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  • South Korean Olympic swimming champ Park Tae-hwan has failed a doping test, his agency said on Monday, blaming the result on an illegal injection administered by a local doctor.

    Team GMP, the swimmer’s agency, confirmed an earlier report that the 25-year-old tested positive in a recent World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) test. In a statement, the agency claimed that a South Korean doctor gave him an injection that unbeknownst to Park contained a banned substance.

    “As a world class swimmer, Park Tae-hwan has been extremely careful about what he takes, and he hasn’t even taken cold medicine so that he wouldn’t fail doping tests,” the statement read. “Park is more shocked by this result than anyone else.”

    Park competed at the Asian Games in the South Korean city of Incheon last September and passed multiple doping tests during the event, Team GMP said.

    The agency said Park received free chiropractic treatment at a local hospital about two months prior to the Asian Games, and received a shot that led to the positive test.

    “At the time, the hospital offered to give Park an injection and he repeatedly asked if it contained any illegal substances,” the statement said. “The doctor said there would be no problem. And yet it turned out the injection contained a banned substance. With our team of legal experts, we’re trying to determine why the particular hospital injected Park with an illegal substance, and we’re preparing to hold it civilly and criminally liable.”

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  • A woman has been left devastated after she found her father’s blackened, charred body inside a malfunctioning sauna. Dennis Antiporek, 68, left a note for his family saying he was going to relax in the sauna at his condominium complex in North Miami Beach, Florida, on Sunday.

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  • Alexander Wolff of Sports Illustrated on how USA Swimming has become more mainstream under the leadership of Chuck Wielgus

    Courtesy of USA Swimming on YouTube

  • Cate and Bronte Campbell have #SuperSeriousFun dressing up for Swimmer of the Year
    See them race at the 2015 BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series.

  • Jellyfish do not have bones, a brain or a heart, but what they do have is incredible swimming skills, finds new research.

    Jellyfish can detect the direction of ocean currents and swim strongly against them, according to the study, which is published in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology. The research adds to the growing body of evidence that creatures without brains, such as carnivorous plants, can still be clever.

    “Detecting ocean currents without fixed visual reference points is thought to be close to impossible and is not seen, for example, in lots of migrating vertebrates including birds and turtles,” co-author Graeme Hays of Deakin University in Australia said in a press release.

    See Discovery

    http://youtu.be/LJK05paadF0

  • Breeja Larson will be very busy this summer, preparing for the world championships … and a wedding. She talks about planning her racing schedule around her May wedding date, and why swimming at the Arena Pro Swim Series in Charlotte might be a good distraction from last-minute wedding planning.

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  • Our chocolate lab Jordy swimming like a fish in the Smith River (near Crescent City, CA in a small town called Hiouchi). He taught himself how to dive down deeper and deeper to get rocks. This as deep of water he’s ever been in and went straight to the bottom.

    Courtesy of Bryce Lund on YouTube

  • The Danish Swimming Federation, in collaboration with Team Denmark, is looking for a National Coach.

    The overall objective for the National Coach will be to ensure the continued development of Danish high performance swimming at the highest international level. The specific goal of the Sports department is to win medals for Denmark at the Olympics, World and European Championships. The primary focus is on international long course championships.

    The National Coach will work within the structural and organisational framework defined in the 2016 Danish Swimming Plan, and be responsible for achieving the long-term sporting objectives listed in the 2016 Danish Swimming Plan. The National Coach will also work on the basis of the sporting objectives agreed between the Danish Swimming Federation and Team Denmark.

    The National Coach will be part of the Sports Department which, apart from the National Coach, consists of the High Performance Manager, National Head Coach, NTC Coach, Talent Manager and the High Performance Coordinator.

    See the attached pdf for further details

    Featured image courtesy of svoem.dk, CC BY 2.0

  • A Laguna Beach man took a chance on a tip and ended up paddle boarding with a pod of orcas as they made their way along the coast.

    Rich German heard the orcas were heading south off the coast of Long Beach. The next day, he got on his paddle board and went out into the ocean. Within two miles, he hit jackpot.

    “It was one of the most magical experiences of my life. It was absolutely amazing,” German said. “They came up right next to me. They came onto my board a couple of times and were very friendly and interactive.”

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