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  • Barbosa and Santos removed from Brazil’s World Champonship roster

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    In conjunction with their positive doping tests, which resulted in the loss of results from the Maria Lenk Trophy meet, Henrique Barbosa and Nicholas Santos have been removed from the Brazilian World Championships roster. Vinicius Waked did not make the team, so he is naturally missing as well, and now only Cesar Cielo remains, having…

  • Something’s rotten in Brazil: This wasn’t Waked’s first offence

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    FINA will press for an urgent CAS appeal before pool racing at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships begin on July 24, if current investigations conclude that Brazil was wrong to issue only warnings to Cesar Cielo, Nicholas Santos, Henrique Barbosa and Vinicius Waked for testing positive with furosemide. Especially Waked’s case looks suspicious, if the…

  • Lab now denies having contaminated Cielo’s supplement

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    Yesterday, we heard that César Cielo’s supplement contamination had been found and confirmed to be from the pharmacy where his usual supplement was prepared. Today, however, the pharmacy denies accordingly to swim.com.br, saying that they always take very careful sanitation measures, including never using the same tray on the same day, and that the cross-contamination was…

  • César Cielo tests positive for masking agent

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    At the Maria Lenk Trophy in May, 4 Brazilian athletes including Olympic and world champion César Cielo tested positive for furosemide, a diuretic banned because it can mask the use of doping products. The Brazilian doping control panel decided that only a warning was necessary because the swimmers have never produced a positive test before…

  • Cielo plans to establish Pro-16 for the 2016 Rio Games

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    The 2008 Beijing Olympic champion, Cesar Cielo, plans to establish a professional swim training club in Sao Paulo, naming the scheme as Pro-16 to prepare for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. The scheme is likely to exceed a little more than USD 1$ million, involving Cielo and his relay team-members Santos, Cerdeira, Leonardo…

  • Arena presents César Cielo

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    Great video here by ArenaNatation, where César Cielo amongst other things reveals that the most important medal in his collection is not the 50 freestyle Olympic gold medal from Beijing 2008, but rather the 100 freestyle bronze medal.

  • Brazil has no Omega OSB11 starting blocks ?

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    Alberto Pinto Silva, coach to Olympic 50m free champion Cesar Cielo in Brazil, has described as foolish the fact that his country has no Omega OSB11 ramp starting blocks of the kind that will be used this summer in Shanghai and next summer in London when his charge defends the World and Olympic titles respectively.…

  • César Cielo Sets 50 Freestyle World Record

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    Brazil’s César Cielo Filho set a new 50 freestyle world record this morning, at the Brazilian Long Course Championships in Sao Paolo, with a time of 20.91, where France’s Frederick Bousquet’s world record from last April was 20.94. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine