Category: Competition
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Katinka Hosszu’s First Olympic Race 🏊♀️ | Olympics
At the Athens 2004 Olympics, a new swimming star from Hungary shined for the first time. Her name: Katinka Hosszu! The Hungarian’s made her Olympic debut in the Women’s 200m Freestyle event. She went on to compete at all three Olympic Games 2008, 2012, and 2016 as well and finally won three gold and one…
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Women’s 3m Diving 🥇 Last 5 Champions | Olympics
Enjoy this look back at the last 5 Women’s 3m Diving winners at the Olympics: Fu Mingxia 🇨🇳 / Sydney 2000 Guo Jingjing 🇨🇳 / Athens 2004 Guo Jingjing 🇨🇳/ Beijing 2008 Wu Minxia 🇨🇳/ London 2012 Shi Tingmao 🇨🇳/ Rio 2016
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Katie Ledecky 🏊♀️ Always Out to Make History | Olympics
US-American swimming star Katie Ledecky is a seven-time Olympic gold medallist! She made her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Having won 7 Olympic gold medals and 15 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer, she is widely considered the greatest female swimmer of all time. She talks…
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Certain Countries ‘Should Not Be Here’, Says Us Swimmer Lilly King | Guardian Sport
The ongoing doping war of words has continued after Lilly King said that ‘a lot of people here that should not be here’. King made her statements seated next to Ryan Murphy, another US swimmer who appeared to take aim this week at Russia, who have run afoul of doping rules. King later added: ‘I wasn’t racing…
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Tokyo 2020: Adam Peaty ‘An Inspiration’ for New Generation of Swimmers
Tom Parmenter chats to Team GB’s record-breaking swimming team. Team GB have now won 10 gold medals at the Tokyo Games and achieved their best-ever Olympic medal haul in swimming with four golds, three silvers, and a bronze. Duncan Scott became the first British athlete to win four medals at a single Olympics with a…
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Tokyo 2020: Ledecky, Dressel Pick Up More Swimming Golds | Inquirer
Comments from US swimming stars Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel as the pair add to their gold medal collection. A ‘really happy’ Ledecky stormed to her third straight Olympic 800m freestyle title with a dominant swim to bank her fourth medal in Tokyo while Dressel received his third gold of the games after smashing his…
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Olympic Pressure “Terrifying†but Worth It – USA Swim Star Dressel after 5 Golds – Tokyo 2020 | CGTN
Caeleb Dressel said the pressure of the Olympics was “terrifying” but worth it after he finished off his gold rush at the Tokyo games with two more dazzling swims on Sunday. The 24-year-old American captured his fourth and fifth gold medals of the Tokyo Games to move into elite company. Michael Phelps did it three…
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Team GB Win Gold Medals in Mixed Swimming and Triathlon Relays | Sky News
Team GB has added two gold medals to its haul at the Tokyo Olympics in new mixed male and female relay races.
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Ledecky Confirms Paris Ambitions, Doesn’t Rule Out 2028 Swim | NTV Houston
Katie Ledecky wants to add to her Olympic medal haul at Paris 2024 – and doesn’t rule out swimming at her home games in LA in 2028.