Swimmer's Daily

  • Foreign-based swimmers Lianna Swan and Haris Bandey will represent Pakistan at the Rio Olympics as wild card entrants after the International Swimming Federation (FINA) approved their names.

    The two swimmers are participating in the Olympics for the first time. In the last edition, Haris’s elder sister, Anum Bandey, represented Pakistan in the 400m individual medley, along with Israr Hussain taking part in the 100m freestyle event. However, both swimmers failed to qualify for the next round and finished last among 35 participants and 54th out of 56 respectively.

    This time around, the Rio-bound swimmers are foreign-based and have represented Pakistan in several championships, including the recently held South Asian Games where Lianna became the first Pakistani swimmer to win a gold medal in the event. Haris, on the other hand, failed to perform well.

    Read The Express Tribune

  • When the sun is out, the boats are charged up and in the water: but swimmers nearby could be in trouble.

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  • According to local prosecutors, Judge Aaron Persky has been taken off of a case involving a male nurse who sexually assaulted an anesthetized female patient. Judge Persky declined to send former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to prison for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.

    https://youtu.be/YnKBkLmOfqA

  • Jellyfish Lake is isolated from the ocean in Palau, an island nation in the South Pacific.

  • Anti-doping officials in Russia are being stopped from testing athletes and threatened by security services, says a World Anti-Doping Agency report.

    The report was published two days before athletics’ governing body rules on whether Russian competitors can take part in the Rio Olympics this summer.

    In November, Russia’s athletes were banned after a Wada report highlighted widespread failing in testing.

    The country’s athletics chiefs had pledged to make wholesale changes.

    What does the Wada report say?

    The latest Wada findings include:

    • 73 of 455 tests on athletes could not be collected
    • 736 tests were declined or cancelled
    • 23 missed tests, which the report described as a “significant amount”
    • 52 adverse findings

    The report includes examples of the lengths athletes from different sports allegedly went to both to avoid tests and fool doping control officers (DCOs).

    It says one athlete was seen running away from the mixed zone after an event, and another left the stadium during a race and could not be located.

    Wada also highlighted the case of an athlete who, it says, used a container inserted inside her “presumably containing clean urine”.

    When she tried to use the container it leaked onto the floor and not into the collection vessel. The athlete is alleged to have tried to bribe the DCO before providing a sample that subsequently returned an adverse finding.

    Read BBC

     

  • Police have warned of the dangers of open water swimming after a sixteen-year-old boy died after getting into difficulties under a 70-foot high waterfall.

    Curtis Atherton, from Hartlepool, got into difficulty in the pool below High Force in Teesdale, County Durham, at around 8pm yesterday.

    He was found in the water following a major search operation at 9.45pm but died at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough later.

    Read The Telegraph

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  • A juror who helped convict a former Stanford University student-athlete of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman complained to the judge about his “ridiculously lenient” six-month jail sentence, which the juror said made a mockery of the panel’s verdict, a newspaper reported Monday.

    The Palo Alto Weekly published a letter that the juror sent Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky over the weekend to convey his shock and disappointment over the sentence 20-year-old Brock Turner received

    “It seems to me that you really did not accept the jury’s findings,” he wrote to the judge. “We were unanimous in our finding of the defendant’s guilt and our verdicts were marginalized based on your own personal opinion.”

    Read Chicago Tribune

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  • After searching through the night, rescue workers have not yet found a 2-year-old Nebraska boy who was dragged away by an alligator at a lake at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa on Tuesday night, officials said Wednesday morning.

    “This is still a search-and-rescue operation,” Jeff Williamson, a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, said at a news conference. “We are hoping for the best. Sometimes you get the worst, but we’re certainly hoping for the best.”

    See New York Times