Swimmer's Daily

  • Six-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Amy Van Dyken joins Woody Paige and Les Shapiro to discuss how she’s doing since her injury.

    http://youtu.be/Q7kDDBWuzEo

  • Two college football players could face decades in prison, as a new case involving a Stanford swimmer emerges.

  • Inspirational champion swimmer Amy Van Dyken talks overcoming challenges

  • This video is a short interview of one of the leading swimmer of the moment – Ranomi Kromowidjojo. The interview took place in Doha, Qatar at the Arena Club where the FINA World Swimming Championships 2014 took place from December 3-7.

  • ‘Nutter’ for sure ! :-)

  • The Polar Bear Club took an after blizzard swim at Coney Island Beach.

  • A former star swimmer at Stanford University pleaded not guilty today to five counts of sexual assault for allegedly raping a drunk and unconscious woman outside an on-campus fraternity party last month, prosecutors said.

    Brock Allen Turner, 19, was charged last week with five felony counts of sexual assault. Deputies allegedly found him pinned by two good Samaritans who encountered him on top of the woman outside the Kappa Alpha house at 664 Lomita Court on Jan. 18, according to a report by Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.

    If convicted of the charges, Turner could face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, district attorney’s spokesman Sean Webby said today.

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  • Every year, nearly 400,000 people round the globe die by drowning, making it one of the world’s most common causes of accidental death.

    Now several projects – from playpens to drones – are attempting to tackle the problem.

    Unlike malaria and malnutrition, there is no global programme aimed at reducing the death toll from drowning.

    Its sporadic nature means prevention can be difficult – patrolling every shore and riverbank would be impossible.

    But some things can be done, such as preventing overcrowding on ships and ferries, improving flood defences and having national water safety plans.

    And it can often be local efforts that make the real difference.

    Read BBC News

  • The doping scandal involving swimmer Park Tae-hwan took a new twist on Thursday after an acquaintance of the athlete’s said Park actively sought the services of the dubious clinic he is suing.

    Prosecutors on Thursday questioned a broker offering beauty consulting to wealthy clients and entertainers and hooking them up with clinics.

    The woman told prosecutors that Park asked her through a mutual acquaintance to “look for a clinic” for as yet obscure reasons and that she set him up in November of 2013 with the clinic that injected him with the banned drug Nebido.

    Park has claimed that the clinic offered him free treatments and that he received the injection without knowing it contained a banned substance.

    Park’s agency Team GMP in a statement on Monday claimed the swimmer was given the injection in July last year while he was receiving a free chiropractic treatment at the suggestion of the clinic. Team GMP said Park double-checked with the doctor if the injection contained any banned substances. The swimmer is suing the clinic after he failed a doping test.

    But if the broker’s testimony is true, it raises the question why Park sought treatments in a clinic specializing in anti-aging and skin care. One staffer at the clinic said, “We did not approach Park Tae-hwan and we don’t need the publicity.”

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