Ryan Cochrane has been named Swimming Canada’s OMEGA Male Swimmer of the Year for the seventh straight time.

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FINA has announced a rule change to the breaststroke underwater pullout – the latest change to try and give officials a fighting chance, and athletes an even chance, at adhering to the ever-more-complex breaststroke rules.

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Swimmers understand that non-swimmers are going to be full of questions about the sport. Let’s be honest, though, there are some questions that you just shouldn’t ask. Here are 11 of them…

http://swimswam.com/12-things-shouldnt-say-competitive-swimmer/

On September 20, 2014 the volunteer application process was launched on the official website of the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan. A little more than a month is gone and over 10,000 candidates from 43 countries have already applied to contribute to a successful staging of next summer’s major sporting event.

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Back in 2011, designers and founders Dong-Ping Wong, Archie Coates, and Jeff Franklin wondered if New Yorkers’ perceptions of the long-neglected river would change if they could experience a small, clean portion of it. Their solution was +Pool, a plus-sign-shaped, 9,300-square-foot structure designed fill up with the river water it cleaned using a layered filtration system built into the walls.

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http://www.architectmagazine.com/Design/plus-pool-hosts-fall-swim-benefit-in-brooklyn_o.aspx?mobile_redirect=false