By Gerry Rodrigues July 14. LOS ANGELES. JENNY Thompson destroyed her own eight year-old American record in the 100 meter freestyle tonight, the second night of competition at the Janet
July 13. Separated by 3,000 miles, teenagers Kaitlyn Sandeno and Fran Crippen, turned in the top women's and men's times in the 800 meter freestyle on the first day of
SWIMINFO learned today that adidas America has signed U.S. breaststroke world record-holder, Ed Moses, to a lucrative, two-year endorsement deal. "It came down to a decision between adidas and Speedo,"
By Phillip Whitten SWIMMING’S bodysuit wars escalated today when sportswear giant adidas America offered to provide free Adidas bodysuits to all 1,200 competitors at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials. The
By Derek Parr LONDON, July 13. Chinese world champion Wu Yanyan has returned a positive dope test for an anabolic steroid, the International Amateur Swimming Federation (FINA) said on Thursday.
Huntington Beach, CA. In response to USA Swimming's announcement banning bodysuits at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in August, competitive swimwear maker, TYR Sport, Inc. is officially protesting the decision
By Paul Goldberg Los Angeles. OLYMPIC gold medalists Jenny Thompson, Amanda Beard, Kristine Quance-Julian, Claudia Poll, Amy Van Dyken, Dara Torres and Brad Bridgewater, world record holders Lenny Krayzelburg, Tom
2000 Holiday Cup – July 9, 2000 Championship Game USA…….5 Canada….4 If this year’s Holiday Cup is truly a preview of things to come in Sydney, then stars-and-stripers everywhere will
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ. David Meca-Medina (Spain) and Igor Majcen (Slovenia) who finished first and third in the 1999 Around the Island Marathon Swim and whose results were later disallowed by
By Bill Bell It was some obscure English playwright whose name escapes us at present but who flourished about half a millenium ago and once penned a tome entitled “Much