Lane 1 - Super Sport posts "Swimmers display Olympic potential. South Africa's swimming team for the Olympic Games in July was expanded to a potential 11 following impressive performances by Herman Heerden and Riaan Schoeman at the weekend."
Lane 3 - The Sac Bee posts "Woman Conquers Her Fear, Swims Nine Miles in Open Water to Raise Awareness and Funds for Disease That Killed Her Father. Effort Supports the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis. Catherine Goodrum has been afraid of being in open water most of her life. In an effort to overcome her fear, Goodrum joined a Total Immersion™ Women's Swim Camp in St. John, U.S. Virgin lslands and turned the experience into a tribute to her father who died from Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF) in 2009. Goodrum swam a total of nine miles during the camp and used her personal victory to raise funds for the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CPF) and its Daughters of PF program."
Lane 4 - Sky Sports posts "Payne to share success. Stockport swimmer admits pre-Olympic nerves. n a little over a month, world 10-kilometre open water champion Keri-Anne Payne will begin the journey she hopes will see her share Olympic success with best friend Rebecca Adlington."
Lane 5 - Cape May County Herald posts "Rescue Swimmers Jump into Ocean to Save Lives. Who would want a relatively low-paying job that demanded applicants be in top physical condition, desired to save lives, have no fear of jumping into the ocean from a hovering helicopter, and be willing to relocate to remote regions of the globe? Answer: Coast Guard Aviation Survival Technicians, also known as Helicopter Rescue Swimmers."
Lane 6 - The Australian posts "Comeback swimmer Ian Thorpe is ignoring the pressure after latest failure. IAN Thorpe is like everyone else who would like to see at least one fast race from him before he contests the Olympic trials in March. But if it doesn't happen, he won't panic. Thorpe made some progress at a meeting in Luxembourg at the weekend when he produced his two fastest 100m freestyle swims since making his comeback (50.82sec and 50.76sec) but he is still about two seconds off the pace needed to win his way in to Australia's 4x100m freestyle relay team. Thorpe has one competition remaining, in Zurich in late February, before the trials in Adelaide."
Lane 7 - Wicked Local posts "Cape Cod dolphin strandings a mystery. It’s been a bad couple of weeks for dolphins, but the worst is over. At least 86 common dolphins have stranded along the beaches and marshes of Cape Cod Bay since mid-January. The International Fund for Animal Welfare released 24 back into the open ocean, mostly from beaches in Provincetown."
Lane 8 - The Guardian posts "Charlie Brooker swims with the fishes in Australia. 'When you tell people you're going swimming with tuna, they laugh in your face'. Swimming with dolphins. Everyone yaps on about wanting to do that before they die. But swimming with tuna? For some reason, when you tell people you're going swimming with tuna, they laugh in your face. It sounds inherently absurd, and I'm not entirely sure why. I think it's because we often encounter tuna in tins."
