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BEIJING, China, September 13. TODAY witnessed the largest one-day assault on the world record books at the Paralympics thus far. By the end of the day...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 12. THIS month,
For The Record in the April issue of
Swimming World Magazine is dominated by results of state high school championships. Results include state meets from; Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota and Washington.
Results from a major USA competition, the M...
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SHAOXING, China, April 3. THE third day of swimming at the Chinese Trials witnessed a national record from Zhang Lin in the men's 400 free and an Asian record in the men's 400 freestyle relay.
Zhang downed the men's 400 freestyle national record with a time of 3:44.97 to become the eighth-fastest swimmer in the event of all time. He...
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PHOENIX, Arizona. THE following articles appeared online for the Good Luck Beijing China Open. This meet was swum using morning finals.
Day One Prelims
Day Two Finals
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BEIJING, China, March 19. THE USA Women's Senior National Team opened play at the "Good Luck Beijing" 2008 Water Polo China Open in Beijing, China with a 15-9 victory over Russia. Russia was not playing with a full squad as some members of the team were taking part in the LEN Champions Cup. USA battled back from a 4-1 first quarter de...
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SYDNEY, Australia, February 15. THE Swimming New South Wales State Open Championships commenced in Sydney, Australia with some strong swims during the initial day of long course competition.
Men's 400 freestyle
With eyes on adding another Olympic gold medal to his mantel at the 2008 Beijing Games, Grant Hackett popped a remarkable ti...
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Following is a list of topics discussed on
The Morning Swim Show during the week of Feb. 4:
Monday, Feb. 4
Ready Room: Ira Klein of USA Swimming talks about services offered to age-group programs
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PHOENIX, Arizona, February 5. THE Tuesday edition of
The Morning Swim Show uses recent results from the test event at the Beijing Water Cube to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of swimming finals in the morning.
To view this show
cl...
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BEIJING, China, February 5. NICOLE Jeffery of
The Australian has reported that Omega is attempting to deliver a new track-start block for the 2008 Beijing Games. This new push has stirred up some conversation in international swimming circles.
The block, which Omega claims could "improve times by up to one-tenth of a second," i...
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BEIJING, China, February 4. THE first event at the National Aquatics Center (Water Cube), the location of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, came to an end as long course swimming at the Good Luck Beijing China Open concluded in Beijing.
Men's 200 fly
Poland's Pawel Korzeniowski held the advantage from the get-go and maintained the...
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BEIJING, China, February 4. JAPAN had a strong evening of preliminary action at the Good Luck Beijing China Open held at the National Aquatics Center (Water Cube) as the country claimed three of the six top seeds available for the final session of competition tomorrow morning.
Men's 200 fly prelims
Japan's Ryusuke Sakata led qual...
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BEIJING, China, February 3. THE fifth day of swimming opened with morning finals at the Good Luck Beijing China Open held in the National Aquatics Center (Water Cube).
Men's 50 free
Sweden's Steffen Nystrand touched out teammate Petter Stymne, 22.39 to 22.42, to claim the gold medal in the splash-and-dash. Meanwhile, Nicholas Do...
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BEIJING, China, February 3. A Korean national record highlighted the fourth day of preliminary action at the Good Luck Beijing China Open held in the National Aquatics Center (Water Cube), the location of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Men's 50 free prelims
The Swedish twosome of Stefan Nystrand and Petter Stymne will look to do bat...
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BEIJING, China, February 2. SOME exciting races throughout the top eight spots took place during the fourth day of finals at the Good Luck Beijing China Open held at the National Aquatics Center (Water Cube) in Beijing.
Swimming World will also compare side-to-side how morning finals impact the top eight. The first time listed will always...
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BEIJING, China, February 2. THE third night of preliminary action at the Good Luck Beijing China Open featured some decent in-season times as the international field continues to adjust to the National Aquatics Center (Water Cube) in Beijing. The women's 100 breast even witnessed a Korean national record fall.
Women's 400 free prelim...
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BEIJING, China, February 1. THE second finals session of the Good Luck Beijing China Open began with another set of morning finals for swimming fans. The meet is taking place as the test event for the 2008 Beijing Olympics at the National Aquatics Center (Water Cube).
Swimming World will also compare side-to-side how morning finals impac...
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BEIJING, China, February 1. DAY two of evening prelims came to a close at the Good Luck Beijing China Open held in the National Aquatics Center (Water Cube) in Beijing.
Women's 50 free prelims
Germany's Daniela Goetz picked up the top seed for tomorrow morning's finals with a 25.54, while China's Xu Yanwei finished second...
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BEIJING, China, January 31. THE first medals at the Good Luck Beijing China Open test event at the National Aquatics Center (Water Cube) in Beijing were given out during the second day of long course competition. The meet, which is following the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games schedule with morning finals, will allow Chinese officials to work out some...
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BEIJING, China, January 31. THE first day of the test event Good Luck Beijing China Open at the National Aquatics Center (The Water Cube) truly made the Road to Beijing in swimming come to life as world-class swimmers competed in the facility for the first time.
Following the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games morning finals schedule, the first night of...
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BEIJING, China, January 28. WITH just days left until the Good Luck Beijing Olympic Test Event kicks off on Jan. 31, the Beijing Olympic Committee officially opened the crown jewel of its Olympic infrastructure – the National Aquatics Center, also known as the Water Cube.
The following press release went out explaining some of the specifics of t...
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