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UNC’s Caroline Baldwin Named ACC Women’s Swimmer Of The Week

North Carolina’s Caroline Baldwin has been named the ACC Women’s Swimmer of the Week, and Camryn “Cami” Hidalgo of Georgia Tech has been selected as the Women’s Diver of the Week.

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IOC Sanctions 2 Russian Athletes As Part Of Oswald Commission Findings

Today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has published the first conclusions from the Oswald Commission hearings, which are being conducted in the context of the Sochi 2014 forensic and analytic doping investigations.

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Anthony Ervin Teams Up With Tuft & Needle To Help The Bay Area

Unique initiative will provide over $27,000 in donated mattresses to benefit Jewish Family & Children’s Services

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With 1,000 Days To Go, Tokyo 2020 Engages Millions In Japan

Marking the start of the “1,000 Days To Go” countdown to the opening of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) today announced that five million people throughout Japan have already taken part in more than 14,000 Games-related actions in the Tokyo 2020 Nationwide Participation Programme, which was launched last year.

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Louisville Set To Host Tennessee

After nearly a two-week hiatus from competition, the University of Louisville men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams will return to the Ralph Wright Natatorium on Thursday at 2 p.m.for a Top-25 showdown against the University of Tennessee.

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Swedish Top Coach Will Be Sigma Swim’s New Head Coach

Jonas Lundström joins Sigma Swim from a position as elite coach at Helsingborg Simsällskap, one of Swedens dominating swim clubs.

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Buckhorn Bucks Swim To Madison County Championship

The Buckhorn Bucks bolted past the field in the 2017 Madison County High School Championship Swim Meet Monday night at the Alabama A&M University Swim Complex.

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How to Maximize The Fifth Stroke

The maximum propulsion occurs at the beginning of the down kick with a flick of the foot toward plantar flexion of the ankle. The more plantar flexion of the ankle, the more foot surface area is available to push backward in the water, creating propulsion.

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5 Things Kids Gain From Swimming

When we look back at our kids’ swimming careers, we’ll remember some great races where they dropped time and finally made that cut they were chasing for months.

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Avram Iancu Nominated 2017 World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year

Avram Iancu has been nominated for the 2017 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year award by the World Open Water Swimming Association (WOWSA), based in California, USA.

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LEN President Visits With Azerbaijan Sports Leaders

LEN President Paolo Barelli visited Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to meet Sport Minister Azad Rahimov and Khanlar Fatiyev, the President of the Azerbaijan Swimming Federation.

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SMU Men Sweep Weekly AAC Awards

The SMU men’s swimming and diving duo of Bryce Klein and Jonathan Gomez swept the American Athletic Conference weekly awards, league officials announced on Tuesday.

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St. Bonaventure’s Kutsko Earns 4th Consecutive A-10 Weekly Honor

For the fourth consecutive week St. Bonaventure University women’s swimming freshman Lina Kutsko has received honors from the Atlantic 10 Conference.

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Beckers-Vieujant & Baumann To Lead Paris 2024, LA 2028 Commission

Baron Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant, President of the Belgian National Olympic Committee (COIB), will lead a commission composed of IOC Members and representatives of Olympic Movement stakeholders, including athletes, National Olympic Committees and International Federations.

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China, Japan, Korea & Malaysia Take Gold In Kuala Lumpur

China, Japan, Korea and Malaysia were the four nations climbing on the first step of the podium this weekend in Kuala Lumpur (MAS), where the sixth leg of the annual FINA Diving Grand Prix was taking place from October 27-29.

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