Provides the latest RSS feeds for Swimming News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Australian Herald.com http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/cat/bb7316205eb3683a/ en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 00:43:18 -0400 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:43:18 -0400 30 Buzz has it that 2000 Olympics medallist Ian Thorpe Thorpe and James Middleton, the brother of the Duchess of Cambridge, have become flatmates. Thorpe, who was a guest at Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding two years ago and has considered the royal family amongst his closest friends since the 2000 Olympics, has spent significant amount of time in London in the recent months, the Age ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214613804/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 08:20:02 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214613804/scat/bb7316205eb3683a The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned US citizens that public swimming pool is filled with fecal matter. The researchers from CDC collected water samples from filters at 160 indoor and outdoor pools around Atlanta, and found traces of feces in nearly 60 percent of them, demonstrated by the presence of E. coli bacteria. The agency said that the E. coli bacteria enters ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214611452/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 02:40:01 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214611452/scat/bb7316205eb3683a TOPEKA, Kansas, May 19. HANNAH Angell, a senior at Blue Valley Southwest, was named Athlete of the Year at the Kansas Girls 5-1A Swimming and Diving Championships May 16-18 in Topeka. Her coach, Arvel McElroy, received Coach of the Year honors.Angell set the only state record this year with her 55.58 in the 100 back, taking out Emily Dicus' 2008 mark of 55.84. Hannah, who will be swimming ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214620896/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 20:09:35 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214620896/scat/bb7316205eb3683a BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, April 29. VICE President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass announced today that 2012 U.S. Olympic Team coach and 2013 ACC Coach of the Year Drew Johansen has been named head diving coach at Indiana University. Johansen joins the Hoosiers from Duke University where he has served as head coach since 2007. "We believe we have hired the best diving coach in America with ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214621101/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 19:43:00 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214621101/scat/bb7316205eb3683a SANTA CLARITA, California, May 19. ANDREW Gemmell (Wilmington, Del.) and Haley Anderson (Granite Bay, Calif.) won the 5-kilometer national titles on Sunday to conclude the USA Swimming Open Water National Championships at Lower Castaic Lake.With their victories, Gemmell and Anderson qualified for July's FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. They will join Christine Jennings ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214620092/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 19:19:44 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214620092/scat/bb7316205eb3683a NAPLES, Florida, May 19. AT the T2 Norris Foundation Meet this weekend, T2's own Matthew Limbacher, just 12 years old, took down the U.S. National Age Group record in the boys 11-12 50-meter breaststroke event.Limbacher clocked a scorching 31.63, nearly a full eight seconds ahead of his closest competitor, to top the sprint breaststroke event. That swim broke a record set well before ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214620477/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 19:19:44 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214620477/scat/bb7316205eb3683a After establishing a world season-leading Russian record of 2:08.62 in the semi-final yesterday, Vyacheslav Sinkevich, Volgograd, took the 200m breaststroke crown at nationals in Kazan in 2:09.00. On a day when Nikita Lobintsev set the 100m free pace at  48.18 at the helm of the second semi ahead of Danila Izotov, on 48.23 as the Russian 4x100m builds into a threat, Sinkevich enjoyed ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214620478/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 18:53:54 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214620478/scat/bb7316205eb3683a PHOENIX, Arizona, May 14. RECORDS were being broken left and right in high school and Masters swimming last weekend, and several of the country's best swimmers were in action at the Arena Grand Prix in Charlotte. A lot of options for us to pick from for the Speedo Performance of the Week.In the end, we couldn't ignore the first of three national high school records broken this weekend. ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214619973/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 18:05:43 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214619973/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Commentary by Brent RutemillerPHOENIX, Arizona, May 19. CASEY Barrett and Peter Busch got the story right. Michael Phelps is going to come back and compete again for the United States in the sport of swimming. The Associated Press, Baltimore Sun, New York Daily News, Sports illustrated, Sporting News, and Huffington Post all picked up on their comeback ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214618456/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 16:02:56 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214618456/scat/bb7316205eb3683a LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 29. CHINA largely dominated the three-day competition of the fourth leg of the FINA/Midea Diving World Series 2013 organised in Moscow (RUS) from April 26-28. The only title escaping to the Asian powerhouse in the discipline was on the men's 3m springboard synchro, where Ukraine's pair Illya Kvasha/Oleksiy Prygorov won a thrilling final by a short margin of ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214618020/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 14:42:58 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214618020/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Olympic champion Chad Le Clos cruised inside the world-championship cut in his Olympic gold-winning event, the 200m butterfly, with a dominant 1:56.35 victory at South African nationals in Port Elizabeth this morning. Out in 55.67 at the half-way, Le Clos had left the pack behind on his way to joining fellow South African Olympic champion Cameron van der Burgh on the team bound for Barcelona and ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214618021/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 14:42:57 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214618021/scat/bb7316205eb3683a the Norwegian ace's sponsor at the time of his death a year ago as he prepared for the London 2012 Olympic Games, has issued the following statement to raise awareness of Dale Oen's legacy: Norwegian breaststroke swimmer Alexander Dale Oen was an Arena Elite Team member when he won his - and his nation's - first world title in Shanghai in 2011. He was still an Elite Team athlete ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214618019/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 14:42:57 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214618019/scat/bb7316205eb3683a By Steven Munatones, Open Water SourceMISSION VIEJO, California, May 13. HUNDREDS of ambitious teenagers and young adults are descending upon Castaic Lake near Santa Clarita, California to participate in the 2013 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships and Fran Crippen Sunset Mile. A few of them are odds-on favorites to swim in the lead pack, a handful of others have a realistic ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214616920/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 12:59:49 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214616920/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Marine Le Pen fractured her sacrum, the triangle shaped bone at the bottom of the spine, a statement by Front National said. Photograph: Guillaume ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214614303/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 08:52:41 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214614303/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwe's Olympic swim star, has urged South Africa to seize the day and capitalise on the success of its two Olympic champions in the pool at London 2012, Cameron van der Burgh and Chad Le Clos. Looking in on the pool problems that caused two days of cancellations at South African nationals in Port Elizabeth this week, Kirsty sympathised but chose the moment to tell South ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214614472/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 08:46:26 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214614472/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Members of the Australian men's 4x100 metres freestyle relay team at the centre of the Stilnox sleep-aid saga and behavioural issues have received deferred suspensions and will be "required to make payments" to Swimming Australia. The penalties follow inquiry and a Swimming Australia Integrity Panel report into the behaviour of the sprinters and the use of the prescription drug ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214613082/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 05:22:53 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214613082/scat/bb7316205eb3683a  World champion Cesar Cielo clocked 21.58 in the heats of the 50m free at the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio this morning. The world record holder will be flanked in the final by Europe-based Bruno Fratus, 21.98, and Alan Vitoria, on 22.21. In the finals last night, Rio time, Olympic silver medallist over 400IM in London, Thiago Pereira practised a quarter of his strength on day 2 at the Maria ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214613083/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 05:22:53 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214613083/scat/bb7316205eb3683a passed away on April 30 last year in Flagstaff, USA, at the end of a training camp. He suffered cardiac arrest after having suffered a blood clot. Van Der Burgh, the 100m breaststroke Olympic champion from South Africa whose parents sat with Dale Oen's family in the stands at London 2012 to watch the final, could not make his fried's funeral last year because of visa issues. ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214613081/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 05:22:53 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214613081/scat/bb7316205eb3683a We're only a few years removed from "Swimsuitgate" at the Class 5A state meet. Saturday may be remembered as "Measurementgate." The start of Saturday's 5A boys state swimming and diving championships in Grand Junction was delayed for more than an hour when meet officials determined the pool at the El Pomar Natatorium at Colorado Mesa University was three-sixteenths ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214611491/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 02:12:51 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214611491/scat/bb7316205eb3683a JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A great white shark is looming, once again, off our coast.Mary Lee is 16 feet long, 3,400 pounds and recently pinged 150 miles off Jacksonville's coast.Mary Lee was tagged in Cape Cod in September by Ocearch. She was named after the fisherman's mother. This isn't Mary Lee's first visit to North Florida. She pinged dangerously close to Jacksonville Beach ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214610622/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sun, 19 May 2013 00:31:10 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214610622/scat/bb7316205eb3683a SARASOTA, Florida, May 8. USMS is reaffirming that effective May 7, in accordance with USMS article 102.12.1D, Arena Powerskin Carbon Pro suits bearing the following FINA approval codes (found on the FINA stamp on the back of each suit) are no longer allowed in USMS pool competition: AR220993 (women's), AR220994 (women's), and AR141364 (men's). "USMS article 102.12.1D states ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214609162/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sat, 18 May 2013 21:41:21 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214609162/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Update May 18Today, noted sports business journalist Darren Rovell tweeted that Michael Phelps' agent Peter Carlisle denies a rumored comeback by the Greatest of All Time. However, Rovell then went on to quote Carlisle in a way that did not completely shut the door on a potential Phelps bid to return to ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214608173/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sat, 18 May 2013 19:53:28 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214608173/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Vyacheslav Sinkevich cracked the Russian 200m breaststroke record in 2:08.62 in the semis at in Kazan. The time took him inside the 2:09.36 standard established by Grigory Falko in shiny suit at the 2009 World Championships in Rome. Steadily they fall.  Sinkevich, who cracked 2:10 for the first time last year, with a 2:09.90 in the Olympic semis in London, went through in 29.27, 1:02.08 ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214607476/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sat, 18 May 2013 18:58:58 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214607476/scat/bb7316205eb3683a CONCORD, California, May 18. IN the fastest high school heat ever in a 100-yard breaststroke event, Campolindo's Steven Stumph took down the national high school record in the event at the California Interscholastic Federation's North Coast Sectional championships.Stumph, who tied Brendan Hansen's 2000 national public school record of 53.67 during prelims, scorched the finale with ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214606887/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sat, 18 May 2013 18:32:11 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214606887/scat/bb7316205eb3683a CONCORD, California, May 18. SHORTLY after Campolindo's Steven Stumph dropped the fastest boys 100-yard breaststroke record of all time in high school competition, the Carondelet girls became the first prep quartet under 3:21 in the girls 400-yard free relay at the California Interscholastic Federation North Coast Sectional Championships.Carondelet put together a sterling time of 3:20.42 ... http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214606370/scat/bb7316205eb3683a Sat, 18 May 2013 17:37:34 -0400 http://www.australianherald.com/index.php/sid/214606370/scat/bb7316205eb3683a