Swimmer's Daily

  • Family and friends are mourning the loss of a Niles North High School student who was fatally shot Sunday night.

    Max Gadau, 17, and another person were either standing next to or inside a Honda Civic in the 9200 block of Kedvale Avenue when they were both shot. Gadau died in the attack and the other person was listed in critical condition at Evanston Hospital.

    The victim’s mother, Patricia Gadau, said her son was asked by a classmate, who’s allegedly involved in drugs, to accompany her for “protection.”

    “Max went to front of the house, to the car, where they were approached by two men on foot and they shot him,” Gadau said. “She wanted him to protect her and he did, and he lost his life for it.”

    Students gathered at the scene of the shooting Monday night to pay their respects. Max was a standout swimmer who instructed others at a local gym.

    “To shoot somebody through a window over marijuana is just petty,” the victim’s longtime friend, Sunair Ibrahim, said.

    See NBC Chicago

  • We caught up with Olympic gold medalist, Ryk Neethling, he tells us why he thinks the Japanese swimming team should be on every professional swimmer’s radar.

    Neethling tells us that at the moment Chad le Clos is among the top two swimmers in the world, but he has to be careful of the Japanese swimmers because of their outstanding technique.

    Neethling says he thinks the Japanese will be a big force at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, but will be a ‘world power in the pool,’ by the 2020 Olympics to be hosted by Tokyo. Watch.

    See News 24

  • Cat fight / instant karma, via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

    http://youtu.be/syPxKwxaNLc

  • I grew up swimming in the warm waters of the Pacific. I hate the cold. Yet when it came time to do a polar dive, I surprised myself by leaping feet-first off a platform into the most freezing water on Earth. I didn’t even blink at the opportunity, but when my body hit the water, I screamed. I drifted for a bit before realizing how cold the water really was, and then I scrambled back to the boat.

    Read Yahoo! Travel

    Photo by claumoho

  • Featuring Anthony Ervin, courtesy of Effect Sport

  • Oooooh, courtesy of Barcroft TV

    http://youtu.be/MkWTVwJEQ7c

  • New details in the DUI arrest of swimming superstar Michael Phelps, reports WJZ.

    Michael Phelps had been out gambling just prior to his arrest. Police say when his luck ran out, his blood alcohol level was almost twice the legal limit.

    Police say Olympian Michael Phelps smelled of alcohol when he was stopped in his white Land Rover for a DUI on I-95 North just past the Fort McHenry Tunnel Toll Plaza early Tuesday morning.

    According to the police statement of probable cause, officers noticed Phelps’ eyes were “red, bloodshot and his speech was mush mouth.” Phelps told police he had “3 or 4 drinks” and had just left the “Horseshoe” Casino. When officers asked him to walk heel to toe in a straight line, he had “difficulty with his balance. When asked to stand on one leg, he told police “that’s not happening.”

    Read CBS News

    http://youtu.be/9hq-xamzzYM

    http://youtu.be/8P_HhqliV18

  • Ian Thorpe has become a doctor, adding another award to his adorned mantlepiece.

    The Australian swimming great was presented with an honorary doctorate of letters from Macquarie University in Sydney.

    It recognises the 31-year-old’s achievements in sport, philanthropy and Indigenous rights.

    Thorpe was greeted with applause from university graduates where he once studied an arts degree as he accepted the doctorate.

    He apologised for not being actor Cate Blanchett, who was recently presented the same honour.

    “I know some of you may be tremendously disappointed,” he said on Wednesday.

    “Cate Blanchett gave one of these addresses just a week ago and you’re stuck with me.”

    Read The Guardian and Macquarie University

    http://youtu.be/RAqwASOaEAo

    http://youtu.be/5KcjgZjqcqs

  • Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu was once more the athlete to beat in the third leg of the FINA/MASTBANK Swimming World Cup, organised in Hong Kong (HKG) on September 29-30, 2014. Out of the 17 individual events, the Magyar athlete got 10 gold medals, an unprecedented achievement in a single meet of this competition. Among men, things were more balanced, with four victories each for Chad Le Clos (RSA) and Thomas Fraser-Holmes (AUS).

    Hosszu’s golden collection in Hong Kong included wins in the 200m, 400m and 800m free, 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke, 200m butterfly, 100m, 200m and 400m individual medley. The Hungarian star, winner of the series in 2012 and 2013, was also silver medallist in the 50m free and 50m butterfly. Moreover, her triumph in the 100m backstroke in a time of 55.34 was the most valuable performance in the women’s field (994 points).

    Read press release on fina.org