Lane 1 - Irish Examiner posts "Oceans 7 swimmer offers reward for return of stolen laptop and pictures. World record-breaking swimmer Steve Redmond has offered a cash reward for the safe return of a stolen laptop, which contained photographs and videos of all his epic swims."
Lane 2 - News51 posts via youtube "Swimmer Diana Nyad in Austin for SXSW. Diana Nyad the long distance swimmer famous for three attempts at swimming from Cuba to Florida visits Austin as her documentary The Other Shore premieres at SXSW."
Lane 3 - Parade posts " Ryan Lochte on the 2016 Olympics, Reality TV, and Finding a Girlfriend. The Olympian, who recently teamed up with Nissan for its Endurance campaign, answered some of Parade.com's question about his future— and his dating life!"
Lane 4 - Daily Record posts " Olympic stars will swap swimsuits for trainers and join 25,000 others in the Great Scottish Run. HUSBAND and wife David Carry and Keri-Anne Payne will tackle the half marathon and 10k events which will be broadcast live on BBC2. Three-time Olympian David, 31, retired from swimming after last year’s London Olympics. Open water swimmer Keri-Anne, 25 – who won silver at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 – is now focusing on the 10k at this year’s World Championships. David is looking forward to trying out a new sport where he’ll actually be able to see where he’s going. He said: “I worked out that during my swimming career I spent 80 per cent of my life horizontal."
Lane 5 - ESPN posts "Ksenia Moskvina banned for 6 years. Russian swimmer Ksenia Moskvina has been suspended for six years for a second doping violation."
Lane 6 - Trinidad Express posts "Roberts confident T&T can host US swim team. Minister of Sport Anil Roberts is confident that Trinidad and Tobago will be successful in their big to host the US Olympic swim team ahead of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games at the under construction George Bovell National Aquatic Centre. The Minister was among the officials touring the facility on Thursday, currently under construction in Couva. The site was one of several stops by officials of USA Swimming."
Lane 1 - AARP posts "Diana Nyad says at SXSW She Will Make 5th Attempt at Cuba-Florida Swim. During a walk in downtown Austin during South by Southwest to promote her new movie ”The Other Shore, “ she encouraged about 30 people striding down the street with her–including 6 AARP staffers from around the country–to live their lives like that."
Lane 2 - IB Times UK posts via youtube " US Swimmer Michael Phelps Swims With Kids In Brazilian Slum."
NBC Sports posts "Phelps wins even more awards; rules out Rio in 2016. Michael Phelps was down in Rio for the Laureus World Sports Awards on Monday, but reiterated the fact that he won’t be back for the Olympics in three years. At least not as a competitor."
Lane 3 - The Age posts "Swimmer's memoirs make a splash. Plenty of people should be looking over their shoulders with the imminent launch of former Olympic gold medal winner Neil Brooks' autobiography. He talks about sharing a glass of red wine with Norman May, famous for his ''gold, gold, gold'' radio call of Brooks' winning Olympic relay swim. Alcohol also featured when swimmers Peter Evans and Graeme Brewer were sharing beers, stolen from coach Terry Buck's room, smug about any consequences because support staff and competitors had signed a ''no alcohol'' pledge." The West posts "Brooks reveals life of regret. Once an Olympic swimming hero, Neil Brooks last night admitted he had been a "poor human being" who had battled poverty and shame for some of his behaviour, as he revealed extraordinary details of a drunken swim at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games."
Lane 4 - Rochdale Online posts "Olympic swimming star Rebecca Adlington makes a splash with BMW X6. Double Olympic bronze medallist and BMW UK ambassador Rebecca Adlington visited Williams BMW on Tuesday 11 March to take delivery of a new BMW X6. The swimming star is
being provided with the vehicle to aid her in her role as a BMW UK ambassador as she continues to inspire children across the UK to take to the pool."
Lane 5 - Twin Cities posts "Comedian Louie Anderson goes up in TV's 'Splash' -- and must dive down. News that Louie Anderson was joining the cast of ABC's new diving reality TV competition "Splash," surprised plenty of people. The nationally known comedian and St. Paul native said he weighed more than 400 pounds when he started training for the show and had never dived in his life. It was only five years ago that Anderson, 59, learned to swim."
Lane 6 - novitiate posts "Bulgaria Caretaker Sports Minister Petar Stoychev. Bulgarian marathon swimming star Petar Stoychev has been appointed sports minister in Bulgaria's caretaker government. Petar Stoychev was born 24 October 1976 in the small town of Momchilgrad. He is a Bulgarian swimmer, one of the most successful long distance marathon swimmers of the last decade, one of the greatest marathon swimmers of all time and an honor swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame."
Lane 1 - NYDN posts "Brave Arizona wildlife park worker dives into pool followed by massive Bengal tiger . The ‘Tiger Splash’ show wows audiences while giving first-hand display of animal’s predator-prey instincts."
Lane 2 - Voices of America posts (w/video) "Marathon Swimmer Determined After Four Unsuccessful Tries Between Cuba, Florida. Sixty-two year old swimmer Diana Nyad from California has been trying to swim 166 kilometers - or 103 miles - from Cuba to Florida. This dream that has spanned more than three decades. After four unsuccessful attempts, Nyad is still not giving up on the goal of swimming that distance. VOA's Elizabeth Lee interviewed Nyad at her home in Los Angeles for this week's 'Voices of America' profile."
Lane 3 - BBC posts "Rebecca Adlington's future depends on coach Bill Furniss. Rebecca Adlington says her decision on whether to continue swimming depends on the future of her coach Bill Furniss. Furniss has been linked with the British Swimming head coach role vacated by Dennis Pursley after the London 2012 Olympics. "If I was going to carry on I would only want to be coached by Bill," Adlington, 23, told BBC Sport."
Lane 4 - Fox 31 Denver posts via youtube "OLYMPIC SWIMMING CLINIC with Jason Lezak."
Lane 5 - The Stir posts "Olympic Swimmer Summer Sanders Wants Moms to Stop Ignoring This Painful Health Threat…Sanders' legs began feeling tired and achy after her second pregnancy. She'd catch herself massaging her calves whenever she was sitting down. Initially, she assumed it was just a sign of getting older -- no big deal. But when her legs were aching so badly after a day trip to Disneyland with the kids, she suspected it was something more ... Turns out, she was suffering from chronic venous insufficiency, a progressive condition that typically manifests as
varicose veins."
Lane 6 - The National posts "Fina World Cup series: A golden shine to brush off swimmer's woes. Swimming was never seen as a professional sport in South Africa, but when we landed at the airport there was something like 10,000 people there at the airport. That's unseen and unheard of. "The whole country just went absolutely crazy. A lot of people were comparing, when Chad [le Clos] and I won, as a moment when [Nelson] Mandela was released, and it was like euphoria in South Africa. Given the current euphoria at home, it is possible the burglars who stole Van der Burgh's medals might have a change of heart and return them one day. Van der Burgh, however, is not banking on that and has made sure his Olympic medal is stored up in a safe place. "I don't know what they [the burglars] are going to do with it, but we have made sure the Olympic gold medal is locked away in a bank and it's very safe," he said. "People are not going to get to that one."
Lane 7 - Arena People posts via youtube " Cameron Van der Burgh at the Press Conference of Fina Arena Swimming WC (Dubai). Cameron Van der Burgh shares his thoughts and feelings on the forthcoming Fina Arena Swimming World Cup, his triumphant summer and Dubai."
Lane 8 - Gawker posts "The Etiquette of Drowning: Greet Your Rescuer by Name."
The Voyager escorts Diana as she swims. The long boom carries a streamer that Diana swims above, giving her a path to swim, just line a lane line at the bottom of a pool. She is flanked by kayakers protecting her from sharks. On top of Voyager, a shark expert keeps a lookout as well.
Lane 1 - news.com.au posts "Ian Thorpe's demons revealed. SWIMMER Ian Thorpe battled alcohol and depression as he tried to cling on to his career after the Athens Olympics. The revelations are understood to be in his new tell-all autobiography, written in conjunction with author Robert Wainwright and to be released through publishers Simon & Schuster on October 1. In extracts already shopped to magazines, the swim legend explains how he battled depression and alcohol while training in the US. It is understood they were also offered stories to be covered in the memoir about his financial woes and sexuality."
Lane 2 - Las Vegas Weekly posts "2012 London Summer Olympics gold medalist Ryan Lochte partied at Maxim Fridays in Tao Beach the day after a night with friends at nearby Tao Nightclub in the Venetian."
Lane 3 - CNN posts (w/video) "Diana Nyad making fourth attempt at Cuba-to-Florida swim. On Sunday, more than 30 years after her last competitive swim, she will once again take to the waters of the Straits of Florida to attempt the 103-mile swim. It's her fourth attempt to claim what she calls the "Xtreme Dream."
Lane 4 - Journal Star posts "U of Iowa weighs future bids for Olympic trials. The University of Iowa is weighing future bids for Olympic trials — including swimming and diving trials that have been held recently in Omaha — after turning a $300,000 profit as host of the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials this year. The success of the April event has organizers looking ahead to the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro."
Lane 5 - The Telegraph posts "I push my body to the limit every day. It’s horrible. I’ve done it too long. Becky Adlington apologised to fans at the Olympics for not winning gold. Now she is fighting back at her critics. Becky Adlington is off to Disneyland “to be a big kid” for a while."
Lane 6 - NYDN posts "Kim Kardashian tweets her latest ‘night swim’ bikini photo. Even when the sun doesn’t shine, Kim Kardashian is more than happy to don a bikini, hit the beach and tweet the results to her millions of followers."
Lane 7 - Bright House Sports Network posts (w/video) "Bennett Blog: Inspiring the next generation swimmer. 3-time Olympic Gold Medalist Brooke Bennett takes the time to meet with some of her newest fans."
Lane 8 - The Age posts "Life turns 360 for our oldest world champions. In a swim that brought a crowd of about 200 screaming spectators to tears, the four Melbourne ''golden girls'' set a world masters record in the 4 x 50-metre relay, swimming the race in about five minutes, 45 seconds. The women, members of the North Lodge Neptune AUSSI Masters Swimming Club, recently discovered that no one had ever entered a world record for a relay swim in the ''360'' masters division (representing the total ages of team members)."
