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In the Swim City Library you find lots of quality articles about swimming psychology, coaching, injuries, technique and more, all written by coaches and swimmers. The top 5:

Rank	Description	Votes	Score
1	Training Pieter van den Hoogenband: Preparing for Athens	10	5
2	Longer boats are faster	10	5
3	Of gravity and air (or is your head attached?)	6	5
4	Long course training in a short course pool	6	5
5	An endurance training progression for maturation: elite level age groupers	16	4.88

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