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“I am grateful for the positive relationships I formed through this process (choosing Cal). The coaches and athletes that I got to know are special individuals!”

Americans Add More Hardware, Maintain Overall Medal Table Lead

Matt Grevers earned a silver medal, adding to the Americans’ overall lead after day 3.

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2017 World Champs Pick’em Day 3 Update, Presented by TYR

2017 FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS Sunday, July 23rd – Sunday, July 30th Budapest, Hungary LCM (50m) Full Competition Schedule Meet…

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2017 FINA World Championships: Day 3 Finals Preview

American Lilly King, the reigning 100m breaststroke Olympic champion, will face rival Yuliya Efimova of Russia in what may be the race of the night.

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2017 FINA World Championships: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

Several World Record holders will compete in their respective events tonight, including Great Britain’s Adam Peaty in his signature 100 breast.

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FINA World Swimming Championships Day 2 Photo Vault

For those of us in the swim media business, these are busy days indeed.  Our team is working hard to…

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2017 FINA World Championships: Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

Follow along with day 2 prelims at the 2017 FINA World Swimming Championships in Budapest.

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2017 FINA World Championships: Day 2 Finals Preview

Katinka Hosszu will go for her first gold medal of these championships in the women’s 200 IM.

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2017 FINA World Championships: Day 2 Prelims Preview

Defending 200 free world champ James Guy will be back in the pool in the heats of his best event on day 2.

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NA Recap: 5 American, Yet No World Records For U.S. On Day 1

Caeleb Dressel broke two American Records on day 1 in Budapest.

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2017 Worlds Previews: Rylov to Challenge Murphy in M. 200 Back

While Murphy and Larkin are 2 of the big names that come to mind in the gold medal conversation, Russia’s Evgeny Rylov is definitely in the picture as well.

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The Official SwimSwam 2017 World Champs Preview/Predictions Tracker

Don’t want to miss a single one of our 2017 World Championship event-by-event previews or predictions? We’ve got you covered. Bookmark this page and come back daily for updated predictions and links out to each new event preview.

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2017 Worlds Preview: Lacourt Hunts For Three-Peat In Men’s 50 Back

Camille Lacourt will look to three-peat in the men’s 50 back at the final meet of his career.

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2017 Worlds Previews: Murphy vs. Jiayu Showdown in M. 100 Back

Murphy set the World Record at 51.85 on the 4×100 medley relay leadoff at the Rio Olympics, but Jiayu nearly took it down with a 51.86 at 2017 Chinese Nationals.

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2017 World Championships: World Record Watch List

Sarah Sjöström has shimmied her way right up to world records in the 50 and 100 free this year, on top of already being a threat to her own 50 and 100 fly WRs.

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The U.S. Worlds Team Got Younger, But Not By as Much as We Thought

At 32 years, 127 days, Matt Grevers is almost 4 years older than any other member of Team USA.

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