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News Round-Up: Ranfagni gets good news after heart tests in Italy; Ottesen on go slow after foot break; Myrtha Pools heads into winter; Spain synchro coach heads to Mexico; Brit CEO under fire from Tom Daley's mum...
John Davis started a foundation called “The 2xtreme Dream”. Guest writer Chuck Warner asks What training is too extreme to prepare to swim fast? and what is it that drives coaches and swimmers to explore their limits? ...
World Rankings are temporarily suspended as we make technical upgrades related to our plans for the future...
Olympic 1500m free champion of 2008 and 10km marathon champion of London 2012, Oussama Mellouli today reveals the struggle he has faced to shake off being labelled the friend of a dictator at home in Tunisia...
Lars Humer, the Kiwi who took charge of Britain's Stockport Intensive Training Centre when coach Sean Kelly fell ill in Olympic year, has been appointed head coach at Ireland's High Performance Centre at the University Arena in Limerick...
News Round-Up: US Olympic back champ Missy Franklin was described as "an emotional wreck" before her Regis Jesuit High School team raced Highlands Ranch in a dual meet; Hackett backs Melbourne 2024 Games bid; Oprah meets Armstrong...
The Club Natación Sabadell (CNS) in Barcelona, alma mater to Mireia Belmonte and home to coach Fred Vergnoux, is reducing the income of more than 90% of its staff, or 208 people, by between 30 and 50% over the next two years...
News Round-Up: James Magnussen has gone to "another level" in training after gutsy Games debut and setback at the London 2012; Florida ace gets his own TV Reality series "What Would Ryan Lochte Do?"...
USA Swimming has announced fresh details for the Arena Grand Prix Series, including $150,000 in prize money. The next stop of the series will take place January 18-20 in Austin, Texas, with Franklin, Clary and Berens in the mix...
Lord Coe invited everyone to "own a piece of Olympic history" by buying London 2012 leftovers in an auction; now an auction outfit admits that it never had some of the items that people bought, including Phelps' result sheets...
News Round-Up: Italian backstroke ace Sebastiano Ranfagni will undergo tests tomorrow that will either end or save his elite swim career; Nugent says Super series a chance to get 2013 off to strong start; Hoff takes a break...
Yannick Agnel tells Le Figaro today: "Limits are an invention of man". France's double Olympic champion of London, has placed a world crown at the top of his menu for 2013 after a stellar 2012...
News Round-Up: Leiston Pickett, back after hip surgery, has three meets this month and aims to step out of the shadow of retired Leisel Jones; Phelps' next goal a family and kids; Kitajima to wed; Sullivan takes time out from racing...
Brittany Elmslie, a member of the Australia 4x100m free gold-medal winning squad at London 2012, has been called into the EnergyAustralia Swim Team to replace an injured Blair Evans for the BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series this month...
Entries opened today for the inaugural British Gas International Swimming Meet in March...
Happy New Year to all our readers. In Part 2 of our review of headlines in 2012, August to year-end, the news is dominated by the passing of our founder, Nick Thierry, the man who kept the swimming score for 40 years...
A trawl back through the headlines of a year about to end. Part 1, January to the end of the London 2012 Olympic Games and the Phelpsian swansong, the highlight of the year ...
From the team at SwimNews at the end of a year in which we lost our captain, our founder and guide, the man who kept the swimming score for 40 years...
For the first time in the history of Russian swimming, the coach of the year is a foreigner: Andrea Di Nino, head of the eponymous A.D.N Swim Project and coach to Olympic butterfly medallist Evgeny Korotyshkin ...
Guest Writer Chuck Warner looks back at some of the toughest swim practices and where they led some of the toughest swimmers in the history book ...
