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British Swimming today announced the appointment of Michael Scott as a High Performance Consultant.

Scott, a 51-year-old Australian, has been involved in swimming for a large part of his life, has a wealth of experience in high performance sport and most recently was Chief Executive of the FINA World Championships in Melbourne, March 2007.

David Sparkes, Chief [...]

“Bill Sweetenham, Britain’s controversial national performance director, has quit. The tough Australian, 57, was due to stay until after next summer’s Beijing Olympics but will be released from his contract to attend to personal matters in his homeland“

(Via the Mail online | Other sports Tough guy Sweetenham heads home: .)

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Following his decision to stand down as National Performance Director for British Swimming, Bill Sweetenham commented:

‘I’d like to thank everybody, in particular swimmers and coaches, who have supported the role I have had within British Swimming. My request for release from my contract was for various reasons that will remain personal to myself.

‘The results we’ve [...]

“A 60-year-old woman may be the oldest woman in the world to swim across the English Channel after completing the feat in about 15 hours.”

(Via BBC NEWS | England | Dorset | Channel victory for swimmer, 60: .)

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“A 16-year-old boy is celebrating after swimming the Bristol Channel.

Gary Carpenter, from Clevedon, North Somerset, is believed to be the youngest person to make the 18-mile crossing between Clevedon and Penarth.”

(Via BBC NEWS | England | Bristol | Teenager completes channel swim: .)

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What do you do when your company’s turkey farm is found to have a large number of birds with a strain of H5N1 virus – more affectionately called the bird flu? You hire an Olympic medalist – a swimmer, in fact – to lead your campaign about how great turkey is. (more…)

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