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  • According to reachforthewall.com, 2009 All-Met swimmer Amanda Kendall has been dismissed from the Louisiana State swim team for violating team rules, specific reasons unknown, and Kendall declining to comment on the rules violation. She has withdrawn from classes at LSUA and returned to her former club coach Peter Ward at George Mason University. LSU’s compliance department has applied for an Olympic-year waiver for Kendall that would allow her to retain her final year of eligibility without establishing a year of residency first.

  • Studio Roosegaarde has created this line of high-tech clothing know as “Intimacy 2.0”, that turn more and more transparent, the faster you heart beats. Myes, maybe the other way around in swimming, for training purposes … ‘anything under 130 bpm and your butt will show!’ Via Buzzfeed

  • At the Japan Swim today, Kosuke Kitajima clocked 2:08.00 in the men’s 200 meter breaststroke, surpassing Naoya Tomita’s textile best of 2:08.25 set in Hamamatsu, Japan last year, and easy qualifying within the Japan cut of 2:10.27. And, Ryo Tateishi was right behind him in 2:08.17, closing in on Kitajima at the end. Haruka Ueda qualifyed with a Japanese record of 54.00 in the women’s 100 freestyle, old record being 54.33 set by Misaki Yamaguchi in 2009, and Takeshi Matsuda with a 1:54.01 in the men’s 200 butterfly. Read much more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.

    Men’s 200 breaststroke

    Men’s 200 butterfly

  • The 2014 Winter Swimming World Championships will be in the Lapland city of Rovaniemi, close to the Arctic circle, official hometown of Santa Claus 20-23 March 2014. Notice that in their preliminary program, the first day is reserved to Accreditation and … Acclimatization, I fear that that’s about where the warmness stops ;-)

    Also please notice, the Finnish Santa might not be the warm and cuddly kind that you expect, as demonstrated in the brilliant Finnish movie Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

  • At the Japan Swim yesterday, Natsumi Hoshi crushed the Japanese record in the women’s 200 butterfly with a scorching time of 2:04.69, her old record a 2:05.91 from the Shanghai 2011 World Championships, closing in fast on China’s Liu Zige’s World textile best of 2:04.40. Aya Terakawa clipped her national record in the women’s 100 backstroke with a world best time this year of 59.10, old record a 59.13 from the Japanese Sports Festival in 2010. Both naturally qualifying for the Olympics. In the women’s 200 IM, Izumi Kato made the Olympic squad with a 2:11.79, other swimmers going under the FINA A standard in this event and the others but not the Japanese Olympic cut, read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.

    Women’s 200 butterfly

    Women’s 100 backstroke

  • Apparently, an Ocean Beach woman with friends went swimming naked Tuesday night, and when she got out of the water, she couldn’t find her clothes, her cellphone or her wallet. So she walks home “drunk and naked” and falls asleep, while another beach goer finds her stuff, waits by it for an hour, before calling lifeguards. Big alert, “search and rescue” mode, out in boats to search for the woman and along the beach, for two hours (maybe even five), helicopter also, until they find her sleeping in a rear unit at home. Via OB Rag

  • Rebecca Adlington has confirmed she will not attempt to add the 200 meter freestyle to her tally of Olympic swims in June – meaning her individual medal bid in London will remain at two. She will swim the 200 at the final British qualification meet in Sheffield in June, but only to maybe make the 4×200 freestyle relay.

    “I am doing the 200m at the trials but I am not tapering back so to be honest I don’t really think I will make it because there are other girls like Jazmin Carlin who will rest back for it,” said Adlington.

    “I am doing it but I doubt I will make it. If I could make the 4x200m freestyle relay team that would be great but I am not looking to qualify individually.

    Read more here on Chad

  • Stephanie Rice and Eamon Sullivan both deny recent reports that they are back together, read for instance Herald Sun

    [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/ItsStephRice/status/187352343073923072″]

    [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/Eamon_Sullivan/status/187361530612944897″]

  • The Danish Swimming Federation today announced that it will nominate Mathias Gydesen for the London 2012 Olympic Games, based on his 54.41 result in the men’s 100 backstroke prelims at the Indianapolis Grand Prix, only 1/100th of a second off the FINA A Olympic qualifying time but better than the FINA B Olympic Invitation time of 56.30. The Danish Olympic team therefore consists of 10 swimmers, biggest since 1996 and according to the Danish federation “clearly the strongest team of Danish swimmers ever seen at an Olympics.”

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