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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2021: Men’s #100 – #76

We start our countdown of the top 100 men and the top 100 women in world-level swimming heading into the 2021 Olympic year.

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RUSADA Considers CAS Sanctions “Unjustified,” But Does Not Challenge Decision

The agency “considers that this chapter has now been closed,” and hopes to constructively work with WADA in the future following the CAS decision.

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Colorado Time Systems To Continue Long-Running Partnership With USA Water Polo

Colorado Time Systems, a PlayCore company, is pleased to announce their continued partnership as the Official Timing and Scoring Partner of USA Water Polo.

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Austin Surhoff Launches Fike Signature Suit

Every Fike Swim ambassador designs their Signature Suit, giving the athletes a stake in the company as 20% of each sale goes to the ambassador.

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FORM Smart Swim Goggles Now Connect to Leading Swim Spas

New partnership will bring augmented-reality performance metrics displayed on FORM goggles to the homes of thousands of swim spa swimmers worldwide.

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Positive Step For Heemskerk In Ousted Olympic 50 Freestyle Situation

There’s a new development regarding Dutch Olympian Femke Heemskerk’s Olympic qualification situation for the women’s 50m freestyle.

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IOC To Be Climate Positive In 2024

The International Olympic Committee is aligning with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change by setting a target to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

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SSPC: Grant Shoults Breaks Down 2nd Shoulder Surgery, 1000 free PR in Practice

Shoults emphasizes that all of the stanford men are just happy to be at practice every day, knowing it may very well be their last. 

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Italian Flag Will be Allowed at Tokyo 2021 Olympics, CONI Autonomy Restored

Italian athletes will be able to represent their country during the 2021 Olympic Games following a decree restoring autonomy to the Italian Olympic Committee.

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2019 Ohio High School D2 Runner-Up Claire Pophal Stays Local, Verbals to OSU

At the 2020 Ohio HS Division II State Championships, Pophal raced to third in the 500 free (4:56.17), and she was the 500 free runner-up in 2019.

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OSU Adds In-State Distance Specialist Sam Campbell of Dayton Raiders (2022)

Last season, Campbell finished runner-up in the 500 free at the Ohio HS D2 Champs. After a lifetime best 4:30.98 in prelims, he touched second in finals.

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EEUU divide los Trials para Tokio en dos torneos para evitar contagios

USA Swimming sorprende con el anuncio de una nueva instancia previa de clasificación en Omaha, Nebraska. Los detalles, a continuación.

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(UPDATE) USA Swimming Will Split 2021 Olympic Trials Into Two Separate Meets

USA Swimming has split the field of qualifiers for the 2021 US Olympic Trials into two meets, with the top finishers from Wave I advancing to Wave II

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See The New 2021 US Olympic Swimming Trials Qualifying Standards

See the revised time standards for the 2021 US Olympic Swimming Trials that will be used to parse the meet into two separate events in June in Omaha.

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CEO Swim Series: SwimSmart Entrepreneurs Explain Their Success

SwimSmart co-founders Karl Hamouche and Mike Peterson drop-in on the SwimSwam Podcast explaining how they’ve flexed their entrepreneurial muscle

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