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MAKING WAVES: Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom sets a record in the 100m butterfly heats at the World swimming championships in Rome.

FINA World Championships, Swimming: Flash! Federica Pellegrini Sets World Record in First Semi of 200 Free; Breaks 1:54 -- Click here for the latest Swimming World coverage of the FINA World Championships, including full results and recaps UniversalSports.com Daily Coverage, including webcasts ROME, Italy, July 28.

MORE than 20 Beijing Olympics memorabilia items, from an autographed torch to a barbell that was kissed by a Chinese weight-lifting champion, will go under the hammer next month to commemorate the first anniversary of the Games, a state auctioneer said yesterday.

Click here for the latest Swimming World coverage of the FINA World Championships, including full results and recaps UniversalSports.com Daily Coverage, including webcasts ROME, Italy, July 26.

Meet records didn't stand a chance Sunday on the opening morning of the world swimming championships, the last hurrah for high-tech bodysuits.

Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden set a meet record in the very first swimming event of the world championships Sunday, and American Ariana Kukors knocked off another mark as well - a sign of just how quick the times will be in the last hurrah for high-tech bodysuits.

Francis Crippen kept his bronze medal in the 10-kilometer open water race at the world championships after USA Swimming won an appeal Thursday.

Haley Anderson, left, a Granite Bay High School graduate, and former Roseville resident Chloe Sutton will compete in the 800- and 1,500-meter freestyle at the FINA World Championships.

Michael Phelps has somehow slipped under the radar while preparing for the world championships.

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 15. THE USA Swimming world championship team may be looking ahead to Rome, but today on The Morning Swim Show we look back at some of the top swims from five days in Indianapolis.

Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer. Stephanie Rice is living this adage.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 11 -- The message from Aaron Peirsol: Stop taking my world records. For the second time this week at the U.S. swimming championships, Peirsol reclaimed a world record he had recently lost.

Saturday night, it happened in the 200-meter backstroke as Peirsol exploded over the last 100 meters to outswim Ryan Lochte and break his world record by a staggering 0.86 of a second.

Peirsol finished in 1 minute 53.08 seconds, as Lochte touched the wall in 1:54.21 and Tyler Clary in 1:54.53. North Baltimore Aquatic Club's Nick Thoman got fourth in 1:54.83.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 10 -- North Baltimore Aquatic Club Coach Paul Yetter attempted to respond to a bystander's congratulations, but he had difficulty saying anything at all. His words came out stripped of various syllables.

It was understandable: Yetter had just screamed himself hoarse for the third night this week.

His star pupil, Towson's Elizabeth Pelton, 15, had just won her third silver medal at the U.S. swimming championships Friday night, her latest finish in the 200-meter backstroke ensuring that she would be considered Team USA's hottest teen star entering the July 26-Aug. 2 world championships in Rome.

The longest layoff of Michael Phelps's career doesn't appear to have dimmed the swimming superstar's status as a gold-plated favorite heading into the World Championships later this month.

Click here for the latest Swimming World coverage of the U.S. National Championships, including on-the-spot interviews! INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, July 7. STANFORD's Julia Smit utilized an amazing breaststroke leg to power her way to an American record in the women's 200 IM.

She is "proud of winning three medals. ... You really can't stick your nose up at three Olympic medals."

Click here for the latest Swimming World coverage of the U.S. National Championships, including on-the-spot interviews! LIVE Universal Sports Webcast of Meet INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, July 11.

EZRA SHAW/GETTY IMAGES PHOTO Julia Smit swam the fastest 400 IM time Thursday morning in the preliminaries at the ConocoPhillips National Championship in Indianapolis with the finals to follow at night.

Neither Michael Phelps nor Katie Hoff swam Friday at U.S. nationals. Phelps had to pull out of the 100-meter freestyle with neck pain, and Hoff withdrew from her final two events, putting an end to a meet where she never felt right physically or mentally.

Michael Phelps booked his ticket in the 200m freestyle and 200m butterfly in the World Championships Wednesday after the Olympic champion won in the U.S. trials in Indianapolis.

Ryan Lochte held off hard-charging Tyler Clary to win the 400-meter individual medley at the U.S. national swimming championships Tuesday night, leading a parade of Olympians who qualified for the world meet later this month.

Familiar faces and fresh faces will face off this week at the USA Swimming National Championships in Indianapolis.

Katie Hoff was the big loser on the first day of the US national championships Tuesday as the Olympic silver medalist from Beijing 2008 finished sixth in the women's 400 metres freestyle.

American Olympians Christine Magnuson and Peter Vanderkaay won titles at the U.S. national swimming championships Tuesday night, qualifying for the world championships later this month.

Michael Phelps has a sense of how his transformation from greatest middle-distance swimmer to sprinter is going.

Click here for the latest Swimming World coverage of the U.S. National Championships, including on-the-spot interviews! LIVE Universal Sports Webcast of Meet INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, July 8. CALIFORNIA's Dana Vollmer put a charge into the American record held by Katie Hoff of North Baltimore, but slowed up just a bit to capture the title in 1:56.20 ...

Ryan Lochte held off hard-charging Tyler Clary to win the 400-meter individual medley at the U.S. national championships last night, leading a parade of Olympians who qualified for the world meet later this month.

Michael Phelps has nothing but good things to say about Dagny Knutson, Minot`s swimming star.

For several days leading up to the U.S. nationals, Katie Hoff swore she felt better.

Click here for the latest Swimming World coverage of the U.S. National Championships, including on-the-spot interviews! INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, July 7. WHILE Chloe Sutton of Mission Viejo pushed the early pace, leading through the bulk of the women's 400 free, Club Wolverine's Allison Schmitt overcame the deficit to top the middle distance event.

Eric Shanteau became the second American to swim the 100-meter breaststroke in less than a minute during today's preliminaries of the ConocoPhillips USA Swimming Championships.

Swimming: U.S. championships stir... The Omaha Sports Commission is finalizing dates for a "test event'' before the 2012 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials, reprising the pre-trials meet last summer that was considered helpful to swimmers, organizers and volunteers alike.

At the Beijing Olympics last summer, Dara Torres declared she was finished with swimming, even though in the back of her mind she wasn't quite satisfied with winning three silver medals and missing gold by one one-hundredth of a second.

Michael Phelps has a sense of how his transformation from greatest middle-distance swimmer to sprinter is going.

The label on Chloe Sutton certainly isn't a bad thing. But after this week's U.S. national swimming championships in Indianapolis, the tag could be due for an alteration.

There will be plenty of swimmers in Indianapolis at the U.S. national championships next week wrestling with the decision about what kind of swimsuit to wear.