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Get Social with the Australian Swim Team in Barcelona – Video

Swimming Australia has a great team of people behind the scenes at the 2013 FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain…

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Zsofi Balazs breaks into top 20 in open water battle

“That was probably one of the hardest 10k’s I’ve done,” said Balazs, who turned 23 earlier this month. “It’s one of the ones that I’m most proud of also. Everyone stayed together the entire time. It was just fight, fight, fight, none of the girls would give up and the pack never spread out.” (Photo Credit: Tim Binning, theswimpictures)

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2013 Worlds Preview: Record Watch

Team USA’s Katie Ledecky is one of the many swimmers on record watch next week in Barcelona.

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Jack Conger Will Be Taking His 1:58 200 Fly / 1:55 200 Back to the NCSA Summer Championships

Jack Conger and several other young stars will be competing at the NCSA Summer Championships in Indianapolis. (Photo Credit: Tim Binning, TheSwimPictures)

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Conger Swims 1:58.28, Breaks PVS Record, at Senior Champs

Jack Conger continued to show off his versatility on Sunday at the PVS LC Championships. (File Photo: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)

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Day 3 Recap from the 2013 FINA World Championships

The defending Olympic champions from Croatia won their opening match in men’s water polo, though it was a much closer battle with the Americans. Ous Mellouli, featured photo, medals again in open water! (Stock Photo: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)

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Ryan Lochte 2013 World Championship Preview – Gold Medal Minute Video

After dedicating a lot of time this sesason to his reality show, What Would Ryan Lochte Do, the diversion in Hollywood appears to have had little effect on Lochte’s success in the pool. By the numbers, Lochte dominated the men’s side of swimming at US World Trials. True, he’s not in 2012 Olympic shape, but he’s not far off either. (Photo Credit: Tim Binning, theswimpictures)

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Ryan Lochte Goes SI Swimsuit Edition-esque in this Pre World Championships Photo Vault

Many thanks to Jess for finding these images web-wide and putting them together. All swimswam coverage of the 2013 FINA World Championships…

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2013 Canadian Age Group Swimming Championships in Montreal July 24-29

More than 900 athletes from 159 clubs are expected to battle for titles from Wednesday through Monday at Parc Jean-Drapeau Aquatic Complex on Ile Ste-Hélène. Female swimmers will compete in the 12-and-under, 13-and-under, 15-and-under and 16-18 age groups, while the males are divided into 13-and-under, 14-and-under, 15-and-under, 16-and-under and 17-18. (Photo Credit: Tim Binning, theswimpictures)

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Cochrane is Prepared for a Battle in Barcelona

Since the 2008 Olympics in Beijing there have been three men that have consistently found themselves on the medal podium…

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Team Santa Monica’s Wilimovsky Set to Swim Open Water 25K at World Championships

Northwestern University and Team Santa Monica Jordan Wilimovsky gets ready to swim at next week’s World Championships. (Photo: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)

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USA Adds Golds and Meet Records after Day 2 of Maccabiah Games

Andi Murez adds another gold to team USA’s collection with her record-breaking swim in the 200m freestyle. (Photo: Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)

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Fernando Ernesto dos Santos Wins Brazilian Swim-Off For Spot in 100 Freestyle

Fernando Ernest dos Santos won the biggest swimoff of the year just a few days shy of the 2013 World Championships. (Photo of Dos Santos from Maria Lenk: Satiro Sodre/SSPress)

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What was is like in there? Perspective from inside the men’s 10K open water swim in Barcelona

Kane Radford shares a bit of what it was like during the race at today’s 10K open water swim at the FINA World Championships in Barcelona. (photo: Mike Lewis, Ola Vista Photography)

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Whale Almost Eats Divers, Scary With Funny Ending – Video

This video’s popping up everywhere, going viral. It’s not bad, but it is hair-rising…even funny at the end.

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