Swimmer's Daily

  • UPDATE! Ian Thorpe’s management now denies this story

    Read The Herald Sun

    Ian Thorpe – Australia’s greatest Olympian – has been admitted to a Sydney hospital to fight his decade-long battle with depression and alcohol abuse.

    http://youtu.be/O2T8fI-M3Rw

    Family members have revealed Thorpe was injured in a fall earlier this week before they sought medical help, and he was admitted to hospital on Wednesday night. The 31-year-old remains under the care of specialists, facing a long, lonely battle to find a settled life after swimming and his failed comeback attempt for the London Olympics.

    Read more here on the Herald Sun

    Ian Thorpe, photo courtesy of mtlin, cc by-nc-nd

    http://youtu.be/cYqYDWKaAps

    http://youtu.be/TwD6ZqD_SCw

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M5uXhLzCPM

  • See PBS Newshour

    Filipino divers disappear into water as opaque as chocolate milk as they blindly dig in search of gold trapped in muddy sediment. It’s risky business: As miners go deeper, underwater tunnels could collapse or the compressor that provides air may fail. Hari Sreenivasan reports on a dangerous venture undertaken by adults and kids.

  • Danish bank Alm. Brand was one of the official partners of the LEN 2013 European Short Course Championships in Herning, Denmark, and decided to stay on as sponsor of the Danish Swimming Federation.

    The texts towards the end of the video says, “Thanks for a great party in Denmark … The pool has been taken down … The athletes have gone home … The spectators have gone home … The sponsors are gone … But we stay with Danish swimming the next 4 years”.

  • Sorry about this site being so slow these days. We’re busy! :-)

    20140129-112401.jpg

  • FINAlogoRead fina.org

    FINA and Universal Sports Network established a new, multiyear media rights agreement to air FINA’s marquee events in the United States through 2021. The deal gives Universal Sports multiplatform rights, including exclusive TV and Internet rights, to the upcoming editions of the FINA World Championships: in 2015 in Kazan (RUS), 2017 in Guadalajara (MEX), 2019 in Gwangju (KOR) and 2021 in Budapest (HUN).

    Encompassing aquatics events in men’s and women’s swimming, diving, water polo, synchronised swimming and open water swimming, the agreement also includes rights to the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in 2016 (Windsor, Canada), 2018 and 2020; FINA Diving World Cups in 2014 (Shanghai, China), 2016 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), 2018 and 2020; and FINA Synchronised World Cups in 2014 (Quebec City, Canada) and 2018.

    “The success, prestige and exposure of our major events are directly linked with FINA’s association with TV networks worldwide”, considered FINA President Dr. Julio C. Maglione. “The United States is a very important market for FINA and many of our greatest stars come from this country. This emphasises the added-value of this agreement with Universal Sports in the US territory; its multiplatform approach is also of paramount importance to highlight the performances of our best athletes to the widest possible audience”.

  • Read The West Australian

    Back in Perth for this week’s State swimming titles and next weekend’s BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series, D’Orsogna still has his eyes firmly fixed on this year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

    “The move to Queensland has been refreshing – it was the change I needed,” D’Orsogna said this week.

    “I can concentrate on my swimming in a really positive environment.

    “My new coach Simon Cusack has had some great recent results with Cate and Bronte Campbell and Christian Sprenger.

    “I’m just hoping to do something similar.”

    Post by Australian Swim Team.

  • “Thousands took part in Europe’s largest organised winter swim as part of annual Karneval celebrations in Bavaria on Saturday.”

  • Read for instance BND

    A crocodile is suspected to have taken a 12-year-old boy after attacking his friend as they swam in a water hole on Sunday in a popular Outback tourist destination in northern Australia.

    Police believed the missing boy was taken by a crocodile as he and a number of other boys swam at Mudginberri Billabong in World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park, southeast of the Northern Territory capital of Darwin, Acting Police Commander Michael White said.

    “One other boy, also aged 12, was bitten on the arm by the crocodile and has received medical treatment,” White said.

    http://youtu.be/vVp7zWowzGU

  • Read couriermail.com.au

    Swimming Australia president John Bertrand said the sport needed to better capitalise on the experience and knowledge within its own ranks.

    Bertrand said Hackett and O’Neill were keen to get involved and he hoped to take five-time Olympic champion Thorpe up on his public offer last year to mentor the Australian team and help junior development in the sport.

    Hackett will join the Australian team for the Aquatic Super Series in Perth later this week.

    “We had Grant Hackett, Susie O’Neill very excited to be involved,” Bertrand said.