Category: Competition
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What motivates Team GB athletes?
Fitness First caught up with Team GB athletes Jade Jones, Michael Jamieson & Helen Glover on the road to the Rio 2016 to ask what motivates them to get out of bed in the morning. The answer? Watch and find out… #‎GetTraining
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 5
Russia amasses 23 titles – a record Russia managed to better its best ever result at the junior Europeans by amassing 23 gold medals, one more than in last year – this is a record in the championship’s history. Their youngsters clinched 8 titles on the last day of the European Games’ swimming competitions.
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 4
Russia: five more titles The Russians fully dominated the penultimate day of the swimming competitions, winning 5 out of 7 finals. They brought their gold medal tally to 15, capturing almost half of the titles on offer (31) so far. Still, the day’s most outstanding performance belonged to a Brit: Luke Greenbank.
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Budapest Mayor: aquatics world championship could promote Olympic bid
A successful Budapest World Aquatic Championships in 2017 could help Hungary in its bid to host the 2024 Olympics, Budapest Mayor István Tarlós told public television M1. Tarlós said the expected success of the championships would “obviously†be considered when the decision is made on the venue for the 2024 Olympics just a few weeks…
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Michael Phelps wanted to play football instead of swim as a teenager
Michael Phelps is one the greatest Olympic athletes in history, but we’ll never know how close he came to being an NFL star because his mom wouldn’t let him. According to Deborah Phelps, her son envied his buddies and was dying to play football when he was growing up. But mother knows best, or more…
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 3
Austria’s golden 15 minutes Austrian swimmers produced big news on the third day of the swimming competitions at the European Games in Baku by clinching two titles in a span of 15 minutes. Italy also enjoyed a fine afternoon with a gold and three silvers, while the Russians were as outstanding as it was usual…
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 2
Ten Russian medals in eight finals The Russian swimmers were on fire in the water at the European Games in Baku (AZE): they collected 10 medals in eight finals, four of them gold. The rest of the titles went to France, Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands.
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Baku 2015 European Games – Summary: Swimming Day 1
Golden Britain: three titles on the opening day British swimmers got things going in Baku, on the first day of the swimming competition at the European Games, as they clinched three titles in seven finals. Russia captured two while Germany and Ukraine could also be happy with one gold apiece.
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Brittany Elmslie (AUS) pulls out of Kazan 2015 World Champs after breast surgery
London Olympic gold medallist Brittany Elmslie has withdrawn from the Australian swimming team for this year’s FINA World Championships in Russia after undergoing surgery to a remove a benign growth in her breast. Elmslie, who turns 21 on Friday, has pulled out of the team after the operation three weeks ago and the recovery causing…