Lenny K. Signs

Double world champion Lenny Krayzelburg has signed a multi-year endorsement contract with Speedo that is being described as the largest ever for a swimmer who has not won Olympic gold.

New Prez…

USA Swimming will elect a new president and announce its 1998 Swimmer of the Year and 1998 Phillips Performance of the Year Award on the weekend of Oct 2-3 from

Summer Time

1992 Olympic gold medalist Summer Sanders, star of the popular Nickelodeon TV show, “Figure It Out,” has been named Ahmad Rashad’s co-host on NBC’s “NBA Inside Stuff.”

Grote Honored

Kurt Grote was elected president of the Stanford chapter of the American Medical Students Association. Grote, the 1998 World Champion in the 200m breaststroke, won gold in both the 100

East German Doctor And Coach Fined

BERLIN – A former East German doctor and a swim coach who admitted giving performance-enhancing drugs to young female swimmers were fined and convicted of causing bodily harm. Rolf Glaeser,

De Bruin Says She Didn’t Tamper With Drug Test

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Michelle De Bruin, has appealed her four-year suspension for tampering with a drug test. The filing was made with the International Court of Arbitration for Sport. If

Palmer Out Of Commonwealth Games

1996 Olympic silver medalist, Paul Palmer will withdraw from the 1998 Commonwealth Games because of illness. The Commonwealth Games Council for England said Palmer was suffering from muscle fatigue syndrome.

Athletes Often Escape Drug Testing

WASHINGTON – 50% of the athletes picked for random drug tests by the USOC escape the exams, partly because of the cost of tracking them down. “Everybody’s got to get

Water Polo – The Action is Underwater

From www.uswp.org Bruce Wigo, USWP Executive Director In 1931, the legendary New York Times reporter, Bob Kieran, chronicled a bitter argument over water polo in a “Sports of the Times”