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CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, February 20. AFTER an amazing TISCA Tennessee High School State Championship meet during which The Baylor School boys took down the 200-yard medley relay national high school record, head coach Dan Flack took time out to speak with Swimming World. In this epic interview (made...

By Annie Grevers, Swimming World Staff Writer At the Olympics in 2004, a knot of nerves twisted in 15-year-old Katie Hoff’s stomach. The anxious teen cramped up after the first 250 of her 400 IM. She completed the race then pulled herself from the water dry-heaving before spewing the unsettled nerve...

By Swimming World Intern Justin Sweetwood PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 12. THROUGHOUT the weekend, swimmers have been battling it out in the pool at this year’s CeraVe Invitational. Taking place at the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center on the Rutgers University campus, swimmers from across the coun...

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, January 30. THE United States has received invitations in five events for the upcoming 2014 FINA Diving World Series, an invitation-only series for the top finishers from the 2013 FINA World Championships. The United States received two individual invitations, with David Boudi...

CANCUN, Mexico, March 3. THE first meeting of the FINA Bureau in 2014 took place in Cancun (MEX) on March 1-2, immediately after the organisation of the successful FINA World Water Polo Conference. The main decisions taken by the FINA Bureau include:  Appointment of the two new members of the Execu...

By Steven V. Selthoffer, Chief European Columnist BUDAPEST, Romania, June 2. IT is official. In a monumental and sweeping victory, former swimmer/rugby player and sport executive, Mr. Alin Petrache won the Romania NOC election with more than 70% of the vote, taking 143 out of 202 possible votes, bec...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, May 10. THE Brazilian Winter Nationals came to a close with a few more world-class times going up on the board. Leonardo De Deus demonstrated his consistency by matching his season best in the men's 200-meter fly. He dropped a time of 1:56.21 in the event tonight to match his...

SHANGHAI, China, June 1. THE USA Men's Senior National Team took home the gold medal at the FINA Intercontinental Tournament after defeating Brazil 11-7. The victory marked a six game winning streak for Team USA ahead of their four game series with Serbia starting this Wednesday in Northern Californ...

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, February 3. JOSHUA Romany, who competes for the Davie Nadadores and represents Trinidad and Tobago internationally, called the Tennessee Volunteers today to confirm that he's going to be a future Vol. Romany, who has only competed in yard twice in his lifetime, has put together...

MOSCOW, Russia, May 15. ALTHOUGH Daria Ustinova still kept on earning kudos as the new 15-year-old darling of Russia swimming, Veronika Popova captured the headline at Russian Nationals with her new national record. Popova popped a Russian record in the women's 200-meter free semifinals with a 1:56....

MOSCOW, Russia, May 17. RUSSIAN swimmers made sure the fans in Moscow went out with some strong memories as they lit up the pool with a host of world-class times as the Russian Nationals came to a close. A few days ago, China hyped up the Butterfly Wars between Jiao Liuyang and Liu Zige. That should...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, February 12. THE fourth preliminary round for Europe of the FINA Men's Water Polo World League 2014 concluded on February 11 with the leading teams of Montenegro, Serbia and Hungary looking strong to earn a berth for the men’s Super Final taking place in Dubai (UAE) from June ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 28. CHINESE divers exhibited their prowess during the third leg of the FINA/NVC Diving World Series at the London Aquatics Centre on April 25-27, pocketing all eight titles at stake. In the men’s individual events, reigning World champion He Chong claimed the 3m springbo...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, May 13. TODAY, FINA released its final decision regarding Russia's Yuliya Efimova and her positive test for 7-keto-DHEA during an out-of-competition test that took place in Los Angeles. FINA elected to imposed a 16-month competition ban retroactive to Oct. 31, 2013 and conclud...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 16. THE FINA President Dr. Julio C. Maglione was today in Moscow (RUS) to sign an agreement with Russian commercial bank MASTBANK, which becomes the title sponsor of the 2014 edition of the FINA Swimming World Cup. “We are very happy to establish this partnership, which c...

VIENNA, Austria, June 7. THE locals has some success throughout the Vienna International Long Course Championships, but a strong Hungarian contingent did some serious damage during the three-day meet. DAY ONE Hungary's Monika Olle cruised to victory in the women's 200-meter backstroke finale with a ...

Australian Mitch Larkin is inching closer and closer to entering the pantheon of legend in the backstroke events. Over the course of six days at three of the FINA World Cup meets, Larkin continued to confirm his status as the world’s best backstroker with swims that were among the fastest in history...

Commentary by Pamela Roberts With a little more than two weeks into 2014, I think we have all recovered from extravagant holiday parties and either ditched the New Year’s resolutions or put some serious thought into how to realize them. It’s time for 2014 to start and swimming-wise, this should be a...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, August 31. AFTER sitting out the long course 200 breaststroke at the European championships two weeks ago, Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta returned to his pet event in the short course meters pool at the FINA World Cup tonight with a fury, breaking his own world record tonight i...

The second cluster of the 2016 FINA World Cup came to a close this week, with the familiar names Katinka Hosszu and Vladimir Morozov winning for the men and women respectively while still sitting on top of the overall leaderboard. Catch up on World Cup news, college swimming news, coaching changes a...