Swimmer's Daily

  • A valid question from Michael Jamieson on Twitter

     

    The problem still exists, here is a Chinese story from August

    A total of 441 kilograms of frozen beef without health quarantining by the Animal Health Supervision Institute was seized in a raid of a shopping center in the Futian District of Shenzhen. Law enforcement officers took samples from the 10 batches of frozen beef, one of which was detected to contain clenbuterol.

    And I’m afraid that the answer may be that they just don’t eat meat

    Last January [2012], 700 athletes were barred from eating beef for 15 days after the General Administration of Sport of China found excessive levels of clenbuterol in their samples.

    “I was at a total loss and did not know what to do except stop serving beef to the athletes,” Yang said.

    The country’s national aquatics team fared even worse when their handlers’ couldn’t find additive-free meat. The team’s 196 athletes weren’t served beef, pork, or mutton for 40 days beginning in January.

    Or maybe they test like the table tennis team

    “Since the start of this year, all the meat we use for the team come from the training camp. Since the International Olympic Committee gives so much importance to the clenbuterol problem, we have increased the testing requirements of all our meat 10 levels higher.” Kong Linghui said.

    The latest news is that Sun Yang’s jailmates apparently had to go on a vegetarian diet with him, that week he was in jail, because Sun feared the meat.

  • Today’s fitness expert Stephanie Rice reports on a new fitness craze that sees participants train ‘like animals’.

    http://youtu.be/df0wie-6fCI

  • A fun group photo after the ‘Swim Day’ that the Faroese Swimming Association and Fuglafjarðar Svimjifelag arranged in Fuglafjørður, Faroe Islands, in March 2013. A lot of stuff happening that I didn’t see when the shot was taken, like ‘rabbit ears’ and water balloon threat. ‘Swim Day’ is a strictly fun event that we have started arranging for our youngest swimmers, focusing on fun and social competitions, rather than just chasing time. Our next ‘Swim Day’ will be this Saturday. And yes, the snow is back.

    Happy kids and grown-ups after our spring 2013 swim day

  • When competing at the TYR Grandprix 2013 in Herning 2-3 November 2013, Danish breaststroke ace Rikke Møller Pedersen took time out to meet her fans, signing autographs as seen in the segment below.

    ‘Well this is really nice. It is a bit odd, I still feel that I’m just a normal swimmer, and it has all happened a bit fast. But I am extremely pleased that there are young swimmers who think it is really cool. Then hopefully they also continue with their swimming.’

  • Read SwimmingWorld and see the result lists here and here from the 2013 World Cup meet in Tokyo.

    The Australian foursome of Tommaso D’Orsogna (21.48), Travis Mahoney (21.59), Cate Campbell (23.10) and Bronte Campbell (23.44) nearly unified the world record and the world best in the mixed gender 200 free relay with a winning time of 1:29.61.

    That swim crushed the world record of 1:31.13 set earlier this morning by Tommaso D’Orsogna, Regan Leong, Bronte Campbell and Cate Campbell, but is still short of the top time legally swum in the event of 1:29.31 by way of Australia’s Matt Abood (21.21), James Magnussen (20.64), Brittany Elmslie (23.97) and Emma McKeon (23.49) at the Eindhoven stop of the World Cup this year.

    FINA only began officially recognizing a world record in the event in late September, which hatched plenty of thoughts regarding who would first set the record. Indiana University first laid claim to the mark with a 1:41.16 before watching the record disappear quickly thereafter and nearly re-align with the Australian record in the event.

    Post by Swimming World.

  • Read The Independent

    Diets can be of paramount importance to a sportsman – Novak Djokovic’s grand slam success is based on a strict gluten free one, WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley defeated Manny Pacquiao on a trusted vegan one, and Usain Bolt at the 2008 Beijing Olympics…he powered to three gold medals fuelled by Chicken McNuggets, a total he now estimates to have reached 1,000 during his 10 days in the Chinese capital.

    http://youtu.be/aTSntZwP5eA

    The Jamaican revealed in his soon-to-be released autobiography, Faster than Lightning, his passion started with a box of 20, yes 20, of the golden chicken treats, but with his training going into overdrive, he soon needed far more, up to 100 a day, and even turned to an apple pie to take the edge off.

    “At first I ate a box of 20 for lunch, then another for dinner,” he wrote. “The next day I had two boxes for breakfast, one for lunch and then another couple in the evening. I even grabbed some fries and an apple pie to go with it.”

    The sprinter, who lit up the games, breaking three world records, claimed he only began eating the nuggets because he simply found Chinese food “odd”.

    Usain Bolt

    Image courtesy of Andre Kiwitz, CC BY 2.0

    And of course, cue DJ Steve Porter’s awesome “Faster Than Lightning” remix

  • Correction: Efimova’s time was 28.71, as written in the SW piece below. Not 28.17

    Read SwimmingWorld and see the result list here.

    After a particularly rough FINA World Cup circuit during which she’s drawn disqualifications on a routine basis, Russia’s Yuliya Efimova finally had her major breakthrough as she clipped the world record in the sprint breaststroke event. Efimova raced her way to a 28.71 in the event to take down Jessica Hardy’s 2009 effort of 28.80 posted at the Berlin stop of the FINA World Cup circuit that year.

    Post by FINA.

  • Read SwimmingWorld

    Swimmers in attendance at the Tokyo stop of the FINA World Cup just had the experience of a lifetime as a 5.5 earthquake hit the city just a bit ago.

     

     

  • Read The Australian

    Even an iron cage doesn’t make swimming with great white sharks off South Africa a relaxing experience.

    Toasters kill 400 people each year. Sharks kill between five and 10.

    Why then does a shark cage resemble the internal mechanics of a toaster? Is it a cruel joke to make me even more nervous than I already am?

    It’s a cool late September morning in Kleinbaai, South Africa, a small coastal village about a two-hour drive from Cape Town.