Category: Competition
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FINA 2017 to cost Hungarian taxpayers at least HUF 130 billion (USD 454 million)
Everything is on track seventy-three days ahead of the biggest sporting event ever hosted in Hungary, Minister of National Development Miklós Seszták said Tuesday during a press conference hosted by the 2017 FINA organizing committee, despite projected costs exceeding five times original estimates. According to Napi.hu, Seszták said that while the cost of organizing the FINA…
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Denmark’s Lotte Friis announces retirement from swimming
Olympic bronze medalist and two-time world champion, Lotte Friis, has announced her retirement from the sport of swimming.
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A day in the life of Adam Peaty
Find out about a day in the life of a world record holder and Olympic champion swimmer, Loughborough University-based Adam Peaty.
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ISM Berlin 2017 | Looking back at the International Swim Meeting
Thank you to all the athletes and teams who were there at the International Swim Meeting Berlin 2017! Can you find yourself in our video? ;)
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Glasgow to host 2019 SC Europeans
At its meeting in Gothenburg (SWE), the LEN Bureau has voted on the hosts of several LEN Events. Glasgow (GBR) will stage another major continental showcase, the European Short-Course Swimming Championships in 2019. Genova (ITA) and Hannover (GER) are the next hosts of the men’s water polo Champions League Final Six tournaments between 2018 and…
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British film company buys rights to Syrian swimmer’s story
A British film company has agreed to buy the rights to the story of a teenage refugee who fled Syria and swam at the Olympics a year later. Yusra Mardini and her sister Sara were forced to swim for hours alongside their overloaded boat to reach Greece from Turkey in 2015. The International Olympic Committee…
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Funding fear if Bahrain’s best fails in Games quest | Generation Rise
Farhan Sultan is Bahrain’s fastest swimmer but his career – as well as his Olympic dream – could be over if he fails to set new records.