Swimming World Magazine News (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
BREMERTON, Washington, August 21. AFTER putting a self-imposed moratorium on discussing Jessica Hardy's withdrawal from the U.S. Olympic Team, and the subsequent insertion of Rebecca Soni in her place...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
A clerical error at an acclaimed Los Angeles dope-testing lab, combined with a faxed test result that sat unnoticed in a Colorado Springs office over a weekend in late July, probably cost Bremerton swimmer Tara Kirk a spot on the U.S. Olympic team for the Beijing Games.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Former Olympian Tara Kirk of Bremerton criticized USA Swimming's handing of Jessica Hardy's failed drug test and subsequent withdrawal from...
RightFielders (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Meet Tara Kirk, an American Olympic swimmer. See photos, video and a biography of Tara below. Tara Kirk Tara Kirk is in the news today as the swimmer feels that since the revelation of Jessica Hardy’s positive drug test at the Olympic trials earlier this month, she should be included on the Olympic Swim Team. [...]
LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
She believes she should be added to the Olympic roster after positive drug test by Jessica Hardy, who calls it 'a nightmare.' One swimmer is fuming and writing blogs, feeling she has lost a shot at the Olympics for the second time in less than a month.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
U.S.A. Swimming did not submit the names of Tara Kirk and Lara Jackson, the swimmers who finished third at the trials, behind Jessica Hardy, as alternates on its roster.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Tara Kirk of Bremerton finished second in the 100-meter breaststroke Friday at the Janet Evans Invitational, a tuneup meet for the U.S.S. Olympic Trials...
