Daily Swim Report - LA 2024 & Other Swim Bits

Lane 1 - East Bay Times posts "Oakland: Olympic gold medalist swimmer Missy Franklin will sign books in Montclair. Team USA swimmer and five-time Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin will visit A Great Good Place for Books in Montclair Village on Dec. 10 to launch her new book, “Relentless Spirit: The Unconventional Raising of a Champion.”

Lane 2 - Sport 24 posts "SA swimmer, water polo player banned. A South African swimmer and water polo player have been banned after failing drug tests. Swimmer Louisa de Jongh and water polo player Jabulani Sibiya have both been served with two-year bans by the South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport (SAIDS)."

Lane 3 - NBC Sports posts (w/video) "Watch USA Swimming behind the scenes from Omaha to Rio. Check out a montage of the U.S. Olympic swim team’s preparations for the Rio Olympics, from its first gatherings after the Olympic Trials in Omaha to training camps and finally arrival in Brazil."

Lane 4 - NBC Sports posts "LA 2024 Olympic bid budget one-quarter the size of Tokyo 2020.  The LA bid committee released the budget on Friday. The bid is about a quarter of Tokyo’s current ballooning budget for the 2020 Olympics."