In between training for London 2012, female members of team GB including synchronised swimmer Jenna Randall have taken time out to pose for the Nichole de Carle London 2012 charity calendar, celebrating the London 2012 Olympic Games with all profits going to Wellbeing of Women. Bless their hearts, go buy that calendar here on nicholedecarle.com!
Via MailOnline and Mirror
Via Pestiside.hu, see also mosaictv.hu
Hungarian swimmers Gergely Gyurta and Dávid Verrasztó have been ordered to appear at a disciplinary committee meeting after the two got in a fight after Gyurta sent a congratulatory text to Verrasztó’s former girlfriend Sára Joó, who is also a swimmer. All three were at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Poland, where Verrasztó apparently got so worked up he managed to punch a trainer in the nose (which the trainer now denies) before security managed to stop him. Guess someone’s isn’t exactly over his ex-girlfriend. [sporthirado.hu/hvg.hu]
Wow, Italy’s star swimmer Federica Pellegrini has certainly taken off her gloves here on her blog, blaming now former coach Federico Bonifacenti (who according to other news dumped her) for her poor form at the Szczecin 2011 Europan Short Course Championships. And boyfriend Magnini agrees, that “I think it’s offensive both for me and for her that all a coach can think is that an athlete like Federica, in an Olympic year, just wants to train with her boyfriend and not even in the best circumstances – it’s absurd.”
Switzerland’s swimming community is in a state of shock after the now ex-president of Bellinzona swimming club, Honorary Secretary of FINA’s Technical Open Water Swimming Committee, Chairman of LEN’s Technical Open Water Committee, Honorary Member of the Swiss Swimming Federation and Member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame Selection Committee, Flavio A. Bomio (69), partially admitted to allegations of child abuse spanning more than 30 years. Jailed in Ticino since Friday December 16th, the now former coach of notable swimmers like FlaviaRigamonti is believed to have abused at least 20 minors, whereof he during a ten-hour police interrogation session admitted to having had homosexual relationships with boys aged 12 to 16 years, defending himself that the intercourse always took place without violence. Police began investigating after one of his now adult alleged victims reported the matter last month, it is believed that most of the sexual encounters took place at training camps. Read for instance The Local, Blick and Ticino News
Ashrita Furman a.k.a. “Mr. Versatility” has set close to 400 world records now over the last 32 years, beginning with 27,000 jumping jacks in 1979, and including stuff like walking 32.9 miles in 1989 with a milk bottle on his head, balancing 57 glasses on his chin in 1996, sack racing 10 kilometers in 1 hour 22 minutes and 2 seconds in 2001, throwing a water balloon 74 feet 5 inches in 2007, and duct taping a person to a wall in 29.97 this September 2011. At the moment he holds 134 world records, in itself the official record for “the most records held at the same time by an individual”.
A back injury that kept Nick D’Arcy out of the Queensland Swimming Championships was just a “speed bump” on the road to London, according to his coach Michael Bohl. Following his liver problems this summer, forcing him out of the Shanghai World Championships. And of course, the other thing.
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Or SLAM for short, her “athlete’s view of parenthood & more”. She gives workouts for beginning through advanced swimmers (as well as dryland training), offers fitness and fashion tips, shares the music she likes and even gives “Amanda Facts”. Read more on USA Today, and visit www.swimlikeamom.com.
According to Reuters, 41-year-old Mark Foster has now ruled out the rumors of him competing at his home Olympic Games next year, as he doesn’t envisage winning a medal.
“I know I could make the team and be in the top two in the country but would I do anything? No, I’d probably make the semi-finals, maybe.”
(Foster to stay on the spectators’ side of the fence)
