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Michael Phelps

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“If you want to be the best, you have to do things other people aren’t willing to do.”

7 Ways to Cope With Retirement From Competitive Swimming

How to transition to the afterlife of your competitive swimming career. #6 Don’t compare your old swimmer self to your new swammer self.

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Everything I Need to Know About Marriage, I Learned in the Pool

The recently engaged Michael Phelps will be in good stead in marriage says Joy Archer, as long as he remembers what he learned in the pool.

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Chad le Clos Kicks Off 2016 Olympic Approach With Michael Phelps Social Media Shots

It’s one of the head-to-head matchups that everyone else on planet swim will be talking about ahead of the 2016 Olympic…

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Michael Phelps holds Special Olympics clinic before athletes leave for World Games

Olympic hero Michael Phelps is moving his training base to Tempe, Arizona, but he was back in his longtime home of Baltimore this weekend, putting on a clinic for Special Olympics athletes.

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Exclusive Bob Bowman Video Interview: Creating a New Culture at ASU

ASU Coach Bob Bowman sat down with Garrett McCaffrey for an exclusive interview this weekend.

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My Favorite Skill

Who in Swimming has influenced your life? Athlete Manager & Entrepreneur Emily White Chronicles her answer below.

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National Shallow Water Blackout Prevention Day is officially May 31st

This announcement is courtesy of VASA, a SwimSwam partner.  This letter to the swimming community is from  Rhonda Milner, M.D., Founder…

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2015 World Championship Teaser Video with Lochte, Adrian, Morozov and Manaudou

Why is Michael Phelps in this Russian teaser video for the 2015 FINA World Championships?

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American Sprint Freestyle Not Up To Par With World – Medals On The Line

On Friday, USA Swimming posted the following Tweet highlighting the dire challenge of American sprinting so far in 2015. Since then, the situation has gotten even more dire, with Katsumi Nakamura going a 48.41 in the 100m freestyle at the Japan Open.

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The 8 Most Interesting Long Course U.S. Open Records

Below, we’ve looked at some of the most surprising US Open records in the books, and what they mean historically to the sport of swimming.

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Team Arena Combines for 13 Medals at Arena Pro Swim Series at Charlotte

Tom Shields topped Olympic gold medalists Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps to win the 100-meter butterfly.Shields posted a time of 52.12 seconds to earn the victory in the 16th-fastest time in the world this year.

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9 things we learned from the 2015 Charlotte Pro Swim Series meet

The fifth stop of the Arena Pro Swim Series wrapped up in Charlotte last weekend. As the dust settles on one of the fastest and deepest Pro Swim Series meets yet, here are 9 big things we learned:

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Time Lapse: 2015 Arena Pro Swim Series Charlotte

SwimSwam photographer Mike Lewis produced this time lapse video from the 2015 Arena Pro Swim Series Charlotte.

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Phelps on Day 4: Right now I’m in the sidelines (Video Interview)

After voicing some frustration of being stuck in outside lanes for most of the meet, Michael Phelps got his inside lane in the B-Final

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Arena Pro Swim Series Charlotte – Images from deck

We’re in the final day of the 2015 Arena Pro Swim Series stop in Charlotte, North Carolina and there’s still…

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