{"id":443470,"date":"2020-08-10T08:57:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T15:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=443470"},"modified":"2020-08-10T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:59:41","slug":"the-week-that-was-touretski-passes-away-curzan-break-50-seconds-in-100-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-week-that-was-touretski-passes-away-curzan-break-50-seconds-in-100-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week That Was: Touretski Passes Away, Curzan Break 50 Seconds in 100 Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate.<\/em><\/p>\n

Legendary coach\u00a0Gennadi Touretski<\/strong>, who led the likes of\u00a0Alexander Popov\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Michael Klim\u00a0<\/strong>among others to Olympic medals, passed away on Friday after a heart attack. Touretski was a former national team coach of Swimming Australia before he was fired in 2002, and was most recently based in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Across the pond, 16-year-old\u00a0Claire Curzan\u00a0<\/strong>nearly broke the American record in the 100 butterfly SCY at the TAC Titans Invitational with the Marlins of Raleigh as she is one of the few club swimmers that have returned to racing this summer since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n

Read below the five biggest stories in The Week That Was sponsored by\u00a0Suitmate<\/a>.<\/p>\n