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  • Eamon Sullivan didn’t appear in Adelaide’s Elizabeth magistrates court on Thursday but pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct through his lawyer, Lindy Powell QC.

    “It was just a terrible accident,” she said.

    Story is he borrowed an elderly man’s scooter for a ride at a party last year, onlookers joking and taking photos, before another party-goer sat on Sullivan’s lap, obscuring his vision.

    “This was an offence of misadventure rather than of intention,” Ms Powell said.

    “He believed the man on his lap had control of the brake and accelerator.”

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  • “This film is really about the people who strive to do the right thing when life calls them to act upon that thing that could be classified as heroic. You could also say that it’s about what people do to satisfy and nourish the desires of the human heart, the will welling up inside it that we commonly refer to as and ambition/drive. We felt that the story of swimmer Tyler McGill was that story, and it was and is the story of “answering the call” for duty/action, and the drive of human ambition. His spirit, attitude, character and philosophy in relation to what he has achieved are the core of what he has achieved, and how he has done that. That’s what makes his story so interesting.”

  • Australian sport has been rocked by an Australian Crime Commission investigation revealing wide spread drug use across multiple codes and driven by coaches, sports scientists and doctors, with links to organised crime, risk of athletes being co-opted into match fixing and even use of drugs not yet approved for human use. Read for instance The Australian and 3News, via SwimNews

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  • Pro Free Divers “Mermaid Melissa” and Antonio show an original underwater concept for bubble ring tricks merging 2 bubbles into one.

  • Read St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses an unidentified swim coach who worked at the YMCA in the late 1980s of sexually abusing two students.

    The suit, filed in St. Louis County Circuit Court, says that the boys took lessons at the Mid-County branch of the St. Louis YMCA in Brentwood in 1986 or 1987, when both were 11 or 12 years old.

    The boys were the only two students in a semi-private class, and the suit accuses the coach of showing the boys pornography, acting as a “big brother” figure and talking “graphically about sex” before progressing to sexual abuse.

    The alleged victims are not identified in the suit other than as “John Does.”

  • “This is an image film, what was made for Ocean swimwear Sport collection 2014. Some shots inspired by Polina Rabtseva.”

    Ocean swimwear Sport collection 2014 from Fluid on Vimeo.

  • Abbas Karimi was born without arms but that hasn’t dampened his ambition to win a gold medal for swimming in the next Paralympics. Report by Sarah Johnston.

  • ABN’s Arabile Gumede caught up with South African Olympic gold medallist, swimmer Chad le Clos, to discuss the building of a swimming culture in South Africa.

  • “With the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on our horizon, we have a unique opportunity to work together to support our athletes, connect with our communities and create a lasting legacy for Scotland. We would like to invite you to come with us on a great journey.”