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Fetched: December 2nd, 2008, 5:21pm CST
Michael Phelps has achieved another unprecedented feat: the first swimmer honoured as Sports Illustrated's sportsman of the year after his eight-gold medal swim in Beijing
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Fetched: December 2nd, 2008, 5:21pm CST
Times are still pretty modest down at the 9th African Swimming Championships at the Ellis Park Aquatics Centre in Johannesburg, though a 2:33.39 200m breaststroke is not at all bad for a 13-year-old girl
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Fetched: December 2nd, 2008, 1:44am CST
The world champion from France has exercised a woman's prerogative to change her mind: she will, after all, race at French nationals in Angers this week and then at the European s/c Championships in Rijeka next week
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Fetched: December 2nd, 2008, 1:44am CST
After three hours of tests at the Italian Olympic Committee's Sports Medicine unit in Rome today, Olympic champion says all is well
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Fetched: December 2nd, 2008, 1:44am CST
After 15 German records were set at the German s/c nationals in Essen at the weekend, including a 400m free European record for Paul Biedermann and Johannes Dietrich, the former European swimming powerhouse is clawing its way back from the Beijing blues
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Fetched: December 2nd, 2008, 1:44am CST
The Olympic 200m free champion is undergoing medical tests in Rome; modest times at Africa champs; Spain announces Rijeka team
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Fetched: December 2nd, 2008, 1:44am CST
If the number of world records falling can be called a flood, then tidal wave is an understatement for the figures on national records, the trend continuing at meets in Toronto, Vienna and Stockholm (and who knows what they all wore)
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Fetched: November 30th, 2008, 12:29am CST
At the Canada Cup in Toronto, Julia Smit, of the USA, clocked 4:25.87, inside the 4:26.52 in which US-based Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry swam to victory at the 2008 World s/c Champs in Manchester in April
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Fetched: November 29th, 2008, 5:51pm CST
Senior industry sources tell SwimNews that adidas, a giant of the sportswear and equipment market, is ready to follow Nike out of the pool if FINA does not find a swift and sensible solution to the techno-crisis rocking the sport
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Fetched: November 29th, 2008, 5:51pm CST
Concern is mounting about the performance-enhancing effects of the suit worn by swimmers who set five world s/c records fell in October
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Fetched: November 29th, 2008, 5:51pm CST
At the Canada Cup in Toronto, Julia Smit, of the USA, clocked 4:25.87, inside the 4:26.52 in which US-based Zimbabwean Kirsty Coventry swam to victory at the 2008 World s/c Champs in Manchester in April
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Fetched: November 29th, 2008, 5:51pm CST
Arena and the Svenska Simförbundet the Swedish Swimming Federation - have signed a contract that will go through from 2009 until the end of 2012
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Fetched: November 29th, 2008, 5:51pm CST
The only man to ever win Olympic medals in pool and lake - 2004 1,500m bronze and 2008 10km bronze - is set to take on the aquatic scrum as part of his London 2012 campaign; 2010 deadline set for 1,500m future
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Fetched: November 27th, 2008, 10:10pm CST
All was clearly not well in the South African team. Some wounds run deepr than others and take longer to heal. Many will be hoping for a new beginning, one in which two-way respect forms the foundation of a brighter future
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Fetched: November 27th, 2008, 12:39pm CST
One of Europe's swimming powerhouses has a new man at the helm and he brings with him knowledge of the 2012 Olympic host nation's programme
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Fetched: November 27th, 2008, 2:09am CST
Rebecca Adlington (GBR), double Olympic gold medallist and slayer of the last global mark to stand to the legendary Janet Evans, and Olympic 100m free champion Alain Bernard (FRA) lead the continent in LEN vote
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Fetched: November 27th, 2008, 2:09am CST
Ryan Lochte, Cullen Jones, Garrett Weber-Gale and Eric Shanteau head line-up for 2008 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming Short Course National Championships at Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, Dec. 4-6
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Fetched: November 27th, 2008, 2:09am CST
Phelps tells US TV audience 'this is where Cavic lost the 100 'fly crown in Beijing'; Jodie Henry not yet retired, still a registered competitor but unsure if she will ever return
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Fetched: November 25th, 2008, 7:14am CST
No sport is immune to technological advance but swimming's problem is one apart; the day of nano-clothing, self-cleansing garments and the rain coat that never gets wet has dawned and their creators have their eye on the race pool too
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Fetched: November 25th, 2008, 2:58am CST
Superfish is No2 in the Facebook charts as he signs food chain deal; Magnini tells Bernard 'face your Waterloo in Rome'; plenty of domestic might to test Manaudou; Zagreb results; whither fairplay in doping case
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Fetched: November 25th, 2008, 2:58am CST
Nick D'Arcy, the fastest 200m 'fly swimmer in Australia, has pleaded guilty in a Sydney court to assaulting swimmer Simon Cowley. The maximum sentence is 10 years in jail; D'Arcy to learn his fate in February
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Fetched: November 25th, 2008, 2:58am CST
Further to SwimNews breaking the news that USA Swimming is pressing FINA to ban the bodysuit, here are the specifics of the American federation's rule-change proposals as agreed at its latest board meeting just a week ago
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Fetched: November 22nd, 2008, 11:15pm CST
As scientists confirm that the true doping suit could all-too-soon be heading to a pool near you, the US federation proposes to FINA a restriction on the extent that suits can cover the body; plus one-suit rule and a 12-month availability clause
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Fetched: November 22nd, 2008, 11:15pm CST
Comment: FINA has a wonderful chance to show true leadership now, starting with a process that canvasses the views of coaches, federations, swimmers, scientists and suit makers. The future is here - get the rule book ready
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Fetched: November 22nd, 2008, 11:15pm CST
Standards improved at the 4th Gran Premio Italia in Viareggio, where Federica Pellegrini, Olympic 200m free champion, falls just shy of her own eight-lap standard to win in 1:55.19
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Fetched: November 20th, 2008, 1:59am CST
The 1972 Olympic legend is still in the swim and racing 800m and 1,500m free races in record time; check out her foundation and fabulous photos
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Fetched: November 20th, 2008, 1:59am CST
He wore the LZR to world records and the Olympic 100m free crown but now the French sprinter will wear Arena for his Rome 2009 campaign
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Fetched: November 20th, 2008, 1:59am CST
Rob Greenwood and American sprint coach Shaun Zitani have been assigned to the Stirling and Stockport Intensive Training Centres as Britain gears up for London 2012
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Fetched: November 18th, 2008, 11:45am CST
Cruise liners, steam boats and the world channel record beware. Brit Olympic swimmer to go where Captain Webb went before
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Fetched: November 18th, 2008, 11:45am CST
The South African swimmer and role model for all generations in all walks of life today won the International Association for Human Values prize at the European Parliament in Brussels