Category: Competition
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European Aquatics Championships, Budapest (HUN) – Day 2, Summary
Ukraine shines, Italy comes 1-3 in women’s 1m Ukraine clinched two titles on the second day in Budapest: one in artistic swimming and one in diving. Marta Fiedina won the solo technical, while Kseniia Bailo and Oleksii Sereda came first the mixed 10m synchro despite practicing only for a week together. The last final brought…
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Dr. Sarra Lajnef: Olympian with Resiliency and Courage | Anything is Possible with Patrick Tsang
Patrick Tsang interviews Dr. Sarra Lajnef, the first Tunisian Female Swimmer to qualify for the Olympics, rower, triathlete, and entrepreneur. As a 2012 Tunisian Olympic Swimmer, Sarra fell in love with swimming at a very young age. At 15, she left her family to train professionally in France. She has won multiple championships ranging from…
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Will the Tokyo Olympic Games Go Ahead? – BBC News
Preparations continue in Japan for the Olympic Games – despite a state of emergency for coronavirus. Will it go ahead?
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European Aquatics Championships 2021 – LIVE
Live Streaming – see All AquaticsLive Results & Medals – see Microplus UPDATE – LEN has switched to streaming from its new streaming platform All Aquatics
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2021 European Aquatics Championships – Preview
Eager to race: 51 out of 52 countries send athletes to Budapest A participation record is on the horizon at the 2021 European Aquatics Championships as all but one LEN Member Federations will send their respective athletes to Budapest. In the Duna Arena, everything is set for the competitions in artistic swimming and diving in…
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Breeja Larson: Olympic Athletes Interviewed Episode 111 ‘My Setback Helped Me to Find New Passions’
Breeja Larson, Olympic champion shares her story how she grew up in a high poverty, low income area with 6 siblings, how she took up professional swimming at 17 years and became Olympic champion only 3 years later, and how she found new passions after not qualifying for the Rio Olympic Games.
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Japan Extends COVID Restrictions as Olympics Loom – BBC News
A state of emergency has been extended in several regions of Japan as Covid-19 cases surge, less than three months before the Tokyo Olympics. Restrictions in Tokyo, Osaka, Hyogo and Kyoto had been due to end on 11 May, but will now remain in place until the end of the month. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga…
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Olympic History – Hajos Turns Tragedy Into Glory in the Water
Hungarian architecture student Alfréd Hajos was the undisputed star of the swimming events at the 1896 Games. Born Alfréd Guttman and raised in Budapest, his prowess in the water had its roots in tragedy. He determined to become a good swimmer at the age of 13 after his father drowned in the River Danube. He…