Category: Organization
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EP President Antonio Tajani gives full support to LEN’s Learn-to-Swim programme
Antonio Tajani, President of the European Parliament met the LEN Family at the federation’s annual congress held in Budapest and gave his firm support to a new programme ‘Learn-to-Swim, Prevent Drowning’, presented by LEN President Paolo Barelli. The LEN Congress approved the reports on 2017, as well as some rule changes and welcomed the positive…
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FINA launches Learning Platform: Online tool to enhance Aquatics worldwide
FINA is pleased to launch today the FINA Learning Platform, an online tool accessible on computers and mobile devices to the entire Aquatics community, who will be able to share and learn the latest trends and techniques, but also to promote FINA disciplines worldwide. The main goal of the FINA Learning Platform is to provide…
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SwimVortex suspends its coverage of swimming
Many are the reasons why our work is no longer sustainable but in short our decision comes down to this: the resources required for us to achieve our goals and deliver truly independent journalism, analysis and statistical services in swimming are simply not available swimming and the priorities of a failing leadership that is not…
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LEN President Barelli meets Hungarian PM Viktor Orban
LEN President Paolo Barelli met Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban at Budapest in the Parliament. The meeting took place on the occasion of the FINA World Water Polo Conference when a delegation, led by FINA President Dr Julio C. Maglione, was welcomed by Hungary’s freshly re-elected leader. Mr Orban greeted Mr Barelli as a long-time…
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RE-LIVE – Day 2 – FINA World Water Polo Conference | Budapest, Hungary
Follow the second day of the FINA World Water Polo Conference live from Budapest, Hungary.
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Paris 2024 said to be considering temporary option for aquatics centre
The newspaper Le Parisien first raised the possibility, putting the expected price tag at some €80 million (£70 million/$97 million). Reports underlined, however, that such a move would leave no legacy either for the local community or the French Swimming Federation. The cost of a permanent venue was put at $137.5 million (£98.5 million/€113 million) in 2024…
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Feminists ‘self-identify’ as males to infiltrate men-only swim session
Amy Desir, 30, and another woman told the staff at Dulwich Leisure Centre in south London that they had every right to join the session because they ‘identified as male’.
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Free swim festival at Aqua Tots locations
There are free events across the Valley at Aqua Tots Swim Schools.
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United Nations Drowning Prevention Group launched on World Water Day 2018
Ambassadors from across the world have highlighted the need for global drowning to be tackled if the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals are to be met by 2030. In an open letter on World Water Day (22 March), members of a newly formed UN group on drowning prevention, launched today, have called on the international…