Swimmer's Daily

  • Image courtesy of Rockybiggs, CC BY-SA 3.0
    Image courtesy of Rockybiggs, CC BY-SA 3.0

    Read The Mirror

    Olympic heroine Rebecca Adlington has had a nose job following years of taunts.

    The retired swimmer, 25, underwent cosmetic surgery weeks ago at a top Harley Street clinic to have her nose reduced in size and a bump removed.

    And she showed off the dramatic results as she enjoyed a day out with a friend.

    Rebecca, who scooped two bronze medals at London 2012 and two golds at Beijing’s 2008 Olympics, has previously spoken about hating her looks.

    Last year she broke down in tears over her appearance on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! alongside beauty queen Amy Willerton, 21.

    In a revealing interview, Becky said: “Every day I look in the mirror and go, ‘God, I’m not pretty. I’ve got a very big nose’.

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  • Image courtesy of Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0
    Image courtesy of Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0

    Read for instance The Sydney Morning Herald

    A series of intersecting and stressful events formed the backdrop to the final hours of an already vulnerable and depressed Charlotte Dawson, who killed herself in her luxury waterside apartment at Woolloomooloo.

    The 47-year-old television personality was coping with her two-bedroom apartment on the Finger Wharf going up for auction on Saturday, she felt she was not getting enough promotion for the Logie award votes for her former role as judge on the Foxtel reality TV series Australia’s Next Top Model, and she had recently been setting up a homewares range.

    On top of that, friends say she was struggling after the 60 Minutes tell-all interview with her former husband Scott Miller, whom she had confessed she still loved and would be the only man she would ever marry.

    In her last interview just a week ago with Fairfax Media journalist Jo Casamento, Dawson had said she was unsure if she was strong enough to watch the interview that cavassed their failed marriage, his battle with the drug ice, criminal convictions for drug offences, stolen goods and prohibited weapons as well as accusations he was a pimp and a drug dealer.

    “I continue to fight my depression – it’s a bitch of a thing – and I fear watching something like this as it’s the most painful time in my life,” she said.

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  • Read The Local

    The cat had got stuck under the HSC Gotlandia II, which operates in Visby on the island of Gotland, and the crew were spurred into action after hearing strange noises coming from the vessel.

    “We heard the cat meowing when we were getting on to work, it had probably fallen into the water and was trying to crawl up. He sat there and was distressed,” crew member Stellan Stenberg told Aftonbladet.

    Colleague Johan Skärkarl donned his wetsuit and jumped into the water to retrieve the animal, before swimming to the shore with the cat nestled on top of his stomach.

    Brave guy – I once tried rescuing a cat from a dog, and got a full face of scars to prove it ! :-)

  • A Sorrento man has taken out this year’s Rottnest Swim, ahead of thousands who competed in near perfect conditions.
    The risk of sharks weren’t far from competitors’ minds with a two metre hammer-head spotted mid-race.

  • The official New Year’s Day swim was cancelled but that didn’t put off half a dozen hardy souls…

  • Canadian swimmer Sinead Russell interviewed by Florida Swim Network at the 2014 SEC Swimming & Diving Championships.

  • Read Irish Examiner

    As a way of learning to swim, diving head-first into water has its merits. But when there are two hungry alligators awaiting your arrival, it could well have a downside.

    Yet later today, 58-year-old Josephine Fitzgerald from Callan, Co Kilkenny, will learn the hard way whether the swimming lessons she has taken have worked or not.

    The mother of one will dive into an alligator pool in Co Kilkenny in a bid to raise funds for Breast Cancer Ireland. Josephine is undertaking the feat as a tribute to her daughter Cathy, 35, who is battling cancer a second time.

    “I can’t really swim at all,” says Josephine.

    “I have been taking lessons. I’m not great, but I’ll tell you one thing — if those alligators don’t like me, I’ll set an Olympic record on my way out of their pool.

    Post by Reptile Village.

  • Via SwimmingWorld

    “Butterfly,” written by Alex Withers, tells the story of a teenage girl whose success in the sport is interrupted by a sudden epileptic episode. Using the popular crowdfunding website IndieGoGo, Withers and his team have raised 1,238 Pounds (US$2,060) in 12 days, and have expanded their objective to bring in 2,000 Pounds (US$3,328). It’s Withers’ most successful IndieGoGo campaign, having raised just 503 pounds for “Men of War” last year.

    See also www.facebook.com/shortfilmbutterfly

  • Read The Plymouth Herald

    Plymouth’s swimming superstar Ruta Meilutyte is hitting the books as well as the pool in a bid to safeguard her future.

    The 16-year-old Olympic gold medallist and world record holder is concerned about what comes next should her meteoric swimming career come to a sudden end.

    Image courtesy of Svoem.dk, CC BY 2.0
    Image courtesy of Svoem.dk, CC BY 2.0

    Lithuanian international Meilutyte, who swims for Plymouth Leander, won the Olympic gold in the 100m breast-stroke at the London Games in 2012.

    The Plymouth College student is also the world record holder in the event.

    The teenager, who has lived in Plymouth for four years, said: “I am taking GCSEs this year and they are really important to me.

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