Swimmer's Daily

  • scott-millerRead South Burnett Times and ABC

    Retired Olympic swimmer Scott Miller has escaped a drug dealing charge and will instead be sentenced for drug possession early next year.

    During a special hearing on Monday, the Sydney District Court heard the former champion and medalist was allegedly mixed up in hard drugs and prostitutes.

    http://youtu.be/AKHnk57hgpM

    Scott Miller told police he ran an escort agency when he was arrested in Sydney on suspicion of drug activity earlier this year.

    He pleaded guilty to the possession of three bags of methamphetamine, found when police pulled him over in a hire car at Mascot in Sydney’s south in June.

    Prosecutors have withdrawn a charge of drug supply, but he still faces drug charges, relating to his arrest at Potts Point in July.

    Officers found methamphetamine and more than $16,00 in cast, along with scales, a ledger and several mobile phones and SIM cards.

  • Read PR Newswire and ARD

    In recent months, two European doping control laboratories have – largely unnoticed – discovered an alarmingly high number of doping cases using improved detection methods. Based on information from the editorial staff who work on doping at the German public television broadcaster ARD, the laboratories in Cologne and Moscow have this year tested hundreds of samples from athletes that have turned out positive for the anabolic steroid Oral-Turinabol, known from the state-run doping programme in the former East Germany, and the substance stanozolol, which Ben Johnson was found guilty of using in the 1988 Olympics. Such a high number of positive test results in one fell swoop is unprecedented in laboratory doping analyses. According to information from the laboratories, all of these samples would have remained undetected in 2012, as the detection windows for the substances were significantly shorter with the conventional detection method.

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    Grigory Rodchenko, head of the Mosow control laboratory, who tracked down Oral-Turinabol, the drug of choice in the GDR, told the ARD editorial staff working on doping: “With this detection method, 100 urine samples have now tested positive that would previously have turned up negative.” Rodchenko estimates the detection window for identifying the substance after it has been administered now to be six months or more, thus significantly longer than before. This is also true of the substance stanozolol, which has already been discovered in well over 100 urine samples at the Cologne laboratory thanks to the improved detection method. Cologne doping analyst Hans Geyer confirmed: “By my count, we have hundreds of positive cases that we would otherwise never have found.”

    Read more on PR Newswire

  • A photo from the “Swim Day” arranged by Havnar Svimjifelag and Svimjisamband Føroya on Saturday 16 November 2013. The swimmers took turns swimming 25 meters while transporting a swim noodle. The girl over on the far side never touched the water ! ;-)

    Spaghetti relay

  • Read for instance AP and AIDA‘s statement:

    It is with great sadness that I inform you that Nicholas Mevoli, of the United States, passed away today after a dive at the 2013 Vertical Blue Competition. Nick had performed a constant weight no fins dive to 72m, reached depth, and swam back to the surface successfully. Nick attempted to complete the surface protocol, but was unsuccessful and had difficulty breathing. He lost consciousness, and in spite of great efforts by the doctor and paramedic on site, failed to recover after reaching the local hospital. Nick appears to have suffered from a depth-related injury to his lungs.

    Post by Vertical Blue.
    http://youtu.be/lzBRLwKuXlQ (more…)

  • A group of six open water swimmers tackled this tough swim, never before successfully completed. It began at the sheltered side of the Longstone Lighthouse, through the Farne Islands, past Big Harcar, where Grace Darling and her father rescued survivors of the wreck on the paddle steamer, the Forfarshire 7th September 1838

    Grace Darling Memorial swim 2013 from Barbara Keating on Vimeo.

  • “Mike &Mike” debate which injury is more embarrassing, Ryan Lochte being injured by an excited fan or Brandt Snedeker getting hurt getting off of a Segway.

    http://youtu.be/i-c16wa1ICQ

  • After the final night of finals at the Danish Short Course Championships 2013, Danish Swimming’s Sports Director Mikkel von Seelen announced the squad for Herning 2013, including all 28 that qualified for individual events, plus Danish record setting breaststroke Mathias Andersen who has been selected to strengthen the (medley) relays. See svoem.org

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    (The Danish Herning 2013 squad. Missing swimmers are as far as I can see Mads Glæsner who has left for USA, and Lotte Friis who cancelled the finals tonight because of jetlag-related illness)

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  • Today on the last day of Danish Short Course Championships 2013, the Danish Coaches Association announced that its members had chosen Rikke Møller Pedersen as Danish Swimmer of the Year 2013, based on her results in the period 1 September 2013 until 31 August 2013. Highlights of the year were her World Championship title in the women’s 200 meter SC breaststroke at Istanbul 2013, and the her World record in the 200 long course breaststroke at Barcelona 2013. See dsts.org

    Post by EM i svømning 2013.

  • A group photo of the swimmers participating in the fourth Faroese Open Masters Meet, Saturday 16 November 2013. Not so many, no, but as put in public announcements, undoubtedly the best :-)

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