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  • London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 8

    London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 8

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    Italy, Hungary open strong, three medals apiece Italy and Hungary got a flying start on the opening day of the swimming competition at the European Aquatics Championships in the London Aquatics Centre by clinching three medals apiece. Gabriele Detti (ITA) and Katinka Hosszu (HUN) captured the individual golds on offer, and both nations got two…

  • London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 7

    London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 7

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    Daley close to perfection, Cagnotto makes it 20 Tom Daley’s outstanding performance highlighted the last day of diving action in the London Aquatics Centre. The Briton won the 10m platform with a 570-point overall score, which is higher than what was required here to clinch the Olympic title four years ago. Italy’s Tania Cagnotto added…

  • London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 6

    London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 6

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    Queen of Europe, Tania Cagnotto captures 19th gold Italy’s Tania Cagnotto took a 28-27 ‘lead’ on the all-time medal table at the Europeans over Germany’s Patrick Hausding by clinching the 3m title with ease on Saturday. Ukraine added another gold to their impressive tally in diving (3-2-3) by winning the mixed 10m synchro ahead of…

  • London 2016 LEN European Championships Day 5

    London 2016 LEN European Championships Day 5

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    Russia, Ukraine on the roll, happy end for the Brits Russia finished the synchro events with eight gold medals. They earned them in as many starts, the remaining one went to the Ukrainians in the team free event which the Russians skipped this time. Ukraine had a fine evening in the diving pool as well…

  • London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 4

    London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 4

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    Hausding and Klein on Cloud 9 Russia made it 6 out of 6 in synchro so far. Again, no one could match the level of their performance, either with only one swimmer in the pool– as in the solo technical – or with 10, as in the free combination final. The Russian march continued in…

  • London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 3

    London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 3

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    Magic of the mermaids Russia doubled up synchro golds and Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina produced a women’s duet which was truly a class above the rest. In diving, Tania Cagnotto clinched her 18th European title and the 7th in the 1m, while Tom Daley and Grace Reid delivered the first gold for the hosts…

  • London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 2

    London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 2

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    Ischenko’s reign goes on, Kvasha and the Germans shine in the diving pool Natalia Ishchenko proved that she is still the queen of synchro, pulling out a clean win once more in the solo free. The first non-Russian gold in London went to Ukraine’s Illya Kvasha, who clinched the 1m title in diving, while Germany’s…

  • Road to Rio | Fiona Doyle

    Road to Rio | Fiona Doyle

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    Fiona Doyle is a swimmer from Limerick, who lives, works and trains on a Sports scholarship at the University of Calgary. Travelling across the globe in pursuit of the Olympic qualifying time isn’t easy, but it is even tougher for Fiona, as she is to live so far from her family.

  • Gator swimmer headed to the Olympics

    Gator swimmer headed to the Olympics

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    A member of the Gator Nation could be headed to Rio for the Olympics this summer. https://youtu.be/5AuOCYhaKFY