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<font face="Arial" size="+4" color="#000000"><b>FINA World
Championships<br>
Coming to Bay Area</b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="+3"
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</font><font face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000">FINA, the
international governing body for aquatic sports awarded the XI FINA
Masters World Championships to the United States, where it will take
place at Stanford University's Avery Aquatic Center. The championships
will take place in August 2006.</font><font face="Helvetica"
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</font><font face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000">After United
States Masters identified Stanford University as a venue that USMS
would like to stage the championships, the Pacific Masters executive
board has worked very long and hard to produce the bid. Pacific
Masters Chairman, Michael Moore, traveled to Dubai, UAE, to make the
bid presentation before the FINA Bureau on March 12th.</font><font
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</font><font face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000">"The
awarding of the bid to the Bay area is a the result of a lot of hard
work by the Pacific Masters and local swimming community" said
Michael Moore. "Anne Warner Cribbs of the Bay Area Sports
Organizing Committee (BASOC) was instrumental in getting the
information and creating a coherent bid and plan for the bid. Her
knowledge of Bay area sports is tremendous.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000">"Nancy
Ridout, Beth Folkreth, Barry Fastbender and Barbara Thomas worked
tirelessly to bring the championships to the Stanford. We look forward
with our friends of the other aquatic sports to produce the World
Championships that will set the standard for the rest of the world.
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<div>copy of press release</div>
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<div>michael w. moore<br>
michael@mwmoore.org</div>
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