Swimmer's Daily

  • Chloe Isaac (CAN) reveals secret weapons in synchronized swimming: flavorless gelatin and waterproof make-up.

  • Read for instance News Track India

    American swimming great Michael Phelps will reportedly swim with sharks along with South African swimmer Chad le Clos.

    According to Sport24, Phelps will be in Barcelona to represent his sponsors and be honoured by swimming governing body FINA and will go shark-cage diving with Le Clos in South Africa when the world championships ends.

    Stating that he is very scared of sharks, Le Clos said that the retired American swimmer had convinced him to swim alongside him with the sharks after the South African beat his idol Phelps in the 200-metre butterfly at the London Olympics a year ago.

  • Read for instance newsobserver.com

    After the London Olympics, Bob Bowman thought it was time to try something new. He was feeling just like his most famous pupil, Michael Phelps.

    “Actually,” Bowman said, “I really didn’t think I would come back to coaching.”

    Yet there he was, ready to take up his familiar position on deck, as the U.S. swimming team arrived in Barcelona on Wednesday for the world championships.

    “I realized this is probably what I should be doing,” Bowman said with chuckle, speaking during a phone interview before the Americans flew out from their training camp in Spain’s Basque region.

  • Spectator entrance of the Palau Sant Jordi sport arena in Barcelona, Spain, main venue of the FINA 2013 World Championships.

    Palau Sant Jordi ready for Barcelona 2013

  • Read The Australian

    Olympic swimmer Scott Miller will remain in custody after his latest drug charge matter was briefly heard in a Sydney court.

    Miller did not appear in Central Local Court on Wednesday, with his lawyer flagging a bail application will be made next week.

    Miller has been behind bars since he was arrested last weekend and charged with supplying a prohibited drug of an indictable quality.

  • Read Gawker

    Canadian Man Sorry for Chugging Eight Beers and Swimming to Detroit

    John Morillo, a 47-year-old Canadian man, apologized today for causing an international incident last night when he drank eight beers and then swam across the Detroit River, just to prove to his friends he could.

    Speaking to the Windsor Star after being released from jail this morning, Morillo said in retrospect it was “really stupid” of him to drunkenly swim across the river, but not without adding that he wanted his incredulous buddies to know he’d pulled it off (emphasis ours):

    If I’m going to be in the paper, I’d at least like them to say I actually made it, even though I got in trouble and everything. I gotta pay fines and stuff. But I don’t want it to sound like I didn’t make it, because then my buddies are going to say ‘ha, ha, you didn’t make it.’ Because that was the whole thing, to show them I could do it.

  • Read Independent.ie

    Barry Murphy may be the senior swimmer by some distance in the Irish squad for the World Championships in Barcelona, but he’s in the form of his life as he prepares to take on the very best.

    In the past fortnight, the Dubliner, who didn’t believe he would be picked for Barcelona, has won silver at the French Open in the 50m breaststroke and set a new national record for the 50m butterfly at a meet in Rome.

    Now the 27-year-old, who will be joined at the World Championships by Fiona Doyle and Sycerika McMahon, is eager to prove to himself and others that Rio 2016 is a realistic possibility, having competed in London last summer.

  • Read South China Morning Post

    A falling-out between Sun and his coach over his love affair with a stewardess has rocked the Asian swimming power as it prepares for Barcelona.

    Sun, the tall distance specialist from Zhejiang, rejected coach Zhu Zhigen’s demand that he stop seeing his new girlfriend and concentrate on his swimming instead.

    Despite a public show of reconciliation with Zhu, Sun has been training in Hong Kong under former Chinese head coach Zhang Yadong, and it is unclear which events he will contest this month.

    “Athletes want to get good results, and to do this you need systematic and scientific training without outside interference,” Sun complained on his official microblog.

  • Read Evening Express

    There is now less than one year to go until hundreds of the best athletes from across the globe flock to Scotland to compete in the Commonwealth Games.

    Top North-east sportsmen and women like Hannah Miley and Robbie Renwick will be going for gold in front of their home crowd.

    Sport bosses hope that Aberdeen’s new £24 million Aquatics Centre – which will create around 45 new jobs in the city – will help bring on the next generation of champion North-east swimmers.