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Sunday's Swim Report - Dip Into The Swim Of Things

Lane 1 - Herald Sun posts "James Magnussen does it his way.  JAMES Magnussen has no clue whether he could have been a rugby league star, but he knows the fickle nature of team sport hurt him so deeply it convinced him to become a swimmer.  The 21-year-old will carry Black Caviar-like favouritism into the men's 100m freestyle in London.  Magnussen remains a fan of the game and has been a member of the Canterbury Bulldogs for years. He cherishes a photo of himself, aged 11, with club legend Terry Lamb.  These days he attends most Bulldogs home matches at ANZ Stadium and is embraced by the players in the dressing-room. But he has no lingering doubts about giving the game up. Not when he is king of the pool."  Another from the Herald Sun "Australian swimmer James Magnussen says he wants to race US star Michael Phelps.  JAMES Magnussen has a vision: US swimmer Michael Phelps, standing on the blocks next to him, both leading off for their respective nations in pursuit of gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay in London."

Lane 2 - The Record posts "Mark Tewksbury takes another dip with Olympic team, this time as Canada’s chef de mission.  Now, the 44-year-old is poised to lead Canadian Olympians into London in the role of the team’s chef de mission. In the volunteer position as official representative and spokesperson, he’ll be the No. 1 cheerleader and head of the group tasked with ensuring the country’s athletes can achieve their best."

Lane 3 - USA Today posts "Swimmer Brendan Hansen has thrown out expectations.  The University of Texas grad, 30, got married during his sabbatical and began training for London in January 2011 with encouragement from his wife, Martha. Hansen, who had stayed in shape with triathlon training, won both of his events at last year's national championships.  "He was probably as ripped as he's ever been," Eddie Reese, his coach, said. "He just picked a way of life that gave him a better chance if he did come back. It may have been in the back of his mind."

Lane 4 - The Telegraph posts "London 2012 Olympics: poster girl Ellen Gandy going for gold in home swimming pool.  Who on Team GB can claim they are part of the reason why the Olympic Games are being hosted in London in the first place? Ellen Gandy, who joins The Telegraph as one of our Olympic columnists, was there right at the beginning. London’s commuters will remember the posters imploring the public to back the bid – perhaps the most memorable was one of young swimmers diving off the Thames barrier. There’s Gandy, front and centre."

Lane 5 - NBC DFW posts (w/video) "Olympic Medalist Promotes Water Safety.  Former Olympic swimmer says swimming is only sport that can save your life.  An Olympic gold medalist promoted water safety on Friday at Lewisville Lake.  Neil Walker, a former Olympic swimmer who now lives in North Texas, joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Water Safety Week.  Walker was a medalist in both the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, and few people know water like he does."

Lane 6 - Cleveland.com posts "Medina Masters Swim Club competes in Medina Sprint Spectacular."  News Observer posts "Raleigh swimmer Erika Braun, 40, qualifies for U.S. Olympic Trials.  At age 40, Raleigh’s Erika Braun is off to the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials in Omaha, Neb..  But in April, 2011, she entered the U.S. Masters Spring National Championships in Mesa, Ariz., and won four races and placed second in two others.  Other than Braun and Torres, the only competitor older than 40 in the Trials will be Steve West. West, 40, is the oldest man ever to qualify for the Trials."

Lane 7 - MetroWeekly posts "Splash the boys! A Swimsuit Issue Outtake. An outtake from the behind-the-scenes shoot at Metro Weekly's upcoming 2012 swimsuit issue at VIDA's Penthouse Pool Club. The Swimsuit issue hits stands on Thursday, May 24."

Lane 8 - Florida Today posts (w/video) "South Beaches surfer healing after shark attack.  Medical bills total about $8,000 for student who nearly lost pinkie.  Shark bite victim recovering, describes attack: Justin Ellingham won the NSSA college men's surfing title for Florida Tech in April. Four days later, he was chomped by a shark near Melbourne Beach. He has no health insurance."

Bait 3D Official Red Band Trailer #1 (2012) - Shark Movie HD

io9 posts "Watch a man get bitten in half by a giant shark in the Bait redband trailer.  Piranha 3DD seems to have a monopoly on the "fish and tits" subgenre of horror movies for this year — but this indie Australian film, Bait, is making a serious challenge when it comes to the "fish" part. Watch a bunch of people get trapped in a warehouse with a giant shark, after a tidal wave floods their town. Including some pleasingly gruesome dismemberments."

Sunday's Swim Report - Is The End For The Party Boy Swimmers?

Lane 1 - Brisbane Times posts "Hackett hurt by party-boy portrayal.  GRANT HACKETT has been painted as a party boy with drinking issues by some sections of the media who have been reporting about his marriage bust-up with pop star Candice Alley. Today he is speaking about the matter for the first time - and be sure Hackett is choosing his words with some care; the depth of his hurt and anger will be known to friends and confidants - but he was keen to set the record straight. Firstly, he was not booted out of the family home.  The relationship had not been working for months and in the end the couple had no choice than to go their separate ways."

Lane 2 - Times Union posts "The rise and fall of John Trembley.  An addiction to drugs and "fantasy communications" has derailed the coaching career of one of the Capital Region's most accomplished athletes…Four months later, the school revealed why: Trembley had been using his university email account to exchange sexually explicit messages, including one with a user who claimed to be a 17-year-old boy.  "I can (have sex) all night when I also enjoy (meth) which I have here. I will pay for ur cab both ways and we can party and play most or all night," he wrote to the user in an email obtained by the Knoxville News Sentinel."

Lane 3 - Chicago Tribune posts "Phelps finds the positives in his last event before the Olympic trials.  Phelps finishes second in 200-meter butterfly at Charlotte UltraSwim Grand Prix on Saturday."

Lane 4 - Boston Globe posts "Open-water swimmer focusing on the Olympics.  It’s not as though he was the first guy to splash around in Walden Pond. Henry David Thoreau paddled across it, generations of skinny-dippers have immersed themselves, and triathletes train there. But when Alex Meyer does his extended up-and-backs at the Concord swimming hole, he eventually attracts a cadre of the curious.  Just getting in some outdoor work while he preps for this summer’s Olympics in London, where Meyer will be the only US male in the 10-kilometer open-water swim. Because of the recent unseasonable conditions, he hasn’t been making the trek to Walden. He has had to use the “endless pool’’ - essentially a chlorinated treadmill where Meyer can go nowhere fast for three hours at a time - at his alma mater’s indoor facility next to the river."

Lane 5 - Brisbane Times posts "Lay-off was just the ticket for Trickett.  espite numerous swimmers making comebacks, only one made it to London, writes Daniel Lane.  S he had to settle for bronze at the world championships three years ago but Libby Trickett was struck by a rare moment of serenity in Rome after realising missing out on the gold medal did not really matter."

Lane 6 - Denver Post has "Swimming phenom Missy Franklin has parents to thank for her success.  The home of the best 17-year-old female swimmer in the world looks like the home of the best 17-year-old female swimmer in Centennial. Or the best 17-year-old flutist. Or debater.  The Franklins' home in this quiet suburb is tastefully decorated with Asian and Native American art. Ruger, the 110-pound Alaskan Malamute, lopes around apparently looking for live cattle to eat.  The lone evidence that this is a swimmer's habitat is a couple of framed magazine covers and four Golden Goggle Awards over the mantle. Given to the best swimming performers in the U.S., they're merely the sport's Oscars. Stacks of articles she has never read and the Franklins haven't bothered to display fill boxes and file cabinets."

Lane 7 - The Daily Beast posts "Dalai Lama Fears Shark Attack.  Being reincarnated as a shark is one thing—being eaten by one is another. “Long flights, those I really feared, but now I’m used to them,” Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, revealed in a new profile in The Telegraph. “The fear now is that I never learnt to swim so if the plane crashes on water, I would immediately go deep under the sea and be enjoyed by a shark.”

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Thursday's Swim Report - Taking The Pool Party To The Streets

Lane 1 - nine/msn posts "Aussie Olympians to get recovery boost.  Australian athletes are set to reap the benefits of a bigger and better recovery centre for the London Olympics, with hopes it can bridge the all-important gap between silver and gold or making the podium at all."

Lane 2 - Evening Standard posts "Power is my secret weapon for London 2012 Olympics glory, says Fran Halsall.  Swimmer shatters perceptions of the stereotypical athlete but has the talent to be Britain’s golden girl of the Games."

Lane 3 - sport24 posts "Road to London: Chad le Clos.  In the eighth in a series of Q 'n A style interviews with South African sportsmen and women ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Graeme Joffe chats to SA swimming sensation, Chad le Clos."

Lane 4 - Houston News posts "Cancer survivor, Olympic athlete featured speaker at CanCare lunch.  At 24 years old, Eric Shanteau was feeling a bit like Superman.  A swimmer with Olympic aspirations, he was in the best shape of his life and feeling the competitive edge as he faced the 2008 Olympic trials.  Then a six-letter word nearly stopped him in his tracks.  On June 19, 2008, Shanteau was diagnosed with testicular cancer."

Lane 5 - SI posts "Phelps discusses early retirement, training, London Games and more."

Lane 6 - Gay Star News posts "Soho Speedo splash!  Our reporter dons a pair of Speedos and hits the streets of London’s Soho – all for a good cause...This summer my swimming club, Out To Swim, is holding a pool party at the Brockwell Park Lido in South London.  As with any community-based organisation, getting the budget right on something like this is essential – not only do we need to sell enough tickets to cover the costs of the event, but we’re raising money (to provide dedicated swimming lessons for people living with HIV and AIDS), so we also need to sell enough tickets to make it worthwhile."  More info at http://www.eventelephant.com/OTSsummerpoolparty2012 .  The Gay Games Blog posts "London Orcas brave the cold streets of Soho to promote coming pool party.  A message from Gareth Johnson from the Out to Swim London swim club:  Well that was an interesting experience!  As part of our PR drive for the Out To Swim Pool Party 2012, our social rep Ming organised a Soho Speedo Splash!  It was the Sunday evening of the May Bank Holiday weekend, and at 19:00 a hardy group of eight OTS-ers assembled at Rupert Street. In the squad were Ming, Ian E, Gareth W, Andrejus L, Tommy T, Stephen L, Tristan G (our official photographer) and myself. It wasn't really until we were all there that it kind of hit me that it was only Ming and myself who had agreed to strip down to speedos, everyone else was keeping their OTS t-shirts (and jeans) safely on…"

Lane 7 - WTSP posts "SHARK ATTACK: German tourist Karin Ulrike Stei in hospital after Vero Beach attack.  German tourist was bitten by a shark at Humiston Beach.  Vero Beach Police report it happened near at 3000 Ocean Drive. Police identified the victim as Karin Ulrike Stei, 47, of Konstanz, Germany. Her bite wounds go from her thigh to below her knee -- eyewitnesses say the shark attack severed her femoral artery and removed a large portion of her upper thigh."

Lane 8 - SI posts "American Olympic hopeful Jessica Hardy is peerless in the pool."

Tuesday's Swim Report - Swimmer's Got Talent!

Lane 1 - STV posts (w/video) "Britain’s Got Talent: Olympics themed synchronised swim inspires Simon.  A quartet of synchronised swimmers brought out Simon’s patriotic side as they took to the water.  Aquabatique, made up of former international synchronised swimmers for Great Britain – Emily, Zoe, Jazmine and Elizabeth – performed in their outdoor “human aquarium” in the pouring rain for the Britain’s Got Talent judges."

Lane 2 - The Sydney Morning Herald posts "Nick D'Arcy fulfilled selection criteria: AOC.  Even if Swimming Australia had struck a deal with Nick D'Arcy, it would not have guaranteed him a place at the London Games, the Australian Olympic Committee says.  Swimming Australia has denied allegations made by former swimmer Simon Cowley that it agreed to include D'Arcy in future teams after he allegedly threatened to sue the body for excluding him from the 2009 world championships."

Lane 3 - Diana Nyad posts "Got Ensure? Diana Nyad Xtreme Dream 2012" via youtube.

Lane 4 - Juneau Empire posts "Olympic champ Gaines plunges into Pillars series.  Masters swimmer Rowdy Gaines has maintained his love of the sport and drive to compete three decades after winning three Olympic gold medals.  “It’s the continued passion,” Gaines said."

Lane 5 - Arena & Swim Outlet posts "Day In The Life - Janet Evans" via youtube.

Lane 6 - MSNBC posts "New ad gives Olympic (and regular) moms their due.  When you think of Olympic heroes, you think of those gold-medal winning performances. That record-setting swim race. The lightning-fast relay. The nerve-wracking penalty kicks that resulted in goooooaalll, and victory.

But a new ad from Procter & Gamble puts the spotlight on an entirely different  hero: The Olympic mom. The ones who got up earlier than everyone else to feed and drive their little athletes to pre-dawn practices for all those years."

Lane 7 - nine/msn posts "Australia's Sharks shooting for gold.  Australia first competed in the Olympic men's water polo when the Games were last in London in 1948 and are yet to win gold in the event."

Meanwhile, The Washington Post has "FINA announces water polo draw at London Olympics, groups defending champion Hungary with US.  Swimming governing body FINA has announced the draw for water polo at the London Games, grouping men’s Olympic champion Hungary with the United States, Serbia, Romania and host Britain."

Lane 8 - International Business Times asks "Shark Attack: Would You Dare Dive to Save a Dead Mate’s Body from a Killer Shark? Friends of an Aussie man who died while free-diving off Moreton Island in Queensland did not need much time to second guess themselves on whether they would retrieve their mate's body in the ocean. They jumped in to dive down 24 metres despite being aware that the shark that attacked their friend was circling their friend's dead body. They were determined to not leave their mate on the sea floor."

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