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  • Tokyo Olympic organisers on Wednesday called on the Japanese public to donate old smartphones and other old electronic devices to help make medals for the 2020 Games.

    In a push to give the Olympics an environmentally friendly hue, Tokyo’s organising committee is aiming to collect eight tonnes of gold, silver and bronze at recycling bins across Japan from April, officials said, to make 5,000 Olympic and Paralympic medals.

    Tokyo 2020 said e-waste such as digital cameras, laptops and games units can also be donated at collection boxes in more than 2,000 stores of mobile phone giant and Olympic sponsor NTT Docomo.

    Recycled metals have been used in previous years to make Olympic medals, including in Rio last year where the silver and bronze medals were 30 percent made from recycled materials.

    “An Olympic medal is one of the most coveted items in existence,” American two-time Olympic decathlete champion Ashton Eaton said.

    “People spend decades, often agonising ones, working to obtain one,” he added.

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  • Adidas has today unveiled its SS17 Parley swim range made from Parley Ocean Plastic and featuring up-cycled ocean plastic made from used fishing nets and debris intercepted in coastal areas and converted into technical yarn fibres such as Econyl®, a recycled Polyamide yarn.

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  • American male backstroke swimmers have swept the 100m and 200m races in the Olympics since 1996. After unseating both 2012 Olympic champs at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Ryan Murphy grabbed hold of the legacy and didn’t let go once landing in Rio. He topped the podium and set an Olympic record in the 100m backstroke but he was only halfway done, before again beating the field in the 200m backstroke to become the first swimmer since 2004 to win both races. There was still more, with Murphy setting a new world record in the 100m backstroke as lead-off for the gold medal winning 400m medley relay that was the final Olympic race for Michael Phelps. See more Rio Moments at usaswimming.org/ReCelebrateRioMoments

  • Narrowly missing an Olympics berth in 2012 by 12-hundredths of a second, Plummer nearly left the sport but came back strong in search of his first Olympic berth. En route to becoming the oldest Olympic rookie in American swimming history, the 30-year old got married and had two children (including a son six weeks old at the 2016 Olympic Trials). Being on the team in Rio wasn’t enough, as he raced to the podium in the 100m backstroke for a bronze medal in his first-ever Olympic event, later adding a gold as part of the 400m medley relay team. See more Rio Moments at usaswimming.org/ReCelebrateRioMoments

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  • Guest post by Keith Sandoval / MKM Pool Spa

    There are few places where a swimmer feels more at home than in the pool. We wake up at the crack of dawn to head to morning practice. We spend our afternoons making waves in the chlorinated waters, and we spend our weekends at day-long meets, hopping in and out of the pool.

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  • A few weeks ago we took on the world in Windsor! We had some incredible moments while competing on home soil! Check out this highlight video and let us know what your favourite Canadian memory was from FINA Windsor 2016

  • A newsmaker in the pool and outside of it at the Rio Olympics, Lilly King was outspoken with her opinion against performance enhancing drugs. The 19-year old took a public stand against her top competitor, putting additional pressure on herself in her first Olympics appearance. Undaunted, the Indiana University sophomore set off a celebration for clean sport by winning the 100m breaststroke with an Olympic record time of 1:04.93. It was Team USA’s first gold in that event since 2000.

  • This quick drill is to work on your body undulations in your underwater dolphin kicks and in your butterfly. Feel a chest press and then feel the wave travel through your body. You should get power out of the upwards and downwards kicks.