International

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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5 Reasons Why You Will Cry Watching the Film Touch The Wall

Do you ever get sick of swimming, just over it–chlorine-saturated and water-logged to the point you don’t even want to…

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Le Clos, Hosszu Named 2014 FINA Swimmers of the Year

South African Chad le Clos and Hungarian Katinka Hosszu were named the Male and Female Athletes of the Year at a gala…

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Swedish swimmers protest exclusion of Simon Sjodin from Worlds to irritation of Swedish federation

A number of Swedish swimmers have protested what they believe to be a wrongful exclusion from the nation’s Short Course World Championships team, and the national swimming federation has moved to silence the protests, according to Swedish newspaper Expressen.

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British Record-Holding Sprinter Adam Brown Announces Retirement

British sprinter Adam Brown has announced his retirement from competitive swimming after this week’s USA Swimming Winter National Championships in Greensboro,…

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14 Storylines for the 2014 FINA Short Course World Championships, plus all the links you need

Cesar Cielo is already the fastest man in history in long course meters and short course yards. Can he add the short course meters world record this week in Doha?

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