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I am not talented, I am obsessed. ~Conor McGregor

Brendan Burns, Anna Peplowski Hit Lifetime Bests At Purdue Closed Invite

Burns produced a PB of 2:02.37 in the men’s 200 backstroke, getting under his previous mark of 2:02.44 set at the Speedo Summer Championships last August.

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USA Swimming Announces 2023 Domestic Calendar, Including World Trials In Indy

USA Swimming has announced a 10-meet domestic schedule for 2023 that includes the World Championship Trials and four Pro Swim Series events.

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Former IOC Vice President Says Russia & Belarus May Be Banned From Paris 2024

Former VP and current IOC senior member Craig Reedie says Russia and Belarus could end up being banned from competing at the 2024 Olympic Games.

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USA Swimming Athletes Received $4.5 Million In Grant Money From USOPC In 2021

As of the end of 2021, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) had $898.6 million in total assets.

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Brazilian Winter Junior Champs Canceled After High Number of Athletes Turn Up Ill

The meet was canceled on Thursday after 97 of the 540 participants were reported to have symptoms that included fever, vomiting and nausea.

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Canadian Record Falls, Brooklyn Douthwright Shines At Ontario Summer Championships

Rising Tennessee sophomore Brooklyn Douthwright won four events at the Ontario Summer Championships last weekend in Toronto.

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FINA Announces Dates For 2024 World Championships In Doha

The competition will run from February 2-18, 2024 in the Qatari capital, ending some 159 days before the opening of the Paris Olympic Games.

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Chad Bobrosky Granted Bail Pending Appeal of Sexual Assault Conviction

Bobrosky, 29, was convicted in February of raping a woman in 2018, and then was handed the four-and-a-half-year prison sentence in June.

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Wilm Hits 27.8 50 Back, Closes 200 In 30.2 To Conclude Edmonton Keyano Meet

World Championship finalist Ingrid Wilm won the 200 back on Sunday while executing a blistering 30.20 final 50 split.

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Efimova, Minakov & Morozov To Miss Russia’s Friendship Games

Olympic medalists Evgeny Rylov, Kliment Kolesnikov and Anton Chupkov are among the names confirmed to be competing in Kazan.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 38% Pick Ledecky As Top Swimmer of 2022 World Championships

Four different swimmers picked up at least 11 percent of the votes, but Katie Ledecky led the way as the consensus ‘Swimmer of the Meet’ at Worlds.

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arena Swim of the Week: Vanotterdijk Wins Upset 100 Fly Gold At Euro Juniors

Vanotterdijk went 23 months without setting a best time in the 100 fly before dropping .45 and winning gold over Lana Pudar at Euro Juniors.

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Maxine Clark Lowers Provincial Record On Day 1 Of Edmonton Keyano International

The 14-year-old Clark clocked a time of 27.60 in the 50 butterfly, obliterating the Alberta Provincial Record by nearly a half-second.

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2022 European Junior Championships: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

The fourth night of finals from the 2022 European Junior Championships in Bucharest will have a whopping eight events with medals on the line.

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Kayla Sanchez To Represent Philippines Following Release From Swimming Canada

A two-time Canadian Olympic medalist, Sanchez was born in Singapore to Filipino parents and feels a strong connection to her family heritage.

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