Swimmer's Daily

  • tyler-mcgillSee Auburn Tigers

    Former Tiger swimming great and 15-time All-American Tyler McGill has been named the newest assistant coach for the Auburn men’s swimming and diving team as announced by head coach Brett Hawke earlier this week.

    “I’m excited to make the transition from being in the water every day to being on deck and helping out,” McGill said. “This is a place that I know and love. To be able to represent Auburn as a coach now is an honor. It’s certainly a challenge that I’m looking forward to, but I couldn’t be happier to be representing my alma mater and a great university.”

  • See Art Journal

    This week in Vienna, 150 children from Turkey, Austria, Armenia, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland and the European Union Youth Orchestra met in Vienna to form a Sistema Europe orchestra. They had to scout around for somewhere to rehearse. Then they found this… an empty swimming pool at the Augarten Palace, residence of the Vienna Boys’ Choir.

  • FINA announces that the finals of the FINA Swimming World Cup 2013 – Berlin (GER) on August 10-11 will be streamed live and free of charge here on FinaTV

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    The competition times for the event are as follows:

    Saturday, 10 August:
    Start Time: 13:00 to 16:00 GMT Main TX Day 1 session 1 (PGM start 13:30 GMT)
    Sunday, 11 August
    Start Time: 12:30 to 15:45 GMT Main TX Day 2 (PGM start 13:00 GMT)

    The detailed competition schedules can be found on the FINA Swimming World
    Cup section at www.fina.org.

    However please note that the streaming will not be available in the following countries for contractual reasons with FINA Broadcast Partners: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Djibouti, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, Mexico, South Africa, Australia, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, Portugal, Brazil, Malaysia, USA, Sweden, Argentina, Greece, Kosovo, France, Germany.

  • flavio-bomioAccording to Blick.ch, former coach and ex-president of swimming club Bellinzona has been sentenced to a prison term of eleven years, for over ten years to have sexually abused at least 15 boys between 12 and 16 years of age. The abuses ranged from touching the genital area when showering to anal sex, the coach taking advantage of the boys during training and competitions at home and abroad. Some relations lasted for several years, and most of the boys only got out at the termination of their sport career. Although the indictment would only take into account the estimated 400 episodes of sexual assaults in the years 1998 to 2011, the first known case dated back over 40 years. The coach always acting according to the same pattern. The judge criticized that Bomio has shown no true sorrow for his victims during the trial. As described on OpenWaterPedia, Bomio was not only coach and director of the Bellinzona swimming club, but also became Honorary Secretary of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and chairman of the LEN Technical Open Water Swimming Committee, among other things.

  • Japan’s Daiya Seto bowing to the pool after winning the men’s 400 meter individual medley at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. See the result list here.

    Daiya Seto bows to the pool after winning the BCN2013 men's 400 IM

  • Just me taking a walk around the 15th FINA World Championships “Planet Water Village” in Barcelona, Spain, GoPro in tow. The clips could be more still, the fingers more off the camera, the cuts better fitting to the music. But it was quickly made, and is better than nothing :-)

  • See Fox40

    Alisa Becerra chats with Nejib Belhedi, a Tunisian swimmer, who will be swim from Big Diomede to Little Diomede to promote world peace.

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  • kang-un-taeRead Inside the Games

    August 8 – South Korean prosecutors today raided the offices of Gwangju Mayor, Kang Un-tae, over allegations that he forged the signatures of both former Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik and former Culture Minister Choe Kwang-sik in the city’s bid document to host the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships.

  • Read New Scientist

    Different strokes for different folks? Not when it comes to the aquatic ape: the first detailed observations of swimming chimpanzees and orang-utans suggest that they, like us, tend to swim using a form of breaststroke. The findings imply that we may owe our swimming style to our evolutionary past.

    http://youtu.be/VrXi3_G-1yk