Arena Swim of the Week

Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Versatile Clyde Lewis Showing Up For Australia

In the post-Michael-Phelps-in-Beijing world, versatility in swimming has never been so highly valued. Meet Clyde Lewis, who is carrying that banner for Australia at the junior level.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Gunes unstoppable at Junior Worlds

No swimmer had a better Junior World Championships meet than Turkey’s Viktoria Zeynep Gunes.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Castiglioni hits her stride in Italy

It’s not often a swimmer gets an immediate shot at redemption. But Italy’s Arianna Castiglioni did just that at the Italian Age Championships.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: A little rest goes a long way for Hosszu in world record swim

Katinka Hosszu did the unthinkable – dropping an event out of her lineup – but came up stronger for it, blasting a new world record in the 200 IM.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Stevens rattles 1:00 in breakout 100 Back

Missouri’s Hannah Stevens put up the second-fastest American 100 back time of the year last weekend, and will shoot to break the minute barrier at U.S. Nationals.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Geer hits first American 53 of 2015

Margo Geer rocked the sprint field at the LA Invite, vaulting to the top of the American rankings for the year in the 100 free with a 53.95.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Matsushima adding to Japanese breaststroke dominance

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Openysheva keys Russian relay dominance at Euro Games

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Cody Miller’s efficiency providing new American breaststroke threat

If there’s one American swimmer who has been absolutely on fire for the past nine months, it’s breaststroker Cody Miller.

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Cameron closes in on Janet Evans masters record

British based Kiwi, Kirsten Cameron closed in on Janet Evans 800m freestyle masters world record in Manchester over the weekend at the British Masters Championships.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Amanda Kendall’s comeback continues with best times at Bill Nixon Invite

Lost in the shuffle of high-profile comebacks has been Amanda Kendall, but a half-second drop in a 50 free from the speedster last weekend should change that.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Vien Nguyen carrying Team Vietnam at SEA Games

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Sjostrom’s 200 continues to complicate lineup choices

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Morozov gaining steam as world’s best eye Kazan

There is perhaps no male sprinter right now hotter than Vladimir Morozov, who won the Speedo Grand Challenge in California this past weekend with a blistering sub-22-second race.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Ella Eastin comes up big in California

Crean Lutheran high school senior Ella Eastin knocked down the National Independent High School record in the 200 IM while winning the CIF Southern Section Division 2 title. But even more impressive was exactly how much of an improvement Eastin showed from her previous best.

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