Swimmer's Daily

  • 2013 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships – Adelaide

  • Read for instance Asia One

    Australian Olympians must cooperate fully with their national anti-doping agency over the use of banned substances or face exclusion from the Games, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said on Saturday.

    In the midst of a doping probe into rugby league and Australian rules teams that has rocked two of the country’s most popular sports, the AOC has added the new clauses to tighten up their anti-doping code.

    Athletes and officials will be obliged to cooperate with the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) even if “to do so might tend to incriminate or expose them to a penalty”. “To be clear, failure to co-operate with and assist ASADA, in every way, can result in an athlete or official being ruled out of an Olympic team,” AOC President John Coates said in a news release. […]

    Coates told the AOC’s AGM that while ASADA’s current probe is focused on National Rugby League (NRL) and Australian Football League (AFL), it would be “naive” to think there have not been Olympians who have used banned substances.

  • Italy’s Ilaria Bianchi being congratulated at the FINA 2012 World Swimming World Cup leg in Berlin, Germany, for winning the women’s 100 meter butterfly in 56.86. Sweden’s Louise Hansson won silver in 57.55 and the Netherlands’ Inge Dekker bronze in 57.65. See the result list here.

    Women's 100 fly podium at Berlin 2012

  • A really nice video on a very serious subject. Swimming is not just a sport.

  • Read The Age

    The tough love required after the London Olympics has honed Australia into a leaner, meaner swimming outfit for July’s world titles in Barcelona, new team boss Michael Scott believes. […]

    In one of his last acts before he resigned, ex-head coach Leigh Nugent set the qualifying standard at times required to reach 2011 world championship finals.

    It ensured a 36-strong team was unveiled on Friday night – 10 less than the much maligned London outfit which produced just one gold, their worst Olympic pool tally in 20 years.

    (more…)

  • See wtok.com

    Dirty water is being blamed for causing a murky mess at a Meridian swim club. The owner of what use to be Briarwood Country Club, estimates that between three and four inches of mud poured into the 10 foot deep pool there when workers attempted to fill it. Although this is a concern, he says the bigger problem is that residents and businesses in that area are often left to pay for brown water.

  • See The Huffington Post

    Not sure if you’ve heard, but Ryan Lochte wants to be the next Kim Kardashian. It’s not clear that his dream has come true — yet — but with the premiere of his reality TV show “What Would Ryan Lochte Do?” in April, he’s certainly working on it.

    In another step towards the realization of said dream, Lochte dropped by fellow E! star Chelsea Handler’s show Thursday night, and the result was pretty incredible. While it’s always hard to choose our favorite lines from a Lochte interview – there are so many memorable utterances to choose from

  • john-dougallThree weeks ago, former Scottish international swimmer and now head coach of the Fife Performance Swimming Squad John Dougall experienced acute stomach pain, and called 999 for an ambulance on the verge of collapse. Read for instance Fife Today, The Scottish Sun, The Courier and the Daily Record

    “They asked me the usual questions and basically asked if I had been drinking. I told them no, none of that and explained I lived on my own, that I couldn’t move. I needed help, I was in a really bad way but they said my symptoms wouldn’t warrant any help.”

    According to John, they advised NHS 24 would call back within two hours and when he stressed he was “in agony” the call handler replied: “but you are able to speak to us”.

    An hour later in a call with NHS 24, he was advised to take some painkillers.

    John said: “I told them this was starting to scare me now. There‘s sweat pouring from me and burning coming from my chest and abdomen. I pleaded for an ambulance but they said they would get a nurse to ring me in the next couple of hours to go through treatment options with me.”

    Desperate, John crawled to his front door where neighbours happened to be passing.

    Horrified, they immediately rang 999 but were refused assistance.

    Turned out he had a ruptured intestine and was heavily septic. His team did well though at the following Scottish Nationals, despite of their coach being confined to a hospital bed. Read for instance Fife Direct

  • steffen-deiblerGermany’s Steffen Deibler enjoying the sun in Hamburg, en route to a two-week training camp with hopefully even better weather in Sardinia. Laying the foundation for Barcelona 2013, and promising to try to post from Sardinia also. Yay!

    He broke the German 100 butterfly record with a 51.19 at the 2013 German National Championships recently, world’s best time this year that would have won him gold in London.