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  • The Morning Swim Show featuring Frédérick Bousquet, discussing his world’s best 50 freestyle at the French Nationals recently, and his threatening to withdraw from the world championships. There is also a quick glimpse of Laure Manaudou, hurrying across the room in the background :-)

  • Next time you’re getting tired on that tough ‘fly set, think of Dr Julie Bradshaw, from Britain. She’s 47 – and this summer she’s intent on testing sanity itself with a round-Manhattan Island swim – 28.5 miles – on butterfly. Read more here on SwimNews.com.

  • Norway’s Alexander Dale Oen is training with Germany’s Marco Koch in Potsdam, Germany this week, under the world-renowned and somewhat controversial Dirk Lange.

    Alex’s Facebook page:

    In Potsdam, training with Dirk Lange who is one if the best coaches in the world. Marco Koch is here to push me on the sets in the pool as well. Looking to be a very hard and painfull week lactate-wise..

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  • Yes, probably a viral commercial or something, but all I can say is “sweet!”. And if you are interested in becoming some kind of techno-aquaman, the address is www.jetlev.com.

  • After having to cancel the Japanese Long Course Championships due to the earthquake and tsunami catastrophe, the Japanese swimming federation still managed to put together a high qualify Shanghai 2011 trials meet in Hamamatsu.

    Yosuke Miyamoto became the first Japanese to swim under 15:00 in the men’s 1500 freestyle, with a 14:57.56, compared to Ryoji Sononaka’s 15:04.91 back in 2009.

    Natsumi Hoshi dropped the national record in the women’s 200 butterfly with a 2:06.05, where Yuko Nakanishi’s record from 2008 was 2:06.38.

    Haruka Ueda managed a 1:57.37 in the women’s 200 free, where her national record from 2009 was one hundredth of a second slower, 1:57.38.

    There were also three world’s best this year, with Takeshi Matsuda beating out Michael Phelps himself with a 1:54.12 in the 200 butterfly, compared to Phelps’ 1:55.34 from the Indy Grand Prix. Aya Terakawa set a world’s best this year in the 100 back with a 59.17, compared to Belinda Hockings’ 59.55 from earlier this week. And Kosuke Kitajima set a world’s best in the 100 breaststroke with a 59.44, beating out Yuta Suenaga’s 59.93 from Tokyo in February.

    And this was only the first day of the meet.

    Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.

  • Australia has ripped up the national selection standards for the world championships in Shanghai in July after only 34 swimmers reached the tough times in Sydney this week. That gave 11 swimmers – seven men and four women – unexpected tickets to Shanghai, including Commonwealth Games gold medallist Geoff Huegill. National head coach Leigh Nugent explained the about-face by saying the panel had decided to pick a larger team to develop fringe candidates for next year’s Olympic team. Read The Australian.

    “The aim of setting our own qualifying times was to raise the standard of performance and competition nationally, and we have certainly seen that in a number of events over the last eight days,” Nugent said. “With two Australian records and a handful of world class times, the performances bode well for the world championships in July and we have also selected the team with an eye to further developing athletes in the lead-up to London.”

  • Surreal news here in the Boston Herald:

    Lorraine Jablecki often used the Sandwich High School swimming pool in the morning to soothe her aching back.

    Her doctor told her water aerobics would help her three bulging discs. And for the East Sandwich woman it did, allowing her to feel and function better throughout the day.

    But since March 28, adults have not been allowed access to the swimming pool during the school day. Supt. Mary Ellen Johnson eliminated access to the pool for adults in the Sandwich Community School programs from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. after a parent objected that her son was naked in a locker room at the same time an adult from the swim program was showering naked.

    Read the full story here in the Cape Cod Times.

  • US-based Lauren Boyle set a new kiwi national record at the New Zealand championships last night, winning in 8:33.30, more than 2.5 seconds under the FINA ‘A’ qualifying time, and more than 2 seconds quicker than the record set by Phillipa Langrell at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. Interesting to read that she set her first national record as a 13-year-old in the 50, and has since gradually moved up the distances, until now as a 23-year-old she wants to try out the 800. Read The New Zealand Herald.

  • Belinda Hocking chased down the Australian record in the women’s 200 back today at the Australian Nationals, with a winning time of 2:06.88. Meagen Nay previously held the record with a 2:07.41 set back in 2009. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.

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