Lane 2 - USA Today posts (w/video) "Team is teen Missy Franklin's priority, not prize money. In six months, the 2012 Summer Olympics open in London. There Missy Franklin, at 16 as precocious in the pool as the teen-aged Michael Phelps was, could be the breakout U.S. star. Yet last weekend, she was at a high school dual meet — flipping a lap counter during the 500-yard freestyle, helping tend to a fellow swimmer's nosebleed, anchoring the 400-yard freestyle relay, then screaming and hugging her Regis Jesuit High School teammates when they learned they had topped perennial state power Cherry Creek High School."
Lane 3 - Digital Journal posts (w/video) "Shark attack victim Craig Hutto receives faster bionic leg. Over six years ago while on vacation at Cape Sand Blas, about 50 miles southeast of Panama City, Florida, Craig Hutto, then aged 16, was fishing in waist-deep water about 60 feet from shore with his brother when he was attacked by a bull shark."
Lane 4 - Evening Standard posts "Michael Phelps' winning new formula. With eight gold medals at the last Olympics, Michael Phelps does not exactly need additional help to beat his rivals. But the American's swimwear provider has learned from other sports, most notably Formula 1, to come up with an innovative system it believes will give Phelps and its other swimmers the edge from the moment they first dive into the pool at London 2012. Leading that process is Dr Tom Waller, head of Speedo's Aqualab in Nottingham, where the Fastskin3 - as its new combination of cap, goggles and swimsuit, unveiled earlier this month, is known - was created."
Lane 5 - CTV posts "Open Water Swimmers Head for Brazil. Seven Canadian swimmers will be taking part in the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup this Sunday in Santos, Brazil with hopes of getting closer to an Olympic birth. Amongst these seven athletes, Victoria's Richard Weinberger is heading into the event with high expectations and the determination to extend his winning streak."
Lane 6 - ESPN posts "London's unemployed strive to get Olympic jobs. The pay isn't great, the job is temporary and you could be a target for terrorists. But when Mabel Cross heard that she might be able to work at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she rushed to get to a London recruitment center early."
Lane 7 - ABC News posts "Aussie lifesavers helping Vietnam beachgoers. As thousands of West Australians swarm to the beach this summer, they will be watched over by dedicated surf lifesaving volunteers. There will be warnings about rips and sandbars and dangerous swimming conditions. But beyond our shores in a country that's described as having some of the most luxurious beaches in the world, swimmers are not so lucky."
Lane 8 - Inside Japan posts "Plans afloat to create swimming pool in Osaka river. Plans to turn a 2km stretch of river in Osaka into an international swimming pool have been announced by the Prefecture's governor, Ichiro Matsui."
