Swimmer's Daily

  • Meet Leah Smith, a member of your USA Swimming 2016 Olympic Team representing the stars and stripes in Rio. Leah will compete in the 400m and 800m freestyle as well as the 800m freestyle relay.

  • The 2016 U.S. Olympic Swimming Team practiced at Georgia Tech’s McAuley Aquatic Center July 21-30. It served as their final training camp before the squad flew to Rio for the Summer Games. It also marked the 20th anniversary of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

  • Four members of the Australian women’s water polo team have been placed into quarantine in Rio after being struck down with a virus just days out from the opening ceremony.

    The four Aussie Stingers athletes are suffering from a gastro-intestinal illness and were separated from their teammates as soon as the squad landed in Rio on Monday, Australian Olympic boss Kitty Chiller said.

    The Stingers had been training in Italy in recent weeks before flying to Brazil, ahead of their first game against Russia on Tuesday, local time.

    Chiller said the sick team members – who have not been named – would be isolated in an area of the athletes’ village that normally houses Australian team officials.

    They would not have contact with their teammates or anyone in the village until they received the all-clear from team doctor David Hughes.

    There was no suggestion at this stage that the athletes would be replaced ahead of the competition.

    “Dr David Hughes will keep a close eye on them and they’ll stay in there for 48 hours until after they’re all cleared,” Chiller said.

    Read the Sydney Morning Herald

    https://youtu.be/tPdELPR_rt4

  • Meet Abbey Weitzeil, a member of your USA Swimming 2016 Olympic Team representing the stars and stripes in Rio. Abbey will compete in the 50m and 100m freestyle.

  • Olympic swimmer Kyle Chalmers, son of Premiership player Brett Chalmers, talks about his love for Port Adelaide and how he’s preparing for Rio.

  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 10 people drown every day in the U.S. Adult swim coach Chris Holley is trying to make a dent in that statistic, one student at a time.

  • 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.

    Read ABC

    https://youtu.be/orRA5VHiG0s

  • 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.