International

Coughlin, Leverenz, Grevers, And Godsoe Selected As SC World Championship Team Captains

This afternoon USA Swimming announced that the World Championship Team in Doha selected their team captains for the meet. Natalie…

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Testing the Pebble Watch on Swim.com

One of the newest innovations in swim training are swim watches. A few years ago you could only use a Garmin to monitor your open water swimming, but now there are several swim watches that will record data while you swim in a pool.

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Watch 2024 Washington DC Olympic Bid Promotional Video

Washington DC is one of four cities vying to be the American bidder for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, along with Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston.

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Shallow Water Blackout: The Quiet Killer – The Facts

In most swimming pool or non-diving situations when the victim’s medical history is irrelevant, blackouts occur due to prior hyperventilation, followed immediately by rapid, repetitive breath-holding.

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Blog do Coach: FINA Approves 10PM Finals Schedule for Rio 2016 Olympics

Above: Unrelated picture of Missy Franklin from this summer’s Pan Pac Championships.

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Australia Shuts Out Gold Medalist Sun Yang

Swimming Australia’s High Performance Director, Michael Scott, announced that Chinese swimmer, Sun Yang, is “no longer welcome in Australia.”

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Hangzhou, China to Host 2018 World Short Course Swimming Championships

Hangzhou, China, known for its natural beauty, has been selected to host the 2018 World Short Course Swimming Championships.

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SwimLabs – Where Entrepreneurship and Swimming Collide

Over 400,000 people are registered with USA Swimming, and tens of millions of take swim lessons every year. Why not use this growth and combine it with your entrepreneurial spirit?

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Olympic Star Michael Phelps Is Out Of Rehab

Olympic icon Michael Phelps is out of rehab reports TMZ Sports. After Phelps second DUI arrest, he entered a treatment…

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4 Reasons To Give The BridgeAthletic Gift Package This Holiday Season

To give your loved one a Bridge training program this coming season/year, visit their site here and use the promo code CYBERMONDAY.

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2014 FINA Women’s Water Polo Player Of The Year Maggie Steffens

For the second time in three years USA Women’s Senior National Team athlete Maggie Steffens has been named the FINA Women’s Water Polo Athlete of the Year.

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FINA World Swimming Championships – 10 Hours of Coverage on Universal Sports Network Dec 3-7

Headlining the field for USA Swimming are Olympic gold medalists Tyler Clary, Natalie Coughlin, Matt Grevers and Ryan Lochte.

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FINA Announces Another Rules Change to Breaststroke Pullouts

Breaststrokers now have another rules change to learn and relearn in the breaststrokes. (Above, U.S. National Teamer Cody Miller).

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FINA Coaches Golden Clinic recap: insights into training for Le Clos, Van der Burgh, Jones, Heemskerk, Belmonte

Chad le Clos’s coach said the butterflyer would train 10,000 meters a day in between sessions of the World Cup tour this past season.

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In Briefs: British swimming earns awards and you can vote on athlete of the year

It’s raining awards for British Swimming late in 2014. A c0uple of aquatic athletes earned prestigious honors, the Duel in the Pool meet won an all-sports award and five British swimmers are up for Athlete of the Year, with a link to fan voting below.

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