Swimmer's Daily

  • Read San Jose Mercury News

    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. […]

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  • “Not all swimmers are the same, just like all plumbing, septic and electric companies are not the same.”

    http://youtu.be/nzeyFloUz0g

  • “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.”

  • Read Baltimore Sun via Sport World News

    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.

    Michael Phelps

    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.”

    http://youtu.be/1q3VUpLhMA0

    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.

    The BCN 2013 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)

    http://youtu.be/2rVlUz0F6uU

  • Read The Baltic Course

    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.

    Ruta Meilutyte after winning the 50 breast at Istanbul 2012

  • See wsvn.com

    A South Florida woman is being hailed a hero after she rushed to aid a 4-year-old girl pulled from a swimming pool where, according to her family, she nearly drowned.

    Relatives said Londyn fell in the community pool, located at 6394 NW 26th St., in Sunrise, just before 2 p.m. Saturday.

    Shaunna McWilliams, who is credited with saving Londyn, said she was inside her apartment when she heard someone screaming for help. She said she ran outside to find Londyn’s aunt pulling the little girl from the pool. “I’ve seen them bringing the baby out of the pool, so I just walked over to make sure everything was OK,” she said.

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