Swimmer's Daily

  • neil-brooksRead The Sydney Morning Herald

    Australian Olympic gold medal swimmer Neil Brooks and his wife Elle Brooks have won the first step in a bid to clear their names of fraud allegations.

    Optus Mobile, the publisher of the OptusZoo online magazine has settled with the Brooks’ on Thursday over claims arising out of false and defamatory allegations published by it about them.

    The pair have issued a statement saying they are delighted by the outcome and are extremely pleased to be finally vindicated in relation to what have been found to be false allegations.

  • Irish Olympian Barry Murphy, gives an in-depth breakdown of breaststroke and freestyle as well as starts, turns and finishes.

    The stroke clinic starts with a full stroke demo, then broke the strokes down and progressively built it back up with a series of drills.

    After the clinic, Barry gave a motivational talk on what it takes to be an elite athlete at the pinnacle of sport, and how he stayed in the sport throughout his teenage years, when many of his peers were dropping out.

    Barry Murphy Swim Clinic with Dolphin Swim Club at Mayfield, Cork on April 5th, 2014. from Barry Murphy on Vimeo.

  • Read Inquisitr and see USA Today

    An eleven-year-old girl has become a local superstar after she saved the life of a woman who had fallen in to a Florida swimming pool. The incident happened at the swimming pool of Cape Shores condominiums where the lady, Kathy McElmurray had gone for a swim, reports USA Today. According to eyewitnesses, Kathy was floating on a foam noodle in the swimming pool when she suddenly fell in to the water and started drowning. The mishap happened at the deep end of the pool.

    When Kathy woke up in a hospital, she had no memory of the incident. It seems, she had blacked out moments before she fell into the swimming pool and started drowning. But Kathy was told that she owes her life to the efforts of a brave 11-year-old girl, Maya DiGiacomo who showed the presence of mind to reach out to Kathy who was at the far end of the swimming pool, when she sensed danger.

  • See WPTV

    Melissa Taylor dedicates her time teaching kids how to swim. So she was heartbroken to learn two boys drowned in a neighbor’s pool Friday.

    The victims were identified as six-year-old Dairion Demesier and ten-year-old Jean Orilas

    “My heart just sank into my stomach, this could’ve been prevented,” said Taylor.

  • joseph-michael-diazRead The Gainesville Sun

    Police now believe at least seven children may be alleged victims of a Gainesville teacher and swim coach who was arrested last week on charges of molestation and sexual abuse.

    Gainesville police spokesman officer Ben Tobias said Tuesday afternoon that more children have been interviewed and it appears seven or possibly eight claim to have been victims of Joseph Diaz, 31, of 3003 NW 30th Terrace.

    “That’s our best guess at this point,” Tobias said. “We just have to gather some evidence and do some more interviews but there will be additional charges coming.”

  • Read for instance The Independent

    Ian Thorpe has been released from hospital in Sydney following an infection, his manager has revealed.

    The five-time Olympic champion swimmer had contracted the infection in his shoulder during surgery earlier this year.

    The 31-year-old’s manager James Erskine told the Australian Associated Press: “It looks as though the infections have cleared up. It can always re-infect as it’s done twice before, but we are hopeful.”

    There had been reports earlier this month that Thorpe was in intensive care and could lose the use of an arm, but that was dismissed at the time by Erskine.

    ian thorpe photo
    Photo by Doha Stadium Plus

  • Read The Local

    A new cold-water bathing craze has spread so fast on Norway’s social media since it was imported from the Faroe Islands a week ago, that the man who started it now fears no one in the entire country will escape.

    The ‘Jump in the Sea Challenge’ sees victims dared to throw themselves into icy waters to avoid a penalty, which normally involves buying the challenger large amounts of alcohol.  They then nominate others with their own challenge.

    (warning, Borat mankini)

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  • See TED

    When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and the development of our natural talents is just one of them.

  • Read Vocativ

    Last week, I was eating lunch with a friend and her dad in Manhattan on 23rd Street, directly across from what used to be the McBurney YMCA, when my friend’s dad had a sudden recollection.

    Apparently, in 1968, as part of a freshman requirement for the city college he attended, all male students took a swim class at the YMCA. For reasons somewhat unclear to him at the time (and, we joked, probably repressed until now) the Y had a particular rule: If you’re going to swim, you must swim nude.

    “Nude-nude?” I asked. “Totally nude,” he said.