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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
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erman team is one full of holes, six events producing no qualifiers, and seven others producing one not two qualifiers. Compare events in Berlin with times in Australian and Britain and the influence of the suit is greater than many care to acknowledge
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Confidence, belief, momentum have all been lost in the storm of an unsettled life. Can the Olympic and world champion bounce back? The question is ever present in Manaudou's mind
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Britta Steffen (SG Neukölln Berlin), former world record holder in the 100m freestyle, today made the grade for the Olympic Games in Beijing with a 53.20 European record victory at German trials in Berlin
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Amaury Leveaux sliced 0.45sec off his French 200 free record in 1:46.54 at Olympic trials in Dunkirk; women's world 200m free champion and record holder withdraws from battle
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Luckily, one of those ahead of her at French trials was Romanian Camelia Potec, in 4:06.08, ahead of Coralie Balmy, on 4:06.41, with the Olympic champ taking third in 4:06.67
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Steffen Deibler wiped 0.33sec off his own German record at Olympic trials in Berlin, the 100m freestyle crown his in 48.55. He was the only solo qualifier on day four of the trials
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Japan squad for the Beijing Olympics confirmed today
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Well below best on 1:57.83 in the 200m freestyle, and racing in an Arena suit, world silver medallist kept at bay Petra Dallmann, racing in a Speedo LZR Racer and taking the second berth for Beijing in 1:58.60 at German trials; suit debate rumbles on
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Athens Olympic silver medallist Takashi Yamamoto, who finished third in the 200m butterfly earlier in the week, ended fourth in the 100m won by Masayuki Kishida in a national record of 51.86
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The German Olympic trials have started to warm up in Berlin, with times of 53.10 in the 100m backstroke for Helge Meeuw and 1:07.10 for Sarah Poewe in the 100m breaststroke
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lympic champion Kosuke Kitajima threw down the gauntlet to his 200m breaststroke rivals with a 2:08.84 blast in the 200m breaststroke at the Japanese trials in Tokyo; Naganishi, on 2:06.38 200 'fly JPN record, and Shibata made the grade
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USA Swimming has for a while been looking to set up a second high-performance centre. Take the high esteem in which Bowman and the Baltimore set-up are held by USA Swimming and head coach Mark Schubert you have an obvious choice
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Samulski, Biederman, Kubusch and Hetzer on the plane to China after first evening of German trials in Berlin
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Ryuichi Shibata and Takeshi Matsuda lock Olympic and world silver medallist Takashi Yamamoto off the Japan squad in the 200 'fly for the Beijing Olympic Games at trials and nationals in Tokyo as five add name to the squad bound for China
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Elizabeth Simmonds, a 17-year-old on a minute and 2:08 on backstroke, is stepping up from the local club programme that nurtured her to the national-team camp at Loughborough under the guidance of GB head women's coach Ben Titley
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The top 12 on the all-time list are all under the minute and every single one of those efforts was clocked in the past two months; Japanese pair sign up at Olympic trials in Tokyo
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Join our amazing journey: Colwin and Bowman on freestyle and Phelps; Dryden on acupuncture; Lord's Olympic series; Malar on sugar; Connors on Morningstar; Grace talks to Baumann; in the minds of Jensen's coaches; Finney on Vendt; Bead on NCAA
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Olympic champion qualifies for Beijing at Tokyo trials along with Tomomi Morita, Yuta Suenaga, Junichi Miyashita Yuko Nakanishi and Yuka Kato
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One of the key players in Britain's journey to renewed excellence has retired aged 24. Rebecca Cooke's role will not be forgotten
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In an interview with SwimNews, Alan Thompson, head coach to Australia, talks of preparations for Beijing, speedy trials, outstanding performances and how the picture will be blurred until the USA has confirmed intentions at trials just ahead of the Battle
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Olympic 800m freestyle champion and 2007 world bronze medallist in the 400m will not race over eight lengths in Beijing after winning at trials in Tokyo's Tatsumi International Pool but falling shy of her target time; Kitajima on form
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Britain has added two swimmers - Simon Burnett and Adam Brown - to its Olympic team roster to help to build relay strength in the build-up for London 2012