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Great Cate Campbell and Australia are shining in our full coverage of the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships… plus Team USA brings home 65 medals from Pan Pac para swimming! Go On the Record with legendary water polo coaches Ricardo Azevedo and Ratko Rudic, follow developments in the Dagny Knutson fraud case, learn about the 50 year history of the All-City Swim Meet, and catch up on what’s new with Joseph Schooling and Katie Ledecky.
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010 TEAM USA BRINGS HOME 65 MEDALS FROM PAN PACIFIC PARA SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Team USA, comprised of 15 women and five men, put on a show in Cairns, Australia, Aug. 9-13, at the 2018 Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championships.
011 JOSEPH SCHOOLING PLANNING FOR TWO MORE OLYMPICS, WILL HANG UP GOGGLES IN 2024
Speaking in advance of the 2018 Asian Games, Olympic gold medalist Joseph Schooling of Singapore revealed that he intends to swim professionally through 2024.
012 ON THE RECORD WITH RICARDO AZEVEDO, FORMER U.S. HEAD COACH, NOW ADVISING BRAZILIAN WATER POLO
by Michael Randazzo
Ricardo Azevedo Sr. responded by email to a series of questions about his work with Confederação Brasileira De Desportos Aquáticos, which oversees the sport in Brazil; the continued impact his son, Tony, has on the sport; and water polo’s prospects for success in America and beyond.
014 ON THE RECORD WITH RATKO RUDIC, LEGENDARY WATER POLO COACH
by Michael Randazzo
Ratko Rudic, arguably the most successful water polo coach in the history of the sport, recently surprised polo observers the world over when he came out of retirement to assume the coaching reigns at Pro Recco. Recently, Rudic took time for a Q and A with Swimming World Magazine.
016 FERRY WEERTMAN WINS RCP TIBURON MILE AHEAD OF HERON, VARGAS, GROTHE, TWICHELL
by Dan D’Addona
The Netherlands’ Ferry Weertman, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist in the 10K open water marathon and fresh off a victory in the same event at the 2018 European Championships, finished first in the elite group of the RCP Tiburon Mile, an open water ocean race in the San Francisco Bay.
017 SPEEDO ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH WORLD RECORD HOLDER KATHLEEN BAKER
by Diana Pimer
Days after Kathleen Baker announced that she would forego her senior year at Cal and would begin the start of her professional career, Speedo USA added the Olympic gold medalist and world record holder to its team of sponsored professional athletes.
018 DAGNY KNUTSON VERDICT IN FRAUD CASE AGAINST ATTORNEY UPHELD BY APPEALS COURT
by Dan D’Addona
Swimmer Dagny Knutson saw a verdict reinstated by a California appeals court recently in her fraud case against attorney Richard Foster.
019 PRINCETON NAMES LITVAK AND ELLINGSON NEW WATER POLO COACHES
by Michael Randazzo
Dustin Litvak, formerly an assistant coach at UCLA, has been named head coach of the Princeton Men’s Water Polo team. Derek Ellingson was promoted to head coach of the women’s team.
020 THE ALL-CITY SWIM MEET: OVER 50 YEARS OF HISTORY AND TRADITION
by Daniela Navarette
For more than 50 years, the summer swimming league known as the All-City Swim and Dive has been providing a fun, dynamic experience in healthy competition and sportsmanship for the youth from the Madison, Wis. area.
023 CAELEB DRESSEL HURT IN MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT IN JUNE, ALMOST MISSED NATIONALS
by David Rieder
Superstar Caeleb Dressel suffered injuries from a motorcycle accident that had him thinking he might not be able to compete at this summer’s nationals. Had he missed the meet, he would have also missed his chance to compete at Pan Pacs or any international meet in 2019, including the World Championships.
024 2018 PAN PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPS—FULL FINALS RECAP
by Andy Ross and Dan D’Addona
Full event-by-event coverage of all the pool and open water swimming events, Aug. 9-14, from Tokyo, Japan.
040 CATE CAMPBELL HAS HER SIGNATURE PERFORMANCE AT PAN PACS
by David Rieder
When Australia’s Cate Campbell failed to capture the crown she wanted most in Rio—an individual Olympic gold medal—the three-time Olympian questioned her love for the sport and all the effort she had put in over her career. She skipped last summer’s World Championships, but returned to the pool in stunning fashion, leaving Tokyo as the most decorated swimmer of the meet with five gold medals.
042 WHAT’S SO FRUSTRATING FOR KATIE LEDECKY?
by David Rieder
Before this year, Katie Ledecky had never NOT swum her season-best times at the end-of-season international meet. But at Pan Pacs, she swam slower than her season bests twice (800 and 200 freestyles) on the first day of the meet. “It’s all about the process,” she admits, “and I know that I have two more years to go until the big show here in Tokyo.”
043 LEDECKY GIVES SWIM LESSONS IN TOKYO AS PART OF U.S. EMBASSY PROGRAM
by James Sica
After winning five medals at Pan Pacs, Katie Ledecky stayed in Tokyo to give back to the sport, providing swimming lessons to 100 elementary and junior high school-aged swimmers and answering questions about her career. The lessons were part of the U.S. Embassy’s “Go for Gold” initiative, which brings American athletes and diplomats to participating schools in Japan.
Australia shined at Pan Pacs? Perhaps you ought to review the medals by country table, which you seem to have conveniently left out of your issue. Great Cate? Low threshold of greatness–one good 100 M Free in the past five years, and only the third fastest 50 M free swim in the world this season.
Yes, congrats to the unsportsmanlike Cate on her one good swim in the past five years, and thanks again Cate for putting Team USA “on notice” among your other insults. Meanwhile, here is the medal count from 2018 Pan Pacs on the women’s side:
United States 22
Australia. 12
Japan. 10
Canada. 7
Self-congratulatory Cate needs to chill. It will take a lot more than this overhyped one good swim in one event in order to overcome “the greatest choke in Olympic history” as she herself called it.
How exactly did Australia “shine” at Pan Pacs? A jet-lagged Team USA that arrived in Tokyo three days before the meet won 20 gold medals to Australia’s 8. Between Pan Pacs and Junior Pan Pacs, the U.S. won 99 medals to Australia’s 42, and the U.S. won 47 gold medals to Australia’s 12.