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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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History-Making British Diving Coach Headed To Australia

Citing a job opportunity roadblock, British Diving Coach Adrian Hinchliffe makes the move to Australia.

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Dagály Aquatics Arena Nearing Completion (Photo Vault)

Get a glimpse of the Dagály Aquatics Arena, site of this year’s FINA World Championships.

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The Top 20 Most-Commented SwimSwam Stories of 2016, Excluding Recaps

Earlier this week, we tallied up the most-commented SwimSwam stories of the year 2016. That list is typically very heavy on live meet recaps, which function as much as a live chatroom as they do a comment section. So to filter out that effect, we’ve also compiled a list of the top non-recap stories to amass the most comments in the year 2016.

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Canadian Club CAMO Travels To Trinidad & Tobago’s New Aquatic Center

Canada’s Club Aquatique Montreal (CAMO) has selected the Cuova-based National Aquatic Center facility in Trinidad & Tobago to conduct its Winter training

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Mireia Belmonte, Premio AS del Deporte, a Continuar Hasta Tokio 2020

Mireia Belmonte ha dicho que va a continuar competiendo hasta los Juegos Olímpicos de 2020 en Tokio.  Su decisión fue…

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Benoit Huot Named To The Order Of Canada

Canadian paralympic swimmer Benoît Huot was named to the Order of Canada at the end of December to honour his work as both a parasport ambassador and Paralympic athlete.

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Netherlands Junior Coach Titus Mennen To Leave Post In February

Titus Mennen, the Netherlands’ Junior National Coach, will be resigning in February after 7 years in his position.

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Presenting The 19th Annual Euro Meet: A Star-Studded Event

Courtesy and written by Julia Galan of SwimSpire. The Luxembourg Euro Meet is revving up for its 19th edition from…

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Spanish Olympic Champ Belmonte to Continue Swimming Through Tokyo 2020

Spanish Olympic champion Mireia Belmonte has made the decision to continue swimming through the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

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3 Common Freestyle Flip Turn Mistakes

Freestyle Flip Turn Part II: Olympian and The Race Club co-founder, Gary Hall Sr., breaks down “the flip” in the freestyle flip turn.

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