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  • Former swim coach and club/LEN/FINA administrator Flavio Bomio sentenced 11 years in prison

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    According to Blick.ch, former coach and ex-president of swimming club Bellinzona has been sentenced to a prison term of eleven years, for over ten years to have sexually abused at least 15 boys between 12 and 16 years of age. The abuses ranged from touching the genital area when showering to anal sex, the coach…

  • They knew that Flavio Bomio used to sleep with the athletes ?

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    Notice, my Italian is no-existent, but the message in this article seems clear enough, even through Google Translate: “How was it possible that nobody has ever had suspicions about an individual who went alone to the fields of training and transfers of the company and also slept in the room with this or that guy?”.…

  • Our top ten stories from 2011

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    2011 has been a fun year here on Swimmer’s Daily, with increasing visit numbers since the sort-of-relaunch in March. Site focus is as the motto says ‘a fast fix blog about swimming’, that hopefully can provide readers with short bursts of fun and/or interesting swim-related content, as a break for instance between tedious training. Preferably…

  • FINA suspends Flavio Bomio

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    As reported yesterday, Flavio A. Bomio is in jail on child sexual molestation charges, whereof he’s partially admitted sexual relationships with two underage boys. Now FINA suspends him with immediate effect, as stated in this press release: Lausanne (SUI), December 22, 2011 – Following information received from the Swiss Swimming Federation and articles in the…

  • FINA committee member Flavio Bomio arrested for child molestation

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    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…