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  • Eindhoven Swim Cup: Sjöström post world-leading time in the 100 semi

    Eindhoven Swim Cup: Sjöström post world-leading time in the 100 semi

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    At the Eindhoven Swim Cup tonight, Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström scorched the women’s 100 meter freestyle semifinal, with a time of 53.29 ahead of Ranomi Kromowidjojo in 53.60 and Marleen Veldhuis in 54.15. Julia Hassler from Switzerland won the women’s 400 freestyle in 4:14.03, Britain’s David Carry the men’s 400 freestyle in 3:50.52, Wendy v.d. Zanden…

  • Swim Cup Eindhoven 2012 starts tomorrow

    Swim Cup Eindhoven 2012 starts tomorrow

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    The annual Swim Cup Eindhoven will be held in the Pieter van den Hoogenband swim stadium from tomorrow April 12th until Sunday April 15th 2012, featuring world class swimmers from the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Slovenia and Brazil, the likes of Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Sarah Sjöström, David Carry, Peter Mankoč and Bruno Fratus. See startlist here from…

  • British Trials over, 38 selected for Home Games

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    As listed here on SwimNews.com, after 8 days of trials at the London Aquatics Centre, Great Britain selected 38 swimmers for its home Games squad, with relays to be confirmed and additions to be made at the ASA in Sheffield in June. On the last day of Trials, Daniel Fogg became 3rd Brit ever under…

  • Arena’s Powerskin Carbon Pro debuts at British Swimming Trials

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    The Powerskin Carbon Pro, Arena’s latest swimsuit featuring breakthrough “intelligent compression” technology will make its first appearance in a major competitive meet at the venue for this summer’s Olympic Games, the London Aquatics Centre. They have British swimmers Francesca Halsall and Hannah Miley on board at that meet, as well as Milorad ÄŒavić from Serbia,…

  • Sarah Sjöström sets 2 Swedish senior records at Junior SC Nationals

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    After breaking the Swedish 200 IM short course senior record at the junior nationals on Friday with a 2:08.17, she yesterday cleared also Therese Alshammar’s 12-year-old record of 52.17 in the 100 freestyle, with a 52.15, ahead of Michelle Coleman in 52.96 and 15-year-old Louise Hansson in 53.73. Via SwimNews Videos from the Swedish Junior…

  • #SwimmerProblems trending on Twitter

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    Funny phenomena, including several big names in swimming, #swimmerproblems on Twitter. Some additions these last 12 hours … Jessica Hardy, Oussama Mellouli and Sarah Sjöström: “Hungry, all day long.” Natalie Coughlin: “when water (built up from underwater repeats) uncontrollably pours out of your nose at awkward times.” Natalie Coughlin: “smelling like bleach no matter how…

  • The World Swimming Time Zone is now GMT+8 hours

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    All the best swimmers in the world are now flocking along the China Standard Time zone, waking up at approximately 7 AM in Shanghai, midnight in London, 7 PM the day before in New York and 4 PM the day before in San Francisco. The Brits are in Osaka, the Americans at the Gold Coast…

  • USA Today projects Friis to win 800 free at London 2012

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    USA Today has this interesting “Olympic Medal Tracker” on their site, where they use an algorithm to project the winners in each medal event for the 2012 London Olympics, based on an athlete’s results in events such as world championships and World Cup. With emphasis that it doesn’t predict how the medals will play out…