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Heavy Lies The Crown Part 2: Men With OLY Qualifying Times

Lithuanian swimming ace Danas Rapsys appears multiple times on the men’s world rankings, taking into account only those performances that qualify for Tokyo.

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Xu Jiayu Donates FINA Champions Series Prize Money To Coronavirus Relief

Chinese world champ Xu Jiayu has donated about $10,000 of prize money he won on the FINA Champions Series to hospitals fighting the coronavirus outbreak.

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Beyond The Lane Lines: Millfield Swimmer Honors Aussie Roots

Catch up on the swimming-related news round-up from around the world in this week’s edition of our series Beyond the Lane Lines.

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CHINADA Temporarily Suspends Testing in Wake of Coronavirus Epidemic

According to France’s AP news wire, CHINADA has decided to “temporarily” suspend its activities because of the coronavirus epidemic.

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Kansas City Chiefs Win First Super Bowl in 50 Years: a Swimming Retrospective

On Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs won their first Super Bowl in 50 years. We use that as a measuring stick to mark the passage of time in our own sport of…

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Japanese Breaststroking Ace Koseki Modeling Gym Training After Peaty

Japanese national record holder Yasuhiro Koseki is taking a page from Adam Peaty’s playbook when it comes to getting it done in the gym.

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Coronavirus Causes Cancellation of FINA Diving World Series Stop in China

The 2nd stop of the FINA Diving World Series, which was scheduled for early March, has been cancelled over coronavirus concerns.

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Olympic Update: 2020 Village Nearing Completion, Coronavirus Raises Concerns

Amid health concerns surrounding the coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Japan is bracing for a possible deadly contagion.

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Heavy Lies The Crown Part 1: Women With OLY Qualifying Times

One month into the Summer Olympic year, let’s examine who is ‘the hunted’ by listing women having clocked OLY-qualifying times thus far.

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$275,000 USD Offered For World Record Broken At Upcoming Konami Open

On-fire Daiya Seto will have extra incentive to give it his all at next month’s Konami Open, seeing how a quarter of a million dollars is up for grabs.

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Hong Kong International Backstroker David Chang Commits to Duke

David Chang attends the Millfield School in England, a program that sends a number of swimmers to NCAA program every year.

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18-Year-Old Shoma Sato Scorches 2:07.58 200 Breast; Dips Under FINA WJR*

18-year-old Shoma Sato busted out the best 200 breaststroke of his young career, crushing a time of 2:07.58 to close out Kosuke Kitajima Cup.

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Watch Daiya Seto’s 4:06.09 400 IM That Ranks Him #5 All-Time

Watch Daiya Seto swim a 4:06.09 400 IM at the Kosuke Kitajima Cup, moving him up to #5 all-time in the event months away from the Tokyo Olympics.

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Hello Tokyo: Daiya Seto Logs 4:06.09 Lifetime Best 400 IM, Now 5th Fastest Ever

One of the best swimmers in the world right now, Daiya Seto of Japan, proved it big-time tonight by registering the 7th fastest 400 IM time ever.

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5 JPN Men Clock 48-Second 100 Free Times At Kosuke Kitajima Cup

Sprint ace Shinri Shioura led a men’s 100m freestyle siege on day 2 of the 2020 Kosuke Kitajima Cup taking place in Tokyo, Japan.

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