Jim Dreyer Hospitalized After 49 Hour Swim
Long distance swimmer Jim Dreyer was hospitalized Thursday after he emerged from the Straits of Mackinac well short of his goal of swimming continuously for 125 miles. Dreyer, 43, of Byron Center, was in stable condition in the cardiovascular unit of Northern Michigan Hospital, said hospital spokeswoman Barbara Allen. She said she couldn’t […]
Even Speedo Could Not Buy Publicity Like This
Widely reported but quite entertaining (now that it has all reached a happy ending), Speedo, the world’s current number one retailer of swimwear, received a great deal of free publicity recently thanks to a speedo brief-clad dolphin named Scrappy.
Florida biologists in Sarasota Bay recently found Scrappy, a bottle-nosed dolphin, wearing a Speedo brief, size XL, […]
USA Swimming to Announce Olympic Team Coaches
USA Swimming will announce the 2008 United States Olympic Team men’s and women’s head coaches on Friday, September 8, 2006 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Mark Schubert, USA Swimming’s National Team head coach and general manager, will make the announcement live at a press conference, beginning at 12:30 pm EST. […]
What is the Root of the UK’s Swimming Problems?
According to the newspaper The Guardian, a swim instructor in the United Kingdom was fined £4,800 ($9,141.60 USD) for not restricting the use of her private home pool.
The instructor, Corinne Broadhurst, 52, had received all required permits in 2003 to build the pool at her home in Frankby, Merseyside. But after over 150 people were […]
Kate Ziegler Joins Mutual of Omaha Gold Medal Swim Team
Kate Ziegler, the 18 year old rising swimming star who holds three American records and recently became the second woman in history to break the 16 minute barrier in the 1,500 meter freestyle, has joined Mutual of Omaha’s Gold Medal Team, a select group of swimming athletes who represent the sport to young people […]
Braxton Bilbrey To Swim the Golden Gate
Eight year old Braxton Bilbrey, the youngest swimmer to conquer the one and a half mile stretch between Alcatraz and San Francisco, a feat he conquered in May at the age of seven, will be back in those rough waters over the Labor Day weekend to set a new record.
Braxton plans to swim the Alcatraz […]
Jim Dreyer to Fail in His Attempt at a 125 Mile Swim
Hampered by strong currents, cold water temperatures, and nagging shoulder pain, long distance swimmer Jim Dreyer was preparing to emerge from the Straits of Mackinac well short of his goal of swimming continuously for 125 miles. As of 9:18 this morning, two days into his swim, he had gone 38 miles but was feeling […]
Canadian Swimming Hall of Fame Forced From Its Home
The head of the Aquatic Federation of Canada said she has big plans for a new Aquatic Hall of Fame and Museum and is sorry that it was kicked out of the Pan Am Pool.
“The Pan Am pool is a special place (for competitors) and they loved competing there and wandering the halls and admiring […]
Cullen Jones - Role Model for the Next Generation of Swimmers
I came across an article from The Nubian Message. It is quite interesting because despite the fact that the article is dated April 19, 2006, which was long before it was reported that Cullen Jones had signed his landmark deal with Nike, he has not changed one iota. You can hear it in […]
Chip Peterson Wins Silver - Open Water World Champs 5K Recap
According to USA Swimming, American Chip Peterson won a silver medal in the 5K race Tuesday at the 2006 FINA Open Water World Championships in Naples, Italy. Peterson finished with a time of 1 hour, four minutes and 32.7 seconds, just four tenths of a second behind gold medalist Thomas Lurz of Germany, and […]
All Manaudou All the Time
With the retirement of Zinedine Zidane, a female swimmer is becoming the biggest sports star in France.
Laure Manaudou made front-page news when she won the Olympic 400-meter freestyle in 2004, then bigger news in May when she broke American swimmer Janet Evans’ 18-year-old world record in the event.
French sports news became all Manaudou, all the […]
Australian Short Course Final Day Four Recap
Lisbeth Lenton and Leisel Jones continued to put on a show at the Telstra Australian Short Course Championships last night with both swimming divas demolishing world records within 10 minutes of each other. Then the show continued as Leith Brodie broke an Australian record and Grant Hackett made a successful return to the 1500m freestyle. […]
Are Performance Enhancing Drugs Rampant Again in China?
I came across an article posted to a message board yesterday. The article, printed in the Toronto Star among many others, was almost further proof that China has attempted to clean up its image, but ultimately has been unable to keep a watchful eye on every possible athlete among their country’s many sporting schools […]
Pieter van den Hoogenband Discusses Deutscher Ring Aquatics
Pieter van den Hoogenband occasionally publishes columns for the Dutch newspaper AD. The following is his latest column about the Deutscher Ring Aquatics swim meet - via the Pieter van den Hoogenband blog.
The swimming season only just finished and I’m struck with the flu. It seems as if my body knew the gala in Hamburg […]
Australian Short Course Day Three Recap
Leisel Jones set the 100 meters breaststroke world record at the Telstra Australian Short Course Championships yesterday evening. Swimming in her semi-final, Jones took the race out fast and finished strong to clock 1:04.12 and slash a massive 0.67 seconds off the old mark set by American Tara Kirk in Texas in 2004. Jones now […]
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