Category: Competition
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USC Alumna Ariana Kukors Trains for Next Olympics
A former world-class swimmer announced that she would come out of retirement and try her hand at the Olympic Games once again. Ariana Kukors thought she was finished swimming after she participated in the 2012 Olympics, but her passion for the sport made her rethink her decision and led her to train for the 2016…
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Chad Le Clos reveals how he upstaged an Olympic legend
When Michael Phelps stepped onto the starting block in Lane 6 for the 200m butterfly final at London 2012 he had in his sights a 15th Olympic title and a third consecutive gold in the event. Standing next to him in Lane 5 was a 20-year-old South African by the name of Chad Le Clos,…
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Japanese swim team threatens SA – Ryk Neethling
We caught up with Olympic gold medalist, Ryk Neethling, he tells us why he thinks the Japanese swimming team should be on every professional swimmer’s radar. Neethling tells us that at the moment Chad le Clos is among the top two swimmers in the world, but he has to be careful of the Japanese swimmers…
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Ten gold medals for Katinka Hosszu (HUN) in Hong Kong
Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu was once more the athlete to beat in the third leg of the FINA/MASTBANK Swimming World Cup, organised in Hong Kong (HKG) on September 29-30, 2014. Out of the 17 individual events, the Magyar athlete got 10 gold medals, an unprecedented achievement in a single meet of this competition. Among men, things…
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USC commit Patrick Mulcare reflects on Youth Olympics in China and knee injuries
Patrick Mulcare could not have predicted that the best swimming performances of his young career would come in the days after a dense layer of smog inflamed his throat. Mulcare, a USC commit, was in Nanjing, China in August for the Youth Olympic Games. Amid the challenges of time zone changes, hours upon hours of…
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China Swim King Sun Yang Bashes Japan’s ‘Ugly’ National Anthem
China’s controversial swimming superstar Sun Yang has taken a potshot at rival Japan’s national anthem at the Asian Games, describing it as “ugly”. The double Olympic champion told Chinese media he had taken great pleasure in helping the men’s 4×100 freestyle relay team beat the Japanese on Wednesday. He then indulged in a spot of…
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FINA World cup action resumes in Hong Kong
Hong Kong will welcome the international swimming elite for the third leg of the FINA/MASTBANK Swimming World Cup 2014 from September 29-30. Hong Kong, together with Moscow (RUS, October 4-5), constitute the second cluster of the Series. A total USD 300’000 is on offer for cluster no.2 and will be distributed to the six highest-ranked…
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FINA videos of Hosszu’s and Gyurta’s World Records at the Dubai 2014 World Cup leg
Specifically Katinka Hosszu’s 100 and 200 meter individual medley short course world records, and Daniel Gyurta’s 200 meter breaststroke short course world records.