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  • Former Swimming Australia president Nettlefold’s wife says he is just a fun guy

    Jun 4, 2013

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    in Organization, Safety

    See news.com.au

    The wife of former Swimming Australia president Barclay Nettlefold has defended her husband, saying he has no history of making lewd comments.

    Nettlefold resigned on Sunday after admitting making inappropriate comments “in jest”.

    He was alleged to have called himself a “donkey” in reference to physical endowment.

    But his wife Tina Nettlefold said such “schoolyard comments”, including reference to a woman’s breasts, were not in Nettlefold’s character and were part of a personal grudge against him.

    (more…)

  • Swimmer swept over Yosemite waterfall

    Jun 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Nature, Safety

    nevada-fallSee CNN

    Park rangers will resume their search Monday for a teenage swimmer who was swept over a nearly 600-foot waterfall in California’s Yosemite National Park over the weekend.

    Aleh Kalman had been swimming about 150 feet from the edge of the Nevada Fall on Saturday afternoon when he was caught up in the swift current of the Merced River, the National Park Service reported. The 19-year-old Sacramento resident had gone to the park with a church group, the park service said.

    Image courtesy of Urban / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

  • Australian swimmers call for calm after president Nettlefold’s resignation

    Jun 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Organization, Safety

    Read ABC Grandstand Sport

    Australian Olympic swimmers have expressed hopes that the sport’s latest controversy will not affect sponsors or preparations for next month’s World Championships. [… ]

    Olympic silver medallist Brenton Rickard said on Monday that the Australian squad needed to remain focussed on the championships, which will be held in Barcelona.

    “Obviously it could pose a distraction but we are deep in training,” he said.

    “We are just worrying about ourselves now in terms of what we’re doing on a day to basis.

    “Hopefully the team can just continue doing that and swimming well.

  • Mie Ø. Nielsen withdraws from the Danish 2013 Barcelona squad

    Jun 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Health

    Danish swimming prodigy Mie Ø. Nielsen tonight announced on Facebook that she has decided to withdraw from the Danish 2013 Barcelona squad, as her knee hasn’t healed sufficiently after operations done in August 2012 and May 2013. There were speculations in Danish media that it would come to this when she couldn’t join the now ongoing Danish altitude camp in Sierra Nevada after her second operation, and of course this means that the Danish relay teams will be weakened, come Barcelona 2013. The Danish 2013 Barcelona squad now consists of Jeanette Ottesen Gray, Lotte Friis, Rikke Møller Pedersen and Pernille Blume.

    Happy Danes on the Istanbul 2012 podium

    (Danish 4×100 Medley World Champions at Istanbul 2012, Mie to the far right)

  • CC photo #520: Hanna-Maria Seppälä at Rijeka 2008

    Jun 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

    Finland’s Hanna-Maria Seppälä at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. The event must have been either the women’s 100 freestyle final or the 100 IM semifinal. She set a new championships record of 59.62 in the 100 IM, and then again with a winning time of 59.24 the day after (which happened to be her birthday).

    Hanna-Maria Seppälä at Rijeka 2008

  • Behind the scenes with underwater filmmaker ‘Diver Laura’

    Jun 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Nature, Wow

    See West Seattle Blog

    You’ve seen the work of West Seattle’s award-winning “Diver Laura” James – a filmmaker, photographer, writer, environmental activist – here and elsewhere over the past few years. Now, we get a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to get those views; much more complicated than simply jumping into the water with a camera. The video above tells that story as part of a profile of Laura’s work, made for the Puget Sound Starts Here campaign by another local filmmaker, Matthew J. Clark.

    See also diverlaura.com

  • Mark Foster learned to swim because his dad couldn’t

    Jun 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Safety

    Former six times world champion swimmer Mark Foster has told Daybreak he learnt to swim because his father was “petrified of water”.

  • Medal Memories: David Carry, Melbourne 2006

    Jun 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Faroe Islands, History

    “In our exclusive new series ‘Medal Memories’ we explore some of the Commonwealth Games greatest moments, hearing from the Athletes themselves and their personal stories behind the the iconic moments.

    In our first film ex-swimmer David Carry looks back at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games where he picked up and amazing double-gold, helping Scotland to their greatest ever Commonwealth Games.”

    In related news, ForArgyll recognizes Carry’s partly Faroese roots. Yay!

    “David, who is part Scot, part Faroese, has recently been added to Scottish Swimming’s Board of Directors.”

  • Geoff Huegill on the crisis in Australian Swimming

    Jun 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Organization, Safety

    Swimming Australia boss Barclay Nettlefold has resigned from his post over inappropriate comments to a staffer. Olympian Geoff Huegill discusses.

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