Swimmer's Daily

  • Australia’s oldest Olympian, Forbes Carlile, has died at the age of 95.

    Carlile represented Australia in modern pentathlon at the 1952 Helsinki Games, coming 25th.

    He was best-known as a pioneering swimming coach, having first coached Australia at the 1948 Games in London.

    A number of top Australian swimmers emerged under his tutelage, including three-times Olympic champion Shane Gould, Helsinki 100m breaststroke champion John Davies and Tokyo 200m breaststroke gold medallist Ian O’Brien.

    Carlile remains the only Australian to have coached at an Olympics before later competing in the Games as an athlete.

    He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1977 and the Australian Sports Hall of Fame 12 years later.

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  • Meet Ryan Murphy, a member of your USA Swimming 2016 Olympic Team representing the stars and stripes in Rio. Ryan will compete in the 100m and 200m backstroke.

  • Athletes from all over the globe are making final preparations for the Olympics. The medal table is usually dominated by the world’s larger nations, but the Games are equally important for smaller countries. Stephen Gibbs traveled to the smallest nation in South America, Suriname, to introduce us to one Olympic hopeful making a big splash.

  • Team GB catches up with Swimmer Aday Peaty to talk all things Rio 2016 and Prep Camp.

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  • Meet Michael Phelps, a member of your USA Swimming 2016 Olympic Team representing the stars and stripes in Rio. Michael will compete in the 100m and 200m butterfly and 200m IM.

  • At the Scottish National Open Swimming Champs at the start of July we caught up with our Olympians and chatted about their final preparations ahead of Rio, their hopes and aspirations. We also threw in a few random questions!

  • Heading to Rio and Wondering If It Is Safe? Well it is not the safest place in the world, but it is not as bad as the the news makes it sound. Here are some tips for staying safe while visiting and traveling to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

  • Three laptops and items of clothing were stolen from the Australian apartments in the Olympic Village when the team was evacuated due to fire last week, it was revealed today.

    Around 100 athletes and staff were forced to evacuate their building on Friday (July 29) after a small fire started in a litter bin in a parking lot in the basement of the building.

    There was nobody injured and the team returned after the fire had been extinguished by emergency services.

    Concerns primarily surrounded the fact that no fire alarm had gone off and staff were only alerted by the smell and sight of smoke.

    It has been confirmed today, however, that items were taken during the evacuation, suggesting it may have been some sort of scam.

    “We did lose some shirts and a couple of laptops, one on the fifth floor from a cycling official and one in the office downstairs,” said Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) spokesman Mike Tancred.

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