Category: Competition
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Chatting with Tom Shields: Olympic gold medalist swimmer
Olympic gold medalist swimmer Tom Shields chatted with Digital Journal about his prolific career in swimming, and he offered advice for aspiring swimmers. Shields won the gold medal in the 4 x 100 medley at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. “That was great! It was a dream come true, obviously. It was…
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Rio 2016 Olympic committee chief resigns after arrest
Carlos Arthur Nuzman, head of Brazil’s Olympics committee, has decided to step away from the games’ governing body, according to a statement by the National Olympics Committee on Saturday. He was arrested last week for allegedly conspiring to rig the election of the city hosting the 2016 games. The decision to take leave was expressed…
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Italian swimming champ suspected of doping use
Italian swimmer Filippo Magnini, a two-time world 100m freestyle champion, is being probed by the Italian National Doping Organisation (NADO) for “use or attempted use of doping products”, according to Italian media reports. Magnini and another Italian swimmer, Michele Santucci will appear before investigators in the coming days as part of a NADO probe into…
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US Olympians at 2016 Rio Games were infected with West Nile virus, not Zika
U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes and staff who traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the 2016 Summer Games did not become infected with Zika virus but did test positive for other tropical, mosquito-borne viral infections, including West Nile Virus, Dengue Fever and Chikungunya. Results from the University of Utah Health-led study will be reported…
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MÄori swimmers taking full light
800 of the country’s top swimmers are in Auckland this week for the National Short Course Championships. Among them are two young MÄori swimmers representing Wellington. And as Te Okiwa McLean reports, swimming is not the only sport the pair excel in.
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English swimmers selected for Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games
Adam Peaty and James Guy are among the first 15 swimmers selected to Team England for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.
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Friendship and competition at the 2017 Manatee County swim meet
Bayshore High’s Ryley Ober, a two-time defending state swimming champion, won the 100-yard freestyle and took second in the 100-yard backstroke. The latter event saw club teammate Anna Freed win. Ober discusses her friendship with Freed and how the Bradenton Christian swimmer pushes her in practice and at competitions. Video by Jason Dill.
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Rituals – Gustavus Swim & Dive 2017
The goal of this video is to capture the everyday rituals of a swimmer at Gustavus Adolphus College. A big thanks to Tanner Sonnek for being the main subject of the video!
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Mexico City 2017 rescheduled
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that the World Para Swimming and World Para Powerlifting Championships that were postponed last month due to an earthquake in Mexico City have been rescheduled. Both Championships, which form part of the 2017 Para Sport Festival, will now take place between 27 November and 7 December. Read paralympic.org