Category: Competition
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‘A year ago I couldn’t swim’: The refugee hoping to be an Olympic star
A Syrian refugee has stunned swimming experts by learning how to swim in just 12 months and is now training for the 2020 Olympics. Eid Aljazairli, who is 24 years old, nearly drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe in 2016. Now he is living with a British family and training at the…
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Crowdfunding: CU Boulder Swim & Dive 2019
The CU Boulder Swim and Dive team is headed to Nationals and need your help to get there! Check out their crowdfunding video and visit the campaign website here: https://www.colorado.edu/crowdfunding/.
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London 2012 Olympic swimming medallist Michael Jamieson inducted into Hall of Fame for Sport
Olympic swimming medallist Michael Jamieson returned to the University of Bath, the place where he both trained and studied, to become the latest inductee into the Hall of Fame for Sport. Jamieson famously won 200m breaststroke silver at the London 2012 Olympic Games, smashing the British record three times during the championships and only being…
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Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps to appear at Wisconsin High School Sports Awards
Swimming legend. Olympic champion. Record-setter. All-time great. And now … drum roll, please … our featured guest. Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian ever, will headline the upcoming Wisconsin High School Sports Awards show. Read Post Crescent Photo by Gage Skidmore
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A ‘special feeling’ for UH men and women’s swim & dive teams that won MPSF titles
A ‘special feeling’ for UH men and women’s swim & dive teams that won MPSF titles
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Olympic Gold Medalist Lilly King Finally Won the First Team Swimming event in her Career
Indiana University swimmer and Olympic Gold Medalist Lilly King joined Dan to discuss the Hoosiers winning their first Big Ten title since 2011, if she ever has trouble focusing in the middle of all of her success, what an average day is like for her, and how she could become the first woman in history…