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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2024: Men’s #40-31

Hwang Sunwoo isn’t a clear-cut favorite for Olympic gold in the 200 free, but there’s no question he’s in the hunt after three straight years in the 1:44s.

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Wyatt Davis Accepts Three-Month Doping Sanction For Cannabis Use

Davis’ sanction, which officially started on Jan. 2, will result in him missing the entire 2023-24 NCAA season.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2024: Women’s #40-31

Marrit Steenbergen has had a career resurgence over the last two years, and, flying under the radar, will vie for medals in multiple events in Paris and Doha.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2024: Men’s #50-41

After a senior breakout in 2023, American Thomas Heilman will be in the hunt for an individual Olympic medal in Paris in the 200 fly.

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Canadian Swimmers Jet To Turkey For Pre-Worlds Staging Camp, U.S. Heading Straight To Doha

Taylor Ruck and the rest of the Canadian contingent headed to the 2024 World Championships will have a pre-meet staging camp in Antalya, Turkey.

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Former Arlington Aquatic Club Board President Mark Black Pleads Guilty In Child Porn Case

Black faces a minimum of 15 years behind bars after pleading guilty to conspiring to sexually exploit multiple children between 2018 and 2021.

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Weekly Wonders of Age Group Swimming – 1/26/2024

Our GMX7 Weekly Wonders of Age Group Swimming series celebrates swimmers of every age and experience level with age group profiles of some recent results.

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SwimSwam Pulse: 51% Pick 2:06 200 IM As Most Likely Women’s Barrier To Fall In 2024

Kaylee McKeown, Kate Douglass and Alex Walsh are all candidates for the first sub-2:06 in history in the 200 IM, as is Canadian star Summer McIntosh.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2024: Women’s #50-41

Cate Campbell has a very good chance of returning to the Olympic podium in the 50 free 16 years after she claimed bronze in Beijing.

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arena Swim of the Week: Ilya Kharun Enters Rarefied Air With 1:37.93 200 Fly

Kharun became just the fourth swimmer in history to break 1:38 in the 200 fly last weekend, putting him within striking distance of Jack Conger’s NCAA Record.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2024: Men’s #60-51

The defending Olympic champion in the 400 IM, Chase Kalisz could be back on the podium in Paris, but he’ll need to be at the top of his game.

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Swimming Australia Adds Olympic Runner Shaun Creighton To Board of Directors

Creighton joins the Board after representing Australia at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics in men’s athletics, racing the 5,000 and 10,000 meters.

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Paris Selected As Host of 2026 European Aquatics Championships

The event will follow up on the 2024 Olympic campaign slated for later this year, headlined by swimming superstar Leon Marchand.

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World Aquatics Says Paolo Barelli Remains Suspended, Italian Federation Falsified Report

World Aquatics disputed a report from the Italian Swimming Federation that declared Paolo Barelli had won a CAS appeal and returned as President.

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Paolo Barelli Reportedly Wins CAS Appeal Against World Aquatics

Barelli will return as the President of the Italian Federation after the Court of Arbitration for Sport cleared him in a case against World Aquatics.

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