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   <title>About.com Swimming: What's Hot Now</title>
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   <description>These articles that had the largest increase in popularity over the last week</description>
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         <title><![CDATA[09 World University Games Rost]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Twenty-six of the USA's best swimmers will compete in the 2009 World University Games to be held in Belgrade, Serbia. Swimming will take place July 5-11, with the full Games from July 1-12, 2009.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[2009 USA Swimming Nationals]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/swimmingnationalchamps/qt/USA_Swimming_2009_National_Championships_1_Swim_Meet.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[The USA Swimming 2009 ConocoPhillips National Championships and World Championship Trials are being held at Indianapolis' IUPUI Natatorium from 7 July through 11 July. This pool has seen some great meets over the years, and this year's meet, serving as the trials for the 2009 Swimming World Championships, will certainly be another great swim meet. The 2009 World Swimming Championships are in Rome 17 July through 2 August.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Race Start - Backstroke]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[What happens during the Olympic Swimming Competition? These images show you what happens during the most important swim meet in the world, the Olympics.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Swim Workouts - 800-400-200-10]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[You try to swim faster through the workout as the distance you swim decreases. This swimming workout starts with a good effort 800, but you take a very short stop 1/2 way through it to get your time to use as a goal for the next swim, a 400.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Swimmers Streamlines]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/cs/startandturntec/a/streamlinetips_2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Some of the key points to a good swimmer's streamline. You can use these in swimming workouts and in swimming races]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Synchro Swimming History]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/2008olympicsynchro/ss/synchro_history_4.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[1996 - Atlanta Held Only an 8-person Team Synchronized Swimming Event]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[2008 Olympic Swim Results]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The order of events for swimming at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games - the Beijing Olympic Swimming Schedule - has finals in the morning and prelims in the evening. Results for the top swimmers will be posted when available.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Setting Up a Training Week]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[In general, if I want to swim faster, then I do most of my work swimming. If I workout 5-6 days a week, then I would swim 4-5 days/week and go to the gym once or twice/week, with one of those gym sessions on a no-swim day and one on a day when I swim. Increasing stress each week, then recovering from that stress at some point, is the idea behind all training plans.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sleeves or Sleeveless Wetsuits]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/triathlon/qt/wetsuit_2advice.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[A reader asked for some wetsuit buying ideas. &quot;I'm a good swimmer. It's my strength in triathlons.  I'm doing an IronmMan race, and the water temperature is supposed to be about 70 degrees. Would I be okay in a sleeveless wetsuit?  At what temperature do you recommend wearing a suit with sleeves? Who makes the best wetsuit&quot;]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Swim Coaching Bible]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Two Hall of Fame coaches, Dick Hannula and Nort Thornton, have assembled this anthology of swimming resources from some of the world's greatest swim coaches. The collection of articles in The Swim Coaching Bible are sorted into five sections, covering both the basics and the details of coaching a swim team and specific types of athletes. ]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Sabotage a Swim Career]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/sportpsychology/a/swim_sabotage_3.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Tell your child that they &quot;HAVE TO/MUST&quot; make this &quot;time, time standard, place, final, or medal &quot;Right Now&quot;. That should be crushing enough pressure to debilitate most anyone&amp;#8230;except you of course, who can sit in the stands or at poolside, with a cup of coffee and a bun while you emote, rather than swim, the race.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Phelps and Cavic]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/2008olympicswimresults/ig/Michael-Phelps-100-Fly-Finish/Cavic-and-Phelps--100-Fly.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Overhead photo of (L-R) Milorad Cavic of Serbia and Michael Phelps of the United States 100-meter butterfly finish at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[EVF Position Assistance 3]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/drylandexercise/ig/EVF-Dryland-Swimmer-Exercises/EVF-Position-Assistance-3.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[EVF Position Assistance 3]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[EVF Stretch Cord 3]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/drylandexercise/ig/EVF-Dryland-Swimmer-Exercises/EVF-Stretch-Cord-3.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[EVF Stretch Cord 3]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Triathlon Swim Workouts]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/triathlon/a/key_tri_swims.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Important swim workouts for a triathlete involve race simulation, swimming skill proficiency, sustainable swimming speed, and time to recover after a swim. These factors, along with athletic experience and the goal race distance, will help a triathlete balance the types of swimming workouts done in the swimming pool (or lake, river, or ocean) among emphases swim training for technique, endurance, strength, and speed.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[8 Weeks to Increased Fitness in the Pool - Blank Plan - About Swimming]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Sample Blank Template Period II, Week #3 is your longest week and has 100% of your workout time. Base]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[EVF Position Assistance 2]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[EVF Position Assistance 2]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Isometric EVF Position 3]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/drylandexercise/ig/EVF-Dryland-Swimmer-Exercises/Isometric-EVF-Position-3.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Isometric EVF Position 3]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Distance per Stroke Swimming]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/cs/techniquetips/a/dpsandrate_3.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[How many strokes you take for a given distance, and how fast you take them, makes a difference in your training and races.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Open Water Swimming For Beginn]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Open water swimming is a never ending adventure. Some of my favorite memories are from swims. There is a freedom and challenge swimming in open water which just can't be experienced in the pool. Besides that, it's FUN!!]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Open Swim Turns]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/cs/techniquetips/a/open_turn_basic_2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[If you are swimming in a pool and reach the wall, what do you do? The most obvious thing to do is stop, call it a workout, climb out and head for the showers (I'd call that a finish). But if you swim more than one lap, turning is inevitable. Open turns involve touching the wall with your hand(s), then reversing direction - you probably get a breath of air during the turn.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Olympic Water Polo Rules]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/waterpoloolympics/qt/waterpolorules.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[What are the rules of water polo, and who enforces them? Water polo is played as a 6 on 6 game plus goalkeepers, so each team has 7 in the water at a time. How long is a game? Each water polo game is made up of four, 7-minute, quarters. Total squad size is 13 players. If there are less than 6 swimmers in the water, a team does not have to have a goalie.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Isometric EVF Position 2]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/drylandexercise/ig/EVF-Dryland-Swimmer-Exercises/Isometric-EVF-Position-2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[Isometric EVF Position 2]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[FINA&#039;s List of Officially Appr]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/resultsrecordsandrules/a/approved_2009_swimsuits_fina_2.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[FINA's List of Officially Approved Swimsuits for 2009 - List of Suits, Part I]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Olympic Synchro Contenders]]></title>
         <link>http://swimming.about.com/od/2008olympicsynchro/tp/synchro_medal_contenders.htm</link>
         <description><![CDATA[There are two events in the 2008 Olympic Games Synchronized Swimming Competition, Team and Duet. ]]></description>
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