Olympics Committee on Saturday.

    He was arrested last week for allegedly conspiring to rig the election of the city hosting the 2016 games.

    The decision to take leave was expressed in a letter to be shown to the members of COB, as the body is known, during an extraordinary general assembly slated to take place Oct. 11, the statement said.

    The move comes after Brazilian police arrested Nuzman on Thursday, accusing him of arranging more than $2 million in bribes to get the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to pick Rio de Janeiro as host of the 2016 games.

    Nuzman denied any wrongdoing and said his leave of absence will last the time necessary to prove his innocence.

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    https://youtu.be/FOzmm2XyT5g

  • Italian swimmer Filippo Magnini, a two-time world 100m freestyle champion, is being probed by the Italian National Doping Organisation (NADO) for “use or attempted use of doping products”, according to Italian media reports.

    Magnini and another Italian swimmer, Michele Santucci will appear before investigators in the coming days as part of a NADO probe into the work of nutritionist and doctor Guido Porcellini.

    La Gazzetta dello Sport claimed that an investigation into Magnini had previously been ditched due to lack of evidence.

    He was being investigated in the Porcellini affair, according to La Gazzetta, because some doping products allegedly acquired by Porcellini were reportedly destined for Magnini, but according to investigators he never used or even received them.

    Porcellini, meanwhile, will appear before a court in Pesaro, Magnini’s home town in the centre of Italy, on November 7.

    Magnini took to Twitter immediately to play down the announcement. “I believe that the NADO probe is an obligation linked to the criminal investigation into Porcellini. Investigators have already established that I had nothing to do with this case. Let’s be clear, thanks,” he wrote.

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  • U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes and staff who traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the 2016 Summer Games did not become infected with Zika virus but did test positive for other tropical, mosquito-borne viral infections, including West Nile Virus, Dengue Fever and Chikungunya. Results from the University of Utah Health-led study will be reported at IDWeek, a national infectious disease conference being held in San Diego.

    None of the infected travelers became seriously ill, say the study’s investigators. But the findings are a reminder that amidst the frenzy over Zika, travelers were also susceptible to other, long-standing public health risks that did not receive the same level of scrutiny.

    “Everyone was concentrating on Zika and ignoring that there could be other infections caused by mosquito bites. We did not expect to find so many with these other infections,” says U of U Health infectious disease specialist Krow Ampofo, MBCHB., who will be presenting the study’s results on Oct. 7. “That is one of the reasons why we think that being vigilant about monitoring for infectious diseases after travel to at-risk areas is so important.”

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  • Meet senior swimmer Colleen McCormack, at Benet Academy! She has some major goals for her future and is working to achieve them while still in school.

  • https://youtu.be/5oYhAWjCiOM

  • The new Range Rover Sport faces a true test of performance and capability. Watch as the new Range Rover Sport wades through the rising tide and waves of up to 850mm taking on open water swimmers crossing from Bigbury Beach to Burgh Island in south Devon, UK.

    https://youtu.be/OB9dAh7MJnE