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Guest editorial by Chris DeSantis
ATLANTA, Georgia, August 12. RECENTLY, there's been considerable hand-wringing about the all-out record assault taking place. The idea is that we've somehow lost the history of our sport when Alexander Popov gets buried in the all-time 50 freestyle rankings or Janet Evans gets knocked down a few p...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, July 2. THREE-time Olympic gold medalist Mary T. Meagher, widely know in the swimming community as "Madame Butterfly," will be inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.
Meagher claimed three gold medals in her Olympic debut in 1984, when she swept the butterfly events and competed on the gold medal-winnin...
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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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CHICAGO, Illinois, April 17. THE United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and Allstate Insurance Company announced the nominees for the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame Class of 2009 at a press event at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. The star-studded nominee list of 15 individuals, five teams and five Paralympians includes Olympic legends such as Teres...
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BERKELEY, California, April 2. SENIOR swimmer Dana Vollmer, who won a pair of individual NCAA titles while leading Cal to the national team championship, has been chosen as the country's top collegiate female athlete in swimming and diving. The honor is based on the results of national balloting among 1,000 NCAA member schools as part of the Co...
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Swimming World's NCAA Division I Landing Page
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, March 21. USC's Rebecca Soni became just the 11th swimmer in NCAA history to complete her career with four national titles in a single event with a triumph in the 200-yard br...
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Swimming World's NCAA Division I Landing Page
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, March 20. WITH studs like Stanford's Elaine Breeden and California's Dana Vollmer in the heat, Vollmer's teammate Amanda Sims pulled off a surprising victory in the w...
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Updated Jan. 20
LONG BEACH, California, January 19. OLYMPIAN Ryan Lochte was a busy guy during the final night of swimming at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Long Beach, Calif., over short course yards.
Women's 100 fly
Mary DeScenza kept on rolling as she looks to win the overall Grand Prix title. She roared to a 52.0...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 14. MICHAEL Phelps, Ryan Lochte and Laszlo Cseh look to repeat their battle from the 400 IM today in the final of the men's 200 IM. Today's special in our 16-day Olympic sale celebrates these diverse swimmers by giving you a great deal on five DVDs from Go Swim.
Purchase the Misty Hyman butterfly, Aaron Peirsol b...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 14. MICHAEL Phelps, Ryan Lochte and Laszlo Cseh look to repeat their battle from the 400 IM today in the final of the men's 200 IM. Today's special in our 16-day Olympic sale celebrates these diverse swimmers by giving you a great deal on five DVDs from Go Swim.
Purchase the Misty Hyman butterfly, Aaron Peirsol b...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 9. READERS of For The Record in August can find U.S. Olympic Trials top 16 prelim swims, semifinals and final results.
On the international front, Olympic tuneup events from the Netherlands, as well as the Mare Nostrum series are featured.
Domestic grand prix meets include; Speedo Grand Challenge, Charlotte Ultraswi...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 8. POWERFUL performance is a goal for every swimmer. However, no matter how much or well you've trained, a great performance can be elusive if the swimmer isn't aware or forgets how to pack for a meet.
In this month's Goldminds, readers will learn how valuable packing is for an athlete's performance in t...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 7. NELSON Vargas, the former prime minister of sport in Mexico and director of Nelson Aquatica in Mexico City, talks in this SwimmingWorld.TV interview about his high-altitude training center, the upcoming coaches clinic and his memories of the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games. The interview appears on page 41 of the digital down...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 6. THE monthly Q&A feature in the Swimming Technique section of the August edition of
Swimming World Magazine highlights George Kennedy, the highly successful Head Men's and Women's coach at Johns Hopkins, a Division III NCAA school. This year coach Kennedy completed his 23rd year at the university.
Kenne...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 5. AT the 2008 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials, the meet record by Mary T. Meagher was challenged by a few swimmers, but Meagher's record remained intact after 24 years.
Meagher, now Mary Meagher-Plant, came to the Trials to watch the races, and stopped by the International Swimming Hall of Fame's exhibit of swimsui...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 4. AS swimming's "preseason" looms, the Workout Card in the August issue focuses on elements which swimmers need to work on at this time in the annual training cycle.
Entitled
Pre Competitive Season Aerobic/Anaerobic Alactic Week, six specific workouts are outlined.
The daily workouts are prov...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 3. FOR 37 years, the City of Commerce has worked to reduce the number of drownings among its inner-city children through a remarkable program run in a state-of-the-art aquatics facility.
Bobby Contreras, the head coach of the USA men's water polo team, talks to SwimmingWorld.TV on page 49 of the digital August issue ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 2. LOOKING to get more out of your swimming? Then put the flexibility and strength exercises which appear in this month's issue into your regular workout. The goal of these dryside training tips is two fold; prevent decreasing flexibility and maintain basic full body strength. Five basic exercises are offered in this...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 1. CHLOE Sutton was one of the few swimmers at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials who could afford to swim through the meet without being fully rested. She had made the Olympic team in the inaugural 10K open water swim, and needed to continue to train for that race.
In a SwimmingWorld.TV interview that appears on page 23 o...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, July 31. SWIMMING must take notice of some new ideas that have recently come about challenging a few "sacred" training tenants of the sport. In an article entitled
Five New Ideas That Will Change Swimming Forever, contributor Wayne Goldsmith outlines new thoughts which will influence the way coaches approach trai...
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