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VIDEO: World Record Holder Sarah Sjostrom Makes No-Look, Near Three-Pointer

Swedish swimmer Sarah Sjostrom is adept at almost everything in the water, and in 2014 swam one of the craziest swims we’ve…

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British Olympian Sophie Allen Announces Retirement at Just 22 Following Second Hip Surgery

2012 Olympic Finalist and British National Record holder Sophie Allen has announced her retirement from competitive swimming.

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Jeanette Ottesen to Travel to Australia to Reunite With Shannon Rollason

Two-time individual long course World Champion has opted to not stay in Denmark to train under the new National Training Center head coach.

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Liukkonen Named 2014 Finnish Swimmer of the Year

On Friday evening Ari-Pekka Liukkonen was named the Finnish Swimmer of the Year…

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2 Freestyle Drills for High Elbow Technique

The Shark Fin Drill and The Water Polo Drill.

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VIDEO: Next Level Ice Swimming in Poland With the Silesia Swim Club

Some say that swimmers are all a little bit crazy. Hour-after-hour staring at a black line. One Polish swimmer of…

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SG Essen and SV Potsdam are German team champions

SG Essen won the women’s meet for the 7th-consecutive year, and Christian Diener and Yannick Lebherz led SV Potsdam to the men’s title.

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Cotterell Feels That Australian Swimmers Need to be Tougher

A few weeks ago Brian King‘s name appeared in the press, he is the man now training Sun Yang in Australia….

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British Swimming Receives Continued Funding

Swimming, para-swimming and diving all exceeded their 2014 targets and will continue to receive the same level of funding…

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Bubble Ring Pro Shane Brown Blows Rings 2 Meters Wide (VIDEO)

Bubble Rings swimming video is courtesy of Shane Brown.

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Furniss Receives Special Achievement Award

Bill Furniss was recognized with a special achievement award at the Nottinghamshire Sports Awards…

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Washington State Cougars Pick Up Swedish Breaststroker Linnea Lindberg

Linnea Lindberg, who is one of Sweden’s top 50m breaststrokers, signed with WSU during early signing period.

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Manaudou, Hosszu, Rouwendaal and Lurz Win LEN Awards

Earlier this morning LEN announced their swimmer of the year awards…

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World Championships Medals Unveiled

At a press conference held earlier today in Kazan the medals for the 16th FINA World Championships in Aquatics were unveiled…

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Edinburgh International Swim Meet Gets Another Boost With Confirmation of American, Italian, French Stars

Natalie Coughlin had great success on her last European trip to the Bolzano meet in Italy. She’ll hope to do it again in March.

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