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World Leader Kaylee McKeown Won’t Swim 400 IM at Australian Olympic Trials

Australian teenager Kaylee McKeown will skip the 400 IM and race the 100 back, 200 back, and 200 IM at June’s Australian Olympic Trials.

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High-Level International Meets For June 2021

Smiles all around as the month of June brings the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials, the Australian Swimming Trials and other high-profile meets.

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Euro, NCAA Champ Sophie Hansson Among 4 New Swedish Swimmers Named for Olympics

Sweden’s Sophie Hansson will join her older sister Louise on Sweden’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic Team after winning the European Championship in the 100 breaststroke.

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Jarod Arroyo Shatters Puerto Rican National Records at Puerto Rico Intl. Open

Jarod Arroyo was one of multiple swimmers to set National Records for their respective countries at the Puerto Rico International Open.

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2021 Mare Nostrum: Sjostrom To Return In Canet; Monaco Psych Sheets Released

Sjostrom is officially scheduled to compete in Canet, while Chad Le Clos and Katinka Hosszu are among the names confirmed for all three stops of the series.

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Ari-Pekka Liukkonen Just a Single Dolphin Kick En Route to 50 Free Gold

6’10” Finnish swimmer Ari-Pekka Liukkonen bucked the norms of modern swimming by winning a European title with almost no underwater phase.

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LEN Offers Plaque To Kira Toussaint After Losing Silver In 100 Back Re-Swim

The plaque “commemorated this act of sportsmanship as all team leaders accepted the decision to repeat the final, though only a couple of lanes was affected.”

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IOC Further Confirms Games to Take Place This Summer, Some Fans May Attend

With professional soccer and baseball games played in front of fans in Japan, voices calling for minimal Olympic attendance have begun to grow.

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Efimova Describes 100-Focused Training Change Leading into Tokyo Olympic Games

She explained what training will look like moving forward, stating that she won’t need to do a lot of the longer aerobic work she normally would

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Tokyo 2020 Round-Up: Games Will Go Ahead ‘Even in State of Emergency’

The IOC has this week confirmed that the Olympic Games will ‘absolutely’ go ahead even if Tokyo remains in a state of emergency.

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Reino Unido gana el medallero del Europeo en natación por delante de Rusia

En una lucha muy reñida con Rusia, el equipo británico ha ganado el medallero de las pruebas de natación gracias a sus potentes relevos.

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Great Britain Grabs Top Spot In Overall Swimming Medal Standings In Budapest

With the 2021 European Aquatics Championships now having concluded, we can reflect on the swimming medal table resulting from action in Budapest, Hungary.

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Hosszu, Peaty Among History-Makers At 2021 European Championships

Katinka Hosszu became the female swimmer with the most medals in the history of the European Championships, now owning 24 of them dating back to 2008.

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From Spain to SPIRE—Two More Overseas Students Add to SPIRE’s Global Influence

This year, SPIRE Academy welcomes two new swim students in the fall of 2021; Spain’s Alicia Angelone López and Carla Clermont.

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