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  • NZ legends of the pool return for world record swim

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    Some of New Zealand’s greatest swimmers are celebrating a new world record – not just breaking the old mark, but annihilating it. Double Olympic champion Danyon Loader came out of retirement for the occasion, while Commonwealth Games medalist John Steel entertained as much of the Millenium Institute pool as in it. Former Commonwealth Games champion…

  • NZ Champs: Matt Stanley takes down another Loader record

    NZ Champs: Matt Stanley takes down another Loader record

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    20-year-old Matthew Stanley rewrote the record books for a second straight night at the New Zealand Swimming Championships in Auckland tonight, which doubles as the Olympic Trials. In a class of his own in the 200 freestyle, Stanley qualfied for the London Olympics in 1:47.57, 6/100ths of a second inside the 16-year-old national record set…