Swimmer's Daily

  • Olympic athlete, Alicia Coutts (AUS) shares her swim tips to help you reach your fitness goals.

  • Read The Sydney Morning Herald

    Ten years ago, Stevens’ milestone moment to qualify for the Athens Games became a sideshow when the great Ian Thorpe inexplicably tumbled into the water like a winged albatross and was disqualified from the 400m freestyle event at the trials.

    Stevens finished second to Grant Hackett – in a personal best time – but the pressure mounted for him to relinquish his place to Thorpe. The issue dominated the media for a month.

    “Is it really that long? Ten years? I hadn’t even thought of that.”

  • See WPTV

    The body of the swimmer that went missing on Thursday morning near Boynton Beach Inlet has been found and identified, says Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

    The body of Billy Jeudi, 23, was found floating in the Intracoastal Waterway along the 7000 block of Dixie Highway and Hypoluxo Road. No foul play is suspected, said Barbera.

    Jeudi was reported missing by a female caller at 5:00 a.m. on Thursday. The caller said they had been swimming when she turned back to shore, she lost sight of him.

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    Read Orlando Sentinel

    Chloe Sutton’s father was in the Pentagon on the morning of the terrorist attacks.

    David Sutton was in a meeting at work when he heard six to eight booming noises.

    “It sounded like someone dropped a refrigerator in the room right next to us down some stairs,” he said.

    Nearby, his daughter, then 9 years old, walked into a classroom in her elementary school and saw a group of teachers, tears streaming down their faces, their eyes fixated on the television.

    “I definitely didn’t realize my dad was in danger,” said Chloe Sutton, now a two-time Olympic swimmer in Orlando for the Arena Grand Prix meet that concluded Saturday at the YMCA Aquatic Center. “My dad is Superman. My dad is Captain America.

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  • Read Global News

    According to scientists who study facial expressions and emotions, this is the victory stance. We saw it on Canadian speed skater Charles Hamelin moments after he realized he took home the gold, and it was the same with Alexandre Bilodeau, as he ran to the stands to hug his brother and family.

     

    It’s a universal gesture, regardless of culture and customs. Instead, it’s spontaneous–an innate response to winning, feeling proud and dominant.

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  • See Sport Relief and BBC. Featuring Mark Foster.

  • Read South China Morning Post

    In marathon swimming and running, the magic number is three: a sub-three-hour 10-kilometre swim is as elusive as a sub-three-hour 42-kilometre run. The athlete who nails them both? Unheard of – until now.

    The Sub-3 squared Marathon Club unites endurance athletes who have done those times in a calendar year. Steven Munatones, of the World Open Water Swimming Association, proposed the challenge in 2012 and no-one has yet been able to claim membership.

    But that is set to change this weekend when five hardy souls take on the world’s first Sub-3 squared Marathon event in Hong Kong – the “Cold Standard”, comprising at least 10 kilometres of the Cold Half open-water swim on Saturday, followed by the Standard Chartered Marathon on Sunday.

    Post by Open Water NRG – Extreme Open Water Swimming.

  • Read Brisbane Times

    In an explosive and emotional tell-all interview – to air on 60 Minutes at 7.40pm on Sunday – Miller breaks down as he addresses headlines that have ranged from criminal convictions for drug offences, stolen goods and prohibited weapons to accusations of his being a pimp and a drug dealer, and his battle with the drug ice, which he admits has gripped him ”by the balls”. […]

    ”At the present time that’s what, that’s what’s got me by the balls. So that’s what my addiction is at the moment. It’s what I’m struggling with,” he says in the interview.

    Miller talks of the Sydney party scene he inhabited, saying initially it was not just cocaine. ”Ah, ecstasy as well, probably just those two, ’cause it depends on which crowd you’re with, the nightclub crowd or the dinner party crowd,” he says. ”I was, yeah, I enjoyed both crowds.”

  • See WDBJ7

    Some people are celebrating more than just love on Friday. A Salem resident is excited to be happy and healthy at the age of 100.

    The YMCA in Salem had a party for its oldest member.

    Arthur Schenkein is turning 100 years old. Schenkein still comes in to the YMCA several times a week to swim laps. He said that’s one of the keys to living to an old age.

    “I find that I don’t have quite the energy I used to have a long time ago, but I’m still in the water every day doing what I can do,” he said.

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