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  • This vintage video from the early 1990s shows why the sport of water polo is the perfect compliment to swimming and now, with youth programs like flippaball in Australia and Splashball in the USA, the sport can help swimming retain athletes after swimming lessons by beginning programs that will keep young athletes in the pool rather than losing them to other sports after swimming lessons. Featured are some of the greatest coaches and swimmers in history including George Haines, Laurie Lawrence, Jon Urbanchek, Mike Bottom, Brad Schumacher, Pablo Morales, John Naber, Matt Biondi, Jill Sterkel.

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  • Sjostrom describes how she won the ISL MVP award

    Sarah Sjostrom wins ISL Season MVP | Las Vegas

    Sarah Sjostrom becomes ISL season MVP | Skins Highlights |

  • Energy Standard become ISL’s first-ever champions in an action-packed second day in Las Vegas.

  • The National Sea Rescue Institute has urged holidaymakers across the country to only swim at designated areas this festive season.

  • Demetri Martin explains his concerns about swimming as a sport and has a bone to pick with piñatas.

    Why Swimming Is a Confusing Sport – Demetri Martin

  • TWO NEW WORLD RECORDS | Day 1 Highlights | Las Vegas

  • On December 16, a San Francisco court ruled that the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA), the body based in Lausanne, Switzerland, that governs Olympic swimming, has to answer to allegations that it has been operating an illegal monopoly, in part by financially punishing athletes who want to compete in events that it doesn’t recognize or control.

    The judgment came after a year of hearings in a suit jointly filed by the International Swimming League (ISL), a new global swimming competition, and three champion swimmers pursuing a class-action suit against FINA, a subsidiary of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The swimmers are U.S. Olympic butterflyer Tom Shields, U.S. world-champion individual-medley swimmer Michael Andrew, and multiple gold medalist Katinka Hosszú, from Hungary.

    Denying FINA’s attempt to dismiss the case and keep sealed internal communications disclosed during the discovery process, San Francisco District Court magistrate judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled that, in their attempt to show that FINA was operating “a global anti-trust conspiracy… the plaintiffs have satisfied their burden of making a prima facie” case. The court will hold an initial case-management conference to determine the next steps in mid-January 2020.

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