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• 2018 Speedo Winter Junior Nationals East: Day Four Prelims Live Recap

  08-12-2018 15:13
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  The final prelims session of the 2018 Speedo Winter Junior Nationals East Championships from Greensboro, North Carolina will feature the heats of the 200 back, 100 free, 200 breast and
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• UK culture secretary urges ban on transgender athletes competing in female-only events

  16-04-2024 12:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Lucy Fraser calls on sporting officials to draw up ‘unambiguous’ guidelines on gender identityThe culture secretary has called for transgender athletes to be banned from competing in female-only events as she urged sporting officials to draw up fresh guidelines to clarify the rules governing gender identity.Lucy Frazer wrote in the Mail that sports governing bodies needed to set out an “unambiguous position” on the issue, amid rows over trans athletes participating in fem
  
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• ‘It’s a joke’: Enhanced Games swimmer should face life ban, says aquatics chief

  11-04-2024 19:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Brent Nowicki said: ‘You cross that bridge, you don’t come back’James Magnussen plans to dope to break world record at GamesThe Australian world champion swimmer James Magnussen should be banned from sport for life if he deliberately dopes in an attempt to win $1m by trying to break a world record, the World Aquatics chief executive, Brent Nowicki, has said.The 6ft 7in Magnussen, who won three world titles as well as a 100m freestyle silver at the London 2012 Olympics, has prom
  
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• USA Swimming and TYR Unveil National Team Kit for the 2024 Olympics

  10-04-2024 18:07 via usaswimming.org
  USA Swimming, the National Governing Body for the sport, and TYR, the exclusive outfitter of the Nat...
  
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• Splashing around: the GB Swimming Championships – in pictures

  08-04-2024 14:26 via theguardian.com
  
  The London Aquatics Centre played host to Britain’s top swimmers who were looking to secure a place on the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic teams Continue reading...
  
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• Matt Richards’ gold at British Swimming Championships secures nomination for Paris 2024

  07-04-2024 23:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Richards beats stacked field on final day in 200m freestyleParalympian Tully Kearney also earns nomination for ParisMatt Richards came out on top of a stacked field to claim men’s 200m freestyle gold on the final day of the British Swimming Championships and secure another nomination for this summer’s Olympics.With just two places available in each individual event, Tom Dean, who won individual 200m gold in Tokyo, will not defend his title in Paris. Continue reading...
  
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• Matt Richards’ 200m British freestyle gold secures Paris nomination

  07-04-2024 23:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Richards beats stacked field on final dayParalympian Tully Kearney also earns nomination for ParisMatt Richards came out on top of a stacked field to claim men’s 200m freestyle gold on the final day of the British Swimming Championships and secure another nomination for this summer’s Olympics.With just two places available in each individual event, Tom Dean, who won individual 200m gold in Tokyo, will not defend his title in Paris. Continue reading...
  
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• USA Swimming Foundation Awards $780,000 in 2024 Learn-to-Swim Grant Funding for Swim Lesson Providers

  06-04-2024 05:18 via usaswimming.org
  <p paraid="2117166809" paraeid="{6d8e0fd7-64cd-4507-a3ec-12e641e3b469}{32}">The USA Swimming Foundat...
  
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• Buoyant Adam Peaty secures Paris Olympics spot after ‘three years of hell’

  03-04-2024 01:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Peaty clocks fastest time this year at British ChampionshipsOlympic champion has battled depression and alcohol problemsAdam Peaty said a new relaxed mindset can serve him well after securing passage to this summer’s Paris Olympics by finishing first in his signature 100m breaststroke event on the first day of the British Championships in London.The 29-year-old touched the wall in 57.94 seconds in the evening’s final – the fastest men’s 100m breaststroke time in the world
  
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• Adam Peaty ‘finding peace in the water’ after securing Paris Olympics spot

  03-04-2024 01:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Peaty clocks fastest time this year at British ChampionshipsOlympic champion has battled depression and alcohol problemsAdam Peaty said a new relaxed mindset can serve him well after securing passage to this summer’s Paris Olympics by finishing first in his signature 100m breaststroke event on the first day of the British Championships in London.The 29-year-old touched the wall in 57.94 seconds in the evening’s final – the fastest men’s 100m breaststroke time in the world
  
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• 6 Hotel Pools Perfect for Swimmers

  02-04-2024 14:36 via nytimes.com
  
  Many hotel pools are built with children and sun-seekers in mind: too short, too warm and too crowded. These, in cities across the U.S., let you get your laps in, in style.
  
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• 5 Hotel Pools Perfect for Swimmers

  02-04-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Many hotel pools are built with children and sun-seekers in mind: too short, too warm and too crowded. These, in cities across the U.S., let you get your laps in, in style.
  
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• Duncan Scott: ‘The Olympics are more gruelling mentally than physically’

  01-04-2024 14:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Scottish athlete is targeting success at Paris Olympics this summer after a record-breaking return of four medals in TokyoDuncan Scott is a hard man to catch, in the pool and out. During the Tokyo Olympics the British press spent a lot of time trying, and failing, to get a word with him as he peeled off nine races in eight days. There were three rounds in the 200m freestyle, three more in the 200m medley, two in the men’s 4x100m medley relay, and another in the 4x200m freestyle relay. By t
  
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• The big picture: underwater with Team USA’s artistic swimmers

  31-03-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  James Rokop’s photography reveals the extreme athleticism of a sport that has struggled for recognitionIn 2017, the Olympic event that had long been known as synchronised swimming had an imposed rebrand, when the international governing body of aquatic sport decided it should now be called “artistic swimming”. The name change generated uproar. Kris Harley-Jesson, who had coached national teams in Europe and North America, launched a petition that quickly collected more than 11,
  
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• The Sunday Read: ‘My Goldendoodle Spent a Week at Some Luxury Dog ‘Hotels.’ I Tagged Along.’

  24-03-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  How exactly did dogs take over our world? This writer journeys into the bespoke pet care industry to find out.
  
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• Adam Peaty: ‘It takes huge wisdom to feel grateful for what we have’

  24-03-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Britain’s greatest male swimmer is going for gold at the Paris Olympics after drink and burnout threatened to curb his careerAdam Peaty looks like a lonely gladiator on the block as, seeing me arrive at his training camp in Tenerife just after seven on a Wednesday morning, he raises his right arm in silent greeting. Work has already begun in the watery sunshine and another four hours will pass before Peaty opens up about coming back from a breakdown just over a year ago.Peaty wears his gog
  
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• ‘Sink or swim’ isn’t the only way for elite sport | Letters

  20-03-2024 19:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Andrew P Hill on the myth that extraordinary achievement requires extreme levels of sacrifice, and Colin Thunhurst on being forced out of his laneCath Bishop provides a stirring call for the recent review of Swim England’s toxic culture not to be “just another culture review” in sport (Swim England’s toxic culture must go – it is time for sport to prioritise joy, 14 March). Unfortunately, it most likely will be. The belief that extraordinary achievement requires ext
  
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• ‘I’ve got tears in my eyes’: how the ‘world’s most beautiful pool’ became a multimillion-dollar hole in the ground

  16-03-2024 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  When the North Sydney Olympic Pool closed for an upgrade, locals expected to be back swimming the following year. Three years and tens of millions of dollars later, they are still waitingGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastIt was one of Australia’s most idiosyncratic swimming pools: nine 50-metre saltwater lanes tucked under the base of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, framed by the waterfront on one side and the art deco kitsch of Luna Park on another. North
  
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• Swim England’s toxic culture must go – it is time for sport to prioritise joy | Cath Bishop

  14-03-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  A myopic focus on medals and medals alone is no match for the advantage derived from fun and compassionHere we go again: another report revealing toxic behaviours and “cultures of fear”. It’s tempting to scroll on and simply wonder which sport will be next. But the report last week on swimming in England goes to the heart of the role of sport in our lives, asks questions about the experiences we want to create for the next generation through sport, and the sort of&nbs
  
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• Swim England sorry after independent report hits out at ‘toxic’ culture in clubs

  05-03-2024 13:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Bullying going unchecked and parents fearful of complainingWarnings of ‘excessive demands’ of ‘performance-first’ system
  Swim England has apologised after a landmark report criticised the “toxic” culture in some clubs, with bullying going unchecked and parents fearful of complaining to the governing body due a perceived risk of retaliation.The independent report, which was based on 3,500 responses from competitors, parents and coaches, also warns of the &ldquo
  
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• ‘No stunt doubles for me,’ says actor who braved Channel to recreate epic swim

  02-03-2024 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Kirsten Callaghan tells how she had to deal with rain, rough seas and mackerel for a film about Mercedes Gleitze’s pioneering 1927 featA Brighton actor is to restore the reputation of one of the city’s forgotten international stars this week with the release of the film Vindication Swim, about an extraordinary feat of endurance. Almost a century ago, Mercedes Gleitze was the first British woman to swim the Channel, although her reputation was briefly tarnished when her record was cha
  
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• Cirkul Announced as Official Hydration Partner of USA Swimming

  01-03-2024 17:00 via usaswimming.org
  USA Swimming, the national governing body for swimming in the United States, today announced Cirkul ...
  
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• USA Swimming and USANA Announce Renewal of Deal Through 2026

  29-02-2024 19:05 via usaswimming.org
  USA Swimming announced today that its partnership with USANA, the Cellular Nutrition Company, is ext...
  
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• OneAmerica Financial and Indiana University Health Named as First Centennial Partners of USA Swimming

  28-02-2024 00:22 via usaswimming.org
  <strong>COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. </strong>&ndash; USA Swimming, the national governing body (NGB) for...
  
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• Visiting Nude Saunas in Austria and Germany Without Feeling Awkward

  26-02-2024 11:05 via nytimes.com
  
  Austria and Germany abound with popular resorts called thermen where getting the full sauna experience typically means having to take it all off.
  
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• Three University of Wyoming swimmers killed in highway crash in Colorado

  23-02-2024 18:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Three Wyoming athletes killed in single-vehicle wreckCrash happened on Thursday afternoon on US 287Three members of the University of Wyoming swimming and diving team were killed in a highway crash in northern Colorado.The crash happened Thursday afternoon on US 287 about 10 miles (16km) south of the Wyoming-Colorado line between Laramie and Fort Collins, Colorado. Continue reading...
  
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• Variety: Acrostic

  23-02-2024 04:02 via nytimes.com
  
  David Balton and Jane Stewart throw us into cold water with their latest puzzle.
  
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• Making a splash: World Aquatics Championships 2024 – in pictures

  19-02-2024 09:00 via theguardian.com
  The biennial event is second only to the Olympics in terms of importance in the world of aquatic sports. More than 2,600 athletes representing 201 countries and the World Aquatic Refugee Team were in Doha competing. We bring you some of our favourite images from the 21st edition of the event Continue reading...
  
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• Israeli swimmer Gorbenko booed at world championships as GB’s Colbert wins gold

  18-02-2024 22:05 via theguardian.com
  
  20-year-old won silver in 400m individual medleyJeers were partially drowned out by cheers and applauseIsraeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko was jeered by some of the crowd after finishing second in the women’s 400m medley on the closing day of the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar on Sunday.The 20-year-old Gorbenko was being interviewed after the race when the jeers rang out at the Aspire Dome in Doha. She smiled and then sighed when she was booed again, this time as she mounted the podi
  
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• Cameron McEvoy pipped by barest of margins in 50m freestyle world title defence

  17-02-2024 23:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Defending champion beaten by 0.01 seconds by Vladyslav Bukhov Jaclyn Barclay claims silver in women’s 200m backstroke in DohaCameron McEvoy has been beaten in the most agonising of near-misses in his 50m freestyle world title defence, edged for gold by just one-hundredth of a second in one of the shocks of the championships in Doha.But while the veteran speedster was putting on a brave face after his sensational loss to Ukraine’s Vladyslav Bukhov on Saturday, an Australian star of th
  
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