Swimmer's Daily

  • barclay-nettlefoldRead for instance ABC News, Herald Sun, News.com.au, The Australian, SwimmingWorld, SwimVortex, Yahoo7, 9News

    Swimming Australia’s controversial year out of the pool has got worse with president Barclay Nettlefold stood down on Saturday over allegations of inappropriate behavior towards a female team consultant.

    The Swimming Australia board began to look into the comment on Friday but took further action today when another staff member came forward with a similar complaint.

    Nicole Livingstone, a spokeswoman for Swimming Australia, said in a statement outside the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre:

    “The Swimming Australia board has today made the decision to stand down President Barclay Nettlefold pending an independent investigation into allegations of inappropriate comments made to staff.

    “The Swimming Australia board was today provided with new information about a separate allegation of inappropriate comments in addition to the one that is already being handled through our member welfare policy.

    “The board takes these allegations of inappropriate comments seriously and as such has made the decision that the president steps down to enable a full and independent review to be undertaken.”

  • SwimBritainBritish comedian David Walliams is encouraging Britain to get back in the water this summer as he takes on his first team swimming challenge. Also featuring Rebecca Adlington and Keri-Anne Payne. Find out more and sign up at swimbritain.co.uk

  • The Faroese are very sensitive to any rise in temperature. Temperature up to 14°C (57°F), these past few days, and people start wearing t-shirts and shorts outdoors. Here a young kid taking a swim in our local lake “Toftavatn”, yesterday evening, temperature there I guess maybe 7°C (44°F). Jákup was interested but not totally up for it (yet).

    Young kid taking a dip in our local lake

  • phelps-poker-2Fox News, CardPlayer, NESN, WPT Mag

    Olympic legend Michael Phelps has a new gold standard in mind — the World Series of Poker.

    The 18-time gold medalist participated in his first World Series of Poker event on Wednesday, clanking chips alongside other high-stakes gamblers at the annual event in Las Vegas. In all, more than $200 million in prize money will be awarded in 62 separate events, Fox5Vegas.com reports.

    “I always wanted to come out and play,” Phelps said. “This has been the first year I’ve been able to since I retired. I just came out and I wasn’t going to play to

  • First Year Animation Short, Falmouth University, produced By Jack Madeley, Harry Bayfield and Jordan Allnutt.

  • men-onlyRead ABC News

    The New South Wales Upper House has passed a motion calling on the Minister for Sport to refuse grants to winter swimming associations that continue to exclude women.

    Six out of eight winter swimming clubs on the south coast exclude women.

    This means female members of the remaining two clubs are also unable to participate in the South Coast Winter Swimming championships.

    Labor MLC Lynda Voltz says that’s extraordinary and unacceptable.

    “To exclude 51 percent of the population from them is not justified just on the basis that you don’t want to do it,” she said.

    The clubs argue they’re entitled to ban women because they’re voluntary organisations, but Lynda Voltz says that doesn’t wash.

    “Eventually over time they’ll see the sense in the argument that there’s no reason to exclude woman and why would you want to do it,” she said.

    Image courtesy of Paul O’Farrell, CC BY-SA 2.0

  • A big smile from South Africa’s Darian Townsend after the men’s 100 meter individual medley at the FINA 2012 World Swimming World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany. Trinidad and Tobago’s George Bovell won in 51.20, Australia’s Kenneth To second in 51.53, and Townsend third in 53.04. See the result list here.

    Townsend greets Bovell after the Berlin 2012 men's 100 IM

  • Featuring Daniel Fogg and Steve Parry, see SwimBritain

  • ox-bel-haSee Latina Lista

    Ox Bel Ha is the longest explored underwater cave system in the world. Located in Quintana Roo, Mexico, it measures a little over 150 miles in its underwater passages but also has within its system dry caves, making it the third largest in the world.

    For scientists, Ox Bel Ha is every inch as mysterious, seductive and iconic as the country’s famous pyramids. In fact, an intrepid international team of divers and cave explorers have joined together to form the Mexico Cave Exploration Project (MCEP) to study Ox Bel Ha and the other underwater cave systems of Mexico.

    Ox Bel Ha Science project 2012 -2013 from JP Bresser on Vimeo.