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SINGAPORE, November 21. THE first day of prelims is complete at the FINA World Cup stop hosted in Singapore.
Men's 100 free
Coming d...
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CARY, North Carolina, November 19. PREMIER Management Group, the nation's leading aquatic marketing firm, announced today the launch of a new website for their open water swimming venture, Open Water Planet, at www.OpenWaterPlanet.com
Open Water Planet (OWP) owns and operates several major open water swimming events including, Aaron Peirsol...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 19. GOLDEN Goggles nominee Matt Grevers joins today's edition of
The Morning Swim Show to talk about the world championships and being a part of the USA Swimming national team.
Grevers also discusses his emotions behind giving Aaron Peirsol the slot to swim backstroke in the finals of the medley relay in Rom...
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BOZEN, Italy, November 9. WHILE plenty of swimmers were competing at the Moscow stop of the FINA World Cup, a lot of international swimmers decided to call the Bozen International Swim Meet home prior to the Stockholm stop of the World Cup. The meet took place over short course meters.
The Netherlands' sprint group opened the meet with a 1-...
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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 will be broadcast on NBC on December 27 from 2-4 p.m. ET, will star Olympic gold medalists Michael Phe...
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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 Sunday, November 22 at the Beverly Hilton and will feature the 2009 U.S. World Championships swim team...
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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 balloting in the December issue. The process asked various
Swimming World contributors to suppl...
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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 Busch talks with Peirsol about his performances in Rome, where he missed the final of the 100 back, only...
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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 future for
Swimming World's print product. Maybe some reasoning from our readers will help....
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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's backstroke World Record holder Aaron Peirsol, breaststroker Eric Shanteau and freestylers Garret Web...
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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 disagreement and some on the same page. Whichever way the readers of this site went, there was a quality dial...
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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 Kumamoto.
Irie posted a scorching fast time of 52.24 as a relay leadoff. The swim smashed Junya Koga...
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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.), Ryan Lochte (Daytona Beach, Fla.), Rebecca Soni (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Aaron Peirsol (Irvine, Calif.) an...
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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 on the sport of swimming heading into 2012 and the Olympics to be staged in London.
In the two week...
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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 records set over the weekend, from Jessica Hardy's new sprint breaststroke standards to the short course...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, August 5. FOR the second year in a row, Nick Thoman threw down an epic performance at the U.S. Open.
Thoman blazed the men's 200 back with a 1:54.59 for the triumph. Thoman became the fifth-fastest swimmer of all time, behind Aaron Peirsol (1:51.92), Ryosuke Irie (1:52.51), Ryan Lochte (1:53.82) and Tyler Clary (1:5...
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