#China‘s women stunned the field to smash the world #record and win the #Olympic 4x200m relay title in a major upset Thursday. The team of Yang Junxuan, Zhang Yufei, Li Bingjie, and Tang Muhan touched in 7mins 40.33 seconds ahead of the United States (7:40.73) and Australia (7:41.29). All three teams were under the previous world time of 7:41.50 set by Australia at the 2019 world championships.
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World’s Deepest Swimming Pool For Diving Features ‘Sunken City’ With Apartment, Garage And Arcade | CBS Local News
The world’s deepest swimming pool for underwater diving has opened in Dubai, where people can descend nearly 200 feet to a sunken city-themed landscape and play arcade games. Katie Johnston reports.
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Katie Ledecky Gets Emotional Winning Gold At Tokyo Olympics | Access
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Student Designs Pool Navigation Aid for Visually Impaired Swimmers | Loughborough University
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South Korean Swimmer Hwang Sun-Woo Comes in Fifth in S. Korea’s First-Ever Men’s 100m Freestyle Final | Arirang News
Now we turn to the Olympics… where we are already getting Thursday’s updates… South Korean swimming sensation Hwang Sun-woo competed in the final of 100-meter freestyle but unfortunately fell short.
For more on this and other news… we have our Kim Do-yeon standing by at the news center.
Do-yeon, what an exciting few seconds that was, regardless of the result.Mark… as always… you are on point.
An exciting moment just to see South Korean up-and-coming star Hwang Sun-woo going shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest names in swimming.
As you said, he did fall short with a 47-point-eight-two second swim, coming in fifth, but he’s still eighteen and hopefully, a bright future awaits the swimmer.
That’s however the best score by an Asian in 69 years in the final of the event.
Caeleb Dressel took the gold as expected, beating second-place Kyle Chalmers by just zero-point-zero-six.
Hwang Sun-woo’s Olympics are not done yet though… as he’s still to compete in the 50-meter freestyle so stay tuned. -
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