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FINA Announces Dates for 2017 World Championships; Masters Worlds to Follow

The Scotiabank Aquatics Centre, built for the 2011 Pan Am Games, will host the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.

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Kromowidjojo’s Coach Decides He Is Not The Right Man For The Job

Only eight months after deciding to take the opportunity to work with Olympic champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo Christiaan Sloof has decided he is not the right man for the job…

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Ottesen, Koseki Score Top FINA Bonuses from Mare Nostrum

With victories at all three stops and multiple meet records over the course of the competition series, Jeanette Ottesen of Denmark and Yasuhiro Koseki of Japan finished off the Mare Nostrum series as the top overall money winners.

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French swimmer William Meynard arrested for narcotics, bribery in Rio

French sprinter William Meynard, a 2011 World Champs bronze medalist, was arrested on Sunday morning in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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FINA Quietly Cuts Eindhoven From 2014 World Cup Series Schedule

The 2014 FINA World Cup Series will be just 7 meets long.

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2014 FINA World Cup Lands Russian Bank MASTBANK as Title Sponsor

FINA has announced a new title sponsor for the FINA World Cup Series in 2014, with Russian bank MASTBANK replacing…

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Sette Colli finals cancelled due to storm, Hosszu tops Pellegrini in exhibition 200 back

The final day of Italy’s Sette Colli meet was abbreviated by a giant rainstorm that swept through the city, cancelling finals with just two events swum.

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Henique Breaks Military World Record in 50 Fly, Enters World’s Top 10

As has been the story all week, several more CISM (Military athletics) World Records went down on the final day…

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Ottesen Records World’s Top Time In The 50 Butterfly

Jeanette Ottesen took the women’s 50 butterfly in Barcelona in a time of 25.27…

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Ottesen Takes Top Seed in 50 Fly, Will Try to Hold Off Halsall in Final

The last preliminary session of the 2014 Mare Nostrum series, which closes Sunday in Barcelona, Still saw most competitors going…

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Zetao Breaks Military World Record, Almost Gets National Record in 100 Free

China’s Ning Zetao broke a Meet Record and almost broke a Chinese National Record in the men’s 100 free to start day 2 of the 2014 World Military Swimming Championships.

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Meilutyte Breaks Meet Record on Day 2 of Sette Colli; Hungarians Win 4 Events Early

Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte hasn’t competed a lot in 2014, but she made her swim on Saturday count at the Sette Colli Trophy in Italy.

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Peaty, Adrian, Carlin and Miley All Post Top Three Times

On the first day of racing in Barcelona at the final stop of the Mare Nostrum Series Adam Peaty, Nathan Adrian and Jazz Carlin all put up times that rank in the top three in the world…

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Manaudou 48.8 Takes Top Seed in Men’s 100 Free at Mare Nostrum – Barcelona

France’s Florent Manaudou wasn’t risking another prelims stumble like he had in Canet earlier in the week.

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Jeremy Stravius Withdraws From Barcelona Due To Injury

French star and 2011 100 backstroke World Champion Jeremy Stravius has pulled out of the latest stop of the Mare Nostrum series in Barcelona due to an injury…

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