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First Wave Of 2017 British Swimming Championships Tickets On Sale

Riding the wave of success thrown down by Great Britain in the pool at the 2016 Olympic Games, the first batch of tickets for the 2017 British Swimming Championships are now available.

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Nick Thomas Dies While Attempting English Channel Crossing

English swimmer Nick Thomas has died while attempting a crossing of the English Channel without a wetsuit.

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Jamieson Weighs Future, May Keep Going To Commonwealth Games 2018

2012 Olympic silver medalist Michael Jamieson ponders his future swimming career.

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Adam Barrett Blasts New 100 Fly Short Course British National Record

Adam Barrett scores Britain’s first-ever sub-50-second 100m butterfly (short course).

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Brazilian Maria Heitmann Will Join Indiana in January 2017

Indiana will bring more than a pile of medals back from Brazil.

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Braveheart Is Back: Dan Wallace Makes The Move To Stirling

2016 Olympic silver medalist Dan Wallace of Scotland moves his training base from Millfield to the University of Stirling.

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Scottish Swimming Announces National Performance Squads

Duncan Scott of the University of Stirling was just one of the several Scottish swimmers who were in the medal mix at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. He now lands a spot on the Scottish National Performance Squad roster.

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4-time World Champion Tully Kearney Pulls Out of Paralympics

Tully Kearney, who won 4 World Championships in 2015, won’t be replaced on the British roster.

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British Olympic Athlete Robbed At Gunpoint In Rio On Tuesday

The British Olympic contingency reported an athlete was a victim of an armed robbery in Rio earlier this week.

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Blueseventy Swim(s) of the Week: Ranking the Rio World Records

The Rio Olympics provided plenty of fodder for our weekly Blueseventy Swim of the Week. So to take advantage, we’re technically counting down 7 swims of the week: ranking each of the world records set in Rio.

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Female British Breaststrokers’ World Class Progress

Rachael Solway felt that the coverage of the Rio Olympics swimming, particularly on Swim Swam, inspired her to write articles on the performances of many of her ex-teammates and other British athletes.

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Top 3 Junior Swimmers in Each Event At The 2016 Rio Olympics

A couple of juniors took the Olympic stage by a storm, including Australia’s 100 free gold medalist Kyle Chalmers, and Canada’s 100 free gold medalist Penny Oleksiak, who won 4 medals in her first Olympic Games.

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Jack Burnell Calls Referees “Clueless” After 10K Disqualification

RIO 2016 OLYMPIC OPEN WATER SWIMMING August 15th-16th, 2016 9AM Local Time (8AM U.S. East Coast Time) 10Km Race Fort…

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Team Great Britain Swimming Heroes – Where Are They From?

Scott Taylor breaks down the Great Britain swim team.

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EUROPE: Britain Leaves Rio With Seven Fourth Place Finishes

Great Britain doubled the number of medals they won in 2012, but were only one place away from seven more…

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