Category: Competition
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Katie Ledecky to attend Stanford
Read The Kansas City Star Olympic champion swimmer Katie Ledecky plans to swim for Stanford after she graduates from high school next year. The 17-year-old from Bethesda, Maryland, announced her commitment Thursday. She is a junior honors student at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in her hometown. Ledecky will join Olympic champion Missy…
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Eamon Sullivan very much still active and chasing gold in Glasgow
Read Herald Sun Despite most people, and even a few of his sponsors, assuming he’d hung up his Speedos, turns out Sullivan never actually uttered the “R†word. “Even to this day people go: ‘Oh are you still swimming?’,†Sullivan says. “It’s like: ‘yeah, got the Commonwealth Games in a couple of months, actually’.â€
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Lotte Friis Almost Retired After Euro Short Course
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Faroe Champs 2014 Underway
The Faroese (Short Course) Championships started this morning, Live Timing here and in the evenings also finals live television on our national broadcasting network. We’ve already had one Faroese record, and that guy in the picture is closing in on his 100th national gold medal. Busy busy! :-)
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Sun Yang’s return sets up potential legendary race
Read NBC Olympic Talk Comparing early season times can be dangerous, but note that Lochte won the 200m free at the Mesa Grand Prix in 1:49.48 on April 25. Lochte finished fourth in the 200m free at the 2012 Olympics and 2013 World Championships and is currently the top rival to Sun as the world’s best…
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Rikke Møller Pedersen: The experience was taken away from me
Read SwimmingWorld While many in the Russian swimming community found relief that Yuliya Efimova’s doping ban will end in time for her to make a run at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, not everyone in Europe is totally happy about the situation. Rikke Moller Pedersen of Denmark, who now officially stands as the European Short…
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Yuliya Efimova thrown 16-month ban and lifelife to Kazan 2015 World Champs home defence
Read SwimVortex Yuliya Efimova, of Russia, has been thrown a lifeline to a home World Championships and the defence of two world titles in Kazan next year by a 16-month suspension in the wake of a positive doping test for a steroid. The ruling, which coincides with the start of the Russian Championships in Moscow,…
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Magnus Wins 2014 War Of The Great Danes
Read SwimmingWorld Birkerød, Denmark. Tonight, Sigma Swim arranged a fun and spectator friendly “War Of The Great Danes,” in connection with their annual sponsor event. Six of the best Danish male swimmers competed in an elimination challenge, consisting of five rounds of 50 meter sprints, starting every 3 minutes. The swim stroke was decided by…
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IOC says ‘totally unfeasible’ for London to step in for Rio as 2016 Olympics host
Read The Guardian Much to the disappointment of those hoping for an action replay of the heady summer of 2012, the International Olympic Committee has rejected as “totally unfeasible” claims that London could step in for troubled Rio to host the 2016 Olympics. A report in the London Evening Standard has claimed that the capital had been secretly sounded…