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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 19. RICK Curl waived his right last month to have a disciplinary hearing in the wake of revelations that he had a sexual affair with an underage swimmer on his team in the 1980s. By waiving that hearing, as well as a National Board of Review hearing, Curl has now been placed on the USA Swimming banned for life list, ending a career that included putting nearly a ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 19. JESSICA Long's first major post-Paralympics plan was to find her birth parents, and it appears the quest to locate them has already come to a happy ending.
Long, who was born Tatiana Kirillova to Russian parents and raised in the United States since she was 13 months old, publicly announced before the London Paralympics her desire to locate her birth mo...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, September 19. USA Swimming has now added Rick Curl to its effectively immediately.
Swimming World has learned that Curl not only waived his , he has also waived his right to a National Board of Review hearing, thus accepting a permanent ban from USA Swimming.
In July, reports emerged that Curl was under investigation by USA Swimming after allegations...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 19. HALEY Anderson joins today's edition of The Morning Swim Show with her coach Catherine Vogt to talk about the journey to winning Olympic silver in the 10K open water swim.
Anderson, who has only been competing in open water races for two years, talks about how quickly she learned the logistics of open water swimming and how the Olympic course ...
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada, September 18. SIX of the greatest minds in swimming gathered recently at the American Swimming Coaches Association's world clinic in Las Vegas to talk about the VASA trainer and the unique ways it can improve swimming performance, and that panel discussion is brought to you today by SwimmingWorld.TV!
In this four-part video series, we hear from American coaches Gary...
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WASHINGTON DC, September 18. THIS past Friday, Swimming World Magazine posted a collection of from the US Olympic swim team's visit to the White House. Although we only featured Tweets from the swimmers, the Presidential recognition extended to all members of the US London 2012 Olympic team. On the expansive White House lawn, over 400 Team USA Olympians and Paralympians shook ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 18. WE'RE going to cut right to the chase in awarding the Performance of the Week, since no one deserves it more than Japan's Akihiro Yamaguchi.
After two previous tries last month, the 18-year-old finally broke the world record in the 200 long course breaststroke with a 2:07.01. Yamaguchi had been within three tenths of Daniel Gyurta's record, ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 18. KRISTEN Vredeveld didn't waste any time in making her college decision. The senior from The Baylor School announced that she is attending the University of California-Berkeley next fall, telling us that the school had been the right fit for her since taking an unofficial visit last year. Vredeveld was the fastest 50-yard freestyler among high school swim...
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HARPER WOODS, Michigan, September 18. AVIDASPORTS, LLC announces a revolutionary meeting in the sport of swimming involving athletic telemetry training.
Recently Jarod Schroeder, the head coach of Northwestern University men's swim team met with Don Kimble, the head coach of Holland High School/Michigan Lakeshore Aquatics. This collaboration shows how coaches may come together to lea...
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DAMASCUS, Maryland, September 18. ONE of the nation's leading swim clubs today announced its new name and owner: CUBU has become the Nation's Capital Swim Club (NCAP) under the ownership of Thomas E. Ugast who was named its chief executive officer last month. Along with the name change, the organization also has adopted a new logo that integrates images of a swimmer and the Capitol ...
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