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SINGAPORE, January 15. THE 1st FINA World Swimming Coaches Conference – the first major swimming event of 2009 - is set to be held from Jan. 15-17, 2009 in Singapore, welcoming approximately 230 coaches and representatives from 90 nations. By providing an educational and interactive forum for the world's coaches, the event hopes to maintain the...
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LOUGHBOROUGH, Britain, July 9. AS first announced in an exclusive
interview with
The Morning Swim Show, Dennis Pursley has been named as the new head coach of British Swimming.
British Swimming confirmed the hiring in a press release today:
British S...
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LOUGHBOROUGH, England, January 22. ACCORDING to reports out of Great Britain, including an article from
BBC Sport, Australian Michael Scott, 51, has been named as the replacement for Bill Sweetenham as the head man in charge of British Swimming.
Scott, a former director of the Australian Institute of Sport, had joined British Swimming as ...
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LONDON, England, September 13. BRITISH Swimming today announced the appointment of Michael Scott as a High Performance Consultant.
Scott, a 51-year-old Australian, has been involved in swimming for a large part of his life, has a wealth of experience in high performance sport and most recently was Chief Executive of the FINA World Championships...
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BRISBANE, Australia, September 5. WITH Bill Sweetenham out as Great Britain's National Performance Director, don't look for Australian Stephan Widmer to take over the role. Based out of the Queensland Academy of Sport and the coach of Libby Lenton, Widmer has declared he's not interested in bolting for Great Britain before the 2008 Olym...
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LONDON, England, September 3. JUST days after speaking out about criticism of his coaching style, as reported
here, Bill Sweetenham's resignation from British Swimming as its National Performance Director has been announced.
According to a release from British Swimming, S...
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LONDON, England, August 30. DESPITE the controversy being history, Bill Sweetenham is still ticked over the criticism he took in recent years about being a bully. The Australian, who serves as the British Performance Director, was brought in to spark efforts in Great Britain and has done so with a high level of intensity.
Along the way, a handfu...
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SYDNEY, Australia, June 14. A story today in
The Australian by highly acclaimed swimming journalist Nicole Jeffery discussed Great Britain's desire to lure some big-name sprint coaches to prepare the country for the 2012 Olympic Games, which will be held in London. According to the piece by Jeffery, Britain has contacted Australia's ...
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SWANSEA, England, February 1. BUD McCallister, the coach responsible for guiding swimming legend Janet Evans to four Olympic titles and six world records has been appointed to head up a new program at British Swimming's Performance Center in Swansea.
McAllister will join the Swansea program next month where he will add a middle distance and...
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LONDON, December 27. APPEARING on the
Today Program, Bill Sweetenham suggested that Great Britain's coaches need to be more demanding in the training of athletes for the big stage. The National Performance Director, from Australia, has long adhered to a tough approach, something he feels is missing in British sports. He's already def...
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LONDON, England, November 15. IN an attempt to prepare its swimmers for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, British Swimming has announced that next year's National Championships, scheduled for March, will feature morning finals and semifinals. That decision revolves around the International Olympic Committee's recent announcement that the s...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, October 26. AT a press conference in Beijing, the International Olympic Committee approved a final version of the competition schedule with swimming finals in the morning, according to reports by the Associated Press. Also, the IOC will increase doping tests at the Beijing Games to 4,500, a 25-percent rise over the amount done in...
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LONDON, July 9. BRITAIN will send one of its biggest aquatic squads to contest a major meet when 64 athletes from swimming, diving, open water swimming and synchronised swimming converge on Budapest for the European Championships. The Hungarian capital will host the best athletes on the continent later this month when events get underway on July 26...
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By Oene Rusticus
PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain, July 6. DURING the first day of the European Junior Championships in sunny Palma de Mallorca, Hungary’s Gergo Kis set a championship record in the 400 individual medley while the Russian team won three events as Anna Kuzmicheva sprinted to first in the 50 breaststroke, while the team took both relays
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The Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association (ASCTA) in conjunction with Master Coach Bill Sweetenham have produced the 21st Century Swimming nine DVD series for coaching. The DVDs cover an extremely wide variety of topics, and demonstrate the latest and most up to date drills and skills developed by Master Coach Bill Sweetenham. All dr...
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LONDON, May 20. A squad of swimmers refining preparations for this summer's European Championships together with a team of talented youngsters earmarked as potential 2012 Olympians will be in action at next month's Mare Nostrum tour. British athletes will take part in two of the three series events staged around the Mediterranean when they ...
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LONDON, April 20. BRITISH Swimming has unveiled a squad of 46 athletes who will go head-to-head with the rest of Europe at the European Swimming Championships in Budapest this summer. Commonwealth champions such as Caitlin McClatchey, Becky Cooke, Chris Cooke, David Carry, Liam Tancock and Ross Davenport will headline the strongest team Britain has...
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LONDON, England, January 15. BILL Sweetenham, the embattled National Performance Director of British Swimming, will coach the British squad at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Accused of bullying tactics by a handful of swimmers in recent months, Sweetenham was found innocent of the allegations and there will be no further probing into the...
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LONDON, England, January 5. ACCORDING to a release from British Swimming, National Performance Director Bill Sweetenham has been cleared of allegations that he’s used bullying tactics against swimmers he has overseen as the man in charge of British Swimming. An independent investigator looked into the allegations and produced a comprehensive report...
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By John Lohn
ASTON, Pennsylvania, December 31. A little less than a week ago, we revealed a few hopes for what will unfold during the upcoming year. Here is the second part of that feature. Also, to all of our readers at
SwimmingWorldMagazine.com, thanks for your interest and attention and may 2006 treat you well.
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