USA faces European All-Star team in the 2013 Duel in the Pool GLASGOW, UK--The 2013 Duel in the Pool will again feature a European All-Star team against a USA team. This year's edition of the meet will again be 25m and will be December 20 +21 in the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, which next year hosts Swimming at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Further information on the meet, including team rosters for both sides, can be found online here: http://www.swimming.org/britishswimming/duelinthepool/

FIRST NATIONAL BANK SECONDARY SCHOOL MEET 2013 In what could only be described as a hugely successful 12th Annual Secondary School Swim Meet held in St. Luciaon Friday 1st November 2013, sponsored by the First National Bank St Lucia, over 140 of the islands top swimmers, representing 9 Secondary Schools, participated in an exciting and competitive event. The meet was organized by the St Lucia Amateur Swimming Association (SLASA)in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Department of Sport in the Ministry of Youth and Sport and the Rodney Heights Aquatic...

FINA, the Fédération Internationale de Natation, is the world governing body for the five Aquatic Disciplines of SWIMMING, DIVING, WATER POLO, SYNCHRONISED SWIMMING and OPEN WATER SWIMMING. FINA has five main objectives: - to promote and encourage the development of swimming in all possible manifestations throughout the world - to promote and encourage the development of international relations - to adopt necessary uniform rules and regulations to hold competitions in swimming, open water swimming, diving, water polo, synchronised swimming and masters - to organise World Championships and FINA events -...

Print BY AMY ROSEWATER Katie Ledecky celebrates after winning the women's 1,500-meter freestyle at the 2013 USA Swimming Phillips 66 National Championships and World Championship Trials on June 29, 2013 in Indianapolis. Katie Ledecky celebrates on the podium after winning the 1,500-meter freestyle in world record time at the 15th FINA World Championships on July 30, 2013 in Barcelona, Spain. Katie Ledecky has achieved quite a bit at just 16, but there is one thing missing from her impressive list of accomplishments: a driver’s license. “No,” she said with a...

INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES CLASS OF 2014 Australia’s Grant Hackett Leads Group of 12 FORT LAUDERDALE (NOV 1) - The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) today announced results of the International Selection Committee’s vote for the Class of 2014. Led by Australian swimmer Grant Hackett, this year’s class of 12, representing eight different nations, joins an elite group of over 700 aquatic legends from the Olympic aquatic sports of swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo who have been enshrined in the Hall of Fame since 1965....

INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE PRESS RELEASE Friday 01 November 2013 http://www.olympic.org/ IOC Athlete Career Programme hits the road with outreach sessions A delegation representing the International Olympic Committee (IOC)’s Athlete Career Programme (ACP) is set to embark on a seven-day visit to six National Olympic Committees in southern Africa to hold workshops with local athletes and provide them with a range of job skills that can be applied during and after their sport careers. The outreach sessions will take place from 2 to 9 November in countries that currently do not...

The UANA Masters Technical Committee is very pleased to announce that a 30--60 Minute Postal Event has been launched. Over 3000 participants in the 2009-11-13 championships have been invited to participate. The invitation is also on our UANA website under the Masters Tab. It is our hope this event will provide an opportunity for adults in the Americas who wish to use aquatics as means of exercise for a healthier lifestyle. ENGLISH VERSION: Dear Swimmer The Union Americana de Natación "UANA" invites you to the FIRST fund raising Annual UANA...

Jamaica's Alia Atkinson is third in FINA World Cup points on eve of 3 Asia events LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND--Chad Le Clos, South Africa, and Katinka Hosszú, Hungary, are the current male and female point leaders on the 2013 World Cup circuit. Through 5 of 8 meets, Le Clos leads the male side with 332 points, with Vlad Morozov, Russia, second with 240 points. On the female side, Hosszú has 579 points, with Mireia Belmonte, Spain, in second at 187. The 2013 World Cup's final 3 meets are November 5+6 (Singapore), 9+10...

Cochrane credits team effort for success VICTORIA - Swimming is considered an individual sport. But two-time Olympic and six-time world championship medallist Ryan Cochrane says it takes a full team effort to achieve success. Cochrane is seeing that first hand at the National Swim Centre/Victoria Academy of Swimming All three Canadian medallists at the FINA World Championships in July were from the Centre. “We’ve built a really good team in and out of the pool to achieve those results,” said Cochrane, whose two medals in Barcelona (silver in the 1,500-m...

Articles worth reading from the Olympic Community updated November 1, 2013 FROM NOV 1, 2013 WSCA NEWS: OCEANIA SWIMMING ASSOCIATION -- A report posted by the Oceania Swimming Association (OSA) details facilities and sport histories for 13 Pacific island groups: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Kosrae and Pohnpei), New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Northern Marianas, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tahiti. The 74-page report can be downloaded from the OSA website via here: http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=2-1072-0-0-0&n ews_task=DETAIL&articleID=26003236 Inside the Games: Russians caught for drugs doubled in a...