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The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly<\/em><\/span>
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This issue of SW Biweekly features the best of the year 2020 in review.<\/span>
\nSee our featured content below to take a look at some of the most major news, events, and happenings that 2020 had in store for the wide world of swimming!<\/span><\/h2>\n
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FEATURES<\/strong><\/p>\n

008<\/span> TOM SHIELDS OPENS UP ABOUT WHAT LED HIM TO NEAR-SUICIDE EXPERIENCE IN 2018<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Andy Ross<\/strong>
\nToward the end of 2018, Tom Shields\u2014an Olympian, American record holder, NCAA champion and happily married\u2014tried to take his own life. He didn\u2019t go public with this until December 2019, finally opening up in an Instagram post, saying he had tried to hang himself. \u201cThis was not a cry for help,\u201d said Shields. \u201cIt was more about sharing my experience with it and de-stigmatizing mental health issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

010<\/span> DI FULVIO, JOHNSON ARE SWIMMING WORLD\u2019S TOP WATER POLO PLAYERS FOR 2019<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Michael Randazzo<\/strong>
\nAshleigh Johnson\u2014the top goalie on the world\u2019s best women\u2019s team\u2014is Swimming World\u2019s top female player for 2019. It\u2019s the fourth time this decade that she\u2019s been so honored. For the men, in a year when the Italian national team demonstrated that they are Olympic gold medal contenders, defender Francesco Di Fulvio was their best player while leading Italy to a gold medal at the 2019 World Championships and being named the meet\u2019s MVP.<\/p>\n

012<\/span> DAVE SALO ANNOUNCES THIS IS HIS LAST SEASON AS SOUTHERN CAL COACH<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Andy Ross<\/strong>
\nAlthough Dave Salo announced he will be stepping down as USC\u2019s head swimming coach, he said he will continue to coach the various Olympic hopeful swimmers at Trojan Swim Club through the Olympics.<\/p>\n

013<\/span> MICHAEL PHELPS SLAMS USOC FOR SILENCE IN FACE OF HIS REVELATIONS OF DEPRESSION<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Craig Lord<\/strong>
\nIn an interview with Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post, Michael Phelps shares how the USOC leadership responded with silence when he revealed the nature and depth of his struggle with depression and mental-health issues that dogged him during his career as the most decorated Olympian of all-time, all sports.<\/p>\n

014<\/span> REGAN SMITH SCORCHES 58.26 FOR 100 BACKSTROKE GOLD IN KNOXVILLE<\/span><\/strong>
\nby John Lohn<\/strong>
\nRegan Smith\u2019s performances at the TYR Pro Series stop in Knoxville only fueled the massive expectations surrounding her and what she might accomplish at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

016<\/span> CATE CAMPBELL BREAKS HER SILENCE TO SHED FURTHER LIGHT ON THAT FATEFUL NIGHT IN RIO<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Ian Hanson<\/strong>
\nAustralia\u2019s Cate Campbell, the world record holder in the women\u2019s 100 meter free heading into the Rio Olympics, shared with sportswriter Wayne Smith of The Australian the \u201creal reason\u201d she finished sixth in a race that seemingly all Australia had expected her to win.<\/p>\n

020<\/span> SUN YANG VS. WADA VERDICT: DAMNING EIGHT-YEAR BAN ENDS CAREER OF CHINESE CONTROVERSY<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Craig Lord<\/strong>
\nSun Yang\u2019s swimming career is over. In a damning judgment, a panel of three senior judges at the Court of Arbitration for Sports handed the Chinese Olympic champion an eight-year ban for violating several anti-doping rules, including chain of custody and tampering.<\/p>\n

025<\/span> IOC CONFIRMS TOKYO 2020 WILL START ON JULY 23, 2021<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Liz Byrnes<\/strong>
\nThe Olympic Games were scheduled to start on July 24, 2020, but the relentless march of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forced the IOC to postpone the Games for the first time in their history. Tokyo 2020 will now take place from July 23 to Aug. 8, 2021.<\/p>\n

028<\/span> NCAA SWIMMING CANCELLATION: \u201cPOWERFUL STUFF WHEN YOU HAVE TO MESS WITH KIDS\u2019 DREAMS\u201d<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Dan D\u2019Addona<\/strong>
\nWhile everyone seems to be on the same page about canceling the NCAA Championships, it is still devastating to the athletes who will miss their final competitions\u2014especially the seniors.<\/p>\n

030<\/span> SWIMMERS PREPARE FOR CHALLENGES OF OLYMPIC POSTPONEMENT<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Andy Ross<\/strong>
\nThe postponement of the Olympic Games first brought a sigh of relief for athletes and coaches everywhere, but with the Games being pushed to 2021, that changes so many things for athletes around the world.<\/p>\n

034<\/span> HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

041<\/span> FEDERICA PELLEGRINI RESETS FOCUS TO FIFTH OLYMPICS 17 YEARS AFTER DEBUT<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Liz Byrnes<\/strong>
\nItaly\u2019s Federica Pellegrini has reset her sights following the postponement of Tokyo 2020, and is now looking to her fifth Olympics, 17 years after her debut at Athens 2004. Pellegrini won gold in the 200 free at Beijing 2008 and silver in Athens, where she stood on the podium just 12 days after turning 16.<\/p>\n

042<\/span> THE TOKYO POSTPONEMENT IN PERSPECTIVE: WHAT HAS (AND HASN\u2019T) STOPPED THE OLYMPICS<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Matthew De George<\/strong>
\nThe Olympic Movement has weathered boycotts and World Wars. It has navigated such international catastrophes as apartheid and the Nazi regime, plus dozens of civil wars and the full gamut of conflicts and chaos. The COVID-19 outbreak\u2019s ability to knock the Olympics out of commission until 2021 is a testament to the virus\u2019 threat to humanity and the gravity of the public-health situation across the globe.<\/p>\n

044<\/span> OLIVIA SMOLIGA & LIA NEAL GOING BACK TO THEIR ROOTS WITH ZOOM Q&A<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Andy Ross<\/strong>
\nOlivia Smoliga and Lia Neal participated in a Zoom Q&A with members of the club teams they grew up with. The sessions were a chance for the two Olympians to give back by inspiring swimmers from their hometowns.<\/p>\n

046<\/span> CLAIRE CURZAN ANALYZES FIRST MEET SINCE MARCH; DISCUSSES CHALLENGES OF RECRUITING IN PANDEMIC<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Andy Ross<\/strong>
\nSixteen-year-old\u00a0 Claire Curzan, a member of the National Junior Team, set four best times at a TAC Titans intrasquad meet in Raleigh, N.C. in July, and swam faster than the national age group record in all four events.<\/p>\n

048<\/span> THE GOLDEN YEARS OF HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING: SANTA CLARA AND MISSION VIEJO<\/span><\/strong>
\nby David Rieder<\/strong>
\nPublic schools Santa Clara and Mission Viejo built high school swimming dynasties from the 1960s through the early 1980s. Not only did they dominate high school swimming, but unlike today, they also produced many of the swimmers from that era who competed in the Olympics.<\/p>\n

052<\/span> REECE WHITLEY: \u201cSILENCE IN THE FACE OF INJUSTICE IS COMPLICITY\u201d; URGES ACTION RATHER THAN JUST WORDS <\/span><\/strong>
\nby Dan D\u2019Addona<\/strong>
\nReece Whitley, U.S. national champion and University of California-Berkeley All-American, took to social media to urge people and organizations to take action instead of just words to help bring people together in the wake of racial tragedies throughout the United States that have led to protests around the nation.<\/p>\n

053<\/span> ADAM PEATY BLASTS 100 BREASTSTROKE WORLD RECORD IN ISL SEMIFINALS<\/span><\/strong>
\nby John Lohn<\/strong>
\nThere is no doubt that Adam Peaty is the greatest 100 breaststroker in history, and with a short-course world record (55.49) added to his ledger during semifinals of a recent International Swimming League competition, the British star only enhanced his legacy in the event.<\/p>\n

054<\/span> AMY BILQUIST LOOKING TO BUILD ON HER FIRST ISL VICTORY FOR DC TRIDENT<\/span><\/strong>
\nby Dan D\u2019Addona<\/strong>
\nAmy Bilquist joined the DC Trident this year because she saw the team\u2019s energy in the inaugural International Swimming League (ISL) season and wanted to be a part of it. But with Katie Ledecky, Natalie Coughlin and Cody Miller out for the season, Bilquist immediately became one of the faces of the Trident. Bilquist, who won the U.S. national title in the 100 back in 2019, didn\u2019t disappoint: In her first race in the DC Trident red, she won the 200 back in 2:02.23, the first win of her ISL career.<\/p>\n

055<\/span> CAELEB DRESSEL PUTS TOGETHER EPIC DAY: TWO WORLD RECORDS AND AMERICAN MARK<\/span><\/strong>
\nby John Lohn<\/strong>
\nCaeleb Dressel produced one of the greatest single-day performances the sport has ever seen in the short-course meters pool on the first day of the ISL Grand Final in Budapest. In the span of two hours, he became the first man to break the 48-second barrier in the 100 fly (47.78), added a world record of 20.16 in the 50 free and shaved 2-hundredths off his own American record in the 100 free (45.18).<\/p>\n

056<\/span> PARTING SHOT<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n