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| - From its origins as a newsletter sent to Canadian coaches in the 1970's, SwimNews has always been the most important and informative place for swimming news in the world. One of the only remaining independent publishers in the sport, SwimNews has never shied away from controversy or criticism. We have always provided insight into and analysis of the most compelling swimmers, coaches and defining moments. Meet the team below. In February 1974, Nick Thierry, the founder and editor, originally published the first issue of the magazine as SWIM Canada with articles (written by Nick) covering the Canadian Commonwealth Games Trials. Nick was regarded as the leading authority in swimming and its foremost statistician, having developed the IPS ranking system that is used around the world to measure swimmer's times across events. His database of times and swimmer bios, developed through decades of painstaking data entry, was created by Nick who for almost 40 years went as far as to comb the world's newspapers looking for meet results to enter by hand into his ranking database. A swimmer and a coach, Nick placed swimmers on the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympic teams and was head coach of the 1970 Canadian Commonwealth Games team. In 2001, Nick was inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame and has won numerous awards for his contributions to the sport. In 1997, the magazine was renamed SwimNews, shifting from strictly Canadian content to cover the world of swimming. In 1995, SwimNews.com was launched, making it one of the oldest swimming sites on the Internet. Created by Marco Chiesa, Nick's business partner and longtime SwimNews photographer, the site won a number of awards and has been recognised as one of the largest and busiest swimming sites on the web. Marco originally began his photography work with SWIM Canada magazine in 1985 before gradually taking on other aspects of the magazine production, helping lead the magazine to a more modernized all electronic production in 1990 before launching the website. What many readers of SwimNews.com do not know is that SwimNews magazine was published in print format up to 10 times year with original content not available online. Produced by a team of about a dozen writers, many of whom still write today, the magazine was published up to 10 times a year. In October 2012, Nick passed away. The last print issue of SwimNews magazine was published in December 2012 by Marco and a team of writers. It was also the first issue published in e-format, available as an iPad App on iTunes. In December 2013 we re-launched SwimNews magazine in digital format. Over the ensuing months, the website will be upgraded to take on the magazine's format, including Making Waves. Content will also follow the magazine's original style, articles by swimmers and coaches, for swimmers and coaches. To contact us, please send an email to swimnewsATswimnews.com.
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