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Hosszu Breaks Hungarian Record; Adrian Swims Season Best in 50 Free on Day 2 at Monaco

Katinka Hosszu has stamped her name on an 18th individual Hungarian Record to finish the 2014 Mare Nostrum’s first stop in Monaco.

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Adrian Wins 100 Free, 5 Meet Records Go Down on Day 1 of 2014 Mare Nostrum-Monaco

Nathan Adrian picked up a win in the 100 free and pushed through as the top seed in the 50 free on day of the 2014 Mare Nostrum-Monaco meet.

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Grechin Ahead of Adrian For Top Seed in Men’s 100 Free at Monaco

Katinka Hosszu swam well in a relatively limited schedule on Saturday morning, including a top seed in the women’s 200 free.

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FINA Points: Illogical and Impractical

For some swims, like Sun Yang’s 2011 World Championships race in the mile, FINA Points are showing skewed comparisons.

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SwimSwam Preview: Mare Nostrum series begins in Monaco this weekend, 50,000€ up for grabs

Japanese backstroker Ryosuke Irie is one of a number of international swimming stars set to compete this weekend on the first stop of the whirlwind weeklong Mare Nostrum tour .

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Start Lists for 2014 Monaco Mare Nostrum Stop

Double butterfly World Champion Chad le Clos will be racing at the 2014 Monaco stop of the Mare Nostrum series.

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Olympic Gold Medalists ‘Make a Splash’ With Water Safety Events In LA and Long Beach

The national tour features new USA Swimming Foundation’s Ambassadors Nathan Adrian, Janet Evans, Anthony Ervin (featured image), as well as Olympic Gold Medalists Rowdy Gaines, Jason Lezak, Jessica Hardy, and two-time Olympian Chloe Sutton.

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Singapore Swim Stars to award $150,000 in prize money, event lineups set

The Singapore Swim Stars meet, billed as a kick-off to the brand-new, state-of-the-art Aquatic Center in the Singapore Sports Hub, will award $150,000 in prize money between 10 total events, according to Italy’s SwimBiz.it.

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HardCore Swim of the Week: Nathan Adrian, the man who can outswim the touchpads

In an odd quirk, Adrian was simply too fast for the meet’s timing system to keep up with while nearly breaking his own American record in the 100 free.

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Wow – Lots of Swimmers! Time Lapse of USMS Nationals Warm Up

The 2014 U.S. Masters Swimming spring nationals have wrapped but for 1000’s of masters swimmers the memories are as fresh as…

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Charlotte Grand Prix follows suit, will be dual Masters-sanctioned like Mesa

The Charlotte Grand Prix, like the Mesa stop before it, will be dual sanctioned by USA Swimming and US Masters Swimming, meaning athletes like Nathan Adrian could go after Masters World Records at the competition.

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The show is over but the memories live on: USMS Nationals Photo Vault Day 4

It’s a wrap.  The 2014 U.S. Masters Swimming spring nationals are over but there’s a lot of fast swimming and…

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The Race for 2014 World Swimmer of the Year

2014 Swammy Award winner for Male World Swimmer of the Year Chad le Clos has a chance at repeating his crown in 2014, and here’s what he has to do to earn that title

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Timing Malfunction: USMS announces Nathan Adrian did not tie American record at Masters Nationals

An error with the timing system means Adrian went 41.13, not the American record-tying 41.08 originally listed.

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RACE VIDEO: Watch Nathan Adrian Scare American Record at USMS Nationals

Watch Nathan Adrian swim the fastest 100 yard freestyle ever done in a Masters’ competition, and nearly the fastest done by an American in any competition.

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