At the World Cup leg in Moscow today, Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte scorched the Olympiisky pool, when winning the women’s 100 short course meter breaststroke final in a new world record time of 1:02.36. Old record was Rebecca Soni’s 1:02.70 from the Europe vs USA Duel in the Pool event in Manchester back in the supersuited days of December 2009. Read for instance SwimmingWorld
A video from the event
http://youtu.be/5u8Sjgu61nM
“Even with a cap and goggles, it’s hard not to notice Ryan Lochte. Take him out of the pool, and apparently, it’s even harder to miss him…”
Featuring Executive Director of FINA Cornel Marculescu, President of the All-Russian Swimming Federation Vladimir Salnikov, Representative of the FINA Technical Swimming Committee Andrew Vlaskov, Olympic champion Chad le Clos, 2012 World Cup winner Katinka Hosszu and others.
Read for instance NBC New York
Spectators whooped and cheered as the 64-year-old woman who swam from Cuba to Florida finished her 48-hour swim in a pool installed in a Manhattan intersection to benefit victims of Sandy.
Wearing a pink swim cap, Diana Nyad dove into the 120-foot, two-lane pool set up in Herald Square and began doing laps shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday.
She came out of the pool at 8:48 a.m. Thursday after raising a little more than $103,000 for the AmeriCares nonprofit health and disaster organization, according to the event’s website.
http://youtu.be/T3yc05pCAcY
A photo from the LEN 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Germany’s Paul Biedermann, Russia’s synchronized swimmer Natalia Ishchenko and Germany’s open water swimmers Thomas Lurz and Angela Maurer. Britta Steffen is missing on the photo, as the 2009 European female swimmer of the year.
The next round of FINA Swimming World Cup 2013 meets starts tomorrow in Moscow, Russia, with live streaming on FinaTV. The competition times for the Moscow leg are as follows:
Saturday, 12 October
Start Time: 13:50 to 17:10 GMT Main TX Day 1 session 1 (PGM start 14:21 GMT)
Sunday, 13 October
Start Time: 14:00 to 17:15 GMT Main TX Day 2 (PGM start 14:30 GMT)
The detailed competition schedules can be found here on fina.org, live timing on omegatiming.com.
Read TheChronicleHerald
The 24-year old Shulga, a member of the Halifax Wavecutters swim club, tested positive in-competition during the Eastern Canadian swimming championships in Montreal last February.
His urine sample revealed the presence of prohibited stimulants, N-ethyl-l-phenyl-2-butanamine and 1-phenyl-2-butanamine, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) said in a release Wednesday.
Bette El-Hawary, executive director of Swim Nova Scotia, said the stimulants were not listed on a the label of a supplement that Shulga was taking at the time.
“Obviously our organization is concerned,†El-Hawary said in an interview on Wednesday. “There was some misleading information. Not all of the ingredients had been listed on the product that was purchased. Right now, as an organization, we are educating our members about the use of any substance.â€
In an effort to decrease drowning deaths, a programme in Bangladesh teaches young children to swim and surive in the water.
