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PHOENIX, Arizona, October 13. THE second stop of the FINA swimming world cup begins Saturday in Stockholm, Sweden, and the competition will be much tougher at this meet than we saw in Dubai last weekend.

Chad Le Clos will be in Stockholm to try and continue his winning streak after taking six events in Dubai, but he’ll face Australia’s Geoff Huegill and Tyler McGill of the USA in the 100 fly and Hungary’s David Verraszto in the IMs. Also showing up in Stockholm will be 2000 Olympic champion Lars Frolander and 50 free reigning world champ Therese Alshammar. Brent Hayden, the silver medalist in the 100 free at worlds, will race against Sweden’s Stefan Nystrand and Matt Abood of Australia. Paul Biedermann will highlight the middle distance freestyle races, and Australia’s Belinda Hocking, the silver medalist in the 200 back at worlds, will be another big name to watch. We’ll bring you prelims and finals recaps from each session in Stockholm beginning early Saturday morning on swimmingworld.com.

Michael Phelps visited New York to help promote the release of his new Xbox video game “Push the Limit.” Phelps made an appearance on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” last night, and challenged Fallon to a race on the video game. As you can see from this video, Phelps barely won the race. Phelps said in his interview with Fallon that he had the day off from training, but he’s probably back in the pool today, getting ready to fly to Europe to race at the Berlin stop of the world cup meet. He’ll go up against Biedermann in the 200 free and a host of others getting ready to race Phelps at the Olympics.

The California Golden Bears are the men’s Division I NCAA defending champions, and today they start their road to a possible title repeat with a dual meet against Hawaii. Tom Shields is the only returning swimmer who won an individual NCAA title for Cal last season, but the Bears have a strong group of swimmers ready to challenge for the title. You will be able to read a recap of the meet later today on our college channel at swimmingworld.com.

The NCAA Woman of the Year will be named this Sunday in Indianapolis. Four aquatic sports athletes are vying for this prestigious award: Laura Barito of Stevens Institute, Annie Chandler of Arizona, Hayley Emerick of Trinity and Kelsey Ward of Drury. Chandler will not be at the ceremony, as she’s preparing to compete at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. We’ll let you know who wins with a report on swimmingworld.com.

The nominees for the Golden Goggles awards were announced today, and the race for Male Swimmer of the Year is between just two swimmers: Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. The two did distance themselves from the rest of the pack in terms of their performances at the world championships, being the only American males to win individual gold. On the women’s side, the race for the female swimmer of the year is a little tighter, with Elizabeth Beisel, Missy Franklin, Rebecca Soni and Dana Vollmer all up for the award. You can see the list of nominees in all categories by going to usaswimming.org.

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