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The parents of a 10-year-old girl are facing charges in a Bloemfontein court for apparently forcing her to practise sport extensively, the Volksblad newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The mother of the girl was warned that she could face up to 10 years in prison for the charges she faced, the newspaper reported.
The 38-year-old woman and her husband, 31, appeared in the Bloemfontein Regional Court on charges of attempted murder and child neglect on Monday. […]
Two-time Olympic medalist Mitch Ivey, of San Jose, has received a lifetime coaching ban two decades after a history of sexual misconduct with Bay Area female swimmers first became public.
Ivey, once a teammate of Mark Spitz at the famed Santa Clara Swim Club, has 30 days to appeal the decision that was made last week by USA Swimming’s national board of review. […]
“Not all swimmers are the same, just like all plumbing, septic and electric companies are not the same.”
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“The International Swimming Hall of Fame presented Adolph Kiefer with the Gold Medallion Award, ISHOF’s highest honor, during the United States Aquatic Sports Convention banquet on September 29, at the Orange County Hyatt Convention Center in Anaheim, CA. In a surprise, USA Swimming also presented Kiefer with a gold medal from the 1936 Olympic Games, to replace the one that had been stolen shortly after he returned from Berlin 71 years ago. The medal was specially cast from the original mold for the occasion by the International Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.”
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Michael Phelps said Saturday he’s back in the pool a couple of times a week, but he’s nowhere near ready for a return to competitive swimming.
Rumors about Phelps reversing his retirement picked up steam after he entered the drug-testing pool for international competition before the Nov. 6 deadline.
He was sighted recently at the Arena Grand Prix in Minneapolis, cheering on his roommate Conor Dwyer, who won a gold medal for the 4×200 freestyle relay at the 2012 Olympics.
But that doesn’t mean Phelps is in the shape that helped him win an all-time record 18 gold medals and 22 total medals in his Olympic career.
“[Dwyer] swims the [400-meter IM], that’s too long. I can’t do that. I literally don’t think if I jumped in the water right now, I could finish a 400.”
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Image courtesy of Marco Paköeningrat, CC BY-SA 2.0
A photo from the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain, taken inside the tent that housed the warm-up pool.
From last year, but I haven’t seen it, so …
Awesome! :-)
(Sonny William ‘Sonny Bill’ Williams is a New Zealand rugby player and heavyweight boxer who has played both rugby union and rugby league. He currently plays rugby league for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League.)
(And apparently, it is a meme)
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Winner of the Olympic Games in London, Lithuanian swimmer Ruta Meilutyte has been selected as 2013 Best European Young (under 19 years) Athlete for the second year in a row, informs LETA/ELTA.
Meilutyte was voted in during the 42nd General Assembly of European Olympic Committees in Rome.
The sixteen year old swimmer received the Piotr Nurowski Prize (named after the President of the Polish Olympic Committee who died in the Polish Air Force plane crash in Russia in 2010) and a EUR 12,000 grant for training and studies.
