HardCore Swim of the Week: Le Clos’ textile-best 100 fly turns into a $50,000 swim
The South African rattled a super-suit world record while earning 30 World Cup points in one race en route to his giant bonus for leading the first cluster by just 4.
HardCore Swim of the Week: Sjostrom highlights range with rocketing 200 free split
Sarah Sjostrom was a sprint beast over last week, but her world-leading split on the 4×200 free relay shows she’s far more than a fly-and-die type.
HardCore Swim of the Week: Hungary’s Szilagyi crushes 200 fly at Youth Olympic Games
Liliana Szilagyi made a statement about the bright future of Hungarian swimming by winning the Youth Olympic title in the 200 fly with the 3rd-fastest time swum in the entire world this season.
HardCore Swim of the Week: Carmel girls fight through tough schedule for NAG, Junior National title
Amy Bilquist and her Carmel teammates Rachel Hayden, Veronica Burchill and Claire Adams fought through some tough finals doubles (and even a triple) to break the NAG record in the 4×100 free relay.
HardCore Swim of the Week: England ends 24-year Aussie streak in medley, could key national medal count title
Longtime dominators of the Commonwealth Games, Australia hadn’t lost a men’s 4×100 medley relay at the Games in 24 years….
HardCore Swim of the Week: Reece Whitley obliterates 200 breast NAG, steals 100 too
Penn Charter’s Reece Whitley had himself an outstanding weekend, taking over both long course breaststroking national records for the 13-14 division.
HardCore Swim of the Week: Michael Phelps finds his statement swim in Athens
A big comeback swim has been missing, a headline-grabbing time that would really put the world on notice. In Athens this weekend, Phelps made his statement with a 51.67 in the 100 fly.
HardCore Swim Of The Week: Sarah Sjöström Blows Away 50 Butterfly World Record
The HardCore Swimmer of the Week has to be Sarah Sjostrom. Sarah Sjostrom blew away the fastest time in the…
HardCore Swim of the Week: Weitzeil rocks SMOC for a big confidence boost
One of the highlights of the Swim Meet of Champions was a rising youngster who swam a pair of races that constituted a big step forward to perhaps becoming a Champion herself.
HardCore Swim of the Week: Beisel doubles up in Northern California
With all due respect to Katie Ledecky’s earth-shattering world records, this week’s HardCore Swim takes a look at another USA Swimming star who put together an outstanding weekend, and whose swims might be lost in the frenzy of Ledecky’s world marks.
HardCore Swim of the Week: Peaty puts himself right in the middle of the breaststroking battlefield
19-year-old Adam Peaty has put himself right in between Christian Sprenger and Cameron van der Burgh in what once looked like a two-man race for world’s top sprint breaststroker.
HardCore Swim of the Week: Ryosuke Irie dominant in Mare Nostrum’s opener
In the early goings of the Mare Nostrum tour, Japan’s Ryosuke Irie has been nothing if not dominant.
HardCore Swim of the Week: Tom Shields breaks through in the big pool
Tom Shields crashed onto the international scene last week, winning a pair of US National titles in the 100 and 200 fly and setting himself up as the US’s top dog come Pan Pacs next week.
HardCore Swim of the Week: Hannah Miley adds another piece to a big Scottish swimming summer
Hannah Miley is helping Scottish swimming rise to the occasion in what’s becoming a highly-important summer for the country’s swimming culture.
HardCore Swim of the Week: Coffman stepping up big against famous fields
Just two years ago, Cheyenne Coffman was a big fish in a little pond. The competition has stepped up drastically since. But Coffman? Well, she’s still finding a way to the top.