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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, October 21. THE top swimmers from three European nations will gather to take on Team USA in the Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool (known as the British Gas Duel in the Pool in Great Britain), December 18-19 in Manchester, England. The bi-annual Duel in the Pool is a made-for-TV event, designed to showcase the sport's ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 30. JODIE Henry's retirement, Tommy Hannan's decision to remain in the sport and Jonty Skinner's new gig with British Swimming are the highlights of today's edition of
The Morning Swim Show.
Host Peter Busch talks to Hannan about his decision to leave the sport of swimming after the University o...
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LOUGHBOROUGH, Great Britain, September 28. BRITISH Swimming has appointed one of the sporting world's leading lights in athlete development through the application of science.
South African-born Jonty Skinner, a former Director of Performance Science and Technology with USA Swimming, has been appointed British Swimming World Class Technical ...
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SHEFFIELD, England, June 29. THE British Gas Swimming Team destined for the World Championships in Rome next month has been revealed.
A team of 40 swimmers, including double Olympic Champion Rebecca Adlington and Olympic medalists David Davies, Keri-Anne Payne and Jo Jackson, will fly the flag for Britain in Rome.
British Swimming Head Coac...
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By Steven V. Selthoffer
BONN, Germany, March 10 THE German Open 2009 concluded Sunday with a strong performance by Spain's Andrea Fuentes winning both the solo and duet free routine finals with a score of 95.300 in the solo, and 95.100 in the duet with her new partner, Ona Carbonell. Rounding out the top three performances in the solo...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, December 31. HEADING into the first day of 2009 tomorrow,
Swimming World takes a look back to the soon-to-be-gone 2008, and honors those that have passed on within the last year.
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Australian Swimmer Leigh Barnier, 21, January 8
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LOUGHBOROUGH, United Kingdom, November 3. HARRY Robert Walker, former president of the British Swimming Association, passed away on October 31 aged 103.
He became President of the ASA in 1963, and dedicated many years to the swimming. In the 1930s, he became a broadcaster for the BBC, covering water polo, diving and swimming from the 1948 to 19...
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STIRLING, Scotland, October 14. EXPERIENCED multiple Olympic medal winning coach Doug Frost has been named as the head coach of the new British Swimming Intensive Training Center (ITC) in Stirling.
Frost is counted as one of the top coaches in world swimming after being given the World Swimming Coaches Association TERAO Award. In his career he h...
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STOCKPORT, England, September 26. MULTIPLE Olympic medal-winning coach Sean Kelly has been selected to head up the British Swimming Intensive Training Center (ITC) in Stockport when it becomes operational in October.
Kelly coached marathon swimmers Keri-Anne Payne and Cassie Patten to medals at the Beijing Olympic Games and four years earlier to...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 12. THE Beijing Olympics closed less than a month ago, but
The Morning Swim Show is looking ahead to 2012 with the chairman of the British Swimming Coaches & Teachers Association.
News from the Paralympics in Beijing begins today's show, as a trio of swimmers are setting records and collecting numerous gold...
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BEIJING, China, August 7. MARK Foster said he is honored to be asked to be Great Britain's flagbearer at the Opening Ceremony to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
The 38-year-old is about to compete at his fifth Olympic Games after making his Olympic debut at Seoul in 1988.
He becomes the first swimmer to carry the Union Flag at an Olympic ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 9. WEDNESDAY'S edition of
The Morning Swim Show offers viewers the first interview with Dennis Pursley, who has been named the new head coach of British Swimming, and a look at the hot race for Olympic gold in the men's 100 freestyle.
Brent Rutemiller talks to Pursley about the job and why Pursley felt drawn...
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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:
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LOUGHBOROUGH, England, April 16. ACCORDING to a release sent out by British Swimming, the country's top-ranked distance freestyle swimmer, Rebecca Cooke, has called it a career at the age of 24.
Here is British Swimming's release:
The distance swimmer, who took freestyle bronze medals at both World & European Championships in 2006,...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 10. THE 2008 FINA short course world championships has already produced four world records, and in an
On Deck interview with FINA Vice President Dale Neuburger, viewers get a better understanding of the work it took to bring some of the world's best athletes together.
To view this show, click the button on the...
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SHEFFIELD, England, April 6. AFTER watching Hannah Miley down the European record in the women's 400 IM during last night's preliminary swimming, British Swimming concluded its Trials with a final day of action.
Last night, Miley clocked a time of 4:33.24 to erase Yana Klochkova's European record of 4:33.59 set in 2000. That perform...
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SHEFFIELD, England, April 5. WITH one more day left at the British Championships, Rebecca Adlington and Elizabeth Simmonds each broke Commonwealth records at the meet.
Elizabeth Simmonds walked away with the women's 200 back title with a time of 2:08.99 during finals. Simmonds, however, had already set the Commonwealth and British record wi...
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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 Gilchrist opened the fifth night of swimming with a near-record time of 2:10.44 to win the men's 200 breast...
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SHEFFIELD, England, April 3. GREGOR Tait put on a show for the crowd at the British Championships held in Sheffield when he erased the Commonwealth record in the men's 200 back.
After witnessing pre-selected Liam Tancock capture the 50 back world record during prelims of the 200 back, Tait put together a Commonwealth record time in finals wi...
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