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            <title><![CDATA[Louise Hansson still waiting for ISL prize money five years later]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Five years after her success on the lucrative ISL tour, European championship star Louise Hansson has still not received her prize money of almost SEK 600,000. “That would be a very secure income, but here we are five years later and I haven’t been paid,” she says. Now she has found a job alongside swimming.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:30:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[More swimmers will be allowed in this year's World Cup and Short Course World Championships semifinals and finals]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Swimming is testing a new format, allowing more finalists at this year's Short Course World Championships and World Cup. Ten swimmers will compete in the semifinals and finals, compared with the current eight.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:19:36 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Poland opposes International Swimming Federation decision, refuses to let Russians and Belarusians into next year's European Championships]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Russians and Belarusians are welcomed back by the International Swimming Federation. Poland says no - it will not let them into next year's European Championships. They will not be able to participate, Polish Swimming Federation President Otylia Jedrzejczak told the website sport.pl.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:01:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Former Olympic gold medalist Lars Frölander stands behind controversial decision to allow Russia and Belarus back into the heats]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Former Olympic gold medalist Lars Frölander is behind the International Swimming Federation's decision to allow Russia and Belarus back into the heats.]]></description>
            <link>https://swedenherald.com/article/former-olympic-gold-medalist-lars-frolander-stands-behind-controversial-decision-to-allow-russia-and-belarus-back-into-the-heats</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:26:59 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ben Proud Joins Enhanced Games After Olympic Silver in Paris]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Briton Ben Proud took Olympic Games silver last year and a World Championship silver a few weeks ago. Now the 30-year-old swimmer is ready for the so-called "doping Olympic Games". I definitely do not think it undermines a clean sport, he says to BBC.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:44:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sjöström and Swimming Stars Win Compensation in ISL Dispute Settlement]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Sarah Sjöström and several other swimming stars will be compensated in a big dispute with the International Swimming Federation. This after a settlement in an American court.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:30:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Twelve-Year-Old Yu Zidi Aims for Historic World Championship Medal]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[An entire swimming world is amazed by the twelve-year-old Chinese super talent Yu Zidi. But there are dark sides to making a commitment at such a young age. It is definitely a risk, says Sarah Sjöström's coach Antonio Lutula.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:07:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Prodigies and Stars Set for Record Performances at World Championship]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[After a swimming year filled with world records, the expectations are high ahead of the World Championship in Singapore. The stars, with the Canadian prodigy Summer McIntosh at the forefront, have shone unexpectedly strongly already. But one of the biggest stars is missing – the World Championship's most individual medal winner Sarah Sjöström who is pregnant. At the same time, a 12-year-old prodigy from China joins.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 08:48:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Chinese Swimmers Cleared in Doping Scandal Amid USADA Criticism]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The 23 Chinese swimmers who were cleared of doping would have needed to eat five kilos of food each to reach the levels shown by their doping tests. This is claimed by the American anti-doping agency USADA in a committee hearing.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:41:57 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Swimming Federation Introduces Rule to Combat Doping in Sports]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[For almost two weeks ago, the message came that a "doping-OS" will be held in a year. On Tuesday, the International Swimming Federation's response came - a new rule that excludes "persons, organizations, and competitions that support and allow doping".]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Olympic Champion Ahmed Hafnaoui Receives 21-Month Doping Ban]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:39:50 GMT</pubDate>
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