Category: Competition
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Glasgow 2018 European Championships – LEN Opening Press Conference Highlights
Paltrinieri: “The motivation is the same as ever†More than 1,000 athletes, more than 200 journalists and more than 40 broadcasters – European Aquatics are ready to put on the greatest show once again, as President Paolo Barelli said in the LEN’s opening press conference on the eve of the European Championships in Glasgow. Two…
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Live Stream: British Summer Championships 2018 – Day 6 Finals
Watch day six finals of the British Summer Championships live from the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheffield.
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BCN2018 WP Europeans – Summary, Day 15 – Men’s finals
Serbia clinches 4th title in a row, though Spain falls only in shootout For the first time in the history of the European Water Polo Championships, the penalty shootout decided the title and it was retained by Serbia, despite an electrifying performance of the host Spaniards. This was the Serbs’ 8th gold medal, and the…
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Live Stream: British Summer Championships 2018 – Day 5 Finals
Watch day five finals of the British Summer Championships live from the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheffield.
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Live Stream: British Summer Championships 2018 – Day 5 Heats
Watch day five heats of the British Summer Championships live from the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheffield.
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Live Stream: British Summer Championships 2018 – Day 4 Finals
Watch day four finals of the British Summer Championships live from the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheffield.
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Why the Summer Olympics are held in July, August despite heat
A heat wave scorching Japan is raising questions about timing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during July and August, typically the annual peak for temperatures and humidity, and the health risks that might pose for athletes and spectators. When Tokyo first hosted the Summer Olympics in 1964, they were held during the cooler, drier month of…
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The athletes from nowhere: Dispatches from the Faroe Islands, a proud sporting nation the Olympics won’t acknowledge
Ah, the hard memories We competed at the 2015 European Games in Baku,†Joensen remembers. “And we were not allowed to use the Faroe flag. Instead we had to compete as LEN (Ligue Européenne de Natation) and were given tee-shirts with no flag, just plain blue with our name. And when we were introduced our…
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Live Stream: British Summer Championships 2018 – Day 4 Heats
Watch day four heats of the British Summer Championships live from the Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheffield.