Swimmer's Daily

  • World championship medalist Sabir Muhammad announces today the availability of his first book, Born to Swim, illustrated by Toni Scott Daniel. It is an autobiographical account of his fear-turned-fascination with water that led him to become a notable swimmer, which Muhammad hopes will educate parents about the importance and availability of swimming instructions, and inspire kids from all backgrounds to learn to swim. See press release here on prweb.com.

  • Michael Phelps was recently beaten in his signature race 200 meter butterfly, when he at the 2011 Eric Namesnik Michigan Grand Prix swam 1:57.79, behind China’s Wu Peng in 1:56.62, Poland’s Marcin CieÅ›lak in 1:57.13 and USA’s Tyler Clary in 1:57.56. Maybe therefore he now tries sleeping in an altitude tent, to see if it gives the same positive effect as altitude camps. Via SwimNews.com, The Michigan Daily and The Detroit News.

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  • Right, following that Morning Swim Show interview, I had to go straight out and find that “spearfishing cross training” that they were talking about, and that George Bovell III even thinks gives him great adaptation, enjoying a weekend of diving 90 feet deep in strong current while breath-holding. Via georgebovellswimming.com.

    spearfishing cross training from George Bovell on Vimeo.

    I by the way found another video while searching, showing George Bovell III, Salim Iles, Duje Draganja and others spearfishing off Grenada.

  • Olympic bronze medal winner George Bovell III has relocated his training base to his home of Trinidad and Tobago, working with his former coach, looking “to coach my own coach to coach me”. And then he spear-fishes as cross-training :-)

    “At this stage in my career, after swimming 20 years, I think I’ve pretty much got it figured out and I understand the coaching and I’ve taken ownership of my swimming, but I need someone there to just give me one-on-one feedback”

  • Gary Hall Sr speaking with Swedish legend Lars Frölander here, 5 time Olympian and 2000 Sydney Games Gold Medalist in the 100 meter butterfly. At 36 years old he is swimming as fast as ever and looking strong to be on his 6th Olympic team! How does he do it? Via theraceclub.net.

  • “Standing 1 meter 73 tall and weighing in at 64 kilos, Soni doesn’t have the imposing build that many modern-day swimmers possess. However, she more than makes up for that with an uncanny ability to focus when it matters.”

  • After making the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Team, Kaitlin Sandeno battled injury and missed qualifying for the 2008 squad. She sought other opportunities, but is now back in the sport of swimming, giving private lessons to kids looking to improve and hone their stroke. By gosh, I think someone has a shorter pool than we do. Via usaswimming.org.

  • TesfayeAustrian swimmer Markus Rogan raised $40.000 for children in Ethiopia and India this evening, by auctioning off his Dubai silver and bronze medals at a Tesfaye/ Zukunft für Kinder fundraiser in Vienna. Tesfaye means “my hope”, and is a child sponsorship project founded in 2008, currently supporting 100 children aged between 4 and 19 years, living under very poor conditions in two districts of Addis Ababa, Yeka and Arada Kebele. Zukunft für Kinder is a similar project trying to help out the many thousand street children living in the red light districts of Calcutta.

    This is the greatest party of my life! We just auctioned off my silver and bronze from dubai for usd 40 000!less than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® Favorite Retweet Replymarkus rogan
    mahrqoos

  • Former high jump world champion Patrik Sjöberg revealed in his memoirs published earlier this week how his former coach and stepfather Viljo Nousiainen molested him from he was 11 years old until he about the age of 15 had “the body of a grown man”. This after also former high jumper Christian Skaar Thomassen told him that he had been abused by Nousiainen, and before now track coach Yannick Tregaro revealed that he also had been molestated by Nousiainen.

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