Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice has announced that she will retire after the London Games, hopefully with a glorious finale. And as preparation for the future, she has launched Steph’s Swim Squad via SunRice Foods Facebook page, an online training and mentoring program for aspiring swimmers, and as part of the program personally mentor 10 young swimmers for a year. Via couriermail.com.au
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2-year-old boy survives 30 minutes underwater (!)
Not even in ice-cold water, but in the family pool. And he is already bicycling again, saved by the doctors putting him into ‘therapeutic hypothermia‘, where your body is cooled down to almost hibernation, and then slowly brought back to life again. He just woke up and was 100% normal again. Gee, they must rename him ‘dolphin boy’. Via ABC News.
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The Szczecin 2011 Start Lists
So, the preliminary European Short Course Swimming Championships psych sheets are now online on omegatiming.com, as well as in PDF-format on ecszczecin2011.eu. Our guy Pál Joensen is in the 1500 meter freestyle final on Saturday, on lane 0.
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HIV-positive couple jailed for swimming pool sex act
An HIV-positive Edinburgh couple who downed three bottles of vodka before carrying out a sex act in a public swimming pool have been jailed. This was while children were swimming nearby, and when asked to leave the premises, they first asked for their entrance money back, and then spat at police officers and a pool attendant, and bit a police constable in the leg. Three police officers and a member of pool staff had to wait six months to find out if they had been infected with HIV, risk “negligible”, but for one police officer though facing a different risk “because blood was involved.” Nice. Via deadline
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Oussama Mellouli pops rib head, might pull out of Arab Games
Ouch, that sounds painful
http://twitter.com/#!/OusMellouli/status/144152232986816513He is still swimming, but suffering
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Szczecin 2011 Eurosport Promo
Looking forward to it! The Eurosport TV Schedule is here.
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This guy won’t see much swimming in Szczecin
He he, this is the view that some poor journalist will have during the European Championships in Szczecin. Coach Jón is in ‘positive mode’ and says, that at least he’ll see the finish ! :-P
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Nick D’Arcy files for bankruptcy
Ouch, Nick D’Arcy has reportedly now filed for bankruptcy, which means he’ll avoid having to pay the AUS $180.000 that he was ordered to pay Simon Cowley in damages for assaulting him. Cowley’s lawyer isn’t pleased:
‘It’s just a way of walking away from this whole mess and this debt and this judgment that he owes” … “I would have thought that he would have had the courage at least to try to speak to Simon and try and negotiate something with him, whatever it was.”
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Polska! Polska!
So, it has been a couple of quiet days here on Swimmer’s Daily, but now we’re in Szczecin in Western Pomerania, in the magnificent Radisson Blu Hotel where drawers open if you clap your hands.
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