Check out some of the top tweets from around the swimming world from this past week!
1. Laying Down the Challenge
After Ippei Watanabe broke the world record in the men’s 200 breast Sunday, six-time Olympic medalist Brendan Hansen had a challenge for the current crop of American breaststrokers.
https://twitter.com/BrendanHansen/status/825733812709687298
Josh Prenot, who now ranks No. 3 all-time in the event, responded in kind.
2. Support for Drury Swimming After Tragic Death of Wen “Ariel” Xu
3. National Women and Girls in Sports Day
4. Olympic Stadium in Shambles
https://twitter.com/StephenWadeAP/status/827213375193153536
5. Lights Out at Louisville Practice
6. Lilly King’s Costume Party
https://twitter.com/_king_lil/status/827322340925140992
7. Ryan Lochte Forgets His Candy
https://twitter.com/RyanLochte/status/826978599953522692
8. NC State Sweeps North Carolina and Virginia
9. Tennessee and Duke Make History
10. Super Bowl Tears
11. Laying Down the Challenge
Yahoo Sports’ Pat Forde was in Austin, Texas, this week for college football’s National Signing Day, so the Texas men’s program invited him to come to morning practice to swim with top butterflyers Joseph Schooling and Jack Conger.
No word on whether Forde actually made it to practice.
12. It’s Been Awhile…
Tennis legend Roger Federer won his 18th major championship Sunday at the Australian Open. It was his first major since winning Wimbledon in July 2012. Which means…