On the final day of the swimming competition in Tokyo 2020, coach Rick Bishop says he could not be more proud of Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey and Canada’s Maggie MacNeil, who he has coached for six and three years respectively. Haughey took home two silver medals, becoming Hong Kong’s most decorated Olympian, while MacNeil claimed a gold, silver, and bronze medal. The new head coach of swimming at Louisiana State University tells the SCMP’s Alkira Reinfrank that Haughey who will undergo physiotherapy for a hip injury she sustained at the Games, is “so toughâ€.
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Adam Peaty 🇬🇧 All Rio 2016 Races | Olympics
British competitive swimmer Adam Peaty specializes in breaststroke. He has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games. He won the 🥇medal in the 100m breaststroke at the 2016 Olympics, the first by a male British swimmer in 24 years. Enjoy watching all his swims at Rio!
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Katinka Hosszu’s First Olympic Race 🏊♀️ | Olympics
At the Athens 2004 Olympics, a new swimming star from Hungary shined for the first time. Her name: Katinka Hosszu! The Hungarian’s made her Olympic debut in the Women’s 200m Freestyle event. She went on to compete at all three Olympic Games 2008, 2012, and 2016 as well and finally won three gold and one silver at Rio 2016. Enjoy watching her Olympic debut!
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Women’s 3m Diving 🥇 Last 5 Champions | Olympics
Enjoy this look back at the last 5 Women’s 3m Diving winners at the Olympics:
Fu Mingxia 🇨🇳 / Sydney 2000
Guo Jingjing 🇨🇳 / Athens 2004
Guo Jingjing 🇨🇳/ Beijing 2008
Wu Minxia 🇨🇳/ London 2012
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How The Bottoms Of Pools Are Professionally Deep Cleaned | Deep Cleaned | Insider
Miles Laflin (thep00lguy) is a professional pool engineer based in the UK. He has gone viral on TikTok and YouTube for his satisfying pool cleaning videos. Miles takes us through 4 different abandoned pools and shows us different techniques to deep clean each one.
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Katie Ledecky 🏊♀️ Always Out to Make History | Olympics
US-American swimming star Katie Ledecky is a seven-time Olympic gold medallist! She made her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Having won 7 Olympic gold medals and 15 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer, she is widely considered the greatest female swimmer of all time. She talks to the Olympic Channel about her accomplishments, always looking to improve, and Tara VanDerveer.
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Certain Countries ‘Should Not Be Here’, Says Us Swimmer Lilly King | Guardian Sport
The ongoing doping war of words has continued after Lilly King said that ‘a lot of people here that should not be here’. King made her statements seated next to Ryan Murphy, another US swimmer who appeared to take aim this week at Russia, who have run afoul of doping rules. King later added: ‘I wasn’t racing anyone from a country who should have been banned and instead got a slap on the wrist and rebranding of their national flag.’
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Tokyo 2020: Adam Peaty ‘An Inspiration’ for New Generation of Swimmers
Tom Parmenter chats to Team GB’s record-breaking swimming team.
Team GB have now won 10 gold medals at the Tokyo Games and achieved their best-ever Olympic medal haul in swimming with four golds, three silvers, and a bronze.
Duncan Scott became the first British athlete to win four medals at a single Olympics with a silver in the men’s 4×100 meters medley relay.
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Tokyo 2020: Ledecky, Dressel Pick Up More Swimming Golds | Inquirer
Comments from US swimming stars Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel as the pair add to their gold medal collection. A ‘really happy’ Ledecky stormed to her third straight Olympic 800m freestyle title with a dominant swim to bank her fourth medal in Tokyo while Dressel received his third gold of the games after smashing his own world record to win the men’s Olympic 100m butterfly.