The Vortex - October Wraps Up With World Cup Action 2024, Timelines Of Swim Sorrow Recalled & Big Coach Moves For Higson & Main
October Vortex wraps up with links to timelines marking the passing of Fran Crippen 14 years ago & the 50th year since the GDR 14:25 doping program became an official state secret; + big coach moves for Ben Higson & Jaimie Main
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October 31:
World Cup, Round 3 of 3, Day 1 of 3 - Singapore
At the final leg of the 2024 World Cup in Singapore, Kate Douglass crushed her own week-old World record in the 200m breaststroke, Léon Marchand set a Cup record in the 100m medley as the second man ever to race inside 50sec and Qin Haiyang matched the 2009 shiny suits Cup record in the 100m breaststroke. There was also an Asian record from Yu Yiting in the 100m medley won by Douglass, while Duncan Scott, in the 400m freestyle, and Noe Ponti in the 100m medley behind Marchand, established new national marks, Scott's effort taking down James Guy's 10-year-old record, and Ponti clocking his 9th 100IM Swiss standard:
Summary of other items in the October Vortex:
- Coaching: Ben Higson Heads Home To Lead Stirling Unit
- USA Athlete Roster for 2024 National Select Camp
- Brendan Hansen Is USA's New National Junior Team Program Director
- Water Safety Scotland & Scottish Swimming Report Highlight Need To Teach Skills That Save Lives & Promote Wellbeing
- Links to Our World Cup Coverage
- Marking the 14th Year Since Fran Crippen's Passing
- The 50th Anniversary Of GDR State Research Plan 14:25
- Gretchen Walsh Wipes 0.53sec Off Hosszu's 100IM World S/C Record
- Coaching: Jaimie Main To Lead Repton
- Aussie distance great Grant Hackett on the 'eternal dissatisfaction' that is a part of the champion make-up and mindset:
"There’s this element of eternal dissatisfaction – you go in there with some really, really big goals... Sometimes in those great moments, as much as you win a silver medal or make a final or do something that 0.1 per cent of people might have an opportunity to get exposure to at one point in their life, you almost have to accept that an athlete or an individual at that level of success has huge expectations on themselves... everyone around me, including the media, were really happy – but a part of me was reflecting on it, and I still look at those silver medals and feel a sense of sadness." - Grant Hackett in the Courier Mail
- Zac Stubblety Cook Set To Join Adam Peaty's Mentor When Coach Mel Marshall Arrives On Gold Coast For New Chapter Down Under
- How Hannah Miley's father and coach Patrick Miley helped Aberdeen Paralympic champion Faye Rogers in her darkest hour after car accident
- David Popovici raises 160,000 Euros To Build Home For Special Needs Children
- USA Roster for World S/C Champs - & A Task Force Formed To Find New CEO
- AI Diving Judging System Trialled At Paris 2024 Has 'Lots Of Potential'
- Mollie O'Callaghan Set To Celebrate Australia's Biggest Haul In Paris At Home In Ipswich
- German Swim Fed (DSV) Appoints First Full-Time Board In Reform Drive
- Léon Marchand Leads Cast Of Stars on World Cup Tour
- Probe underway in Spain into death of Russia’s female triathlete
- Canadian Olympic Champ Maggie Mac Neil "At Peace" With Decision To Retire
- Sprint Queen Sarah Sjöstrom Weds Her Fencing Beau Johan de Jong Skierus
- Spanish Honours For Water Polo Golden Girls & Swimmers González and Castro
- USADA thanks Reuters for withdrawing inaccurate story Sourced by 'biased' WADA figure
- When the Prince met Peaty, Dean to highlight importance of access to swimming - AP Race Team in partnership with Royal Foundation
- BBC presenter cleared of 'Bias' Towards Palestinians at Paris 2024
- LA28 Sets Sights On Long Beach Harbor For Olympic Marathon after Seine pollution issues
- Win David Popovici's Paris 2024 Olympic Kit - to enter the draw, make a small donation to a charity for children with special needs
- Singapore's Olympic champ Joe Schooling Ventures Into Capital Investment
- Coach Herbie Behm Buoyant in Post-Bowman ASU Season As Defending Champs
- Rebecca Meder completes set of World S/C champs qualifiers at RSA Nationals; and Kris Mihaylov, 16, takes down Ryk Neethling's 24-year-old 800m free record and then makes 1500m his third title of the meet
- Missed in September...Olympic Medallist Steve Gregg Passes at 68
