The Duel in the Pool is a swimming event that began in 2003. The competition pits swimming stars from two nations to see which is the best across a series of events.
The concept was revealed by USA Swimming in 2003 as a way to develop the rivalry between the world's two largest swimming powerhouse nations: Australia and the United States. Following the dominance of the Americans in the first three editions, Australia hosted a Duel in the Pool against Japan in 2009, with the USA Swimming hoping to take on Europe at some time in the future.
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“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
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She is old, old, old, she must live another year, and she knows it.
While in their fingerjoint cells the new virgins
Dream of a duel they will win inevitably,”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)
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—Joan Didion (b. 1934)