Swimmer's Daily

  • Cat fight / instant karma, via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

    http://youtu.be/syPxKwxaNLc

  • I grew up swimming in the warm waters of the Pacific. I hate the cold. Yet when it came time to do a polar dive, I surprised myself by leaping feet-first off a platform into the most freezing water on Earth. I didn’t even blink at the opportunity, but when my body hit the water, I screamed. I drifted for a bit before realizing how cold the water really was, and then I scrambled back to the boat.

    Read Yahoo! Travel

    Photo by claumoho

  • Featuring Anthony Ervin, courtesy of Effect Sport

  • Oooooh, courtesy of Barcroft TV

    http://youtu.be/MkWTVwJEQ7c

  • New details in the DUI arrest of swimming superstar Michael Phelps, reports WJZ.

    Michael Phelps had been out gambling just prior to his arrest. Police say when his luck ran out, his blood alcohol level was almost twice the legal limit.

    Police say Olympian Michael Phelps smelled of alcohol when he was stopped in his white Land Rover for a DUI on I-95 North just past the Fort McHenry Tunnel Toll Plaza early Tuesday morning.

    According to the police statement of probable cause, officers noticed Phelps’ eyes were “red, bloodshot and his speech was mush mouth.” Phelps told police he had “3 or 4 drinks” and had just left the “Horseshoe” Casino. When officers asked him to walk heel to toe in a straight line, he had “difficulty with his balance. When asked to stand on one leg, he told police “that’s not happening.”

    Read CBS News

    http://youtu.be/9hq-xamzzYM

    http://youtu.be/8P_HhqliV18

    Michael Phelps Apologizes After DUI Arrest

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  • Ian Thorpe has become a doctor, adding another award to his adorned mantlepiece.

    The Australian swimming great was presented with an honorary doctorate of letters from Macquarie University in Sydney.

    It recognises the 31-year-old’s achievements in sport, philanthropy and Indigenous rights.

    Thorpe was greeted with applause from university graduates where he once studied an arts degree as he accepted the doctorate.

    He apologised for not being actor Cate Blanchett, who was recently presented the same honour.

    “I know some of you may be tremendously disappointed,” he said on Wednesday.

    “Cate Blanchett gave one of these addresses just a week ago and you’re stuck with me.”

    Read The Guardian and Macquarie University

    http://youtu.be/RAqwASOaEAo

    http://youtu.be/5KcjgZjqcqs

  • Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu was once more the athlete to beat in the third leg of the FINA/MASTBANK Swimming World Cup, organised in Hong Kong (HKG) on September 29-30, 2014. Out of the 17 individual events, the Magyar athlete got 10 gold medals, an unprecedented achievement in a single meet of this competition. Among men, things were more balanced, with four victories each for Chad Le Clos (RSA) and Thomas Fraser-Holmes (AUS).

    Hosszu’s golden collection in Hong Kong included wins in the 200m, 400m and 800m free, 50m, 100m and 200m backstroke, 200m butterfly, 100m, 200m and 400m individual medley. The Hungarian star, winner of the series in 2012 and 2013, was also silver medallist in the 50m free and 50m butterfly. Moreover, her triumph in the 100m backstroke in a time of 55.34 was the most valuable performance in the women’s field (994 points).

    Read press release on fina.org

  • Perth swimming champion Eamon Sullivan was a splash hit with a romantic foxtrot full of lifts and spins on last night’s premiere of Dancing with the Stars.

    The triple Olympian, who recently retired from swimming, impressed three of the four judges with help from his professional dance partner Kalamunda’s Ash-Leigh Hunter.

    Though judge Todd McKenney told the 29-year-old his poor posture made it look like he was “pulling a dead body out”, Adam Garcia likened the former world record holder’s dancing to entertainment icon Fred Astaire.

    “It was really sweet, smooth and successful,” Garcia said.

    “You have a natural grace.”

    Read The West Australian

    See the full clip here on Dancing With The Stars

    http://youtu.be/pfoqRnXYzpY

  • A teenage boy had two Auckland police officers swimming after him in a short-lived chase that turned aquatic this morning.

    The youth was reported by members of the public to be driving erratically about 10.30am in the Ellerslie and Panmure area, speeding and weaving in and out of lanes, Inspector Ian Brooker said.

    Police checks revealed the car was stolen and a helicopter and officers followed him for 15 minutes although a pursuit was never initiated.

    When the offender realised he was being watched he ditched the car, a Mazda station wagon, at the Tamaki estuary near Mt Wellington and attempted to swim across the waterways.

    Two Counties Manukau police officers went in after him and a police spokeswoman said the offender was caught very quickly although the policemen had returned to the station “pretty stinky”.

    Read stuff.co.nz

    Photo by Simon_sees