Today's News
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Phelps-Bowman Put Swimming At SI Peak
Dec 2, 2008
Craig Lord
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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Bliss For Liss At African Champs
Dec 2, 2008
Craig Lord
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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Manaudou Changes Her Mind - Again
Dec 2, 2008
Craig Lord
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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All-Clear For Pellegrini
Dec 1, 2008
Craig Lord
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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Germany Line Up 30 For Croatia
Dec 1, 2008
Craig Lord
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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News Round-Up: Medical Tests For Poorly Pellegrini
Dec 1, 2008
Craig Lord
The Olympic 200m free champion is undergoing medical tests in Rome; modest times at Africa champs; Spain announces Rijeka team
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News Round-Up: Record Mania Continues
Nov 30, 2008
Craig Lord
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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Biedermann: ER 3:34.98 400m Free
Nov 30, 2008
Craig Lord
World record holder in the 200m free s/c, the 22-year-old from Halle threatens Hackett's 400m world record at German nationals in Essen
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How Close Is adidas To Hanging Up Its Suits?
Nov 30, 2008
Craig Lord
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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European Coaches Urge Blueseventy Ban
Nov 30, 2008
Craig Lord
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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WR: Smit 4:25.87 400 IM s/c
Nov 28, 2008
Craig Lord
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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Sweden Suited For Arena
Nov 28, 2008
Craig Lord
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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