Great Britain’s Tom Daley and China’s Chen Aisen put on a show in the 10m Platform Final at the 2017 edition of the FINA World Championships in Budapest scoring many perfect 10s across six rounds of dives. A cliffhanger battle for the Gold medal which deserves to be watched until the very end!
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Coronavirus: 2021 Island Games in Guernsey are postponed because of pandemic
The 2021 Island Games have been called off because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The multi-sport event for small islands across the world was due to be held in Guernsey between 3 and 9 July, with 3,500 competitors and officials, and 1,000 volunteers set to be involved.
No decision has been made on when the games will take place and what could happen to the planned Island Games in Orkney in 2023.
The last Island Games were held in Gibraltar in the summer of 2019.
“We have waited for even the slightest possible opportunity to go on with the Games in 2021, but we have to acknowledge the facts,” said International Island Games Association chair Jorgen Pettersson.
“The pandemic is not over, the quarantine regulations will continue to make planning forward very, very difficult and even impossible.
“Therefore, it would not be fair to ask the member islands or the host island to commit financially to an event next summer.
“This has been a difficult decision to accept for all of us. I am truly sorry for this decision, but I also know the determination in our island communities, and I am convinced we will come back in friendly competition under the umbrella of NatWest International Island Games as soon as possible.”
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Doing My First Ultra Swim // 8km Ocean Swim // Alwyn Uys Vlogs
With all official events canceled I decided to pursue the dream of doing the Robben Island crossing. This is an 8km ocean swim in the freezing waters of Cape Town, South Africa which is known for its sharks surrounding the Cape Town bay area.
This has never been done by a paraplegic and this will be a worlds’ first.
Come along for the journey and watch me prepare for the ultra-distance swim in the next 12 weeks and experience it all with me.
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U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte discusses why the Spire Institute & Academy is the perfect place to train athletes for success
The institute is new and improved, with five former Olympians working as ambassadors for the institute.
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Chinese elite swimmer goes from the pool to policing
Jiang Haiqi starred alongside the controversial Sun Yang in winning a historic relay swimming bronze medal for China at the London 2012 Olympics.
But now he is doing national duty of a very different kind — as a policeman saving lives on Shanghai’s Huangpu River.
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Epic Irish Swim | Ocean Swimming With GCN’s Conor Dunne
A Global Cycling Network presenter doing a swimming video!? Yep, that’s right! Ex-professional cyclist Conor Dunne has many Grand Tours under his belt, but this time he’s taking on a new challenge by swimming 5km in the Irish Sea to Helvick Harbour! â Here’s how he got on!
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Netherlands claim New World Record at Rome 2009 | FINA World Championships
Today we take you back to the 2009 edition of the FINA World Championships in Rome for another epic moment! It has been a tough battle between Germany, Australia and Netherlands to become World Champion in the Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay. With a strong finish the Dutch Team came back from behind to claim the Gold Medal and a new World Record! Can you remember who was in the team?
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Announcement of Grand Opening Ceremony of Tokyo Aquatics Centre
We are pleased to announce that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) will hold a grand opening ceremony of the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Saturday 24 October 2020. The Tokyo Aquatics Centre is one of the new permanent venues TMG has constructed and will be used as the venue for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020. The ceremony had been postponed from last March as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Japan’s Suga tells UN Tokyo is ‘determined’ to host Olympics
In debut UN speech, new PM says Japan is determined to host Olympics ‘as proof humanity has defeated’ COVID-19 pandemic.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has told the United Nations General Assembly that his government is determined to host the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 after the games were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Games were originally scheduled for this summer, but were put off for a year in March by the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government.
“In the summer of next year, Japan is determined to host the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games as proof that humanity has defeated the pandemic,†Suga said in a recorded message on Friday.
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