Category: Competition
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CCTV: Sun Yang back with the national team
See CCTV China’s most famous swimming star Sun Yang is once again training with the national. The athlete was reprimanded by State General Administration of Sports, after he was caught driving without a license last November. SunYang’s fortunes appear to be improving after a troublesome past five months, as the Chinese swimming federation lifted a…
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Star junior swimmer Daniel Smith on comeback trail after drug addiction
Read news.com.au Aged 14, Smith won eight national titles in the single greatest gold medal haul since Ian Thorpe. He was touted as the next Thorpedo and, in Miami coach Denis Cotterell’s eyes, the best trainer he’d encountered since Grant Hackett. But if Ian Thorpe can’t cope with being Ian Thorpe, how can a 14-year-old…
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Federica Pellegrini wants to swim at 2016 Olympics, then retire
Read NBC Sports Italian Olympic champion Federica Pellegrini wants to swim in a fourth Olympics before calling it a career. “I want to swim in the Olympics of 2016, then I will leave,†she told Italian magazine Grazia, according to Italian reports. â€I want to be a wife, mother, with a quiet job. “I am…
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China’s swimming national team lifts Sun Yang’s ban
Read People Daily The Chinese swimming national team lifted the ban on Olympic champion Sun Yang’s on Wednesday. Sun, the first Chinese man to win an Olympic swimming gold with his victories in the 400 and 1,500-meter freestyle at the London Games, was suspended from training and competing indefinitely last November after he was given…
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James Roberts battling to make Commonwealth Games swimming trials
Read Perth Now Sprinter James Roberts is struggling to overcome a back injury for the Commonwealth Games trials as mystery surrounds two of his infamous relay teammates from the London Olympics. Roberts has entered the trials in Brisbane starting on April 1, despite not having raced since the world titles. Matt Targett and former world…
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2014 Australian Trials SwimFan Week – Queensland
Another week of awesome videos from Swimming Australia, as lead-up to the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships Trials in Brisbane, Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 April 2014. Monday Memory Featuring Brittany Elmslie, Grant Irvine, Ned McKendry, Katie Goldman, Maddie Wilson, Maddie Elliott, Bronte Barratt
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Schwarzenegger’s Son Joseph: Beastly Swimmer
Joseph Baena is starting to look more and more like this dad Arnold Schwarzenegger. He’s now a swimmer in school, with his huge arm span he’s made varsity! http://youtu.be/vUVtdRMwIjI
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Michael Jamieson ‘boosted’ by health scare
Read Sky Sports Michael Jamieson believes his heart scare could provide an unlikely boost to his chances of success at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The Scotsman had to have his heart restarted last November after pushing himself too hard during training, with his heart beating irregularly and too quickly as a result of…
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Katie Ledecky announced as 84th AAU Sullivan Award nominee
Read NBC OlympicTalk The Sullivan Award honors the nation’s outstanding amateur athlete for 2013, so Boudia and Ledecky’s Olympic successes shouldn’t factor in. They did, however, perform well at the 2013 World Championships. Boudia won silver in the platform, and Ledecky won four gold medals and was named the female swimmer of the meet in Barcelona.…