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Excerpt by Georgia Tech's Chris DeSantis, originally published at SwimmingWorld.TV
ATLANTA, Georgia, November 5. WITH the fall signing peri...
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By Alison Teh
(A Chinese swimmer supporter)
KUALA LAMPUR, Malaysia, Jan. 17. I'VE read Phil Whitten's three part article about Chinese swimmers re-ermerging as a swimming powerhouse especially their woman swimmers. All I can say is ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 4. OUR newest episode of Split Time features an in-depth discussion of the pros and cons of choosing to compete for your high school swimming team, with host Garrett McCaffrey.
McCaffrey is joined by Shawn Klos...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, November 3. A teacher at an average high school has a student for maybe three hours a week, on average, for either one or two semesters. The coach of a serious, year round swimmer, on the o...
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Column by John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, October 26. TWO weeks ago, this column slot provided a look at one man's vote for the top 10 swimmers of the decade. It was a tough task, but not nearly as challenging as this week's chor...
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KLAKSVIK, Faroe Islands, November 3. PAL Joensen was at it once again at the Faroe Islands as he continues to put the tiny country on the swimming map. During a short course meters meet held in Klaksvik, Joensen competed in the 400 and 1500 frees...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, October 16. THE USA Swimming Foundation today released the nominations for the Golden Goggle Awards, a star-studded awards gala celebrating the accomplishments of top American swimmers in 2009. The event will take place...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, October 28. THIRTY-six top American swimmers, including 17 Olympians, will battle against a squad of European swimmers at the 2009 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool in Manchester, England December 18-19. The event, which...
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JINAN, China, October 21. AT the Chinese Nationals Games held in Jinan, Liu Zige crushed the world record in the women's 200-meter fly over long course competition.
Liu posted a shocking time of 2:01.81, smashing Jessicah Schipper's wor...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, October 10. MOST parents want the best for their children, both academically and athletically. And, many parents push their children, both in school and on the playing field. It is widely a...
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Excerpt by Chris DeSantis, originally published on SwimmingWorld.TV
ATLANTA, Georgia, October 27. IN my personal pantheon of coaching ...
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Guest editorial by Tony Austin
LOS ANGELES, California, October 15. IT was the last weekend in September when the FINA Masters committee met in Gothenburg, Sweden to determine whether techsuits would be acceptable swimwear for Masters sw...
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JINAN, China, October 23. ANOTHER Asian record tumbled during long course competition held at the Chinese National Games in Jinan.
Chen Qian crushed the Asian record in the women's 800 free with a sterling time of 8:20.36. The 16-year-old ...
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JINAN, China, October 24. THE final day of the Chinese National Games taking place over long course featured a huge upset, a near Asian record and a national mark in relay action.
The men's 400 medley relay team of He Jianbin (54.95), Zhang...
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JINAN, China, October 22. AN Asian record, and two national records, fell during long course competition at the Chinese National Games held in Jinan today.
Pang Jiaying claimed the women's 100 free Asian record with a swift time of 53.13. ...
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LOS ANGELES, California, October 22. KOSUKE Kitajima has announced that he will return from his 15-month break during a meet held at the Tokyo Swimming Center next month according to Reuters. Kitajima will swim the 50, 100 and 200 breaststroke eve...
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ORLANDO, Florida, October 22. OVER the past weekend, the Rowdy Gaines Classic featured several FINA Masters World Records over short course meters, including a few by the man himself.
Gaines, 50, beat the men's 50-54 100 free standard with ...
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HOLLYWOOD, California, October 20. LAST night, Natalie Coughlin danced the paso doble as part of her stay on the Dancing With The Stars television show.
She scored a 22/30, which is among the bottom three, but has certainly had a strong fan fo...
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WIMBERLEY, Texas, October 14. JAY McDonald, 52, from Wimberley, Texas passed away on Saturday, October 10. He died having a heart attack while playing tennis.
McDonald began coaching swimming in the late 1970s at the Woodway Country Club in Co...
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JINAN, China, October 19. AN Asian record fell on the third day of swimming at the Chinese National Games held in Jinan.
Zhao Jing captured the women's 100 back title with a top time of 58.96. The performance beat her Asian and Chinese reco...
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Guest editorial by David Rieder
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 16. SWIMMING World superfan David Rieder, who blogs on his site at swimdr549.blogspot.com, joins us again with his tho...
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JINAN, China, October 18. THE second day of long course action at the Chinese National Games featured some fast swimming. Along with one near world record swim, a pair of Asian records fell.
Liu Zige claimed the Asian record in the 100 fly wit...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, October 16. FINA recently released a list of approved swimsuits for use in 2010.
Here is the list as released by FINA on October 15:
Applicant/Manufacturer Type of Swimwear
Arena Italia S.p.A. X-Flat classic ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, October 14. THIS weekend, SwimmingWorld.TV and Pure Sports Marketing will partner to bring the Arizona State High School 1A/2A/3A Championships to a global Internet audience.
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Column by John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, October 12. THIS year marks the 10th year of competition this decade, and as a way to celebrate that anniversary, Swimming World will be publishing the results of its Swimmer of the Decade...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, October 15. SPEEDO, the world's leading swimwear brand, has announced that its new generation of performance swimwear inspired by the Speedo LZR Racer suit has been approved by FINA. The range is fully compliant with the...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, October 14. HOSTS Peter Busch and Garrett McCaffrey welcome Swimming World Magazine senior writer John Lohn to the first episode of "Split Time," where the three give a cautionary outlook to the way the men's...
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CORAL SPRINGS, Florida, October 9. ACCORDING to a report by the Associated Press, Dara Torres will be looking at a 12-18 month recovery from major knee surgery.
Previously believed to just need a minor surgery, Torres has learned that s...
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HOLLYWOOD, California, October 6. NATALIE Coughlin kept on rolling in this season's Dancing With The Stars. Last night, she put together a steamy Rumba en route to a total score of 26. She's become one of Carrie Ann Inaba's favorite ...
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CANBERRA, Australia, October 7. WORLD Champion and world record holder Jessicah Schipper has won the 2009 Telstra Swimmer of the Year Award at Parliament House in Canberra tonight in an evening of high praise for the 22-year-old butterflyer from B...
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, October 2. AFTER a dramatic day that featured a surprising ousting of Chicago in the first round of voting, Rio de Janeiro earned hosting duties for the 2016 Olympic Games as announced by the International Olympic Committee to...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, October 1. BACKSTROKE world record holder Aaron Peirsol is today's guest on The Morning Swim Show, discussing his experiences at world championships and the open water event in Florida bearing his name.
Host Peter B...
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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, October 1. NEW Zealand's leading swimmer Moss Burmester saved his best until last in taking out the 200m butterfly on the final night of the New Zealand Spring Competition in Christchurch tonight.
The world short ...
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SYDNEY, Australia, September 30. AT 25 years of age triple Olympic gold medalist from Athens, Jodie Henry, has officially announced her retirement from competitive swimming today.
Henry, who last competed in 2008 before failing to trial for the...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, October 1. MISSY Franklin of the Colorado Stars had quite the meet at this summer's USA Swimming Junior Nationals. The fourteen year-old set five individual meet records and finished with a total of six gold medals.
As ...
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CHICAGO, Illinois, September 19. AT its annual Convention on Saturday, more than 400 USA Swimming Delegates, representing swim clubs from all 50 states, voted overwhelmingly for early implementation of a ban on high-tech swimsuits. The legislation...
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By Jeff Commings, The Morning Swim Show associate producer, originally posted on SwimmingWorld.TV
CHICAGO, Illinois, September 18. AL...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, September 30. THE USA Swimming House of Delegates, consisting of 438 coach, official and athlete members, voted to implement new swimsuit requirements, beginning on October 1. While this earlier implementation date has ...
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, September 30. TYR is proud to announce a multi-year partnership with Ariana Kukors, the 2009 World Championship gold medalist and world record holder in the 200m Individual Medley out of Orange County, Ca.
"I ...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, September 24. AFTER announcing that Oct. 1 would be the effective date for a speedsuit ban during the USAS Convention recently, USA Swimming has been fielding plenty of phone calls and e-mails about the specifics of the...
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Column by John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, September 28. A few topics will be addressed this week, the first two because I'm honestly having a real difficult time making some decisions on a pair of assignments that are due in the near...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 24. THE executive producer of a documentary detailing East Germany's systematic doping of its athletes is the highlight of today's edition of The Morning Swim Show.
Host Peter Busch talks to Jared Lipw...
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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, September 23. LAST summer, word filtered out from Philadelphia that the Valley Swim Club allegedly discriminated against the Creative Steps day care center, a group comprised mostly of minorities.
Tuesday, the Penns...
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CADIZ, Spain, September 23. AT the European Masters Long Course Championships held in Spain last week, Italy's Alberto Montini lowered the FINA Masters world record in the men's 40-44 50 breaststroke.
Montini checked in with a time of 2...
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Guest editorial by Chris DeSantis, originally published at SwimmingWorld.TV
ATLANTA, Georgia, September 16. I had been antici...
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CAMLOUGH, Ireland, September 21. A team of swimmers from the Newry Triathlon Club in Ireland set the Guinness World Record for Longest Continuous Open Water Relay Swim with a 10-day performance according to 10KSwimmer.com.
The team swam for a t...
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BERLIN, Germany, September 19. EARLIER this week, multiple Olympic medalist Britta Steffen of Germany announced that she would be traveling to Australia to train in Brisbane for a month starting tomorrow, according to DSV.
Not only will...
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CHICAGO, Illinois, September 20. THE winners of awards in swimming, synchronized swimming and diving were announced at last night's ceremony that concluded the 2009 United States Aquatic Sports convention.
Two awards presented previously we...
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Column by John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, August 31. THERE is no undisputed answer to the question, for there isn't one way to assess the query. Yet, it's a topic frequently tossed about, usually against the backdrop of a major p...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, September 15. THE American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA), at its annual Awards Dinner last Friday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., named Eddie Reese its Coach of the Year.
Reese was cited for his 2009 work with men'...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, September 16. NCAA President Myles Brand, the first university president to serve as the Association's chief executive, died Wednesday from pancreatic cancer. He was 67.
"Myles Brand was a dear friend and a great...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Open Water correspondent
TIBURON, California, September 13. THE always exciting RCP Tiburon came to a close with Oceania swimmers walking away with the men's and women's elite titles. New Zeal...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 2. IN A Voice for the Sport in the September issue of Swimming World Magazine, publisher Brent Rutemiller writes about the Great Suit Debate.
No issue has polarized the swimming community more...
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Column by John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, September 14. TWO weeks ago, this column tossed out the argument that Michael Phelps was the most dominant athlete in the world. The reactions to that assessment were wide-ranging, many in disagr...
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By Hideki Mochizuki, Swimming World Japanese correspondent
NAGAOKA, Niigata, Japan, September 12. MISAKI Yamaguchi lowered the Japanese record in the women's 100 free during the second day of the Japan National Sports Festival held i...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, September 11. BRETT Hawke, the head coach of Auburn University, became a U.S. Citizen yesterday after completing all of the naturalization requirements.
"I'm thrilled to be an American citizen because it open...
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SYDNEY, Australia, September 9. LIBBY Trickett, who has won six Olympics medals including three of the gold variety, is taking a break from swimming. She has also not ruled out retiring from the sport as part of the break, according to the Asso...
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ISTANBUL, Turkey, September 10. WORLD record holder Marleen Veldhuis of The Netherlands has released a statement withdrawing from the European Short Course Championships this December according to Zwemsite.nl. There is talk that she will focus on ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 10. TODAY, we announce the dawning of a new era of video content and social interaction within Swimming World Magazine with the introduction of the public beta test of our new web site for ...
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LOS ANGELES, California, September 9. SPEEDO today announced the extension of its long-time partnership with swimming superstar Michael Phelps through 2013. Following his historic 8 Olympic Gold Medal haul in Beijing, Phelps' career-spanning ...
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Guest editorial by Chris DeSantis
ATLANTA, Georgia, August 25. I've been trying to think positive thoughts about the coming change with the speedsuit ban deadline fast approaching. A conflicted fan of bodysuits, I'm looking for a...
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By Hideki Mochizuki, Swimming World Japanese correspondent
KUMAMOTO, Japan, September 5. RYOSUKE Irie became the second fastest 100 backstroker of all time with an Asian record in the event at the Japan University Championships held in K...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, August 27. USA Swimming has released the roster of swimmers named to the 2009-2010 National Team. The list features a total of 110 swimmers, including World Championship gold medalists Michael Phelps (Baltimore, Md.), R...
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FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil, September 5. THE swift swimming continued at the Jose Finkel Trophy meet as Joanna Maranhao took down the women's 200 fly South American record over long course meters.
Maranhao checked in with a 2:09.41 to clip her p...
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By Hideki Mochizuki, Swimming World Japanese correspondent
KUMAMOTO, Japan, September 4. THE 85th edition of the Japanese University Championships began today in Kumamoto. The location is in the south of Japan, and the meet is taking pl...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 3. DOUG Reynolds, a five-star recruit from the Class of 2010, is next up in the Swimming World College Recruit Rankings Profiles series. Reynolds comes from Loganville, Ga., and swims for ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 22. JAMESON Hill, a five-star recruit from the Class of 2010, is the next subject in this summer's series of Swimming World College Recruit Rankings Profiles. Hill lives in Manassas, Va., and swims for the ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 2. RICKY Berens returns to The Morning Swim Show to talk about his much-hyped swimsuit malfunction at worlds, being a part of the 800 free relay and what's in store for his senior year at the University of Te...
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AUBURN, Alabama, September 3. TWO-time Olympic gold medalist Mark Gangloff was named volunteer assistant coach for the Auburn swimming and diving teams, head coach Brett Hawke announced Wednesday.
"We're really excited to have Mark jo...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 1. SWIMMING World is proud to announce two additions to its staff. Garrett McCaffrey has joined the SwimmingWorld.TV team as its producer, while Denton Taylor is the new advertising/promotion coordinator ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 27. IN a letter obtained by Swimming World, a number of coaches nationwide have expressed concern regarding oversight issues with the USOC Professional and Post-Graduate Centers.
The coaches have requested that ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 30. TODAY, we are offering our online readers a free preview of some of the content that is available to Swimming World Magazine subscribers. In a never-before-published article, Wayne Goldsmith and Helen Morris pr...
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Guest editorial by Chris DeSantis
ATLANTA, Georgia, August 27. FIRST, let me start with the obvious: I miss you. I miss you more than I can imagine. I know what you're thinking. I should have remembered that while I was hanging aroun...
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Guest editorial by David Rieder
PHOENIX, Arizona, August 27. THE 2009 championships season has come and gone, and the sport of swimming is in the middle of a transition away from performance-enhancing suits while swimmers around the worl...
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LIVERMORE, California, August 18. TAKE advantage of the new FINA suit ruling with great deals on tech suits from FINIS, including the new AMPhibian suit. Selected technical suits are currently discounted up to 85% OFF normal retail price. C...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, August 11. THE second evening of long course swimming at the USA Swimming Junior Nationals featured an incredible triple from Missy Franklin of the Colorado Stars.
Franklin announced her arrival on the sprint scene for ...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, August 11. THE National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) announced today that effective immediately speedsuits are banned for high school competition. The move follows suit with FINA and the NCAA in simil...
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TEMPE, Arizona, August 26. THE Arizona State family passes along its thoughts and sympathy to the family and friends of former diving coach Ward O'Connell, who passed away Wednesday night.
O'Connell served as ASU's head diving coach...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 25. TODD Schmitz, who coached Missy Franklin to four individual titles at the USA Swimming junior nationals this month, joins The Morning Swim Show to talk about his coaching philosophies.
Schmitz talks about som...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World open water correspondent
LONG BEACH, California, August 24. FORMER Pan American Games double gold medalist Alex Kostich and former University of Florida All-American Dawn Heckman easily won the men'...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 24. OLYMPIC silver medalist Christine Magnuson and first-time diving national champion Drew Livingston are today's guests on The Morning Swim Show.
After a rundown of the news (transcript below), host Peter B...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 21. STEWART Goossens, a 17-year-old from San Francisco, has become the youngest American to complete a single crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar.
Goossens completed the 14-mile swim without a wetsuit across the waterwa...
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Column by John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey. August 17. The medal detector so successfully used by Brendan Hansen during his international swimming career has been in his garage for a year. And considering the state of the sport, with recor...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, August 12. NOW that Rome is behind us, a quick perusal of the long course vs. short course records indicates that a number of the latter are quite vulnerable. This has been proven already b...
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Updated with USA Swimming press release
FULLERTON, California, August 17. IN an exclusive conversation with Swimming World, KING's Sean Hutchison revealed that he would be heading to Fullerton, Calif., to open a United States...
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Updated with Katie Hoff comment.
FULLERTON, California, August 17. KATIE Hoff is the first of the big names with no ties to KING Aquatics to surface in connection with the USOC Post-Grad Center, first ...
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Guest editorial by David Rieder
PHOENIX, Arizona, August 18. SWIMMING World superfan David Rieder, who blogs on his site at swimdr549.blogspot.com, is back with his thoughts...
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HOLLYWOOD, California, August 17. SWIMMING has finally joined the Olympic love affair on ABC's Dancing With The Stars as Natalie Coughlin has been tabbed to compete in the 2009 edition of the popular television series.
After taking ...
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Guest editorial by Chris DeSantis
ATLANTA, Georgia, August 12. RECENTLY, there's been considerable hand-wringing about the all-out record assault taking place. The idea is that we've somehow lost the history of our sport when Ale...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 1. DAGNY Knutson, Minot High School in North Dakota, and Tom Shields, Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California, have been selected as Swimming World Magazine's High School Female and Male Swimmers of t...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, August 13. COLORADO Stars' Missy Franklin kept impressing the nation in what has become a breakout meet for her at the USA Swimming Junior Nationals.
Franklin became the seventh fastest American in the women's ...
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TIBURON, California, August 12. FOUNDED in 1999, by Robert C. Placak, a Marin County native and Tiburon resident, The RCP Tiburon Mile Open Water Swim has quickly become known as the most competitive and prestigious open water swim event in the wo...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 8. INTERNATIONAL Masters Swimming Hall of Famer Ron Johnson passed away earlier this morning. Initial reports from sources close to the situation indicate that Johnson's death was self-inflicted.
Johnson had a sto...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 10. AS most of our readers know, users can interact with our content and each other via Reaction Time commentary on our articles. From time to time, our readers post something so strong we feel the need to bring special ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, August 11. THE Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will meet on Thursday in Berlin, Germany. Among the items the Board will discuss are the recommendations for changes to the Olympic program for 2016...
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By John Leonard, Executive Director, American Swimming Coaches Association
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, August 1. OVER the past 18 months, the swimming world has been a frenzy of controversy over the emergence of technology in swimsuits. At...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 6. THE importance of relaxing and the crucial role it plays in allowing athletes to swim faster is explored in Pool's Edge in this month's issue of Swimming World Magazine.
The article sites six s...
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Feature By Jacob Kittilstad
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, August 7. When an athletic department's budget needs to be balanced, collegiate swimming programs are often placed on the chopping block. If teams, however, become proactive in secu...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 10. FIFTEEN world records in five days and the ringleader behind a surprising 200 IM in Washington state highlight today's news segment on The Morning Swim Show.
Host Peter Busch runs down all the world recor...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, August 7. TROJAN's Jessica Hardy is definitely completely back after a year away from the sport due to a doping ban. Tonight, at the U.S. Open, Hardy clocked a pair of world records.
First, she hammered the 50 brea...
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OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, August 10. IN a press release sent out today by the Canadian Centre for Ethics, Cecil Russell's application for reinstatement to the coaching ranks has been denied.
In 1997, Russell drew a lifetime suspension for st...
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HOBART, Australia, August 10. AT the Australian Short Course Championships, three world records fell this evening.
Libby Trickett nearly broke 51 seconds in the women's 100 free with a 51.01. That swim shattered her record of 51.70 set in ...
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Updated August 11 with world record splits
LEEDS, Great Britain, August 9. CANADA lowered both of the 400 medley relay world records to close the show at the British Short Course Grand Prix.
The Canadian foursome of Katy Murdoch (56.8...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, August 8. MISSION Viejo's Chad La Tourette lowered his U.S. Open and meet record in the men's 800 free at the U.S. Open Championships held in Washington.
La Tourette stopped the clock in 7:47.27, just off his pe...
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PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa, August 9. A day after setting world records in the 50 and 100 breast, Cameron van der Burgh was at it again at the South African Short Course Championships.
van der Burgh lowered his 100 breast world record set d...
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