Month: June 2015
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 5
Russia amasses 23 titles – a record Russia managed to better its best ever result at the junior Europeans by amassing 23 gold medals, one more than in last year – this is a record in the championship’s history. Their youngsters clinched 8 titles on the last day of the European Games’ swimming competitions.
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 4
Russia: five more titles The Russians fully dominated the penultimate day of the swimming competitions, winning 5 out of 7 finals. They brought their gold medal tally to 15, capturing almost half of the titles on offer (31) so far. Still, the day’s most outstanding performance belonged to a Brit: Luke Greenbank.
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Andrew Bree to get £25K damages over car crash that ended his London 2012 dreams
The payout to Andrew Bree forms part of a settlement reached in his compensation claim at the High Court in Belfast. The 200m breaststroke swimmer, from County Down, represented Ireland at the 2000 and 2008 Olympics. He was in a road accident on Belfast’s Ravenhill Road in October 2010. Three months after sustaining head, back…
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Budapest Mayor: aquatics world championship could promote Olympic bid
A successful Budapest World Aquatic Championships in 2017 could help Hungary in its bid to host the 2024 Olympics, Budapest Mayor István Tarlós told public television M1. Tarlós said the expected success of the championships would “obviously†be considered when the decision is made on the venue for the 2024 Olympics just a few weeks…
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Michael Phelps wanted to play football instead of swim as a teenager
Michael Phelps is one the greatest Olympic athletes in history, but we’ll never know how close he came to being an NFL star because his mom wouldn’t let him. According to Deborah Phelps, her son envied his buddies and was dying to play football when he was growing up. But mother knows best, or more…
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 3
Austria’s golden 15 minutes Austrian swimmers produced big news on the third day of the swimming competitions at the European Games in Baku by clinching two titles in a span of 15 minutes. Italy also enjoyed a fine afternoon with a gold and three silvers, while the Russians were as outstanding as it was usual…
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 2
Ten Russian medals in eight finals The Russian swimmers were on fire in the water at the European Games in Baku (AZE): they collected 10 medals in eight finals, four of them gold. The rest of the titles went to France, Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands.
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 1
Golden Britain: three titles on the opening day British swimmers got things going in Baku, on the first day of the swimming competition at the European Games, as they clinched three titles in seven finals. Russia captured two while Germany and Ukraine could also be happy with one gold apiece.
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Jeanette Ottesen and Marco Loughran injured during road rage assault in Copenhagen
Jeanette Ottesen, the Danish world swimming champion, and her boyfriend Marco Loughran, an English backstroke specialist who competed in the 2012 Olympics, were both injured after being assaulted during a road rage attack on Østerbrogade in Copenhagen on Sunday. Ottesen, whose injuries might jeopardise her chances of competing in the next major championship, told TV2…