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Column by John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, October 26. TWO weeks ago, this column slot provided a look at one man's vote for the top 10 swimmers of the decade. It was a tough task, but not nearly as challenging as this week's chore: Selecting the top 10 women for the 2000s. Putting this list together created some serious angst, but...
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PARIS, France, September 18. SHE's been out of the sport for awhile, but today Olympian Laure Manaudou made it official that she's done with the sport of swimming according to the
Le Parisien.
"I quit. This hasn't been an easy decision to take," Manaudou told
Le Parisien newspaper. "It came to me little b...
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LEEDS, Great Britain, August 8. WITH one world record already set in South Africa, today could get pretty busy in the short course world record books as Joanne Jackson smashed the women's 400 free standard at the British Short Course Grand Prix.
Jackson clocked a 3:54.92 in the middle distance event to knock more than a second off Laure Mana...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, August 3. AFTER having been glued to the Internet and TV for the past week watching the meet, here are the impressions of one fan, in no particular order:
* I'm sick of the new suits. But I'm even sicker of hearing about them. Lost in all the publicity over the suits were a host ...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 25. SPORTS fans have always debated the hypothetical questions, for instance, how athletes from different eras would have fared against each other.
Luckily, with swimming, stopwatches have always been calibrated the same, so it's relatively easy to compare swimmers from different...
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PARIS, France, January 21. ACCORDING to an article by the
AFP, France's Laure Manaudou has withdrawn from the sport of swimming for the time being.
Citing lack of desire, shoulder injury and severe headaches, Manaudou is leaving Europe to spend time in the United States, her father Jean-Luc told the
AFP.
"Laure Manaudou...
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RIJEKA, Croatia, December 13. DURING the third night of finals at the European Short Course Championships held in Rijeka, Croatia, the swimming community witnessed history at the 101st world record of 2008 fell by the wayside.
After several near misses to start the evening occurred, there was definitely a possibility that the 100th world record ...
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RIJEKA, Croatia, December 12. THE second night of finals at the European Short Course Championships held in Rijeka, Croatia featured a pair of world records along with a relay world best.
Italy's Alessia Filippi demolished the women's 800 free world record, while France's Amaury Leveaux claimed another world record, this time in the ...
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RIJEKA, Croatia, December 11. THE first night of finals came to a close at the European Short Course Championships held in Rijeka, Croatia with a pair of world-best times being posted on the scoreboard in bookend fashion.
Amaury Leveaux of France opened the evening with a world record in the men's 50 freestyle semifinals, while Italy's 2...
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ANGERS, France, December 7. ALAIN Bernard provided the third world record of the French Short Course National Championships to close down the show that also featured a drastic rewriting of the French national record books.
Bernard clocked a blistering time of 45.69, going out in 21.71 and coming back in 23.98. That performance crushed the 45.83 ...
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ANGERS, France, December 6. AT the French Short Course National Championships, Coralie Balmy took down the women's 200 freestyle world record.
Balmy clocked a swift time of 1:53.18 to blast by the 1:53.29 set by then-Libby Lenton in 2005. The time also broke the European and national record of 1:53.48 set by Laure Manaudou in 2007.
Here ...
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ANGERS, France, December 6. THE second night of swimming at the French Short Course National Championships featured a pair of world records falling by the wayside.
Amaury Leveaux scorched the men's 50 fly with a time of 22.29, which shattered Matt Jaukovic's world record of 22.50 set during the 2008 Sydney World Cup stop. Spain's Ra...
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ANGERS, France, December 5. THE first night of swimming at the French Short Course National Championships featured plenty of French national records taking a tumble.
Alena Popchanka opened up the night with a winning time of 24.78 in the women's 50 free. Fred Bousquet followed with a pair of national records in the men's 50 free. First,...
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RIJEKA, Croatia, December 4. A total number of 40 nations have entered 530 athletes – 281 men and 249 women, with a total of 1,487 individual and 70 relay entries – for the 12th European Short Course Swimming Championships to take place in Rijeka, Croatia next week (Dec. 11-14). If there are no last-minute cancellations, this is a new record entry....
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 27. WHILE the bulk of our worldwide audience does not celebrate the holiday,
Swimming World would still like to wish a Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! We definitely had a lot to be thankful for this year in the sport of swimming, and we honor two of the best from this past year in the December issue of
Swimmin...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 19. THE November issue of LEN Magazine is now available as a PDF download for $8.95 in the Swim Shop.
Click here to download your copy.
LEN Magazine is the official publication of LEN, the Ligue Europeenne Natation, the governing body o...
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BERLIN, Germany, November 16. THE final session of the 2008 FINA World Cup circuit, taking place in Berlin, Germany, sent the series out in a big way as three world records fell.
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 14. ONE day after announcing that she was tired of winning silver medals, Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry started her search for gold in her fourth event of the Games. The runnerup in both medley events and the 100 back, Coventry's last chance at gold in Beijing comes in the 200 backstroke, an event in whic...
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