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SwimSwam Breakdown: Phelps Plays Pickleball, Sun Sells Makeup, & World Champs

We talk Michael Phelps playing pickleball matches, Sun Yang netting over $500k from selling makeup, and the 2023 World Champs getting pushed to November

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2022: Men’s #30-21

Italian Gregorio Paltrinieri isn’t the dominant force he once was in the men’s distance events, but remains a top medal contender in 2022.

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“Be Real With Myself”: Katie McLaughlin’s Career That Didn’t Go As Planned

McLaughlin broke down the trajectory of her swimming career, and how it shifted in response to her neck injury and later shoulder injury.

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Rapport

Successful rapport revolves around, fairness, confidence and social ardor, but they can only be effective if all three are working at the same time.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2022: Women’s #30-21

Torri Huske enters 2022 coming off a breakout year in the long course pool that included breaking Dana Vollmer’s American Record in the women’s 100 fly.

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SwimSwam Pulse: Overwhelming Majority Favor Held To Rebound & Make 2022 Worlds

Held picked up six medals at the Short Course World Championships in Abu Dhabi, including two relay golds and a pair of individual silvers.

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arena & Fendi Collaborate On Limited-Edition Luxury Swimming Kit

If you’ve never envisioned the pool deck as a modeling catwalk you may need to think again after the release of a new aquatic haute couture collection.

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Beyond The Lane Lines: Kawecki Auctions Medal For Charity, Team Daiya Begins

Catch up on news stories from around the world in this edition of Beyond the Lane Lines, featuring Poland’s Radoslaw Kawecki.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2022: Men’s #40-31

20-year-old Italian Thomas Ceccon emerged as a star of the future in Tokyo, clocking respective times of 52.23 in the 100 back and 47.71 in the 100 free.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2022: Women’s #40-31

Annie Lazor has evolved into one of the best 200 breaststrokers on the planet in recent years, winning bronze in the event at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Revisiting The ISL Scoring System: An Analysis of Jackpot Points (Part 4)

In the final segment of the four-part series, we ponder whether the jackpot system should remain, or should the ISL remove it altogether?

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Confidence: The Only Limits We Have Are The Ones We Put On Ourselves

How to build and maintain confidence in order to become the person you never thought you could be.

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Revisiting The ISL Scoring System: An Analysis of Jackpot Points (Part 3)

As we continue our analysis of the jackpots in the ISL, we find that, despite them causing massive point swings, ultimately they all blend together.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2022: Men’s #50-41

Italian Alessandro Miressi (pictured) broke 48 seconds an incredible 10 times in the men’s 100 freestyle in 2021.

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Swimming’s TopTenTweets: The Le Clos-Meilutyté-Rylov-McKeown-Milak Club

We’re back with our weekly installment of Swimming’s TopTenTweets, where we round up the best of the swimming Twitterverse.

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