Sports Insider - Swimming posts

I made an interesting slip up with one of my tweets the other day when I talked of how Mark Foster's specialist subject was "80's Music" on Celebrity Masterchef. Of course, I meant Celebrity Mastermind, in which the swimmer turned "Strictly" star managed tofinish, unusually for him, joint last.

Rebecca Adlington remains as down-to-earth and level-headed as ever, despite her household fame, OBE, swimming baths and pub named after her, and various awards and honours since she won two gold medals last August in the 400 and 800 metres freestyle finals at the Beijing Olympics, the latter with a stunning new world record.

David Davies may be the current Olympic 10K silver medallist, after his fine open water swim in Beijing last summer, and he may well be aiming for gold in Rome at the world championships in August, but what he really dreams of is having a small cameo role in BBC TV's hit comedy, Gavin and...