Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Olympic Trials Get a Little Younger
13-year-olds Gretchen Walsh, Ellie Andrews and Tristen Ulett all earned U.S. Olympic Trials cuts over the weekend, making them three of the four youngest Trials qualifiers this cycle.
Stephanie Peacock super confident for Olympic Trials
NCAA Champion Stephanie Peacock is preparing for her third trip to the Olympic Trials, where she’ll focus on the 800m freestyle having finished sixth in 2012.
Blueseventy Swim of the Week: China Joins Open Water Olympic Field
Last week, two Chinese marathon swimmers came through in the clutch, not only qualifying for Rio through the final selection meet, but winning both the men’s and women’s events in Portugal.
Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Plummer Quietly Dominating US 100 Back
Pop quiz: who is officially the fastest American 100 backstroker since the end of the 2012 Olympics?
Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Kapas, Hosszu Battle For Hungarian Record
Over the past week, two of Hungary’s best athletes have been after the same national record.
Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Sjostrom Stacks Top 10 All-Time 100 Flys
Over the last calendar year, Sweden’s Sarah Sjöstrom has slowly but surely extended her grip over history in the women’s 100 fly.
Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Dana Vollmer Is Back
Vollmer went 53.59 in the 100 freestyle in Charlotte – her best swim in that race since 2009 and easily her best of the textile era.
Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Wenk Cleaning Up German Record Book
Alexandra Wenk set a pair of German records at the German National Championships last week, one of them taking down a doping-aided 200 IM mark from 1981.
Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Rylov Rolling After Energy Standard Cup
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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Pellegrini Proves Staying Power
Not all of the world record-setters from the super-suit era have lasted long in the world swimming rankings after full-body suits were banned. Federica Pellegrini is proving she can.
Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Kennedy Sprints Like The Wind In Mesa
While a windy night in Mesa, Arizona produced mostly middling winner times at the 4th stop of the 2016 Arena Pro Swim Series, SwimMAC’s Madison Kennedy sliced through the chop to the finest 50 freestyle swim of her career.
Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Redemption Beginning For Mack Horton?
After a disappointing 2015 World Championships, Australia’s Mack Horton blasted the world’s best 400 free time of the season at Australian nationals.
Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Townley Haas’s Sneaky Good NCAA Title
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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: MacLean’s Win a Blueprint for NCAA Champs UGA
Brittany MacLean’s 200 free win wasn’t the fastest time, the biggest record or the most impressive win of the meet. But it may have been the swim that won the meet for her Georgia Bulldogs.
