Swimming Australia has this morning announced that Michael Bohl and Rohan Taylor will take on the role of National Team Coaches for the EnergyAustralia Swim Team through to the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona (July 28 to Aug 4).
Working with new Director of High Performance, Michael Scott, Bohl will be charged with running the women’s team and Taylor the men’s, with the trio set to form a formidable coaching unit in the build-up to Barcelona.
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Carina Bruwer, lead player of SAMA Award-winning instrumental pop group Sterling EQ, successfully rounded Cape Point, finishing the 8km extreme swim equipped only with a standard swimming costume, cap and goggles, according to open water swimming rules. The “Swim for Hope†was in support of the Little Fighters Cancer Trust (LFCT), a local charity that offers support to children with cancer and their families, which Carina and Sterling EQ actively support, and marked Carina’s return to open water swimming after a 6 year break during which she became a mother of two.
Carina and The Little Fighters Cancer Trust are hoping to raise R25,000 for the Bag of Hope Project. Public as well as corporate contributions are encouraged and can be made here on backabuddy.co.za
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Gold Coast rising star Thomas Fraser-Holmes suffered an Ian Thorpe moment of drama on the opening day of competition at the Australian swimming championships in Adelaide today.
Fraser-Holmes flopped into the pool as he desperately tried to avoid a false start for the men’s 400m freestyle event.
It was the identical event and similar fall to what Thorpe suffered at the 2004 Olympic trials in Sydney.
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When Chad le Clos edged out Michael Phelps to win the 200m butterfly gold at last year’s Olympic Games the future of swimming in South Africa looked bright – but the sport has, since then, seemingly limped from one fiasco to the next.
Swimming South Africa (SSA) is currently without a title sponsor. This has led to suggestions that some of the members of the team competing at the World Championships in Barcelona in July and August will have to pay to attend the event.
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South Aussie backstroker Hayden Stoeckel says he is “going in blind” for this weekend’s national championships at the SA Aquatic Centre after only ending his post-Olympics slumber 10 weeks ago.
Having “let his hair down” for six months after the London games, Stoeckel knows he faces an uphill battle to defend his 100m backstroke title and post a world championships qualifying time.
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London Olympic silver medallist Christian Sprenger has called for former champion Grant Hackett to return to the Australian swim team as a mentor, to help fill the leadership gap and develop a new team captain. […]
”I have a lot of respect for [Hackett] and so did the team members back then,” said Sprenger.
”To be honest, I can’t really see another Grant Hackett as yet, unfortunately, but I think we can make the right changes and the right moves as a group.
”It might not even be a bad idea to have Grant Hackett come back to have a bit of a mentor role.
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Former swim star Giaan Rooney has revealed the details behind her post-Olympics boning from Channel Nine, saying she was stunned to be unceremoniously dumped after seven years with the network. […]
“I believe I am an incredibly loyal person and I had no desire to go anywhere else…I had assumed that my contract would just roll over and that’s what I had been told,” Rooney said in an interview with the blog Show + Tell.
“I loved it and I loved my team that I worked with.
“(But) I came back from London and had a bit of a holiday and all of sudden it was like; ‘We don’t have anything for you next year’. And that came as a huge shock.
