Category: Competition
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Chad Le Clos aims for three golds at world short course championships
Chad le Clos, fresh from winning the World Cup series again, will head into the world short course championships next month with his eye on three world records. He came tantalisingly close in the past few weeks in all three butterfly races, missing out by split seconds. Le Clos goes into the competition in Doha,…
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Egypt pull out of world champs in Qatar protest
Egypt on Tuesday announced it was boycotting December’s world short-course swimming championships in protest against hosts Qatar, the Egyptian swimming federation president told AFP. “The decision was taken due to the political position of Qatar vis-s-vis Egypt since the revolution of June 30, 2013,” federation head Yasser Idriss explained. Mass demonstrations led to the ousting…
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Impressions from the 2014 North Sea Swim Meet in Stavanger, Norway
A selection of really nice photos from the 2014 North Sea Swim Meet, courtesy of Bjørn Wigdel / North Sea Swim Meet. More can be found here on images.northseaswimmeet.com.
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World record holder Adam Peaty ‘kind of bullied’ into concentrating on breaststroke
“When I joined City of Derby, I had no idea just what to expect. I hadn’t really got a preference over which stroke I liked best. “I kind of got bullied into concentrating on my breaststroke by (coach) Mel Marshall!†Marshall, who won the Matrix Fitness Performance Coach of the Year award at the Derbyshire…
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Vikings Test Form at North Sea Swim Meet 2014
The Stavanger Swim Hall in Norway will this weekend 7-9 November 2014 be venue of the 42nd North Sea Swim Meet, featuring the Danish ‘Viking’ team including Jeanette Ottesen and Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN), Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (FIN), Pál Joensen (FAR), Marco Loughran (GBR), swimmers from Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and of course the best Norwegian…
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Swimming top guns gear up for Doha
The highlight of the aquatic season, the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), is about to start in the magnificent Hamad Aquatic Complex. Featuring a handful of the greatest stars and offering a massive sum in prize money, the showcase in Doha is going to be another hit, watched by hundreds of millions around the world.…
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‘Life is water’ – Kazan 2015 FINA World Championships Promo Video
The 16th FINA World Championships will be held in Kazan, Russia, from July 24 – August 9, 2015. Kazan has now developed the most advanced sporting infrastructure in all of Russia and has one of the most advanced Aquatic facilities in the world. http://youtu.be/vB3K99psTlk
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Chad Le Clos confident of beating Phelps again in Rio
Chad le Clos, one of the few men to have beaten Michael Phelps at the Olympics, has thrown down the challenge to his old rival, urging him to get back into training so they can have a rematch at Rio in 2016. […] “I really, really hope that he and his team decide to swim…
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Anum Bandey ‘You can’t explain how you feel’ | Words of Olympians
Pakistan’s Anum Bandey competed in the London 2012 Olympic Games swimming in the Women’s 400m Individual Medley. Making her first Olympic appearance, aged just 15, she broke the Pakistan national record.