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TYR is suing ... well, quite a few folk, it seems: Speedo; Mark Schubert, head coach to the USA who was there when TYR founder Steve Furniss was still in his USA togs; USA Swimming; and Erik Vendt
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The Brazilian Swimming Federation has released news that the FINA Doping Panel has suspended Rebeca Gusmao for two years, dating back to a July 13, 2007, anti-doping control at the Pan American Games
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Arizona State University Men's Swimming Program gets cut due to budget restraints along with Men's Wrestling and Men's Tennis
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Brazilian freestyle sprinter cleared of the 2006 case against her but faces tough time over cases pending from 2007
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We don't write much on open water here in the civilised world of pool swimming but here's a tale of courage, determination and dedication that's well worth taking the time for: back from cancer, Maarten van der Weijden is a world champion
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Pierre Lafontaine will lead a group of seven coaches at the helm of the Maple shoal, with as Tom Johnson as head coach and Jozsef Nagy and Jan Bidrman among the staff
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Head coach Orjan Madsen reveals news at a team-building seminar with 13 home coaches and Olympic staff coaches and athletes in Potsdam; Olympic plans laid out
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Brazil will stage its final Olympic qualification trials in Rio from tomorrow until Sunday. The meet is decisive for all but the 11 athletes who have already booked their tickets to Beijing
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Grant Hackett's 10km dream is over as he ends outside top 10 and gets DQ'd; at the helm - Vladimir Dyatchin (RUS), 0.3sec ahead of David Davies (GBR), and, 6sec back, Thomas Lurz (GER)
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Top two from Melbourne 2007 repeat their one-two finish at the 5th FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in Seville; Du Toit fourth and on her way to the inaugural 10km Olympic marathon swim in Beijing in August; big open water names must try agai
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Gary Hall Jr speaks out on how the gain to be had in the latest generation of bodysuits could be used to mask doping; and the NYT reports on how nature made some athletes more able to cheat than others
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Why even the biggest, wealthiest and most successful of swimming nations - one that already coaches many hundreds of the best swimmers from the developing world at its colleges - has work to do at home
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Or will the open water specialists bite back as the likes of Grant Hackett and David Davies challenge for places in the inaugural 10km marathon race in Beijing at World Championships in Seville from Saturday
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Metella and Rouault lead last-day qualifiers in Dunkirk: Leveaux's place in all-time top ten over 50m and 200m freestyle is an aberration
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Amaury Leveaux takes down Alain Bernard's European record in the battle of the performance-enhancing bodysuits
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The performance-enhancing suits struck again: at the Australian Grand Prix in Canberra, Leisel Jones and Libby Trickett clock 1:03.72 (100m breast) and 55.74 (100m 'fly), post-February 2008
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Water will boil in the 50m freestyle final in Dunkirktomorrow after the rockets of Gaul went: 1st semi- 21.67 from Alain Bernard; 2nd semi - 21.53, Amaury Leveaux, 21.60, Fred Bousquet, who then blasts 51.83 100 'fly FRA rec; Metella goes 53.99 100 free
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Forbes Carlile, Cecil Colwin, Peter Daland, have been among leading pioneers, men who sought out the cutting edge, not stick-in-the-muds, not luddites. They also hate the thought of where the battle of the bodysuit is leading to ...
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World record holder's victory in the 100m freestyle - off a 21.97 split -at trials in Dunkirk proves his new speed is here to stay; French relay dreams of gold in Beijing as five break 49sec and six join hands to celebrate their joint mission
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Breaststroke ace on form at French trials with 2:09.72 200m semi final; Muffat books 4x200m free place then takes down national 200m medley mark in 2:11.15; Aurore Mongel wins 200m freestyle in 1:57.63 and leads 200 'fly qualiers in 2:11.17