Category: Competition
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Paris 2024 Swimming Psych Sheets (Reaction) | Propulsion Swimming
The initial start sheets are out for Paris 2024 Olympic Swimming program. We look through the surprise entrances, withdrawals and the early medal implications on key events. Events such as the women’s 100m Freestyle, which includes surprise Kate Douglass and Sarah Sjostrom scheduling, Summer McIntosh’s program reveal, and Team GB’s early targeting of relay medals.
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Riley Gaines, “Swimming Against the Current” | C-SPAN
In 2022, collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines tied for 5th place in the 200m freestyle final at the NCAA Women’s Championships. The swimmer she tied with was transgender athlete Lia Thomas. Since then, Riley Gaines has become an outspoken critic of transgender women competing in women’s sports and has even testified on the issue before Congress.…
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Sam Short From Canet, France | Australian Dolphins Swim Team
The Big Short: Sam Short is buzzing with fast times at Olympic Training Camp, Canet-en-Roussillon
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France Taps Swimmer Manaudou, Discus Thrower Robert-Michon To Bear Olympic Flag | France 24
Host France’s flagbearers at the Paris Games’ opening ceremony on the River Seine will be former Olympic swimming champion Florent Manaudou and discus thrower Melina Robert-Michon, it was reported on Thursday. The July 26 opening ceremony is due to break with Olympic tradition and be held away from the Games’ main stadium and instead on…
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Can Paris Fix Its Poop Problem Before The Olympics? | VOX
Paris’s bold Olympic promise to clean the River Seine.
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Singapore To Build New Temporary Swimming Complex For 2025 World Aquatics Championships | CNA
Singapore is planning to build a new temporary swimming complex on a Kallang car park, in time for the World Aquatics Championships in July 2025. It will be one of the competition venues when the country hosts the best swimmers around the world. Rachel Teng and Nicolas Ng report.
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Hundreds Of Elite Swimmers Compete In Suburban Chicago Races | CBS Chicago
While it may be summertime, it’s no vacation for elite-level swimmers, including for those taking place in one of the top swimming events in suburban Westmont this weekend.
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University Of Michigan Athlete Is Swimming Through Pain To Reach Olympics | Click On Detroit | Local 4 | WDIV
Elite athletes are incredibly focused and driven to compete at the highest level, sometimes overcoming great odds to succeed, especially for one University of Michigan swimmer who is punching her ticket to Paris while managing a serious health issue.
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UVA’s Todd Desorbo Ready To Lead U.S. Swim Olympians In Paris | 29News
DeSorbo is the head coach of the U.S. Olympic swim team for the first time