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The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. The Russian Anti-Doping Agency decided to appeal the WADA decision to ban the Russian Federation from international competitions as they hope to lessen the ban that caused them to sit out international competitions in all sports for the next four years. 2015 ...

Marco Koch, the 2015 world 200m breaststroke champion, has appointed former Germany national team director Dirk Lange and the man who guided Cameron van der Burgh to Olympic gold as his new coach seven months ahead of Tokyo 2020. Koch, who also claimed silver behind Hungary’s former Olympic champion...

ALSHAMMAR ROCKS FREE RECORD: HOW SWEDE IT IS! Lisbon, Portugal - Therese Alshammar led a Swedish charge on the record books with an amazing world record of 52.80 to win the 100m freestyle at the European short-course championships in Lisbon, Portugal. The 22-year-old Stockholm sprinter, who has left...

By Claudia Weidlich March 18, Athens. THERESE Alshammar, of Sweden, caused mouths to fall wide open at the world short-course championsips with one of the most astonishing world records set in swimming in recent years; 23.59sec in the 50m freestyle. Needless to say, it won her the title, not by the ...

Adam Peaty, Chad Le Clos & Sarah Sjostrom Confirmed For 2023 World Cup Tour Adam Peaty will return to racing at the 2023 World Cup in October with Chad Le Clos confirmed for the three-stop tour of European capitals. The tour starts in Berlin from 6-8 October and moves on to Athens (13-15 October) be...

Chad Le Clos On Working With Dirk Lange & Silencing The Doubters After Career Low Point At Commonwealths For Chad Le Clos, his partnership with Dirk Lange represents a new chapter in his career after a frustrating couple of years that has seen him swim like “a desperate man”. The four-time Olympic m...

By Phillip Whitten HAMBURG, Jan. 24. SWEDISH swim star, Therese Alshammar, 23, and her German coach, Dirk Lange, have called it quits after a contract dispute became rancorous. Alshammar, a former University of Nebraska star who was voted Sweden’s "sexiest woman" in 1999, trained under Lange at the ...

Yesterday, a widely-distributed article by The Daily Telegraph was published in which the paper claimed that banned Chinese coach Zhou Ming was in Turkey at the Gloria Sports Centre to work alongside German swim coach Dirk Lange with some Chinese swimmers. Zhou was banned for life by FINA for repeat...

ALSHAMMAR HAMMERS ANOTHER RECORD! Lisbon, Portugal - Therese Alshammar sent smoke rising from the water yet again at the European short-course championships in Lisbon, Portugal, with a world record of 24.09 to win the 50m freestyle title. The Stockholm sprinter who trains in Hamburg with coach Dirk ...