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Swimming: European Short Course Champs

Saturday December 10, Poland, British Eurosport 4.45pm  The biggest sporting event held in Poland until, well, next summer is currently going on at the Szczecin Floating Arena, where a squad of 29 of...

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Jo Jackson interview

This week’s British Gas Swimming Championships at the London Aquatics Centre will decide who gets to take to the pool in the colours of Team GB this summer. Ahead of the trials, we caught up with 400m...

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British Gas Swimming Championships

Saturday March 3, Olympic Park Aquatics Centre BBC One 1.30pm Double Olympic and world champion Rebecca Adlington has repeatedly met claims that she’s a favourite for gold at London 2012 by pointing...

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Focus 2012: swimming

Forget the Beijing Water Cube, London’s Aquatics Centre is set to provide even more thrills and spills this summer...The venue The first London 2012 venue to be designed, but last to be finished, is...

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Focus 2012: Hannah Miley

Trained by her helicopter pilot father in a 25m pool in Aberdeenshire, Miley shone at the recent Olympic trials, qualifying for the 200m medley as well as her favoured 400m distance… Hannah Miley could...

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Focus 2012: open water swimming

It’s a gruelling test of endurance, and the only Olympic event with the threat of swan attacks this summer…The venue Britain’s open water world champion, Keri-Anne Payne, has contended with jellyfish...

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Focus 2012: Keri-Anne Payne

The South African-born swimmer started her career in the pool but was convinced to enter the open water by her coach. Before she knew it, she had an Olympic silver medal in hand… After leading the...

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Focus 2012: Synchronised Swimming

In most sports, a ‘split position’ would result in injury. For synchronised swimmers, though, it’s merely routineThe Venue Once the likes of Michael Phelps and Rebecca Adlington have emptied their...

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Focus 2012: Jenna Randall

At Beijing in 2008, alongside partner Olivia Allison in the duet, Jenna Randall was part of the first GB synchro team to compete at an Olympic Games since Barcelona in 1992 Randall and Allison finished...

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Michael Phelps: end Games

Michael Phelps has won more Olympic golds than any athlete in history, but London 2012 may represent his final appearance on swimming’s biggest stage. Ahead of the US Olympic trials, he spoke...

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Fran Halsall interview

The only British swimmer to qualify for three individual disciplines at London 2012 is known for her non-stop chatter. But, chasing five medals, Fran Halsall could soon be famous for what she does when...

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London 2012: the week ahead - Sunday

Swimming: Women's 400m Freestyle FinalAquatics Centre, 8.15pm If Michael Phelps hadn't been in Beijing, then Rebecca Adlington's astonishing gold in the women's 400m freestyle, overhauling her US...

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Paralympics: Ellie Simmonds

Strokes of geniusSport sits down with Ellie Simmonds, the precocious 17-year-old swimmer looking to defend double Olympic gold in the Aquatics Centre Just like its sister event, the Paralympic Games...

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Keri-Anne Payne talks to Sport

Subtitle:  We caught up with the long distance swimmer Keri-Anne Payne talks us through her Olympic experience, her cookery skills and her guilty TV pleasure... 

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Swimming: Michael Jamieson interview

Michael Jamieson’s 200m breaststroke silver was the high point of British Swimming’s London Games. Now he wants to go one better at this week’s World Aquatics Championships…read more

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