Swimmer's Daily

  • 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.

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  • Read TVNZ

    Swimming has received a gentle pat on the back from Sport New Zealand chief executive Peter Miskimmin following its improved performance at a pinnacle event.

    After well-documented struggles in and out of the water, swimming won back some admirers at the just-completed world championships in Barcelona.

    The cream of the crop was freestyler Lauren Boyle, with bronze medals in the 400m, 800m and 1500m events. But the full team statistics were five finals appearances and 12 personal bests.

    It is a sport out of the blocks again.

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  • nikolai-borzovTitle says it all, read PostBulletin.com and see fina.org

    FINA says an Estonian anti-doping panel found that Nikolai Borzov gave Anita Stepanenko a drink containing stanozolol “without notifying the swimmer.”

    The Estonian Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel imposed undermentioned sanctions:

    1. Ms Anita Stepanenko (EST) – one (1) year ineligibility starting on July 23, 2013;
    2. Mr Nikolai Borzov (EST) – lifetime ineligibility.