I was made aware of this topic on Monday from multiple sources, but I had chosen to wait until I could receive further confirmation on the subject. Now I feel that I can, in good faith, tell all of our readers the latest rumor out of Southern California.
It appears that Kalyn Keller will be […]

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AT writes: I found that my kick worked best when I think about kicking fast enough to keep my feet at the surface and feeling the water “boiling” at my toes. Whenever I think about knees locked, knees unlocked, hip-power, pointed toes, or any of that… it just doesn’t work.
So you’ve found a focal […]

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Shane Gould recently stated that she wants athletes aged under 18 banned from Olympic competition to protect them from exploitation and burn-out.
I can only respond with three names that come to mind really fast - Michael Phelps, Amanda Beard, and Ian Thorpe. Thorpe was only 17 in Sydney, so he would not have been […]

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Timed Finals is proud to announce the immediate availability of RSS feeds and the ability to put the latest Timed Finals headlines directly on your website.
Since its inception, Timed Finals has offered content through RSS, but with this new tool, website owners and webmasters can immediately grab the needed code from Timed Finals and insert […]

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We’ve seen it before. Kosuke Kitajima’s dolphin kick that cost Brendan Hansen the gold, and more recently Jessicah Schipper missing out on a gold at the World Championships and a world record when she was beaten in the 200 butterfly by Otylia Jedrzejczak. Replays later showed Jedrzejczak had touched the wall illegally with […]

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KANSAS CITY and NEW YORK - Timed Finals and Total Immersion announced a partnership today to bring content by Terry Laughlin of Total Immersion to Timed Finals, one of the largest swimming specific portals and fastest growing swimming website on the internet.
Total Immersion brings a wealth of swimming experience to a growing swimming community on […]

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The issues surrounding the supposed retirement of Luo Xuejuan were well discussed, but yesterday she officially announced that anticipated retirement. To some it came suddenly, but to us it was only a matter of time as her health issues were taking a toll (for whatever reason they were there to begin with ) on her. […]

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With $3.2US million in his pocket, South Korea’s teenage swimmer Park Tae-hwan reiterated on Monday his ambitious goal of winning a gold medal in the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing.
“My ultimate goal is to become the first South Korean to win a gold medal in swimming in the Olympics,” the 18-year-old told reporters upon his […]

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Ryk Neethling has responsed through his manager, Fiona de Souza, to reports that Neethling has turned his back on South Africa and does not agree with Lange’s swimming philosophy that we reported on earlier.
The following is de Souza’s official comment on the situation:

“Ryk does not disagree with the coach. He has merely decided to go […]

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China now has a lower number of doping cases than the international average, but the use of banned substances is spreading from elite athletes to the general population, a Beijing Olympics official said recently.
China was suspected of systematic doping when its athletes were at the center of several big scandals in the 1990s, but a […]

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The Cape Argus is reporting that the absence of Olympic gold medallist Ryk Neethling along with four other members who did not attend the 12-day training camp has not pleased national coach Dirk Lange.
Neethling, along with Roland Schoeman and Lyndon Ferns and breaststroker Suzaan van Biljon did not attend, but apparently Lange’s only beef is […]

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Top-ranked Texas swept all 11 swimming events en route to a 129-106 victory over No. 24 Texas A&M Saturday afternoon in the State Farm Lone Star Showdown .
You can read the results later in this article, but the interesting thing about this dual is the title sponsor [bolded above]… sure, this is a part of […]

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According to NorthJersey.com, a woman who invested $60,000 in a fictitious reality TV show featuring pro athletes playing video games has sued the show’s creator and signed a criminal complaint against him.
The two met last summer when she answered an ad in a local newspaper looking for “very serious” investors willing to put at least […]

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Yes, the fact that Butler said Friday that it will drop its men’s swimming program after this school year is “old” news, but I have been debating what I wanted to say about the topic. There is alot more to think about than “another swimming team bites the dust.”
First the comments that the athletic […]

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CollegeSwimming.com is reporting that two more universities are adding swimming programs to make three - the number of new teams in the past two days. In separate announcements Ramapo College of New Jersey and Milligan College in Eastern Tennessee have introduced new teams and head coaches.
Ramapo will compete on the club level this season […]

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