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5 Ways to Accelerate your Recovery in Swimming

It’s preseason. Training is at the top of your priority, and your recovery is essential to getting through the next few weeks of high intensity workouts. For the 19-20 hours in the day that you spend off the pool deck, you have complete control over your recovery and how well you treat your body.

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Aquatic Competitions In Greece Posponed Due To Bailout Referendum

Multiple aquatic competitions that were scheduled for this weekend in Greece will be postponed due to the upcoming Greek bailout referendum that will be taking place on July 5, 2015.

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Top German swimmer Marco Koch uses hypnosis to get into ‘the right flow’

Looking at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, Koch and his coach are trying new ways to improve perfomances.

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2015 Island Games Results Through Day 3: Fraser Brothers, Joensen Still on a Tear

Shaune Fraser claimed gold as the Island Games continued this week.

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Kyle Whitaker & Seth Stubblefield Named Captains of Men’s WUGs Roster

With the World University Games (WUGs) starting July 3rd, the men’s swimming squad has announced its two captains as Kyle…

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Japan’s Kosuke Hagino Latest Victim of Kazan Curse; Questionable for World Championships

Japanese swimming sensation, Kosuke Hagino, is the latest athlete to put his Worlds’ competition status in doubt.

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Firth forced to withdraw from World Championships

Paralympic Champion Bethany Firth has been forced to pull out of the British Team that will compete at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow later this month.

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World Championships Preview: Men’s 100 Butterfly

The men’s 100 butterfly should be tightly contested as there is only 37 one-hundredths of a second separating the world’s top ranked time and eighth…

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Hungarian Nationals: Gyurta Swims Easy 2:10 In 200 Breast Semifinal

Gyurta posted the fastest time in the semifinal of the men’s 200 breaststroke by four seconds, swimming to a time of 2:10.74. That time is still two seconds off of his season best of 2:08.58 from the Bergen Swim Festival.

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Sjostrom Breaks Two Meet Records on Day 1 of Swedish Championships

The 2015 Swedish Championships started today in Sundsvall. The meet kicked off with the men’s 200 fly, 100 free, 200 breast, and 1500 free as well as the women’s 200 free, 50 back, and 200 breast.

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Kazan Organizers Launch New World Championships App

To help keep up with all of the action surrounding the upcoming 2015 FINA World Swimming Championships in Russia, the…

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Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace dominated 2015 Bahamas National Championships

FINIS-sponsored swimmer Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace dominated the 2015 Bahamas National Championships held this past weekend, winning three national titles. Vanderpool-Wallace won…

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International Stars Head to Vichy for the French Open

One of the highlights of the weekend will be the showdowns between Cesar Cielo and Florent Manaudou in the 50 freestyle and 50 butterfly…

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Trojan Swimmers Pinzon and Dvariskyte Make A Very Funky Couple

“We met a year ago and it was love at first sight. Rami was quite upfront about it, she was actually the one that asked me out. We went for sushi after a swim,” Omar recalls.

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What is The Art of Swim Parenting?

Being a swim parent is not easy. If it were, we would likely have 2 million registered USA Swimming members, rather than 400,000.

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