Singapore is hoping to make a big splash in the pool at next week’s Paris Games, even as it fields an all-debutant line-up. The team left for a training camp in France this morning in high spirits. Alif Amsyar reports.
(more…)Watch as Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, and Tony Estanguet, head of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, swim in the Seine following concerns over the river’s water quality for athletes competing in the Summer Games this month
Local 10’s Nicole Perez learns important water safety skills with her family during swim lessons
Arlington’s Torri Huske will return to the 100-meter butterfly in Paris and compete in the 100-meter freestyle for the first time in her Olympic career. She sits down to talk with 7News Sports Director Scott Abraham.
Artistic swimming is more commonly known as synchronized swimming.
Some Parisians said that they wouldn’t take a dip in the River Seine even after seeing the French sports minister swimming in the capital’s famed river ahead of the summer Olympics.
Annual swim meet brings thousands to UT campus
(more…)It comes at a time when there have been several drownings and hundreds of rescues on the water this summer. CBS New York’s Ali Bauman reports.
“While I prepare to swim in Paris, I’m racing to compete. I watch the news and I see people swimming to receive packages from the sea.”
Valerie Tarazi, an American-Palestinian swimmer set to compete in the Paris Olympics, highlighted the plight of Palestinians in Gaza at a send-off ceremony for the Palestinian Olympic delegation in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday.
The State of Palestine will be represented by eight athletes at the Paris Olympics and two at the Paralympics.
