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Leeds hosts Dutch swimming squad

Leeds City Council to host Dutch swimming aces as well as US and Chinese athletes.

Members of the Netherlands' all-conquering 4 x 100m freestyle swimming team prepared for next summer's London 2012 Olympic Games at a training camp in Leeds this week, as part of a deal between the city and the Royal Dutch Swimming Federation.

The gold medal-winning team from the 2008 Games in Beijing, which also won last year's world championship event in Shanghai, joined other members of the Dutch national squad at the aquatic centre at Leeds' John Charles Centre for Sport.

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