PHOENIX, Arizona, July 7. THE July issue of Swimming World Magazine features the final edition of this year's Olympic flashback series. Jeff Commings looks back at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 iterations of the Olympics, with special contributions by Steve Johnson.
This is the Michael Phelps era of swimming, as he made his first appearance in the 2000 Olympics before beginning to set medal records in 2004 and 2008, including his epic eight old medal sweep in Beijing.
Hailing from a country that has produced greatness with the likes of Inge de Bruijn and Pieter van den Hoogenband, sprinter Ranomi Kromowidjojo has rapidly developed into a global force behind a lethal combination of raw talent, hard work and desire.
This month's Olympic feature spotlights the London Aquatic Centre.
Russia has dominated synchronized swimming in recent years and is expected to do the same this summer at the London Olympics.
…Or is it? Does the timing of Olympic Trials have an effect on swimmers' performances at the Olympics?
Where does a team go after having been proclaimed the gold standard–and then repeatedly backing it up at local, regional, national and international levels? Well, they keep going forward!
There is a smarter way to swim fast times without “swimming” faster at all!
Winning requires sleep management, which has to be planned and not left to chance.