Team USA Coach Remembers Fallen Swimmer
The following is a letter posted by KING Aquatic Club head coach, Sean Hutchison, on the team website www.kingaquaticclub.com. Coach Hutchison has coached many national-level swimmers as well as playing a role in very successful international teams for the United States including the 2005 World University Games, 2006 Pan-Pacific Championships and the 2007 World Championships. […]
Park: Sydney Chance to Test Racing and Possibly Scout Training Locations
You may recall that Park Tae-Hwan, the Korean Gold Medalist in the 400m at the World Championships, trained in Australia in the buildup to the Melbourne Championships. With the Sydney World Cup this weekend, a lot of eyes in Australia will be on him as he matches up against top Australian talent like Grant Hackett and […]
Remembering Patrick Woehnker
This past weekend, the swimming community lost one of its members at too young of an age when Patrick Woehnker died early Sunday from injuries he sustained after falling from the roof of Goodrich Hall at Wabash College. Today, Woehnker was remembered during a memorial chapel service. In somber instances like these, words do […]
Australian Star Eamon Sullivan Confident After Training in Arizona
Australia is the lowest continent in the world in terms of elevation. With no major cities at substantially high altitudes, athletes are forced to look elsewhere to get altitude training in. One of these stars is Eamon Sullivan, who has just returned from another successful trip to Flagstaff, Arizona, elevation 6,910 feet (2,106 meters). Sullivan […]
Top 5 Tuesday: Special Halloween Edition With Adam Mania
In the last installment of 5 profiles, we take a peak at Polish Olympian turned American Olympic hopeful Adam Mania. Adam’s parents came to America from Poland after having illegally escaped the communist bloc and we talked about what it was like growing up with English as his second language, why his Bret Michaels, the […]
Michael Klim Stays on Sponsorship Train
It has been impressive how stars like Ian Thorpe and Michael Klim have been able to stay in the spotlight even after retiring from swimming. With the exception of maybe Mark Spitz, most American stars seem to have a little more trouble maintaining their stardom soon after their career is done. Just as Ian Thorpe has helped […]
What Is Cheating? - In the Wake of the Elka Graham Debacle
In a follow up to one of the biggest stories of the past week, Swimming Australia has determined that there is likely not much that they, as an organization, are able to do to force Elka Graham to spill the beans regarding who offered her performance enhancing drugs. Swimming Australia’s Glenn Tasker did note […]
In My Mind: Let’s Get the Drug Testing Job Done
In My Mind is a bi-weekly column written by Nathan Jendrick. The ideas, thoughts and/or opinions expressed are not necessarily that of TimedFinals.com, DeckPass.com or their respective employees.
Dedicated readers of my column know that much of my work is dedicated to discussing and explaining the use, manner and methods of performance enhancing drug use […]
Top 25 Men’s College Roundup
The men’s season is also starting to gear up, and although the top 5 teams were not in action this week there was plenty of other swimming going on in the Top 25, including the annual grudge match between Big 10 Rivals Indiana and Northwestern.
Top 25 Women’s College Roundup
The College Season is finally turning into full gear and the action will be almost undending from here until the NCAA Championships in March. As such, we give to you a roundup of what happened in the Top 25 Teams this week. Summaries, results, we sift through it all to give you the best of […]
Natalie Coughlin Breaks World Record in 100 Back!
Natalie Coughlin has just swam four laps (short course meters) of backstroke faster than anyone in the history of the world. The United States star finished the 100 backstroke in 56.51 today, chopping two tenths off her old record (56.71 set in 2002). She almost went two for two actually, as she narrowly missed taking […]
Chinese Swimmers Keep Getting Younger and Younger
14 year olds don’t win sprint freestyle events. Then again, maybe the times they are a changing. There was of course Australia’s 15 year old Cate Campbell, who beat out Libby Lenton in the 50 free at the Japan International Grand Prix this summer, and now China’s Tang Yi looks to be getting […]
Schoeman Leads Way on World Cup Stop, Coughlin Puts Up Swift 100 Fly
At the second World Cup stop in Singapore Roland Schoeman looks to have established himself as the man to beat in order to win the $100,000 award to the circuit’s top overall performer. He wasn’t perfect though, as he and Natalie Coughlin did show that they are human and can be beat. That is not […]
Fast Times from Chinese City Games
China’s young talent continues to shine, as 16 year old Jiao Liuyang claimed the 200m butterfly at the Chinese City Games taking place over the weekend. Jiao, the 4th place finisher at the Melbourne World Championships, touched the wall in a very quick 2:08.18, just over a second off her best (2:07.06). Teenagers could be […]
News Out of France: Manaudou Returns to Action and Federation Aims for 10 Medals in ‘08
In the buildup to the Beijing Olympics Francis Luyce, the President of the French Swimming Federation, announced that he hopes to take home six to ten medals in Beijing. A woman that will be absolutely crucial to that formula, Laure Manaudou, has announced that she will return to competition at a meet in Berlin the 17th […]
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