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Socialization in Practice -- July 5, 2011

Feature by Tyler Remmel HARTLAND, Wisconsin, July 5. TALKING is a simple thing; it is so common, even at practice. Swimmers will do their best to hold up a conversation in five-second gaps between swims, and two-minute periods between sets. Senior swimmers are pretty good at it by now. There are the obvious difficulties that such conversations present, but what's more interesting is how the opinions of this socialization differ from coach to swimmer. A normal Lake Country Phoenix (Hartland, Wisc.) practice is rarely quiet. Aside from the time spent actually swimming, there will often be multiple conversations going on at once. For a swimmer, talking is a sort of rite of passage. Some say that it makes practices go faster, others say that it makes practices easier, and still others claim that conversation is what keeps them coming back to practice. SwimmingWorld.TV Video on Socialization in Practice "For the little joy that practice offers, talking makes it a lot more enjoyable," said Lake Country swimmer Evan Barta. "Once you look back on it [if you were talking], the practice…doesn't seem as hard if you were having fun," Holly Johnson said. Even though coach Mark Kohnhorst used to be a swimmer, he insists that it would be good for training if swimmers didn't have to talk during practice. "Too often, a conversation carries through into a not-so-high-quality push-off," he said. "When a swimmer is involved in a conversation, it's very difficult to coach in between sets." Lake Country's coaches have had a fairly extensive battle with conversations in that regard. It's not very often that either Kohnhorst or coach Tom Coons do not have to raise their voice to get the attention of their swimmers to explain a set. Every time they do so, the pool will go silent – not always immediately, though. As you can imagine, this upsets the coaches. Having a little stubbornness, the swimmers get upset at the coaches when they raise their voice, too. The disagreement seems to stem lightly from the interpretation that talking might be considered a sort of privilege, or something that at least needs to be done sparingly at least. It's not just the coaches that feel that way, though. Olympic gold medalist Garrett Weber-Gale will sometimes train with Lake Country during the winter holidays, and one of the most lasting impressions that he's left is the loose quote, "If you're swimming as hard as you should be, you shouldn't have the breath or energy to talk." The swimmers don't exactly take that seriously. Instead, it will get thrown around from time to time as a sarcastic remark. And as you may have figured out, when Kohnhorst or Coons raises their voice, the ensuing silence doesn't last very long. If you'd ask the swimmers for an estimate, their responses range from .02 seconds to two seconds. "It's pretty easy to talk while the coaches are talking," Johnson said. "There's so many people." Kate Jones thinks that hard work should be rewarded with a sort of free speech. "They need…to just let us talk," she said. "We work so hard. We should be able to talk if we're like [working hard] to do the sets."

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FINA World Championship Podium Predictions: Men's Edition -- July 11, 2011

Column by John Lohn, Swimming World senior writer PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico, July 11. WELCOME back to our loyal readers. After unveiling my early women's picks for the World Championships a week ago, I've been itching to reveal my preliminary selections for the men's competition. As the competition begins and psych sheets become finalized, it's my intent to release my final choices. Thanks to you all for your thoughts and comments, and we look forward to more give-and-take this week. So, without further ado, here is where I'm leaning for the guys. 50 Freestyle Gold: Cesar Cielo Silver: Fred Bousquet Bronze: Nathan Adrian **This is an event that could surely change depending on the outcome of Cesar Cielo's hearing with CAS in light of a failed drug test. 100 Freestyle Gold: Nathan Adrian Silver: Cesar Cielo Bronze: Brent Hayden **American's premier sprinter follows up his win at last summer's Pan Pacific Champs by ruling the globe. 200 Freestyle Gold: Michael Phelps Silver: Tae Hwan Park Bronze: Ryan Lochte **Honestly, this thing could go so many different ways. It should be the best event of the competition. 400 Freestyle Gold: Tae Hwan Park Silver: Sun Yang Bronze: Ous Mellouli **The Olympic champion could be the first man under 3:40. 800 Freestyle Gold: Sun Yang Silver: Ous Mellouli Bronze: Ryan Cochrane **A near-miss in the 400 free is eased with a victory over twice the distance. 1500 Freestyle Gold: Sun Yang Silver: Ous Mellouli Bronze: Ryan Cochrane **Can the most vaunted record on the books, Grant Hackett's historic performance, survive the onslaught of Sun? Time will tell if Sun is can do it, or is too worn down by his previous races. 50 Backstroke Gold: Camille Lacourt Silver: Liam Tancock Bronze: Junya Koga **Even a pure sprinter like Tancock can't stay with the Frenchman. 100 Backstroke Gold: Camille Lacourt Silver: Ryosuke Irie Bronze: Nick Thoman **This is where Nick Thoman breaks through in long-course action on a big platform. 200 Backstroke Gold: Ryan Lochte Silver: Ryosuke Irie Bronze: Tyler Clary **Wouldn't be surprised if any of these three took the gold medal. 50 Breaststroke Gold: Cameron van der Burgh Silver: Felipe Silva Bronze: Hendrik Feldwehr **I don't think any of these guys will factor in the 100 breast. 100 Breaststroke Gold: Kosuke Kitajima Silver: Alexander Dale Oen Bronze: Brenton Rickard **We all know Kitajima saves his best for Olympic years, but doubting him here would be unwise. 200 Breaststroke Gold: Naoya Tomita Silver: Kosuke Kitajima Bronze: Daniel Gyurta **Tomita takes down guys with highly impressive international portfolios. 50 Butterfly Gold: Cesar Cielo Silver: Matt Targett Bronze: Milorad Cavic **Cielo's status again throws in event in prediction disarray. 100 Butterfly Gold: Michael Phelps Silver: Milorad Cavic Bronze: Laszlo Cseh **The performance by Phelps at the Canada Cup in Montreal showed he's ready to roll in this event. 200 butterfly Gold: Michael Phelps Silver: Takeshi Matsuda Bronze: Laszlo Cseh **Yes, Phelps has dropped some 200 fly races of late. Won't happen on the world stage. 200 Individual Medley Gold: Ryan Lochte Silver: Michael Phelps Bronze: Laszlo Cseh **The Americans have finished gold-silver on a number of occasions in major competitions. 400 Individual Medley Gold: Ryan Lochte Silver: Laszlo Cseh Bronze: Tyler Clary **Lochte secures his third individual gold medal of the meet. 400 Freestyle Relay Gold: United States Silver: France Bronze: Russia **Another showdown between the United States and France goes the way of the Stars and Stripes. 800 Freestyle Relay Gold: United States Silver: Russia Bronze: China **The gap between the United States and its foes has lessened, but not enough. 400 Medley Relay Gold: France Silver: United States Bronze: Germany **A hunch has France holding on after building a sizable early lead. Follow John Lohn on Twitter: @JohnLohn

FINA World Championship Podium Predictions: Women's Edition -- July 4, 2011

Column by John Lohn, Swimming World senior writer BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey, July 4. WITH less than three weeks separating us from the start of the World Championships in Shanghai, we begin our predictions for the competition with a look at the women's events. In two weeks, we'll provide picks for the men's events. We look forward to hearing your thoughts as well. 50 Freestyle Gold: Ranomi Kromowidjojo Silver: Britta Steffen Bronze: Therese Alshammar **The way the Dutchwoman has been performing this year prevented my selection of the reigning Olympic titlist. 100 Freestyle Gold: Femke Heemskerk Silver: Britta Steffen Bronze: Fran Halsall **Yep, another Dutch pick in a sprint-freestyle event, with Britta Steffen earning her second silver medal. 200 Freestyle Gold: Federica Pellegrini Silver: Kylie Palmer Bronze: Allison Schmitt **The way Palmer looks heading into Shanghai, she made me pause for a second before going with the incumbent. 400 Freestyle Gold: Rebecca Adlington Silver: Federica Pellegrini Bronze: Camille Muffat **This event should provide one of the finest duels of the women's competition. Expect Chloe Sutton to make a push for a podium position. 800 Freestyle Gold: Rebecca Adlington Silver: Chloe Sutton Bronze: Kate Ziegler **The pick of Ziegler sneaking in for the bronze medal is a hunch that she'll ratchet it up for her first World Champs since 2007. 1500 Freestyle Gold: Chloe Sutton Silver: Lotte Friis Bronze: Kate Ziegler **The longer the race, the better for Sutton. Not only is she an extreme talent, she's one of the more likable people in the sport. Everything about Sutton oozes a feel-good sense. 50 Backstroke Gold: Aya Terakawa Silver: Anastasia Zueva Bronze: Gao Chang **Not going to lie. I'm not a fan at all of the 50-meter stroke events. My preference sits with the Olympic program. 100 Backstroke Gold: Aya Terakawa Silver: Natalie Coughlin Bronze: Anastasia Zueva **Terakawa put down the world's top time of the year in April, but Coughlin has the experience and it wouldn't be a surprise if the two-time Olympic champ ruled. 200 Backstroke Gold: Kirsty Coventry Silver: Elizabeth Beisel Bronze: Belinda Hocking **Coventry hasn't done much this year, but history suggests she'll rise up. 50 Breaststroke Gold: Rebecca Soni Silver: Yulia Efimova Bronze: Leisel Jones **This event will be the toughest for Soni in her pursuit of a breaststroke sweep. 100 Breaststroke Gold: Rebecca Soni Silver: Leisel Jones Bronze: Yulia Efimova **Looking for Soni to go 1:04 and reaffirm her standing over Jones. 200 Breaststroke Gold: Rebecca Soni Silver: Yulia Efimova Bronze: Amanda Beard **There was a real urge to pick Amanda Beard for the bronze-medal slot, so I went with it. 50 Butterfly Gold: Therese Alshammar Silver: Sarah Sjostrom Bronze: Marieke Guehrer **The veteran Alshammar has long been the class of this event. 100 Butterfly Gold: Sarah Sjostrom Silver: Dana Vollmer Bronze: Alicia Coutts **With her home country behind her, Liu Zige is a strong pick for medal in her weaker butterfly event. 200 Butterfly Gold: Liu Zige Silver: Jiao Liuyang Bronze: Kathleen Hersey **Another hunch pick with Hersey in the bronze position. 200 Individual Medley Gold: Ariana Kukors Silver: Stephanie Rice Bronze: Ye Shiwen **Alicia Coutts would have been a medal pick, but her 100 fly final earlier in the night will take some out of the Australian. 400 Individual Medley Gold: Stephanie Rice Silver: Elizabeth Beisel Bronze: Li Xuanxu **Had a real tough time picking what is a jammed-up event. 400 Freestyle Relay Gold: Netherlands Silver: United States Bronze: Australia **This was a fairly easy selection given the way the Dutch have looked this year. 800 Freestyle Relay Gold: Australia Silver: United States Bronze: China **The Aussies made themselves the favorites with that impressive demonstration of power and depth at their World Champs Trials. 400 Medley Relay Gold: United States Silver: China Bronze: Australia **Not a good feeling for this event. It could go a lot of different ways. Follow me on Twitter: @johnlohn

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A Voice For The Sport: Chuck Wielgus Deposition Unsealed; Many Changes During The Past Year
-- July 11, 2011

Column by Brent Rutemiller, Swimming World CEO

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 11.

IT has been more than a year since the bombshell ABC News 20/20 interview with Chuck Wielgus, USA Swimming's Executive Director, hit the mass media exposing USA Swimming's lack of athlete protection from sexual predators.

Since those tumultuous times, USA Swimming has created an athlete protection officer, passed sweeping reforms through its House of Delegates and recently has partnered with a national child protection firm to educate athletes about recognizing unsafe situations, identifying potential risks and reporting questionable behavior. Collectively, all the efforts are meant to strengthen USA Swimming's goal to provide safe environments for athletes, coaches and volunteers.

Just when the wounds appear to be healing, a deposition given by Wielgus in 2010 is now public with the potential to create new scars. The deposition, when viewed in its place and time, shows the battleground that was confronting USA Swimming at the time and clearly illuminates weaknesses within the organization.

Looking at the deposition from a fresh perspective, this is what we can surmise.

- One year ago, USA Swimming did not have a public list of banned members. Now, USA Swimming has a public "Banned List" that contains people who, for various reasons, lost membership to USA Swimming. Although the list is not actively sent to the media when updated, it can easily be found by searching USA Swimming's website.

- USA Swimming also has a non-public "Flagged List" that contains names of people who are not current members of USA Swimming. If these people request membership, they would be subject to a national board of review and possibly an investigation, for various reasons, prior to being granted membership.

Local Swim Committees (LSCs) are quickly informed, when they link to the national registration database, that an individual requesting membership is on the flagged list. The LSCs are notified that the individual seeking membership needs approval from the national office.

- USA Swimming does not investigate rumors and only investigates formal complaints when it involves current members of USA Swimming. This was made very clear in Wielgus's deposition and is still a major part of the new policy.

- USA Swimming will investigate third-party rumors when it involves staff as in the case of Mark Schubert, which fortunately for Schubert turned out to be unmerited and denied by the supposed victim.

In the case of Everett Uchiyama, USA Swimming was formally approached by the victim and informed of an inappropriate relationship. When confronted by USA Swimming, Uchiyama resigned as USA Swimming's National Team Director and was put on a banned list. The banned list was not public at the time, and therefore Uchiyama was free from public scrutiny and allowed to seek employment in an aquatics-related field (not related to USA Swimming) across town. When the list became public, Uchiyama immediately resigned from the country club position to the embarrassment of the country club and USA Swimming.

Under current policy, Uchiyama's name would have been put on the public banned list, and future employees would have the responsibility of doing their due diligence as part of a background check.

- As for the coaches that Wielgus was questioned about in the deposition, there was little mention of investigations by USA Swimming into alleged inappropriate behaviors of coaches. There were two simple "rules of thumb" at the time; A person must file a complaint and the coach must be a current member of USA Swimming before USA Swimming will take action. The inaction by USA Swimming beyond those two measures clearly showed a lack of policy at the time.

While the recently-released Wielgus deposition is sure to be analyzed, criticized, and conspiratory-ized, the new systems, with its proactive policies, promise to offer better outcomes than in past years.


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  SCAQTony

  They have come a long way but they should settle with the victim in the King case.
  Everett Uchiyama showed us a pattern post the Chuck Weilgus email, "Let's keep this just between you an me..." That email is crystal clear evidence that even when a victim complains and asks for action from the CEO of USA Swimming, it was taken as a "formal complaint."

  
  
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  Idaho5000 Collapse

  I saw him on ABC's 20/20 and he was a disgrace to USA Swimming. He came across as an absolute buffoon. I could not believe what I was listening to and this man is the leader of USA Swimming? I'm surprised he was not fired immediately.
  
  I was speechless and was very embarrassed for him and the organization he leads.
  

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