Lane 1 - Nigerian Tribune posts "Without corporate partnership, swimming is doomed —Goodluck Odewumi. Dr Goodluck Ibikunle Odewumi, Director of Sports, University of Ibadan and member, Technical Committee of the Nigeria Swimming Federation, in this chat with Sport Editor, WALE EMOSU, discusses the state of swimming in Nigeria, the new rules of the game, factors that crippled Nigeria at the 2012 London Olympics, poaching of talents and governments attitude
towards sport development."
Lane 2 - BBC News posts "Thame Olympian Simon Burnett holds swim master class for cancer charity. Thame Olympic swimmer Simon Burnett has taken time out from his Christmas holidays to hold a charity master class at his local swimming club. The ex-Team GB athlete, who still holds the British record for the 100m freestyle, raised £750 for Oxford-based Urology Cancer Charity - UCARE. He and his wife, the US swimmer Whitney Myers-Burnett, gave a talk and two-hour pool session on competitive swimming."
Lane 3 - TVNZ posts "It's all smooth sailing for Huegill. Geoff Huegill's transformation from super fish to sea dog seems almost complete. The former Olympic swimmer had spoken about a serious move into the sailing world before he undertook his second Sydney to Hobart race aboard Ragamuffin Loyal under the legendary Syd Fischer."
Lane 4 - ESPN W posts "Summer on the Run. The need for the right speed. It's no secret that speed workouts are my weakness. "One-speed Summer" has always been my nickname. It started in swimming. If I was doing the first 100 meters of an IM in practice, I'd do that first lap of butterfly as fast as I could if I was only sprinting one lap. I still have dreams about it. If someone tells me to go hard, I go all out."
Lane 5 - The Australian posts "Thorpe tells his story straight in This Is Me. IN the lexicon of sporting nicknames, Thorpedo is a brilliantly evocative description of Australian swimming's golden boy, Ian Thorpe, who turned the sport on its axis as a 17-year-old at the Sydney Olympics when he won three gold medals. It was a tabloid-headline moniker that fitted perfectly and stuck. Thorpe's biography, This Is Me, has made headlines, too, but mainly for its personal, rather than sporting, revelations: here the champion swimmer is stripped back to show how fame at such a young age - he was 14 when first named in the Australian team - brought its own burdens, and how well-documented media slights on his personal life affected him."
Lane 6 - Communication Arts posts "Karla Colletto's Cruise 2013 Swimwear Line video. With a collection that fits all shapes and sizes, Karla Colletto understands that most women dislike the process of trying on swimwear. Washington, DC, studio Design Army literally went underwater in the name of aquatic fashion. With a crew of two dozen, the studio filmed this short feature for Colletto’s latest swimwear line, giving women across America a beautiful introduction and and a close-up look at the detailing and stitching and the ability to witness its functionality firsthand."
