Category: Competition
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Katie Ledecky – ALL Gold Medal Races | Top Moments
Watch half an hour full of Katie Ledecky’s performances at the Olympic Games. We bring you ALL Gold Medal Swimming Races she took part in!
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Taylor Ruck’s Path to High-Reaching Swimming Success means Staying Grounded
Winning eight Commonwealth Games medals has put 18-year-old Taylor Ruck in high media demand, but her swimming coach leaves no room for distractions.
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Study shows competitive swimmer bodies consistent in morphology across race event lengths
A trio of researchers with Hunter College of the City University of New York has found that despite swimming in vastly different events, competitive swimmers tend to have the same body mass index (BMI). In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Christian Gagnon, Michael Steiper and Herman Pontzer describe their study of…
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Chad Le Clos shares his experiences at the Youth Olympic Games
Swimming legend and Olympic gold medallist Chad Le Clos talks about his experiences at Youth Olympic Games in Singapore 2010 and how the YOG prepared him for the Olympic Games.
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Canadian Swimmer Kylie Masse Continues to Improve and Impress
From the small town of LaSalle, Ont., all the way to the Olympic podium, Kylie Masse never thought this much success was possible so soon.
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Swim Caps Are Keeping Black Women Out of Pools
Noelle Singleton challenges any swim-cap maker who claims a swimmer’s hair won’t get wet with their caps to send her one. She’ll post a review on social media of her swimming a 100-meter individual medley in it. Swim caps matter for Singleton, a 30-year-old black swim coach in Georgia with a thick, full-moon-shaped afro. Known…
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Glasgow 2018 European Championships – Day 10, Summary
Rouwendaal and Rasovszky: historic and heroic Heroism at its best: the Netherlands’ Sharon van Rouwendaal and Hungary’s Kristof Rasovszky managed to earn a medal in each individual event in open water swimming by making the podium in the gruelling 25km race. Italy could clinch gold in diving in the women’s 3m synchro and that event…
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U.S. swimmers claim golds, then lose them for swimming relay out of order
The United States swimming foursome of Caeleb Dressel, Blake Pieroni, Zach Apple and Nathan Adrian thought they had broken a record Saturday at the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo. They had swam the men’s 400-meter freestyle relay in 3:11.67, the fastest-ever time at the quadrennial meet. They thought they had claimed golds, and celebrated accordingly. They stood atop the podium. They…