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  • ABC News’ Matt Gutman talks with a man who believes sharks are deeply misunderstood.

  • So these two must be Germany’s (in orange) Johannes Dietrich and (in black) Marco di Carli (?) preparing themselves for the men’s 4×50 freestyle final at the LEN 2009 European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. A lot bad has been said about the supersuits, but they were also the great equalizer. Behind them Frédérick Bousquet from France. See the result list here.

    Different bodytypes at Istanbul 2012

  • Read AFP

    Chad Le Clos famously out-touched Michael Phelps to win Olympic butterfly gold and he said he now wants the great American’s world records after setting a new shortcourse mark in Singapore.

    The South African caused a sensation last year in London when he beat the most successful Olympic athlete of all time by five-hundredths of a second in an epic 200m butterfly race.

    Now Le Clos said he hoped to snatch the retired Phelps’s 100m and 200m butterfly records, set in 2009, after lowering the 200m shortcourse record at the Singapore leg of the World Cup.

    “My next goal is to break one of Michael Phelps’s long-course records, eventually, maybe next year at the Commonwealth Games, or in 2015 at the world championships in Russia,” he said.

    5 FM Hollywood Reporter Jen Su with Olympic Gold Medalist Chad Le Clos

    Image courtesy of Jennifer Su, CC BY 2.0

  • See Xinhua News via SwimmingWorld

    China’s double Olympic champion Sun Yang has been suspended from all competition and training, announced the Chinese Swimming Administrative Center (CSAC) on Wednesday.

    Sun was “suspended from all the competitions at home and abroad; suspended from the training of the national swimming team; and suspended from all the social and commercial activities involving the national team”, the CSAC said in the statement.

    The CSAC also said they “fully supported” Hangzhou police department’s decision to give him a seven-day detention for driving without a license in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province.

    Sun Yang on top of the BCN2013 men's 1500 free podium

  • In a press release sent out today, Jeanette Ottesen Gray and Bobby Gray announce that they have filed for legal separation, after being married since August 2011, and before that a couple for the past 10 years. Read for instance Ekstrabladet (in Danish).

    “We chose to announce it now so that I can have peace to prepare for the European Championships on home soil in Herning in December. We still talk, and Bobby is part of the Danish swimming community, and will probably be in Herning cheering at the Europeans,” says Jeanette Ottesen Gray.

    Jeannette Ottesen with her 2008 Rijeka 50 butterfly silver

  • Breaking news on SwimmingWorld

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  • Breaking news all over the gossipsphere – After dining at the Andiamo Italian Steakhouse in Las Vegas last week, Ryan Lochte added a $606 tip on top of a $314 tab, apparently because of having won big at a roulette wheel before dinner.

    His friends at TMZ suspect it might have been of him being bad at math. They so nice (and cheap).

    Let’s have one more, just to calm down again

    http://youtu.be/rYUolwOxrII

  • “One thing that you can always improve upon is your underwater kicks! Making sure you are in the proper position and kicking up and down will get you ahead of your competition!”

    Peter Vanderkaay – use your kicks as a weapon from Fitter & Faster Swim Tour on Vimeo.

  • Read USA Today

    After a run-in with a fan – literally – Ryan Lochte will be taking some time away from the pool.

    The three-time Olympian suffered a torn MCL and sprained ACL in his left knee on Sunday while he was in Florida.

    The five-time gold medalist encountered an excited fan, who ran at him. Lochte caught the teenage girl, but the two toppled over in the process, his representative confirmed.

    Lochte hit his knee on the curb, while the girl was unharmed.

    SwimmingWorld reports that this probably means Lochte won’t be competing this side of Christmas:

    Injuries such as the ones Lochte sustained take months to heal fully. It’s very likely he’ll sit out the USA Swimming nationals, as well as the Duel in the Pool, both of which are in December.

    Ryan Lochte

    Image courtesy of Toby and Tai Shan, CC BY 2.0

    Coach David Marsh said according to WHAS11

    “He wasn’t prepared to catch her and, when that happened, it buckled his knees. He actually has loose joints. He’s kind of double-jointed in all his limbs, which is part of the talent for swimming, but not obviously ideal for catching fans.”

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