Swimmer's Daily

  • GB’s top British open water swimmer, Jack has qualified for The Rio Olympics in the 10k Marathon Swimming. Frequent top 3 finisher in Fina World Cup events. Jack gave Chillswim an interview on training advice for open water swimmers when training in a pool.

  • Mizzou Swimmer, Katharine Ross, made school history when she became the first ever swimmer to win a Southeastern Conference championship title in the 100 yard breaststroke. The junior isn’t done yet though.

  • A 22 year old swim coach from Middelburg was arrested on Tuesday. He is suspected of secretly taking photos of underage girls in the locker room of Swim and Polo club De Zeeuwse Kust.

    According to the police, five parents pressed charges against the man. Photos of eight girls were found during the investigation into the swim coach. No other incriminating evidence was found on his confiscated computer or cellphone.

    The suspect gave the police a statement and was then released again, on the order of the Public Prosecutor. He will have to explain himself in court in the near future.

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  • A promotional video for swimming volunteering at Burnham-on-Sea Swimming Club in Somerset, filmed by local students on a BTEC Extended Diploma Media Production course.

  • Update: The Russian Swimming Federation writes here about Efimova being temporarily suspended for a possible anti-doping rule violation.

    Four-time world swimming champion Yuliya Efimova has become the latest high profile Russian athlete to have failed a doping test for meldonium, it has been widely reported this evening.

    Efimova, the 100 metres breaststroke champion at last year’s home World Championships in Kazan, is Russia’s leading swimmer, having also won a 50m world title in 2009 and the 50 and 200m double in 2013 in addition to a London 2012 Olympic bronze medal over 200m.

    But the 23-year-old is already a controversial figure, having served a 16-year ban from the sport for a previous failure for banned prescription steroid DHEA in 2013.

    She claimed to have inadvertently taken the steroid from a supplement she bought at a store in California, where she was training, and that a salesperson assured her the supplement was “doping-free”, though DHEA was clearly listed as an ingredient on the label.

    Efimova was stripped of her five titles at the 2013 European Shortcourse Championships in Herning, but many criticised how her 2013 World Championships performances survived and that she was able to return in time for Kazan 2015.

    The Russian Swimming Federation is “aware” of her failure for meldonium, a source told the TASS news agency today.

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  • World Champion Swimmer, Natalie Coughlin, talks about her passion for nutrition and why she chose to partner with Luvo.

  • ESPN: Outside the Lines. A look at the training regiment of High School swimmer, Michael Andrew.

  • A drama about 20 year old girl is torn about her decision of. taking her father off of life support. Camila is a great swimmer capable of reaching the olympics. Her father David has parkinson’s disease and afraid he has become a burden to her daughter. Camila ends up finding out the reason as to why her father ended up in a coma, making it even more difficult to remove him from life support.

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  • The LSTV Sideline team travelled to Sheffield’s Ponds Forge to provide you with all the action from the British Universities and College Sport Long Course Swimming Championships 2016.