Category: Competition
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Australian Swimmers Had COVID During Olympic Games | Sky News Australia
Fox Sports News has revealed seven members of the Australian swimming team had COVID during their Paris campaign and had to be placed in isolation. Olympic great Dawn Fraser revealed it was kept hidden from the media in an exclusive interview on the Matty and the Missile Podcast. Five of Australia’s women’s water polo athletes…
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British Swimmer Wants ‘Cheating’ Chinese Out Of Paris Olympics Amid Doping Allegations | South China Morning Post
PeatBritish three-time Olympic gold medallist Adam Peaty said he wants “cheating” Chinese swimmers knocked out of the sport, and urged the World Anti-Doping Agency to “wake up and do your job”. Peaty made his remarks after China won the 2024 Olympics 4×100 metres medley relay, beating the United States and France. Great Britain finished the…
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Ex-East Bay Swim Team President Arraigned After Embezzlement Charges | ABC7 News Bay Area
The former president of Alameda Gators Swim Team was arraigned Monday morning in Oakland after being accused of stealing $50,000 from the nonprofit. Read ABC7 News
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Michael Phelps Disappointed In US Men’s Olympic Swimming Results | USA Today
The 28-time Olympic medalist said he was impressed by Bobby Finke’s swim, but that overall there was room for improvement
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Bobby Finke Speaks After World-Record Shattering Gold Medal Swim | 9NEWS
Bobby Finke was the last hope for the U.S. men’s swim team to earn an individual Olympic gold medal. On swimming’s final night, he delivered in a big way. Finke earned the Olympic gold in the men’s 1500-meter freestyle and set a new world record on Sunday. He was under world-record pace the entire race…
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Hong Kong’s Haughey Returns With Pair Of Olympic Swimming Medals | South China Morning Post
Hong Kong swimmer Siobhan Haughey made her triumphant return home from the Paris Games on August 6, 2024. The city’s most decorated Olympian recently won bronze in the 100m and 200m women’s freestyle, three years after she nabbed two silver medals in the same events at the Tokyo Games. Haughey also earned Hong Kong’s first…
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What Comes Next For Olympic Swimming Medallists? | ABS-CBN News
With the swimming competition at the Paris 2024 Games all wrapped up, some of the top swimmers have big plans still ahead of them, including preparing for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, getting married and mapping out what retirement will look like.
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“There Is Absolutely Nothing.” – Gasol On Chinese Swimmers Taking More Doping Tests Than Others | CGTN Sports Scene
“To me obviously, it’s unfortunate that one of the ways to kind of validate, the decisions, was to test the Chinese swimmers double, or triple than the rest of the athletes.” “We’ve seen the number of tests that the Chinese swimmers have been exposed to just to make sure and provide, I guess, peace of…
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Sun Yang Wiped From Olympics History As Bobby Finke Breaks Swimming World Record | news.com.au
At the Paris 2024 Olympics, American swimmer Bobby Finke knocked Sun Yang out of the history books in an epic finish, after smashing his 1500m freestyle event record by 35 hundredths of a second. In the space of a decade, Sun won three Olympic gold medals and became an eleven-time world champion, not to mention…