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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 4. HEADING into the final of the 100 breaststroke, Rebecca Soni was expected to nail down a slot to Beijing. It didn't happen. Soni didn't find the same heartbreak in the 200 breast. Swimming her favor...
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AUSTIN, Texas, May 1. THE first day of the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) National Championships opened with the 1000 and 1650 yard freestyle events.
Jurgen Schmidt, 85, provided the sole record-setting performance of the day with a tim...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, April 24. THE United States Olympic Committee announced the television broadcast schedule for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming along with various other upcoming Trials.
Below is a list of aquatics-based ...
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Updated April 29, 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 28. ACCORDING to sources requesting anonymity close to the situation, Penn State's Bill Dorenkott announced to his team this evening that he is taking the head women's swimming positi...
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KINGSTON, Rhode Island, April 14. IN what is becoming almost a rite of passage after every great NCAA Championship season, an athletics department is announcing a cut. This time, men's swimming is on the chopping block at the University of Rh...
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DUNKIRK, France, April 26. THE seventh day of swimming at the French Olympic Trials featured plenty of fast swims as plenty of national records went by the wayside. One of the fastest times included Amaury Leveaux shattering the European record i...
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DUNKIRK, France, April 23. TWO national records fell during the fourth night of swimming at the French Olympic Trials held in Dunkirk.
Hugues Duboscq broke his national record in the men's 200 breast semifinal round with a fantastic time of...
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By Brent Rutemiller
PHOENIX, Arizona, April 25. RECENTLY Tim Arango from the New York Times reported that a "dispute has grown lately between the press and organized sports over is...
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MISSION VIEJO, California, April 24. A pair of distance freestyle events opened the meet at the TYR Swim Meet of Championships held in Mission Viejo, Calif.
Fans were fortunate enough to witness Kate Ziegler take down the women's 1500 frees...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, April 22. THE SwimmingWorldMagazine.com Olympic Preview Series rolls along this week with the men's 400 medley relay. As was the case with the female event, many relay spots remain up in the air. So...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 25. TWO Hall of Fame inductions highlight Friday's edition of The Morning Swim Show, one in water polo and the other in swimming
To view this show ...
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PERTH, Australia, April 21. AFTER a few days of some technical difficulties, results have now been made available from the 2008 FINA World Masters Championships held in Perth.
Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen, an American, is representing a French club and...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 23. WEDNESDAY'S edition of The Morning Swim Show looks ahead to an Olympic relay race and visits with a past Olympic champion.
To view this show ...
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DUNKIRK, France, April 22. WORLD-record holder Laure Manaudou will not compete in the women's 200 free after pulling out of the competition at the French Olympic Trials today.
According to the International Herald Tribune, Manaudou q...
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Updated April 22, 2008
DUNKIRK, France, April 21. DURING the second day of competition at the French Olympic Trials, Laure Manaudou had an up-and-down day of swimming. She took a rare loss in the women's 400 free, but she also clock...
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Updated April 18, 2008
SYDNEY, Australia, April 17. IN a statement posted by the Australian Olympic Committee today, John D. Coates, the president of the AOC announced that Nick D'Arcy has been removed from the Australian Olympic ro...
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ANN ARBOR, Michigan. April 17. UNIVERSITY of Michigan men's swimming head coach Bob Bowman announced that he will be leaving the program following the Beijing Olympics to assume chief executive officer responsibilities at the North Baltimore A...
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By Hideki Mochizuki, Swimming World Japanese Correspondent
TOKYO, Japan, April 19. KOSUKE Kitajima took a run at Brendan Hansen's world record in the men's 200 breast, but came up short at the Japanese Olympic Trials held in Toky...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, April 29. Will a sub-4:00 performance in the 400-meter freestyle be required to win gold in Beijing? That's one of the highlight questions heading into this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing. A star-st...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 4. ANYONE interested in another round of Michael Phelps vs. Ian Crocker in the 100 butterfly? Thought so. The latest chapter of their sterling rivalry will unfold tomorrow night, and that world record of 50.40...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 4. THE Fourth of July Fireworks didn't wait until after sundown. They were ignited during the semifinals of the 50 freestyle. Five of the eight qualifiers for tomorrow's championship final cracked the ...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 3. THE men's 200 breaststroke figured to feature a one-two finish by Brendan Hansen and Eric Shanteau. What unfolded was a shocker. While Shanteau placed in his expected spot, Scott Spann grabbed victory. ...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 2. FOR the second straight night, Michael Phelps flirted with one of his world records. And, for the second consecutive evening, he came up just short. Nonetheless, the greatest swimmer in history put on anoth...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 3. A big-time show is on the horizon for the final of the women's 100 freestyle. That much is for certain after the semifinal duel that Natalie Coughlin and Dara Torres waged. The American-record holder, C...
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GLASGOW, Scotland, June 27. HANNAH Miley touched out Laure Manaudou in the women's 200 back to highlight the second day of swimming at the Scottish National Open Championships.
Miley had to hold off a hard-charging Manaudou, 2:12.66 to 2:1...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 2. THIS girl is something else. It's one thing to try to tackle the 200 freestyle and 200 individual medley double. It's another thing entirely to pull it off, which is exactly what Katie Hoff accompli...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 2. WITH three simple words from Bob Bowman this morning, the face of the 100 freestyle changed. "One and done," Bowman said, referring to the decision to remove Michael Phelps from the event after th...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 1. ONLY a handful of athletes are capable of handling a multi-event schedule, what with the demands placed on the body and the mind. Katie Hoff negotiates the demands placed upon her with ease.
After openin...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 1. THE Golden Girl struck again.
One day after lowering her world record in the 100 backstroke during the preliminary round, Natalie Coughlin became the first woman in history to break the 59-second mark. T...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 2. IF the French thought the United States would roll over and allow the 400 free relay title to reside in Europe, they were badly mistaken. As the preliminaries of the 100 freestyle opened, several performanc...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 1. ONE of the athletes was trying to rebound from a poor swim in the semifinal round. The other was trying to earn a return trip to the Olympics after an eight-year wait. Together, Jessica Hardy and Megan Jend...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 1. FOR two rounds, Aaron Peirsol toyed with his competition. He did what was necessary to get through the prelims, then picked up the pace a bit in the semifinal round. In the final of the 100 backstroke, the ...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 1. WHEN the United States arrives in Beijing, it will be the favorite for gold in the 800 freestyle relay. The process to figure out which individuals will compete on that relay began with the preliminaries of...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 1. GIVEN their programs vary greatly, Katie Hoff and Natalie Coughlin rarely get the chance to go head-to-head. But with Coughlin's recent decision to contest the 200 individual medley, a showdown is brewi...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 30. WHAT a battle we have on tap in the final of the men's 100 backstroke. Seven guys in the championship final broke 54 seconds and whichever swimmer places third tomorrow will probably be capable of clai...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 30. ON the first night of these Olympic Trials, Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte produced one of the best head-to-head battles the sport has seen, with both men breaking the existing world record in the 400 indi...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 30. A summer after stamping an identity as an international class breaststroker, Rebecca Soni moved a step closer to making her first Olympic Team. Swimming the semifinals of the 100 breaststroke, Soni registe...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 30. THROUGH the preliminaries and through the semifinals, Christine Magnuson established herself as the woman to beat in the 100 butterfly. And while she didn't go as fast as the first two rounds, she got ...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 30. MAKE it two Olympic nods for Katie Hoff.
A night after setting a world record in the 400 individual medley, Hoff used a sensational back half to win the 400 freestyle and increase her workload for Beiji...
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Updated June 20, 2008
PHOENIX, Arizona, June 17. SWIMMING World acquired an early copy of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials psych sheet, which we are making available to our readers.
Swimmers still have the ability to scratch from ...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 30. WHILE the first day of action at the Olympic Trials featured plenty of starpower, the fans in attendance were forced to wait until Day Two to get a look at the Golden Girl. No worries. Natalie Coughlin is ...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 29. THE hunter looks like he's going to shoot down himself. An avid outdoorsman, Brendan Hansen made a run at his world record in the 100 breaststroke during the second semifinal Sunday. Ultimately, he cam...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 29. THINK Stephanie Rice was tuned in Down Under?
Three months after losing her world record in the 400 individual medley to Rice during the Australian Olympic Trials, Katie Hoff is back on top of the world...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 29. THE opening script for the first evening of finals at the United States Olympic Trials couldn't have been written any better. Battling side-by-side throughout the 400-meter individual, Michael Phelps a...
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OMAHA, Nebraska, June 29. U.S. sprint veteran Gary Hall Jr. addressed the media today at a press conference schedule by the United States Olympic Committee.
During the conversation, he spoke about doping issues, the swim suit controversy, and t...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 29. OCCASSIONALLY, a handful of swimmers can take it easy during the morning preliminaries, doing just enough to advance to the night's semifinals or, in some cases, the finals. Well, the women's 400 i...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 29. FOUR years ago, Brendan Hansen walked into Long Beach for the Olympic Trials with a chip on his shoulder. Looking to avenge a pair of third-place finishes at the 2000 Trials in Indianapolis, Hansen had som...
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OMAHA, Nebraska, June 27. A severe storm hammered the Qwest Center today, the site of the U.S. Olympic Trials set to begin on Sunday. Swimmers that were on location had to leave the pool, while power for most of the city was knocked out as well.
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 26. IN Thursday's edition of The Morning Swim Show an Olympic hopeful talks about his chances to make the US Olympic swim team, and viewers get a peek at Swimming World's first swimsuit edition.
Host...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 24. YESTERDAY, we posted Swimming World superfan Bill Bell's latest all time list for women over long course meters.
Today, w...
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LOS ANGELES, California, June 26. SPEEDO, the world's leading swimwear brand, today unveiled the special Olympic edition Team USA LZR RACER suit. Speedo worked with legendary design house Comme des Garcons to develop a one-of-kind look for Te...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 23. HEADING into the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Neb., next week, Swimming World superfan Bill Bell is back with another round of all time lists.
Today, we offer his unedited list for the women over long course ...
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WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25. OVER the weekend, six world Masters SCM records fell at the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics Championships held in Washington, D.C.
Glenn Mills shot down a trio of global standards in the 45-49 age division. H...
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BELGRADE, Serbia, June 23. OVER the weekend, the Serbians took a torch to their national record book at the Belgrade Victor meet.
Milorad Cavic clipped his national record in the men's 100 fly with a time of 51.65. His previous standard of...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, June 24. THE end is in sight. Including this week, only six events remain in SwimmingWorldMagazine.com's Olympic Preview Series. It's been a lengthy run, one that started several months ago. Thi...
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PARIS, France, June 19. THE French quartet of Amaury Leveaux (48.81), Fabien Gilot (48.05), Fred Bousquet (48.41) and Alain Bernard (47.27) lit the pool on fire at the Paris Open with a European record in the men's 400 free relay.
The fours...
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IRVINE, California, June 20. WHILE official results have yet to be made available, Rose Bowl Aquatics head coach Jeff Julian informed Swimming World today that Jason Lezak put together an incredible swim at the club's invitational yest...
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TEMPE, Arizona, June 19. THE Save Arizona State Swimming movement released the following update on how close it is getting to reinstating the program.
Since the middle of May the men's swim team community from ASU has been working dilige...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, June 17. ANOTHER week, another look at how an event will shape up at the Olympic Games in Beijing later this summer. This week, SwimmingWorldMagazine.com continues its Olympic Preview Series with a glan...
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CANET, France, June 14. HUNGARY's Laszlo Cseh improved upon his status as the second-best swimmer in the men's 400 IM in history during the first day of the Canet stop of the Mare Nostrum series.
Cseh crushed his previous personal-best...
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PARIS, France, June 18. THE second day of swimming at the Paris Open began with a morning of finals action.
South Africa's Wendy Trott opened the first morning of finals competition with a distance victory. She hit the wall in 8:28.48 to c...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, June 17. ACCORDING to a report by Tripp Mickle in the Sports Business Journal, the United States Olympic Committee has asked USA Swimming to be more vigilant regarding rules about sponsors on swimmers' caps....
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NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, June 16. NBC Sports, a division of NBC Universal, and World Championship Sports Network have joined forces to create Universal Sports. Universal Sports will combine NBCU's programming and production expertise and pro...
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CANET, France, June 15. HUNGARY's Laszlo Cseh may still have a hard time usurping Michael Phelps' crown as the top IMer in the world in Beijing, but he's definitely reminding everyone just how good he is in the medley events at the Can...
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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 10. LATER today it is expected that the University of Michigan will announce that Mike Bottom has been named Bob Bowman's replacement as the head men's swimming for the Wolverines.
Although the move to a top-f...
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BARCELONA, Spain, June 11. LEISEL Jones went big again during the second day of swimming at the Barcelona stop of the Mare Nostrum.
Jones, who owns the world record with a 1:05.09 in the women's 100 breast from 2006, clocked the best time ...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, June 10. WE'VE reached the homestretch of SwimmingWorldMagazine.com's 32-week Olympic Preview Series. Just a handful of events to go as Beijing creeps closer. There are actually less than two mo...
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TOKYO, Japan, June 8. DURING the final day of action at the Japan Open, Kosuke Kitajima delivered a strong message to the globe via a world record in the 200 breast, he's ready to defend his Olympic gold medals.
After ...
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Updated June 9, 2008
PHOENIX, Arizona, June 6. FROM time-to-time, when enough strong meets are going on during the same weekend across the world, Swimming World likes to lump them together as if they were in the same meet. Here ...
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TOKYO, Japan, June 10. AFTER an incredible weekend during which Kosuke Kitajima set the 200 breast world record while wearing a Speedo LZR Racer, the Japanese Swi...
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AUSTIN, Texas, June 8. HAYLEY McGregory continued her remarkable rise within the U.S. backstroke scene as the country looks for a strong second to world-record holder Natalie Coughlin. McGregory put an even stronger stamp on her bid for that spot...
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OMAHA, Nebraska, June 7. MICHAEL Phelps completed a strong USA Swimming Grand Prix series with a blazing fast time in the 100 back as he cashed a $20,000 ...
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AUSTIN, Texas, June 7. HAYLEY McGregory nearly grabbed the 50 back world record for the second time in Austin, Texas, after first setting the record at the All-American meet in March. McGregory, however, came up just a bit short tonight at the Te...
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LOS ANGELES, California, June 7. JULIA Smit won three of the four individual titles on offer for the women during the second night of swimming at the Janet Evans Invitational.
Smit opened with a touch-out triumph over Natalie Coughlin, 1:57.34...
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TOKYO, Japan, June 6. DURING the first day of competition at the Japan Open held in Tokyo, Kosuke Kitajima made a statement both in and out of the water. Meanwhile, several other Japanese records fell at the meet.
Kitajima won the men's 1...
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LOS ANGELES, California, June 6. NATALIE Coughlin proved that she is on point heading into the U.S. Olympic Trials as she dropped the American record in t...
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OMAHA, Nebraska, June 6. THE second night of competition began at the Mutual of Omaha Swimvitational held at the soon-to-be location of the U.S. Olympic Trials – the Qwest Center. ...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, June 4. LAST weekend, the USA Swimming Rules and Regulations Committee met on May 30-31 in Dallas, Texas. USA Swimming's National Team Head Coach and General Manager Mark Schubert has accepted the USA Rules and Reg...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, June 4. ACCORDING to an article by Tripp Mickle in the Sports Business Journal, the NCAA is considering a proposal by USA Swimming, the American Swimming Coaches Association and the College Swimming Coaches Associati...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, June 3. FOUR years ago, the men's 100-meter breaststroke was one of the most talked about events at the 2004 Olympics. En route to the gold medal, Kosuke Kitajima – as video revealed – used dolphin kicks ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 2. LAST week, Swimming World began asking its readers what they thought USA Swimming should do regarding the short pool controversy at the Texas Senior Circuit meet held in College Station.
We asked the following ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 2. GET the lowdown from Swimming World Magazine on the rapidly approaching U.S. Olympic Trials. Managing Editor Jason Marsteller and Senior Writer John Lohn present a guide for both the men's and women's even...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, May 31. AT a meeting of the USA Swimming Rules and Regulations committee, those assembled discussed several options on how to deal with tim...
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OMAHA, Nebraska, May 30. THANKS to USA Swimming for providing images of the competition pool being filled at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb.
The Omaha Fire Department began filling the competition pool at the Qwest Center today. The pool will...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 21. THE Wednesday edition of The Morning Swim Show features an interview with the head women's coach at Texas A&M to clarify the controversy surrounding the shortened pool at last weekend's meet and the Olympic...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 19. WITH a short pool causing problems at the Texas Senior Circuit meet held at Texas A&M University in College Station, USA Swimming has responded to a Swimming World request for clarification on the impact of ...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, May 20. OF all the events on the Olympic slate, the men's 200-meter backstroke must have the United States yearning for three berths. But, each nation is limited to a pair of entries, meaning one American ...
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TEMPE, Arizona, May 18. THE Save Arizona State Swimming contingent now has a web site up-and-running to keep everyone informed as well as be a central location to donate funds. The web site address is ...
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SANTA CLARA, California, May 16. THE second night of swimming at the Santa Clara International Invitational began with a bang as Natalie Coughlin clipped her American record in the women's 100 free.
Unfortunately for Coughlin, Australian C...
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SANTA CLARA, California, May 18. THE final night of competition at the Santa Clara International Invitational featured an amazing U.S. Open record from Cate Campbell and a U.S. Open record by Erik Vendt. Michael Phelps also impressed with a title...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 18. WHILE Swimming World is still awaiting official confirmation from pool officials regarding the length of the pool, trusted sources have stated that the pool at the Texas Senior Circuit meet held in College St...
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SANTA CLARA, California, May 17. THE third night of swimming at the Santa Clara International Invitational witnessed its second American record.
Peter Vanderkaay provided the sensational swim, after Natalie Coughlin shot down her women's 10...
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Updated May 15, 2008
LOS ANGELES, California, May 15. ACCORDING to an article published by the Los Angeles Times, TYR has filed a federal-court lawsuit against Speedo, USA Swimming, Mark Schubert and Erik Vendt.
According to t...
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TEMPE, Arizona, May 14. IN an article in the Arizona Republic, Jason Skoda and Richard Obert collected several reactions from impacted student-athletes after a meeting with Arizona State Athletics Director Lisa Love.
Yesterday, Love met...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 14. Developing news from Arizona State University highlights the Wednesday edition of The Morning Swim Show on the heels of the announcement that its men's swim team would be cut.
To view this show ...
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SANTA CLARA, California, May 16. FOR one of the few times this year, the action in the water is not the biggest buzz at a swim meet as the various Olympians and other competitors at the Santa Clara International Invitational get to watch the swim...
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