Swimming champ found dead

Norwegian world swimming champion Alexander Dale Oen has died age 26 at a training camp in the United States, Norway's swim federation announced on Tuesday.

Dale Oen, who won the gold medal in the 100m breaststroke in the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai, was found dead on Monday in a shower at a swimming pool in Flagstaff, Arizona, where Norway's national swim team was training for the London Olympics.

The cause of death was not immediately known. The swim federation said his teammates thought he was taking an unusually long time in the shower, and there was no reply when they knocked on the door. AFP