photo: AP / Alexander Zemlianichenko
South Africa's swimmer Ryk Neethling swims after his 100m individual medley heat at the FINA swimming World Cup series in Moscow, Wednesday, Jan.26, 2005. Neethling broke his own world record in the 100-meter medley in 52.01 seconds at a short course World Cup swim meet at Olympic Stadium.
photo: AP / Mark J. Terrill
Canada's Annamay Pierse swims on her way to set a new world record in a Women's 200m breaststroke semifinal, at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Rome, Wednesday, July 29, 2009. Pierse clocked 2.20.12.
photo: AP / Michael Sohn
Michael Phelps of the United States swims in a Men's 200m Butterfly heat, at the FINA Swimming World Championships, in Rome, Tuesday, July 28, 2009.
photo: AP / Michael Sohn
Aschwin Wildeboer from Spain swims a men's 50 meters backstroke heat at the FINA short course swimming World Cup in Berlin, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008.
photo: AP / Armando Franca
Italy's Valerio Cleri swims during the men's 10 kilometer race of the World Open Water Swimming Championships in the Guadalquivir river in Seville, Spain, Sunday, May 4 2008.
photo: AP / Ed Betz
Brendan Hansen swims in the 200-meter breaststroke at the World Cup Swimming finals in East Meadow, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 3, 2006. Hansen won the event with a time of 2:08.35.
photo: AP / Mark J. Terrill
Russia's Natalia Ishchenko performs to win the gold medal in the solo free event of the synchronized swimming, at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Rome, Thursday, July 23, 2009.
photo: US Navy / U.S. Navy photo
Athletes participating in the swim portion of the 2009 Ironman Triathlon World Championship swim past the guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60)
photo: Xinhua photo
10th World Swimming Championships in Barcelona Kxinhua2u
photo: AP / Wong Maye-E
Darian Townsend of South Africa swims in the men's 200-meter individual medley which he won, during the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2009 on Sunday Nov. 22, 2009 in Singapore.
photo: AP / Michael Sohn
Ryan Lochte from the US swims a Men's 400 meter Individual Medley heat at the FINA Short Course Swimming World Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010.
photo: Creative Commons / Pabouk
Open air swimming pool 'Moscow' (1980). One of the largest swimming pools ever built was reputedly in Moscow after the Palace of Soviets remained uncompleted. The foundations were converted into the Moskva Pool open air swimming pool after the process of de-Stalinisation.
photo: Creative Commons / Rico Shen
World Deaf Swimming Championships: Women 50m Freestyle
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British swimmer David Davies speaks as compatriot Kirsty Balfour, back, looks on during a press conference held ahead of the start of the swimming races at the World Swimming Championships in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, March 22, 2007.
photo: (AP Photo / Mark Baker)
Britain's Cassandra Patten holds up her silver medal for the women's 10-kilometer ocean swim at St Kilda Beach at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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Final preparations for the 10th World Swimming Championships Kxinhua2u
photo: AP Photo/David Guttenfelder
Australia´s Ian Thorpe rests in the swimming pool before racing in a community swimming competition in Warringah, Australia, August 6, 2000. At the age of 17, Thorpe, known in Australia as "The Thorpedo", holds world records in the 200-me
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Chinese swimmer won gold medal at World Cup Short-course Swimming Kxinhua2u
photo: AP / Alessandra Tarantino
Federica Pellegrini reacts after a Women's 200m Freestyle heat, at the FINA Swimming World Championships, in Rome, Tuesday, July 28, 2009
photo: AP / Michael Sohn
Canada's Amanda Reason competes in a Women's 50m Breaststroke heat, at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Rome, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009.
photo: AP / Mark J. Terrill
Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom celebrates after winning the gold medal of the Women's 100M Butterfly and setting a world record, at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Rome, Monday, July 27, 2009. Sjostrom clocked 56.06.
photo: AP / Mark J. Terrill
Denmark's Lotte Friis competes in a Women's 1500M Freestyle heat, at the FINA Swimming World Championships, Monday, July 27, 2009, in Rome.
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
Kashmiri boys swimming beat the heat by taking a dip in the world famous Dal Lake in Srinagar on Monday on 19, July 2010.
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
Kashmiri boys swimming beat the heat by taking a dip in the world famous Dal Lake in Srinagar on Monday on 19, July 2010.
photo: AP / Rick Rycroft
Five-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe announces in Sydney, Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006, that he will quit competitive swimming. Thorpe, 24, burst onto the swimming scene as a teenager and swam to 13 long-course world records between 1999 and 2002, becoming an international star after dominating the pool at the Sydney Olympics.
photo: AP / Pier Paolo Cito
Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom celebrates after winning the gold medal of the Women's 100M Butterfly and setting a world record, at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Rome, Monday, July 27, 2009. Sjostrom clocked 56.06.
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Midmar Dam
photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia
Britain's Rebecca Adlington competes in a heat of the Women's 400M Freestyle, at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Rome, Sunday, July 26, 2009.
photo: AP / Mark Baker
Canada's Julia Wilkinson competes during the women's 200m Freestyle heat at the World Swimming Championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, March 27, 2007.
photo: AP / Mark Baker
Japan's Hidemasa Sano competes during the men's 400m Individual Medley heat at the World Swimming Championships in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, April 1, 2007.
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