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  • With the retirement of Michael Phelps and established stars like Missy Franklin and Ryan Lochte absent, the U.S. swim team arrived in Budapest, Hungary, for the 2017 FINA World Championships with an opening for a new star to emerge.

    By the time the competition was over, Caeleb Dressel did just that, winning seven gold medals, tying a record set by Phelps in 2007. Meanwhile, Katie Ledecky hardly needed an opening to continue her dominance as she came home with six medals, five of them gold.

    For their performances, Dressel and Ledecky were named male and female Athlete of the Year on Sunday night at the USA Swimming Golden Goggle Awards in Los Angeles.

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  • It was the deepest freedive I had ever attempted. Looming beneath me was the deep abyss of Dean’s Blue Hole that plunged to a depth of 200m. I slowed my breathing and checked my heart rate.

    The head judge signalled me over as my name and target depth was announced by the commentator. As I clipped on to the competition line, I knew there was no room for fear.

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  • A leisurely Sunday afternoon Sail on the 12th November 2017 off Mollymook NSW, Australia, became so much more for all of us on board a Sail we survived and one we will never forget! I decided to video the Whales in the distance on the way home to Harbour and then!!!!

  • Our favorite holiday gift ideas from SwimOutlet.com for the the swimmer on your list!

  • Joe Keery had a major part of his Stranger Things role cut from the series!

    The 25-year-old actor says that his character Steve was originally going to be a competitive swimmer during the first season – and he prepped for six weeks!

    “They were saying, ‘He’s going to be kinda like this jock character, and he’s like a swimmer,’” Joe said on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

    He added, “So, for the first, I don’t know, six weeks prior to shooting, I was training, doing all this swimming prep. I thought I was going to be in, like, a Speedo…And on the first day I showed up and they were like ‘Oh, no, we cut that!’”

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  • Russia’s hopes of competing at the Winter Olympic Games in February were dealt a blow as the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said the country remained non-compliant with its code.

    Last year, an independent report commissioned by Wada found evidence of state-sponsored doping in the country.

    Wada told Russia earlier this month the “best solution” is to “work with them” following new intelligence.

    Kuwait, Equatorial Guinea and Mauritius were also found non-compliant.

    Russia’s anti-doping agency (Rusada) has been suspended since an initial Wada report in 2015, but the country’s authorities deny there was a state-backed programme.

    Rusada has pledged to follow international recommendations to get the suspension lifted, with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) making the ultimate decision on the country’s participation in the Winter Games.

    The IOC has said it will make its decision at its next board meeting, which takes place from 5-7 December.

    The Games take place from 9-25 February in South Korea.

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  • REAL insight into an Olympians diet. Gold Medalist Swimmer Cody Miller explains his diet. Vlogging everything he eats on a normal day of training.

  • Nothing is more embarrassing than a swim parent. They always want to prove that they are the best parent out of all the other parents in your swim team.

    From shouting at you poolside, telling your coach what they should do, to just being a plain old pain in the bum to well everyone!

    So join me Shaun from simply swim as I break down ‘5 cringe worthy swim parents.’

  • The U.N. General Assembly on Monday unanimously adopted an Olympics resolution that includes a gay-inclusive reference to discrimination.

    The “Olympic Truce Resolution” that calls for peace around the world around the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, specifically refers to the Olympic Charter’s nondiscrimination clause, which is known as Principle 6.

    Egypt and Russia in recent weeks sought to remove the Principle 6 reference from the resolution because it specifically includes sexual orientation, religion, gender and other factors. The U.S., France and Brazil blocked these efforts.

    “The Olympics is an event that should focus on what brings us together – friendly competition by the world’s best athletes – not what makes us different,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley told the Washington Blade earlier this month in a statement. “No athlete should face discrimination of any kind when representing their country in the games.”

    The International Olympic Committee in late 2014 added sexual orientation to Principle 6 after Russia’s LGBT rights record — including a law banning the promotion of so-called gay propaganda to minors — overshadowed that year’s Winter Olympics that took place in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi.

    Read the Washington Blade

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