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OMAHA, Nebraska, July 6. FOLLOWING the conclusion of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming in Omaha, Neb., USA Swimming today named the complete roster for the 2008 U.S. Olympic swim team. In addition to the 43 athletes named to the team, the swim team's coaching staff was finalized. The ...

By John Lohn OMAHA, Nebraska, June 30. WHILE the first day of action at the Olympic Trials featured plenty of starpower, the fans in attendance were forced to wait until Day Two to get a look at the Golden Girl. No worries. Natalie Coughlin is ready to go and got her competition rolling in grand fas...

OMAHA, Nebraska, July 7. KRISTEN Heiss, a rising senior at Texas A&M University, has been gracious enough to blog for Swimming World from time-to-time during the U.S. Olympic Trials as she competes at the meet. Today, she says goodbye to Omaha and a thrilling meet. She also writes about her harrowin...

By John Lohn OMAHA, Nebraska, July 3. ELAINE Breeden picked one heck of a time to deliver the finest meet of her career. Already qualified for the Olympic Games in the 100 butterfly, Breeden stormed away from the field in the 200 fly, taking top honors in 2:06.75. The time bettered Breeden's mee...

OMAHA, Neb., June 30. SHORTLY after each prelim session at the US Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Neb., SwimmingWorld.TV will be streaming live recaps of each prelim session from the Aqua Zone inside the Qwest Center. In case you missed today's live recap, here's what you missed: Brent Rut...

OMAHA, Nebraska, June 27. A severe storm hammered the Qwest Center today, the site of the U.S. Olympic Trials set to begin on Sunday. Swimmers that were on location had to leave the pool, while power for most of the city was knocked out as well. As soon as the tornado warning sirens hit, police offi...

By John Lohn OMAHA, Nebraska, June 30. THROUGH the preliminaries and through the semifinals, Christine Magnuson established herself as the woman to beat in the 100 butterfly. And while she didn't go as fast as the first two rounds, she got the job done in the championship final, winning in 58.11...

By John Lohn OMAHA, Nebraska, July 2. RIDING the momentum of her Beijing qualification in the 100 butterfly, Elaine Breeden was the swiftest performer during the preliminaries of the 200 fly. The Stanford standout, swimming in the 11th of 13 heats, turned in a time of 2:07.72, well ahead of the rest...

By John Lohn OMAHA, Nebraska, June 29. LEADING up to the Olympic Trials, Peter Vanderkaay and Erik Vendt were mentioned as the primary favorites to qualify for Beijing in the 400 freestyle. Meanwhile, Larsen Jensen was chatted up as a guy who could bring trouble. Well, Jensen obviously wasn't gi...

By Sarah Eckersley OMAHA, Nebraska, July 4. TODAY, Eddis Singleton (SwimMac-NC), 26, will attempt to earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team. At the Charlotte UltraSwim, Singleton qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials in the 50 free (23.16). Singleton was born and raised in East Cleveland, Ohio. "What ...

By John Lohn OMAHA, Nebraska, June 29. THE opening script for the first evening of finals at the United States Olympic Trials couldn't have been written any better. Battling side-by-side throughout the 400-meter individual, Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte gave the crowd at the Qwest Center a show...

By John Lohn OMAHA, Nebraska, July 3. THE men's 200 breaststroke figured to feature a one-two finish by Brendan Hansen and Eric Shanteau. What unfolded was a shocker. While Shanteau placed in his expected spot, Scott Spann grabbed victory. Hansen, who won the 100 breaststroke earlier in the week...

By John Lohn OMAHA, Nebraska, July 1. THE Michael Phelps freight train keeps on rolling. Grabbing his second Olympic nod, to complement the one he earned on the first night of action in the 400 individual medley, Phelps scared his world record in the 200 freestyle, settling for a convincing victory ...

Updated July 8, 2008 OMAHA, Nebraska, July 7. ACCORDING to several unnamed sources close to the situation, Kara Lynn Joyce had to make some quick turnaround plans to head back to the West Coast as she was added to the U.S. Olympic Roster. USA Swimming then confirmed the roster move the following day...

By John Lohn OMAHA, Nebraska, July 5. WHAT a way to start the penultimate night of the Olympic Trials. A world record for Margaret Hoelzer. Already qualified for the Beijing Games in the 100 backstroke, Hoelzer captured top honors in her pet event by knocking down the global standard held by Zimbabw...

AUSTIN, Texas, July 11. ERIC Shanteau wasn't just battling Scott Spann and Brendan Hansen in the 200-meter breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic Trials as he helped pull off the biggest upset of the meet with former world-record holder Hansen taking fourth in the event. According to an exclusive inte...

By John Lohn OMAHA, Neb., July 3. AS the fifth day of Olympic Trials competition got rolling, Natalie Coughlin delivered a preliminary statement in the 100 freestyle. The American-record holder, racing in the last of 13 heats, turned in a meet-record time of 53.64, the only time of the morning that ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 28. 41-year old phenom Dara Torres is featured on the cover of the August issue of Swimming World Magazine. With her jaw-dropping performances at Trials in Omaha, Torres captured not only a spot on her fifth Olympic team, but seemed to personify the Olympic Motto; "Citius, Alt...

By Jamie Kolar, Swimming World College Intern. As the swimming community is aware, Missy Franklin made her return to the pool after a two-year hiatus from competition. No, she did not break a world record or any meet records for that matter. Her biggest accomplishment of the meet was cracking the to...

By John Lohn OMAHA, Nebraska, July 1. FOR two rounds, Aaron Peirsol toyed with his competition. He did what was necessary to get through the prelims, then picked up the pace a bit in the semifinal round. In the final of the 100 backstroke, the world-record holder and defending Olympic champion took ...