Braden Keith
@Braden_Keith
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"This particular report comes from a swimming publication, but Braden Keith is verified and people are talking about it" - Barstool Sports. EIC of @swimswamnews
Joined June 2009
SOURCE: North Carolina, Florida State, Clemson, and Virginia are all negotiating to join the SEC. ESPN is trying to void their TV deal with the ACC.
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Torri Huske went from a relay liability to a relay hero in 3 years. 51.88 anchor split on the American mixed medley is a big time swim. Team USA needs more splits like that if they're ever going to catch Australia in the 400 free relay. #Olympics
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Today, NBC and USA Swimming officially waived the white flag at the end of finals by changing their medals table graphic to a total medals sort. #fukuoka2023
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CAELEB DRESSEL 49.4?!?! 49.4!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!!?!?! IS THAT REAL???.
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@KathrynDuval @gbosslet Okay but are they allowed to change? Or do they have to commit to the bit?.
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Last year, Abdelrahman El-Araby attempted suicide weeks before the NCAA Championships. This year, he's back, with a message. If you only watch one swimming video this week, watch this one.
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Caeleb Dressel now 8 Olympic medals, all gold. First American gold medal of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in any sport. #Olympics.
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SHE DID IT! GRETCHEN DID IT!!! 46.97!!! That's crazy! That time is so crazy!! 100 fly A 46!!! Nobody else has even been a 47 and she went a 46!!!
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This is the tweet. This is the one.
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The bad news for Ledecky is that she was 2.5 seconds slower in the 400 than she was at Trials. The good news for Ledecky is that, while Titmus was very good, she was 2 seconds off her best, so Ledecky remains the favorite in the 800 free. #Olympics
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"I feel like I'm in shock right now, like I don't even know how to process it, like I need to cry but I'm also smiling." - Torri Huske, Olympic gold medalist, women's 100 fly.
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Katie Ledecky spends a lot of air time thanking her "Florida boys.". "I know I make you guys' lives harder sometimes, but you make my life better every day.". #Olympics.
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Bobby Finke just launched a thousand headlines and saved a thousand more. I wonder how many jobs he just saved in Colorado Springs. #Olympics
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The entire NCAA swimming system was just validated. Gretchen Walsh is our Caitlin Clark. #swimtrials24
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I am of the camp that Caeleb Dressel‘s tears on TV were valuable. Maybe NBC lingered too long, but I think that will be one of the lingering images of the games. But what hammered home just how powerful that moment was came two days later when Dressel, the former holder of the.
My Top 17 Favorite Moments From Swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
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Liam Bell stopped swimming in summer 2023. He spent the whole summer in the weight room instead. And now he's the fastest 100 yard breaststroker in history. 2023 ➡️ 2024
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KATE DOUGLASS!!! The entire US Olympic Team needed that, and validates Douglass in the upper echelon of swimmers not just in the US but in the world. New American Record. Sets up for an absolutely insane 200 IM final. #Olympics.
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David Popovici's winning time in the 200 free today would not have won Olympic gold at any Olympics since 2000. Ian Thorpe was .01 faster in 2004. A win's a win though, the pool is most definitely slow. #Olympics
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15:08.24. Katie Ledecky just broke the World Record in the 1500 free (SCM) by 10 seconds at an in-season meet. W.T.F
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Regan Smith breaks Kaylee McKeown's Olympic Record on the leadoff leg of the 400 medley relay. 57.28. She's always been really good on the relay, just can't get it right in the individual final. #Olympics.
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"Besides executing my race, those two guys just beat me. And that's how this sport works. I'm now their biggest fans, and I'm excited to watch from home." - Nathan Adrian. A true pro. He's a fan's pro, a pro's pro. Gotta keep him in the sport somewhere.
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Gretchen Walsh set her first World Record 323 days ago. In that timespan, she has already set 13 World Records. It took Michael Phelps, for example, 3 years, 3 months, and 7 days from his 1st to his 13th World Record. It took Ledecky just over 3 years as well.
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Youssef Ramadan with an absolutely-iconic post-race interview. This is basically swimming in a nutshell. It's the grind. It's the work. It's the will to be great. #ncaasd
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A number of Olympic swimmers have begun GoFundMe campaigns to help send their families to the Olympic Games. I don't know which is worse, that "pro athletes" don't make enough money to get their families to the Games while the CEO got a $236,000 bonus to lead an organization.
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There was no gray area on that call. This wasn't "past vertical" where you're measuring degrees. Alex Walsh was fully on her stomach. This is the system working - video replay confirmed it. It's gut-wrenching, but swimming is based around these kind of rules. #Olympics.
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@roywoodjr Am I the only one who had to read this 3 times before I realized it wasn't about barbecue sauce?.
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Daniel Wiffen is all of us. To paraphrase: "I didn't really want to do it, but I wanted to see my friends during the race. I didn't really see any of them during the race because they were better to me. Now I'm taking my gold medal to the night club.".
Olympic Champ Daniel Wiffen Retires (From Open Water) After His First 10K
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Mondo Duplantis going for the World Record in pole vault and then literally the entire sport, his family, his friends, his teammates, his opponents, everybody in the arena simultaneously erupting when he broke it, is one of the highlight moments of the Olympics.
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Bobby Finke was in a walking boot at the SEC Championships. He missed the 2019 World University Games with a wrist injury. And now he's a DOUBLE Olympic champion. Reports of the death of American men's distance swimming have been greatly exaggerated. #Tokyo2020.
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No f’ing way!!! When do they do it again?? This meet is absolutely bonkers!!! Tie in the swim off!! #swimtrials24
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Virginia parents showing class where so many have not today, applauding Lia Thomas on the podium. Until we can stop the hate and the vitriol and the transphobia, we can't have real conversations. Real conversations and real solutions have to start with compassion. #NCAASwimDive.
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That boy @flavorflav is picking up the pieces where the industry of the Olympics has failed.
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This version of Dressel can't do this double. And I think he knows that, but he's still smiling. This is healthier Caeleb. Good for him. #Olympics.
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There are few sweeter sounds in swimming than a crowd that understand the assignment on the breaststroke leg of the 200 IM. #olympics
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Controversy in Knoxville! Is this a DQ for 15m violation or not?
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Katie Ledecky just waved at these girls who screamed "we love you Katie" in unison and they lost their shit it was adorable. #swimtrials24.
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There's like 20 minutes of swimming in a 2 hour session. You're telling me we can't use some of those other 1 hour 40 minutes for commercials and show the 800 free??? #swimtrials24.
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PHIL WIZARD JUST READ SHIGEKIX’S MOVE AND DID THE EXACT SAME MOVE WHILE WATCHING HIM!!. What a show from these guys. @bboy_Shigekix #philwizard #olympics #breaking
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Wow Simone does it again. If you give her a chance, she’s going to get her hand on the wall. Insane. 24.13 for the win. Gretchen 2nd 24.15.
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Caeleb Dressel shares some big words at the US Olympic Swimming Trials.
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@iamcorrectbro @PicturesFoIder Yeah were there no 6-ton blocks of cement laying around that they could have just slid over the hole?.
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Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-ruling monarch in British history, has died at 96. She was quite an athlete in her youth, including as a member of a swim team. #rip
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@patrickdshield1 That wasn’t their approach at the beginning of the meet. I replied more thoroughly to a similar comment in this thread. The total medal sort bothers me far less than the “using whichever sort we think we’re going to win” does.
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Here's the video everyone has been talking about. Katie Ledecky after her US Open in the 400 free.
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Caitlin Clark felt the Iowa City crowd getting a little lethargic in a 50 point exhibition blowout over Brazil so she chucked a literal 35 footer from the logo to wake everyone up 😂😂. She is so unserious and I f’ing love it.
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Regan Smith in the ready room tearing up watching Leon Marchand win gold in the 200 fly. #olympics.
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America will have two athletes on its Olympic Team with the last name "Bacon" and honestly if that just doesn't feel like the most American thing ever. #swimtrials24
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I think Todd DeSorbo's strength as a coach is making his athletes comfortable in what they're doing and who they are, and making them take ownership for their own careers and emotions. These swimmers swim what they want to swim, the events that move them. Not every program
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I'm surprised American indoor volleyball was not more hyped coming into the Olympics. This might be the United States' second-best sport at these Games after basketball.
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Leon Marchand looks in disbelief right now. You can see in his eyes that he's processing. Wow. What a performance. This is one of the great single meet performances in swimming history. #Olympics.
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This is the best freestyle technique in the world right now, as seen from underwater. This technique goes 46.98 in the 100 free and 1:43.21 in the 200 free.
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Zach Cram wasn't on NC State's roster this year at the ACC Championships. Mid-Year, he swam 1:47 in the 200 back. Sunday, he went 1:40.49, which all-but-locks him up for his first NCAA invite as a senior. Love these stories. Kids not making the conference team but not giving up.
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Coaches: when you need to show your athletes why submerging at the finish of backstroke is not actually good, here's the video you need. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. #Fukuoka2023
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The meet isn't over yet, but ESPN put the Virginia women on their main Instagram account during the basketball championship tournament. That's huge.
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I hope that history doesn't remember Kate Douglass as a 200 breaststroker because that's where she won her first Olympic gold medal and set her first individual World Record. That would so dramatically undersell her abilities.
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American women's 800 free relay, including Katie Ledecky, is masked up in the ready room after a recent outbreak of COVID-19 within the team. #Olympics.
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There have been three different recent leaks of Chinese swimmers testing positive and it not being covered up. While that creates a possibility that there were more incidents of quiet positives, Pan was NOT in any of those three leaks. #Olympics.
46.4?!?! WOW! They've been biting away at this record, but that WHACKED it. That's a paradigm-shifter. The next 46.9 is going to be 'pedestrian'. #Olympics
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Just asked Tyler Fenwick why Kate Douglass was so fast in prelims. “The session was kind of boring. We thought the crowd needed some excitement so we told her to go for it.”. UVA is honestly so good for swimming. #swimtrials24.
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This 400 free time trial, not even on TV, is easily the most electric we've seen in the CHI Health Center this week. HE FRIGGIN DID IT!!!!!!! One man on stage, pounding his chest, losing his freaking mind! #swimtrials21.
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Japan's Rikako Ikee 3rd!! in the women's 50 fly prelims in 25.50. That's her fastest time since 2018, when she swam the (unratified) fastest junior time ever of 25.11, and before she was diagnosed with leukemia. What a gift it would be to see her on the podium in front of her
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WPI, a D3 school with an entire athletics department budget smaller than that of some D1 swim programs, is producing this live stream for the Gompeii Invitational. Gotta work these media rights out. Allow schools to produce their own streams if ESPN or CBS don't pick them up.
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Straight from a director at ESPN, the message is clear: if the data shows people are watching, swimming will get more resources, like prelims commentary, better airtime, etc. So if you want to see @kylesockwell on the prelims broadcast next year. then FIRE UP THE LIVE STREAM!.
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Nathan Adrian is out of the @tokyo2020 Olympics. Don't know if he's done, but he's been one heck of an ambassador for the US, and will be into the future.
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Hunter Armstrong finished in 47.19 for the Americans. Can't be bothered by that if you're coaches. It's plausible that Alexy would have been faster, but in this meet, in this pool, 47.1 is a nice anchor. I don't think the US had a 46.5 on the roster - what they needed.
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Alex Walsh DQ'ed!! Back to breast turn. The call was correct and as clear as day: she was rotated fully onto her stomach before touching the wall. #Olympics.
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BREAKING NEWS: record number of condoms supplied for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Y'all be safe out there.
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Kristof Milak going 47.4 in the 100 free and then 15 minutes later going 51.0 in the 100 fly was lost in Popovici's wash.
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Leon is going to do well as a superstar. While he and Phelps swim very similar races, and for the same coach, they are two very different champions. Phelps was brooding, intense, hyper-focused, always in darkness. Marchand is a champion of the people. He's going to give a million
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A tier commentary for A tier drama at the ASUN Championships.
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Olympic austerity, I mean sustainability, programs are really showing up big this week lol. Where on earth did they spend $10 billion??
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Maggie MacNeil: becomes first woman to break 51 seconds in 100 yard fly unsuited (50.84). Gretchen Walsh: hold my Gatorade (50.53). And that's not even an event she swam at NCAAs last year. I've never been more excited for a college race than this year's NCAA 100 fly.
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Brooooo 46 year old Gabi Rose just went 1:08.43 and won heat 7 at the Olympic Trials. Loudest cheer of the morning so far. She was a butterflier/IMer/freestyler in hear earlier career. #swimtrials24.
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Katie Ledecky saying she has a "knack for" the 800 free is the understatement of the century. 26 fastest times in history.
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The United States goes silver-bronze in the 400 IM for the second-straight Olympics and has 17 all-time Olympic medals in the women's 400 IM. No other country has more than four (East Germany, Canada). #Olympics
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US coaches are going to have to get real creative in the women's 400 medley relay. I think their best relay right now might be Regan-Douglass-Walsh-Huske, which is not the traditionally 'correct' US choice based on Trials and whatever. #Olympics.
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.@Simone_Biles is so good that she's even dominating the airtime at the swimming trials #swimtrials21.
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I just love how much passion everyone is showing for this year's NCAA Championships and these storylines:.-Regan Smith's first NCAA meet.-Taylor Ruck back in business.-Alex Walsh & Kate Douglass rewriting record books. It's just great to see so many people excited about W sports!.
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Inside scoop: Lydia Jacoby was in the @swimswamnews DMs on Instagram 10 minutes before the start of the session, confirming that the 100 breaststroke was, in fact, going to be the best race of the night. She knew. #Tokyo2020.
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Wowwwww Regan 57.13. Knocks two tenths off the World Record. It's just Trials, but the US is fighting back in a big way vs. the medal table loss to Australia at last year's World Championships. Getting the World Record back was "part of the plan". #swimtrials24
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The next time you decide you need to skip practice because you're 'too busy', remember that @Katie_Meili:. 1) Is a student at Georgetown Law. 2) Is a volunteer assistant at Georgetown.3) Just made the Pan Pacs team. Push yourself, you never know what you might be capable of.
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A whackadoo Trumper just referred to SwimSwam as "main stream media" and I've never been so proud in my life.
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From 2023.
Here's Pan Zhanle's 46.97 in the 100 free. If he cleans up that start, the World Record is TOAST.
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Nesty is literally shaking watching this race. This is so intense - not because the 1500 is inherently intense, but because 1) they didn't cut away, and 2) we know what we know about the pacing and how Finke normally swims this race.
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The number of people on social media trying to tell Erica Sullivan that she's wrong and that she was, in fact, protesting on the 500 free podium is kind of amazing.
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Caeleb Dressel keeps throwing his caps and goggles into the crowd after every race. It's the same thing Lochte always used to do. I think that's the biggest part of the Lochte legacy - he's always been good to the fans. Glad to see that's passing on to Dressel #swimtrials21.
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I love that Ryan Murphy is sticking through with this 100 fly. No way he swims it in Paris but nice to see someone just swimming because “why not?” #swimtrials24.
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Not NBC asking to use our video clips for free after serving me a dozen DMCAs in the last two days for using 2 second clips to *promote their event* on social media 😬😬😬.
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Caitlin Clark just ran up and touched the water in the pool. ALSO CAITLIN CLARK IS HERE!!. #swimtrials24
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And @CodySimpson took the men's 100 free Australian championship. Still one of the wildest things to me in swimming history. Was a talented age grouper, took a decade away from the sport *doing something else*, came back, and 'made it'. Undercuts a lot of perception about
Bronte Campbell Takes 100 Free On Day Two Of Aussie SC Championships
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