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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, May 8. THE second day of the Maria Lenk Brazilian Trials featured a few continental records being rewritten.
Guilherme Guido nearly dipped under 25 seconds in the men's 50 back as he clocked a time of 25.04 that set ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 8. THE Thursday edition of The Morning Swim Show continues to highlight the FINA Open Water World Championships and talks to Swimming World's special correspondent and a teen swimming sensation.
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, April 23. IN a press release sent out today, USA Water Polo announced that it would be moving its national headquarters to Huntington Beach, Calif. This comes shortly after the United States Olympic Committee announc...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 28. MONDAY'S episode of The Morning Swim Show is a must-see, featuring a compelling interview with a 1976 USA Olympian who talks about her East German (DDR) competitors, the race the Americans won against all odd...
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CHICAGO, Illinois, April 15. THE United States Olympic Committee (USOC) announced the Class of 2008 for the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. The class, which will be inducted June 19 in Chicago, includes Amy Van Dyken and Paralympic swimmer John Morga...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 5. AT the race promoter's meeting in Seville prior to the 2008 World Open Water Swimming Championships, FINA announced its 24-race proposed schedule:
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 5. THE Monday edition of The Morning Swim Show features an exclusive interview with famed coach and author Ernie Maglischo.
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 4. SIMILAR to the women's 10K championship yesterday, a British Olympic pool swimmer led the entire way until a savvy Russian surged at the end to claim th...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 1. MANY of the swimmers at the FINA World Open Water Championships spent some of the day working on team strategy.
"At the pool during practice, they w...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 2. WE have received plenty of e-mail asking about whether any of the FINA World Open Water Championships will be made available for online viewing.
Today, ...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 5. STEVEN Munatones has been a busy man for us over in Seville at the FINA World Open Water Championships. Here is his latest batch of updates from the scene,...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 1. WITH the U.S. Olympic Trials right around the corner, Swimming World superfan Bill Bell is back with his men's all-time top performers and performances.
Today, we offer his unedited list for the men over lon...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 30. BILL Bell, a Swimming World superfan, just sent us his most recent update to his all-time top performers and performances lists.
Today, we provide his unedited list for the women over long course meters.
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AUSTIN, Texas, May 1. THE first day of the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) National Championships opened with the 1000 and 1650 yard freestyle events.
Jurgen Schmidt, 85, provided the sole record-setting performance of the day with a tim...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, April 24. THE United States Olympic Committee announced the television broadcast schedule for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming along with various other upcoming Trials.
Below is a list of aquatics-based ...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, April 29. Will a sub-4:00 performance in the 400-meter freestyle be required to win gold in Beijing? That's one of the highlight questions heading into this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing. A star-st...
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Updated April 29, 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 28. ACCORDING to sources requesting anonymity close to the situation, Penn State's Bill Dorenkott announced to his team this evening that he is taking the head women's swimming positi...
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KINGSTON, Rhode Island, April 14. IN what is becoming almost a rite of passage after every great NCAA Championship season, an athletics department is announcing a cut. This time, men's swimming is on the chopping block at the University of Rh...
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DUNKIRK, France, April 26. THE seventh day of swimming at the French Olympic Trials featured plenty of fast swims as plenty of national records went by the wayside. One of the fastest times included Amaury Leveaux shattering the European record i...
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DUNKIRK, France, April 23. TWO national records fell during the fourth night of swimming at the French Olympic Trials held in Dunkirk.
Hugues Duboscq broke his national record in the men's 200 breast semifinal round with a fantastic time of...
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By Brent Rutemiller
PHOENIX, Arizona, April 25. RECENTLY Tim Arango from the New York Times reported that a "dispute has grown lately between the press and organized sports over is...
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MISSION VIEJO, California, April 24. A pair of distance freestyle events opened the meet at the TYR Swim Meet of Championships held in Mission Viejo, Calif.
Fans were fortunate enough to witness Kate Ziegler take down the women's 1500 frees...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, April 22. THE SwimmingWorldMagazine.com Olympic Preview Series rolls along this week with the men's 400 medley relay. As was the case with the female event, many relay spots remain up in the air. So...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 25. TWO Hall of Fame inductions highlight Friday's edition of The Morning Swim Show, one in water polo and the other in swimming
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PERTH, Australia, April 21. AFTER a few days of some technical difficulties, results have now been made available from the 2008 FINA World Masters Championships held in Perth.
Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen, an American, is representing a French club and...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 23. WEDNESDAY'S edition of The Morning Swim Show looks ahead to an Olympic relay race and visits with a past Olympic champion.
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DUNKIRK, France, April 22. WORLD-record holder Laure Manaudou will not compete in the women's 200 free after pulling out of the competition at the French Olympic Trials today.
According to the International Herald Tribune, Manaudou q...
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Updated April 22, 2008
DUNKIRK, France, April 21. DURING the second day of competition at the French Olympic Trials, Laure Manaudou had an up-and-down day of swimming. She took a rare loss in the women's 400 free, but she also clock...
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Updated April 18, 2008
SYDNEY, Australia, April 17. IN a statement posted by the Australian Olympic Committee today, John D. Coates, the president of the AOC announced that Nick D'Arcy has been removed from the Australian Olympic ro...
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ANN ARBOR, Michigan. April 17. UNIVERSITY of Michigan men's swimming head coach Bob Bowman announced that he will be leaving the program following the Beijing Olympics to assume chief executive officer responsibilities at the North Baltimore A...
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By Hideki Mochizuki, Swimming World Japanese Correspondent
TOKYO, Japan, April 19. KOSUKE Kitajima took a run at Brendan Hansen's world record in the men's 200 breast, but came up short at the Japanese Olympic Trials held in Toky...
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BERLIN, Germany, April 20. CHRISTIAN Kubusch ended the third night of swimming at the German Olympic Trials with a national record.
Kubusch clocked a time of 7:49.22 in the men's 800 free to smash Thomas Lurz' 2006 standard of 7:51.59. ...
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TOKYO, Japan, April 18. THE fourth day of competition at the Japanese Olympic Trials featured an upset or two, while Kosuke Kitajima stalked his national record in the 200 breast during semis.
In a surprising outcome, Takashi Yamamoto, the 200...
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By Hideki Mochizuki, Swimming World Japanese Correspondent
TOKYO, Japan, April 15. THE Japanese Olympic Trials began today at the Tatsumi International Aquatic Center in Tokyo and will continue for the next six days.
Kosuke Kitajima...
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By Brent Rutemiller
PHOENIX, Arizona, April 11. FINA had its obligatory meeting with swimwear manufacturers concerning new technology today in Manchester, England during the FINA World Short ...
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By Brent Rutemiller
PHOENIX, Arizona, April 10. The Genie is out of the bottle while the man behind the curtain is left holding Pandora's box.
The Genie was spotted wearing a black, ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 5. KATIE Hoff of North Baltimore kept up her strong year as she nearly broke the U.S. Open record in the women's 400 IM at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Columbus. Peter Vanderkaay also took a run at a U.S. Open sta...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 7. AS previously reported on SwimmingWorldMagazine.com, Serbian Milorad Cavic was suspended for part of the European Championships ...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 6. THE last night of action at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Columbus featured plenty of the top stars in the country doing what they do best.
Men's 1500 free
Peter Vanderkaay of Club Wolverine cut an inc...
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Updated April 5, 2008
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, April 4. WILLIAM Forrest "Buck" Dawson of Fort Lauderdale died of heart failure and complications due to Parkinson's disease on April 4, 2008, in Fort Lauderdale. Known as &q...
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SHEFFIELD, England, April 4. WHILE swimmers took advantage of evening prelims to break some records, the morning was all about winning and moving on to Beijing at the British Championships held in Sheffield.
National-record holder Kris Gilchris...
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DUBLIN, Ireland, April 2. ACCORDING to Craig Lord of SwimNews.com, Andrew Bree is under investigation for "an adverse anti-doping finding."
In Lord's report, he states that Bree may have tested positive for a stimulant fou...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, April 1. This week's installment of SwimmingWorldMagazine.com's Olympic Preview Series, the 15th in a 32-week package, takes a look at the women's 200 individual medley. The event has change...
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SHEFFIELD, England, April 2. DURING evening prelims of the men's 200 backstroke, the already pre-selected Liam Tancock used the chance to drop the world record in the men's 50 back at the British Championships.
Tancock, who wound up fi...
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Updated April 1, 2008
FEDERAL WAY, Washington, March 29. ACCORDING to unnamed sources close to the situation, Cesar Cielo announced his intention to turn professional at the close of the 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 1. VETERAN swimming coach Tom Wojslawowicz details his landmark fight to bring gender equity into high school sports in an exclusive interview on Tuesday's edition of The Morning Swim Show and
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, March 29. GEORGIA's Sebastien Rouault reclaimed his 2006 NCAA title with a victory in the 1650 free at the NCAA Division I Men's Championships to open the final night of swimming. Once again, Chris Thompson's...
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SYDNEY, Australia, March 29. THE final day of swimming at the Australian Trials produced its eighth world record as Libby Trickett (formerly Lenton) became the fastest woman on the planet with a 50 free world record.
Trickett blistered the cour...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, March 29. AUBURN's Cesar Cielo officially became the bonafide rock star of the meet when he broke the 41-second barrier in the 100 free with an astounding time of 40.92 at the NCAA Division I Men's Championships.
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, March 29. IN the same fashion as Oregon State's Saori Haruguchi won OSU's first NCAA title last week at the women's meet, Penn State's Patrick Schirk gave his program its first NCAA crown at the NCAA Divis...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, March 29. WITH Arizona ahead by nearly 100 points heading into the third day of prelims at the NCAA Division I Men's Championships, the Wildcats have a strong shot to give Frank Busch his second career title in a week...
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SYDNEY, Australia, March 28. THE 50 free moved into unfathomable territory today at the Australian Trials as Eamon Sullivan dropped his world record even further at the Australian Trials.
Sullivan stunned the swimming world when he clocked a t...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 22. ON the first night of the NCAA Division I Women's Championships held in Columbus, Ohio, Stanford's 200-yard freestyle relay was disqualified due to an early relay exchange.
During the second exchange between J...
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SYDNEY, Australia, March 27. IT may have taken a year since she first set the unratified world record in the 100 free with a 52.99 leadoff of the mixed 400 free relay at the Duel in the Pool last year, but Libby Trickett finally owns the global s...
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SYDNEY, Australia, March 26. ALTHOUGH Eamon Sullivan came up just short of grabbing the 100 free world record from France's Alain Bernard, the overall swimming at the Australian Trials proved to be incredible.
Men's 200 breast finals...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, March 25. AMONG the most intriguing events at this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing will be the men's 50-meter freestyle. The event has been taken to a different level in recent months, thanks to the ...
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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, March 21. SERBIAN Milorad Cavic has been suspended for the rest of the European Championships taking place in Eindhoven, according to an article on SwimNews.com.
Craig Lord reports that "his crime was to wea...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, March 17. FOR the final list of his four entries, swimming super fan and former contributor to Swimming World Bill Bell checks in with his men's all-time performers and performances. This list has been unedited.
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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, March 24. THE European Championships kept rolling as the Netherlands went 1-2 in the women's 50 free to start the final day of action – including a world-record swim from Marleen Veldhuis in the sprint free event.
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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, March 22. A day after wiping out Pieter van den Hoogenband's 100 free global standard of 47.84 set in 2000, France's Alain Bernard...
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SYDNEY, Australia, March 14. ACCORDING to various media reports in Australia, including the Herald Sun, Gary Hall Jr. has stirred up the Australian swimming community Down Under with some comments about Eamon Sullivan's world record in ...
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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, March 21. FRANCE's Alain Bernard finally caught up to Pieter van den Hoogenband in the men's 100 free at the European Championships as he shot down the world record in the event.
Bernard dropped a remarkable tim...
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EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, March 21. EVEN with controversy brewing from Milorad Cavic's meet-suspension, swimmers have shrugged off the drama to put up some amazi...
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ORLANDO, Florida, March 18. THE National Club Swimming Association (NCSA) Junior National Championships began with a vengeance on the first night of swimming as three meet records fell in Orlando.
Emily Kelly, 15, of Long Island Aquatics knocke...
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By Dawn Weatherwax-Fall
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By Brian Savard
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, March 6. INDIANA, a state widely regarded for having one of the fastest state meets in the country, exceeded expectations by delivering flat-out ridiculous times across the board at the Indiana Men's H...
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PARIS, France, March 3. OVER the weekend, French Olympian Alain Gottvalles succumbed to bone cancer at the age of 65 according to an article at SwimNews.com.
As reported by Craig Lord, Gottvalles was "the first man to swim inside 5...
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ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 2. AT the Maryland State Championships held in Annapolis, Katie Hoff was at it again as she obliterated the women's 1650-yard freestyle American record.
Hoff put together an astounding time of 15:24.35 to chop ne...
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BRISBANE, Australia, February 28. ACCORDING to Australian media reports, including an article in The Sydney Morning Herald, three-time Olympic gold medalist Jodie Henry will announce that she will bypass the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, February 26. THE next stop on SwimmingWorldMagazine.com's Olympic Preview march is the men's 200 freestyle. Once the domain of Australian Ian Thorpe, the four-lap freestyle now belongs to Michae...
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Updated February 26, 2008
BEIJING, China, February 25. DIVER Tom Daley made Olympic history in Beijing when he became the youngest British male ever to qualify for the Games.
The 13-year-old platform diver needed a top eight finish in...
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VANCOUVER, Canada, February 23. UNIVERSITY of British Columbia's Annamay Pierse continued to rewrite Canadian history at the Thunderbird Aquatic Centre on Friday night, setting a Canadian and CIS championship record in the women's short-co...
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AUSTIN, Texas, February 23. JIMMY Feigen, a Swimming World five-star recruit headed to the University of Texas, lit up what will be his home pool soon as he lowered his national high school record in the 50 free and the 100 free in the Texa...
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By Brian Savard
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, February 19. BAYLOR School, who made noise earlier this year by swimming a meter dual meet, just got a whole lot louder as its men and women both took home state titles at the Tennessee High School State Ch...
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CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, January 22. THE Baylor School boys and girls varsity swim team broke or tied seven independent school national records over short course meters in a dual meet against the Westminster School of Atlanta. While SCM high schoo...
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 17. THE weekend just witnessed its third world record in less than two days as Natalie Coughlin went off during the preliminary heats of the 100 back at the Missouri Grand Prix.
With Eamon Sullivan tracking down Al...
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 18. SO far, so so so good! That's the theme of the Missouri Grand Prix thus far this year. With two world records already on the board, there were a few close calls but no more world records were in the offering....
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 17. WITH news coming out of Australia of the second world record in as many days, one here in Missouri and one in Sydney, swimming fans were treated to a show from Katie Hoff here at the Missouri Grand Prix.
Wom...
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 16. KIRSTY Coventry provided the Missouri Grand Prix with its second world record in as many years with a blazing fast time in the 200 back. Katie Hoff followed with an American record in the 400 free.
Women...
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 15. THE first day of the USA Swimming Missouri Grand Prix opened up with evening prelims in Columbia, Mo. Among some of the definite storylines throughout the weekend are the U.S. competition debut of new swimsuits a...
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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, February 13. JUNE 30, 2015…that's the day Michael Phelps promised he would retire from the sport of swimming and give the rest of the world a break, at least if you believe Phelps in an article on SI.com.
Accord...
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By John Lohn
NEW YORK, February 12. A little reception to start. Some music. A few strobe lights. Give Speedo credit, it knows how to put together an unveiling. As part of a four-city reveal, Speedo took the cover off the LZR RACER during an ev...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, January 23. AS all of our subscribers know, one of the most sought after Swimming World articles on the collegiate scene comes in the form of our prediction pieces published in March.
This year, we wanted to get some i...
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ATLANTA, Georgia, February 7. RECENTLY, Swimming World posted a passionate letter from Franke Marsden of Atlanta Swimming explaining the potential pool shutdown this sum...
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GREENWOOD, Indiana, February 8. MICHELLE McKeehan, a senior at Center Grove high in Indiana and a Swimming World six-star recruit headed to Georgia next year, is featured in today's Indianapolis Star.
According to the article...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, February 8. THE Friday edition of The Morning Swim Show focuses on college swimming.
The most recent College Swimming Coaches Association of America's ranking of the top teams in Division I swimming and diving are p...
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