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Phelps In 200 Free At Trials? Bowman Says “Probably Not”

Bob Bowman – “Phelps should do both the 100 and 200 butterflies and the 200 individual medley.”

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Megan Romano Makes The Move to South Florida’s ‘ProFlo’ Squad

In her bid for the 2016 Olympic team, Megan Romano changes up her training home and moves to South Florida Aquatic Club’s ProFlo squad.

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WR Holder Sarah Sjostrom To Compete At Austin PSS (Psych Sheets Here)

USA Swimming has released the psych sheets for next week’s Arena Pro Swim Series at Austin, and they feature some huge international names – maybe most notable and surprising is Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom.

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IPC Launches Review Of Para-Swimming Classifications

Maddison Elliott is one of thousands of para-swimmers who will be affected by the formal review of the para classification system.

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USA Swimming Releases Names of Temporarily Banned Individuals

USA Swimming has released a list of coaches and individuals who are temporarily banned from the organization.

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Minnesotan Club Launches Fundraiser For Olympic Trial Warmup Pool

Great Wolf Aquatics in Minneapolis wants to bring the 2016 Olympic Trials warmup pool to the Twin Cities to serve the state’s 10,000 age group swimmers, along with the thousands more college, high school, YMCA, and recreational swimmers of the community.

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Olympic Year Action Opens with Arena Pro Swim Series at Austin

Franklin, Ledecky, Lochte and Phelps expected to compete next week

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Predicting the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team By Age, Experience

Since 2000, the U.S. Olympic team averages 1 male member under 18 and 1 over 30. Michael Phelps was the former in 2000, and could be one of several men in the latter category in 2016.

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Bob Bowman Accepts Position On WSCA Board of Directors

Bob Bowman, the head men’s coach for the 2016 US Olympic team and Arizona State University, accepted a board of directors position with the World Swimming Coaches Association (WSCA) effective immediately.

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Olympic Trials Competition Pool Will Go To City Of West Fargo, North Dakota

Fargo, North Dakota will become the future, permanent home of the competition pool from 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha.

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USA Swimming Releases Selection Criteria for 2016 Junior Pan Pacs

USA Swimming has published the criteria that will be used to select the team that will represent the United States at the 2016 Junior Pan Pacific Championships at Kihei Aquatic Center in Maui from August 24-27, 2016.

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SwimSwam’s Top 50 Articles of 2015

Ryan Lochte dolphin-kicked his way to 3 of SwimSwam’s 12 most popular news articles in 2015.

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2016 U.S. Olympic Trials 6 Months Out: Men’s Formchart

Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte will do battle for the last time on American soil at the Olympic Trials.

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SDSU Women, UIW Men Have Strong Showings At UC San Diego

Riley Spitser collected a pair of wins on Sunday in the 500 and 1000 free.

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2016 U.S. Olympic Trials 6 Months Out: Women’s Formchart

Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin will likely be the female stars of the Trials. They will also clash in the 200 free.

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