Matt Hawes Impressive in Montreal
The competition in Santa Clara right now certainly is hard to beat but there are some pretty quick in-season times coming from our neighbors to the north. In particular, Canadian record holder Matt Hawes continued an impressive summer by breaking the provincial record in the 200 backstroke to highlight the evening.
Phelps Wins Two In Santa Clara, Night Three
Julia Smit scored a big win to fire up the action in Santa Clara. Smit won the women’s 400IM in 4:40.33, nearly three seconds ahead of her nearest competitor.
Date Announced for Golden Goggle Awards
Sunday, November 18, 2007 will see the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, once again playing host to America’s best aquatic athletes.
The Golden Goggle Awards are swimming’s highest honors, given out to athletes who excel at their sport and triumph against the odds. Mark your calendars, it is certain to be a wonderful evening […]
Pretty Darn Cool, Brooklyn Opens up Floating Pool
Have you ever felt you were swimming so fast that you were almost on top of the water? That feeling will be a little bit easier to achieve now in Brooklyn, as it will be opening a new floating pool in July 4. The pool sits on top of an old abandoned barge from New […]
Mania Wins, Highlights Bell Grand Prix
Canadian Swimming can’t be too happy that two of the country’s largest stars, world-champion Brent Hayden and finalist Brian Johns, elected to compete at the Santa Clara Invitational this weekend over the domestic Grand Prix Series in Montreal this weekend. After all, Canada Chief Pierre Lafontaine had said that building up the domestic series was […]
Americans, Australians Share Spotlight in Santa Clara
As if it were only fitting, Natalie Coughlin started off the second night of action at the Santa Clara International by winning the women’s 100-meter freestyle in 54.12, just shy of her meet record of 54.06 set last year. One athlete who did get a meet record though, is Brendan Hansen.
One Year to the Trials - Excitement Building in Omaha
At 11am today, the countdown to the Olympic Trials in Omaha began. One year from today, June 29, the Trials begin as do the hopes of every American swimmer aiming to compete on the world’s biggest stage - the Olympic Games in Beijing. The city of Omaha is betting big on these trials […]
A Guide To Avoiding Assured Swim Club Website Disaster, Pt. 3: The One Thing That Really Matters
In case you haven’t read them, here are Part 1 and Part 2 of this series.
There’s a lot of things that you might want the site to do, and we’ll get to all of those in due time. However, there is only ONE FEATURE you want to evaluate any package for. Ease of posting team […]
Peirsol, Peterson Win on First Night of Santa Clara Invitational
Night one came to a close with strong swims on both sides of the coin in the distance events at the Santa Clara Invitational tonight. In the women’s 1500m freestyle it was Hayley Peirsol taking top honors 16:12.08 - about 19 seconds ahead of second place finisher, Emily Brunemann [16:31.55]. Whitney Sprague was third […]
Lochte Sidelined With Injury? Retired Australians Take Next Steps
With the Santa Clara Invitational getting started today, Timed Finals received word that Ryan Lochte may be sidelined with a shoulder injury and may not be competing this weekend. We are looking into the situation further, but this is not the first time Lochte has been injured just prior to a meet as he […]
Brooke Hanson’s Electrocution Confirmed
Now that Australian star Brooke Hanson is getting closer to a full recovery, Energy Safe Victoria has announced that, despite initially claiming its impossibility, that Hanson’s collapse and ensuing medical battle did indeed come as a result of an electric shock. The shock occurred when swimming in an Endless Spa for her sponsor. No surprise […]
French Nationals Conclude Today
The French Nationals did not end with nearly the amount of hoopla that Alain Bernard supplied at the beginning, but maybe he just raised the expectations higher than were fair. I mean, Laure Manaudou only recently put the country on the swimming map (I don’t mean to offend our French readers as I know you have had […]
Santa Clara International Kicks Off Today
A lot of the big names won’t be in action until tomorrow, but the Santa Clara International kicks off today with the 800m free for men and the 1500m free for women. But then again, when a star like Hayley Peirsol, who will be competing in the 1500 today, isn’t the headlining name, you know that […]
The Swimmers’ Ear: Lebron vs. Michael (Phelps)
LAX Airport Souvenir/Magazine Shop
11:23pm, 6/23/2007
“Hey buddy, you gonna pay for that?” The cashier is looking at me. I’ve been reading an unpurchased magazine for 15 minutes.
I reply instinctively: “No, of course not.”
[My thoughts at 11:23pm: 1) $8.50 for a ham and cheese sandwich, 2) $3 bucks for a water, […]
Another Day, More Good Swimming at French Champs
A Russian went under the French National Record in the 100 breast today, but Freddie Bousquet was the closest Frenchman to breaking a National Record as he just missed his own mark in the 50 fly. Alain Bernard was not in action, but his fellow star Laure Manaudou was, as she followed up her wonderful […]
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