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The Week That Was featured Ranomi Kromowidjojo announcing her professional retirement, the ISL announcing the season 4 schedule, Texas edged NC State, Sarah Sjostrom got engaged, and Brooke Forde on swimming against Lia Thomas.
The Week That Was #1: Three-time Olympic Champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo Calls Time On Her Career
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Three-time Olympic champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo has announced her retirement from the pool after a career that spanned more than 15 years at the top of elite sport.
The Netherlands swimmer made her final competitive appearance at the World Short-Course Championships in Abu Dhabi last month where she won the 50 fly and 4×50 mixed medley relay among an overall haul of six medals.
The Week That Was #2: ISL Announces Season 4 Schedule, Kicking off in North America
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The International Swimming League (ISL) announced today its preliminary 24-match schedule for Season 4, 2022, planned to kick off on June 3rd, 2022 in North America.
The ISL Season 4, 2022 schedule features a regular season consisting of 15 matches from June 3rd to October 2nd, followed by a “wild card” match shortly thereafter. The regular season will see 10 ISL teams competing in North America and Europe, with the exact locations to be announced shortly.
The Week That Was #3: Texas Edges NC State in Intense Women’s Dual Meet; Nyls Korstanje Blasts 44.76 100 Fly
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The most anticipated college dual meet of the day took place in Raleigh, where the North Carolina State women’s team hosted Texas, less than a year after the Wolfpack edged the Longhorns by 9.5 points for second place at the NCAA Championships. But in this dual meet showdown, Texas edged out NC State by a 156.5-to-143.5 margin. Meanwhile, the NC State men were also in action against UNC-Wilmington, a team now led by longtime NC State assistant Bobby Guntoro, and the Wolfpack won every event on the way to a 187-86 win.
The Week That Was #4: Four-Time Olympic Medallist Sarah Sjostrom Announces Engagement To Johan de Jong Skierus
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Rio Olympic 100m butterfly champion Sarah Sjostrom has got engaged to partner Johan de Jong Skierus.
The 28-year-old, who became the first Swedish woman to win an Olympic swimming title with gold in 2016, posted an image to social media of De Jong Skierus proposing while down on one knee in the snow.
The Week That Was #5: Brooke Forde: ‘I Will Not Have a Problem Racing Against Lia Thomas at NCAAs’
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A handful of U.S. National Team swimmers and past Olympic gold medalists have given their opinion on whether transgender swimmer Lia Thomas deserves to be permitted to compete in women’s events on the NCAA level, but none of Thomas’ potential collegiate rivals have spoken out previously. However, Stanford fifth-year swimmer Brooke Forde chimed in this week as she passed along comments to her father, Sports Illustrated writer Pat Forde, to share on the Yahoo Sports College Football podcast.
Brooke Forde wrote that she has “great respect” for Thomas and admiration for Thomas’ courage in becoming one of the first trans female athletes to race at a high level in swimming. She added that “treating people with respect and dignity is more important than any trophy or record will ever be.”