Category: Competition
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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. Watch this video on YouTube
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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? ;) Watch this video on YouTube
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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. Watch this video on YouTube
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Why Swimming is the Best Sport | Your Sport
Swimming is the best sport out there. Or at least according to our “unbiased” Swimming Olympians. It moves every muscle in your body, it’s intense and you are allowed to eat whatever you want. What else do you need? Why Swimming is the Best Sport | Your SportWatch this video on YouTube
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Michael Jamieson reveals depression fight on announcing retirement from swimming
London 2012 Olympic silver medallist Michael Jamieson has announced his retirement from swimming. The 28-year-old Scot broke his own British record to finish second in the 200m breaststroke in 2012 but struggled with form thereafter. Revealing the news via the Sunday Times, Jamieson talks of a brutal training regime that led to depression. “There were…