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Horton’s Pier To Pub Lead Snapped At The End By Victor Sam Sheppard

It was a déjà vu moment for Australian Mack Horton when his Pier to Pub open water lead was cut to nil by winner Sam Sheppard.

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2017 South African Grand Prix Schedule Announced

Swimming South Africa has released its schedule for the 2017 Grand Prix Invitational swim meets.

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Gusztáv Bienerth Appointed New President Of Hungarian Swimming

The general assembly of the Hungarian Swimming Association (MUSZ) has selected Gusztáv Bienerth as its new President. The previous man-in-charge had resigned, facing stout criticism from the nation’s top swimmers, such as Katinka Hosszu.

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Kylie Masse Mentioned in U SPORTS Top 10 Moments of 2016 List

Canadian backstroker Kylie Masse recently made headlines again as a part of the U Sports Top 10 Moments of 2016 list.

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Scottish Squad Trains In Tenerife, While 12 British Jrs Head To Austin

Scottish swimmers are spending some time in the Tenerife sun, while additional junior athletes head to Texas.

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Rio Olympic Stadium in State of Abandonment,”Handed Over to the Cats”

Brazilian news outlet Globo is reporting that the site of the Rio 2016 Olympic opening and closing ceremonies has fallen into abandonment, ridden with stray cats, without power, and littered with trash.

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Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström to attend Euro Meet in Luxembourg

  2017 EURO MEET January 27th-29th, 2017 D’Coque Aquatic Center in Luxembourg Meet Site Start Lists/Results Live Streaming The organizers…

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Katinka Hosszu’s Events Driving Budapest 2017 Early Ticket Sales

Early ticket sales for the 2017 FINA Aquatic World Championships have exceeded expectations, with nearly 34,000 tickets having been sold since December 1st according to the Budapest 2017 organizers.

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World Champion James Guy Kicks Off Quadrennial With Move To Bath

Reigning 200m freestyle World Champion James Guy is making the move to Britain’s National Training Centre in Bath.

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26 New Swim Jobs You Might Love

If you don’t like the career you’re in, you might want to work in the swimming community and be a part of our big swimming family! See over 653 Swim Jobs on SwimSwam.com.

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Graeme Antwhistle Added To Swim Wales Coaching Staff

Graeme Antwhistle, who has coached Jazmin Carlin, will be joining the Swim Wales coaching staff.

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New WADA Prohibited List In Effect, Including Arimistane

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)’s 2017 list of prohibited substances is now in effect, including the newly-banned substance Arimistane, which the Russian Swimming Federation specifically warned its athletes to stop taking.

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Vote Here for Ledecky, Phelps, Manuel, Hosszu: 2016 USSA Athlete OTY

Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky, Katinka Hosszu, and Simone Manuel have all been nominated for the United States Sports Academy’s Athlete of the Year Awards.

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2019 Pan American Games Host Late (Again) With Payments

The Peruvian Olympic Committee (COP) meet an extended deadline for their latest payment for hosting the 2019 Pan American Games.

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12 Ways to Procrastinate Before Your Next Swim Practice

Struggling to get motivated to go to practice? Don’t worry, here are 12 more ways to make it even more difficult!

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