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Tusup Leaves Swimming To Tackle ‘Crazy Goal’ Of Professional Golfer

30-year-old Shane Tusup, former coach of multiple Olympic gold medalist Katinka Hosszu, has announced he will be engaging in an entirely new sporting endeavor.

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European Broadcasting Union To Televise Euro Meet In Luxembourg

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) will join the European swimming federation (LEN) in providing “enhanced TV coverage” of the 2019 Euro Meet in Luxembourg later this month.

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British Counties Kick-off 2019 Swim Year

The City of Sunderland ASA New Year Meet is taking place this weekend, along with several county championships including Essex, Nottinghamshire and Suffolk.

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Teenager Malgil Makes Turkish History In 400 IM

At the Anadolu Yıldızlar Ligi Seçmesi ve Performans Tespit Yarışları meet in Mersin, Turkey at the end of last month, 13-year-old Atakan Malgil made waves with a new National Age Group Record in the men’s 400m IM.

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Recordings of Tamás Gyárfás Conversations Found in Graveyard

The recordings, which are cut from original conversations and were allegedly being used for blackmail, support prosecutors’ claims that the FINA Bureau Member and LEN Executive ordered the murder of a media rival in the 1990s. Gyárfás says that the edited recordings are misleading.

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Youth Olympic Games Breakout Ceccon Takes On French Stars In Geneva

2018 Youth Olympic Games breakout star Thomas Ceccon of Italy is scheduled to compete in Geneva this weekend to kick-off his 2019.

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5 Swim England Coaches Selected To UK’s Performance Support Program

United Kingdom Coaching’s Performance Foundation Coach Support Program has selected 5 English swimming coaches to join the program for its 2nd wave. 

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Federica Pellegrini Signs with ISL, Will Be Captain of Italian Club

Over the weekend at an event in Milan, Pellegrini and Konstantin Grigorishin, the head of the ISL and of Energy Standard Group, made the announcement in a presentation to Italian journalists and media representatives.

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World Record Holder Rikke Møller Pedersen Announces Retirement

Reigning 200m breaststroke World Record holder Rikke Møller Pedersen of Denmark has announced her retirement.

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Get Hyped For British Swimming’s 2019 Competition Year

With the next edition Summer Olympic Games on the horizon, less than 560 days from now, British Swimming is getting hyped for what this upcoming calendar year will bring. 

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After Conquering 2018 World Cup Series, Sjostrom to Race at Euro Meet

This will be the third consecutive appearance at the Euro Meet in Luxembourg for Sjöström, who we haven’t seen in action since this past November.

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Anton Ipsen Explains Training Move to TAC Titans (Video)

Anton Ipsen of Wolfpack Elite completely ran away with it, finishing almost half a pool length ahead of the next-best swimmer

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Swimming Australia CEO Seeks FINA, ISL Compromise To Avoid OLY Bans

In light of the fact that the idea of Olympic bans for athletes who compete in ISL events this year is still lurking in the air, Swimming Australia Chief Executive Leigh Russell is initiating talks to try to avoid devastation in 2020.

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ONEFlow Aquatic Announced as Newest Team in ISL

The club is spawned out of the Neckarsulmer Sport-Union, a large multi-sport club near Stuttgart with one of Germany’s most successful swim teams.

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Swim Wales Kicks Off 2019 with Elite Winter Training Camp

2019 started with a splash for fourteen swimmers from the Senior Elite, Elite Development and Para Elite Development squads. Before the New Year began the carefully selected squad travelled to the Thanyapura Sports Resort in Phuket, Thailand to complete two weeks of intensive training.

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