Swimmer's Daily

  • Ian Thorpe will host a confronting new series aimed at tackling the issue of bullying by taking audiences to the frontline. The project is looking for Queenslanders to get involved.

    https://youtu.be/MthNiJvpKOM

  • Six champions united at the Mardi Gras Film Festival to share their stories of coming out and changes they want to see in their sporting codes.

    Audience members listened Sunday evening to Ian Thorpe, Matthew Mitcham, Sally Shipard, Daniel Kowalski, Shelly Gorman-Sandie and Casey Conway at a special screening of Out To Win: a film by Malcolm Ingram, examining the lives of aspiring and professional gay and lesbian athletes.

    Questioned about his sexuality since the age of 15, Thorpe said more support was needed for young professional athletes who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or inter-sex.

    “I had told that lie I didn’t want to go back on that as well, and I think if I had a little bit more time, I think I could have come out because I would have been comfortable,” Thorpe said.

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  • Aussie Olympic swimming great Ian Thorpe will open up about his own experience of being bullied as a teenager in a three-part documentary which aims to tackle all sides of the issue of bullying in schools.

    “More than a quarter of school children in Australia claim to have been bullied on a regular basis, which is unacceptable,” says the 33-year-old out gay former Olympian, whose series will air on the ABC later this year.

    “I have some personal experience around the issue of bullying so I want to share my insights to help Australian kids,” he adds.

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  • 13 -17 December 2017. These are the dates of the LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships in Royal Arena the new state of the art multi-purpose arena in the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen.

    When the Danish Swimming Federation, Sport Event Denmark and Copenhagen in the autumn 2015 won the LEN European Short Course Championships to Copenhagen ahead of Poland and Italy the date still had to be clarified. Together with its Danish partners and the European Swimming Federation (LEN) Danish Swimming Federation has worked to find the optimal date for the event.

    – Following discussions with Sport Event Denmark, Wonderful Copenhagen, TV and LEN we have chosen the dates from Wednesday 13 to Sunday 17 December, says Mads Bang Aaen, tournament director, LEN European Short Course Championships 2017.

    LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships 2017 will be the first sporting event to be staged in Royal Arena the brand new state of the art multi-purpose arena,

    – We are really looking forward to being the first sporting event in Royal Arena. In 2013 we created a festive celebration of swimming at the LEN European Short Course Championships in Herning, and we now look forward to building on this past experience in order to add yet another world class layer to the event, says Mads Bang Aaen.

    The event will attract more than 850 swimmers, coaches and team officials from more than 40 countries.

    Press release from the Danish Swimming Federation

  • After a near death experience and diagnosis with a form of heart disease (ARVC), TCU swimmer Evan Schmitzberger has a new role with the team and a new look on life.

  • Moken sea gypsies in Thailand have an extraordinary ability to overrule an automatic reflex of the eye which allows them to see with amazing clarity under water. But recent studies show that any child can learn this trick.

  • Amazing freedive through the ruins of a sunken city, performed by one of the last free-roaming Sea Nomads left, on the way back from a Project Moken Expedition.

  • A racehorse has survived a two-hour swim, covering 11km, after being scared during a training run on a beach in Brisbane, Australia.

    Rebel Rover was being trained in chest-high water at Sandgate beach when he unseated his rider and headed deeper.

    The five-year-old gelding was picked up by the Brisbane Water Police and a marine rescue unit.

    “He was in about four metres of water and he was swimming quite freely,” said Volunteer Marine Rescue’s Glen Philip.

    Rebel Rover, with a track record of misdemeanours, has only recently made a comeback after being banned for misbehaving in the stalls.

    Trainer Brad Smith told ABC News that horses could swim, but did not normally do so very much.

    “Any other horse, 20 minutes would probably see them out, but this horse – he must have a pretty amazing lung capacity,” he said.

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  • Radio and TV presenter, Nana Akua, (aka LadyXsize) has signed up to take part in the Swim London 2016 project which aims to give more than 200 adults who don’t currently swim, the opportunity to learn. She is also aiming to be part of a special relay event to be held during the London European Aquatics Championships in May.