Tag: Paris 2024
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Paris 2024 Swimming World Record Predictions (Women’s Edition) | Propulsion Swimming
What Women’s WRs will get broken at the Paris Olympics. With women’s swimming in the best place it’s ever been in as we head towards the Paris Olympics, there is a possibility for a multiple will be broken. Can Ariarne Titmus better her 200m Free World Record and dip below the 1:52 second mark?Will Kaylee…
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The Final Interview With Summer McIntosh Ahead Of Paris | CBC Sports
CBC Sports’ Devin Heroux talks with 17-year-old swimming sensation from Toronto one week out from the start of the Olympics.
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Paris Authorities ‘Confident’ The River Seine Is Ready For Olympic Swimmers | The World | ABC News (Australia)
City workers have been cleaning up the Seine, and testing the water quality daily. The city’s mayor says it is clean enough for swimming and hosting the triathlon and open water swimming Olympic events. To prove it, she and others will dive in on Wednesday. Libby Hogan reports.
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Paris Mayor And Olympics Chief Swim In River Seine Amid Water Quality Concerns | Associated Press
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
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Paris 2024 Swimming Psych Sheets (Reaction) | Propulsion Swimming
The initial start sheets are out for Paris 2024 Olympic Swimming program. We look through the surprise entrances, withdrawals and the early medal implications on key events. Events such as the women’s 100m Freestyle, which includes surprise Kate Douglass and Sarah Sjostrom scheduling, Summer McIntosh’s program reveal, and Team GB’s early targeting of relay medals.
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Is The River Seine Really Safe For Olympic Swimming? French Politicians Test The Waters | CNA
The Olympic Games in Paris set to kick off in a week. But questions are still swirling over pollution in the River Seine, the venue for swimming events. The French sports minister took a dip in the river on Saturday (Jul 13) in a publicity moment, hoping to quell fears over the water’s suitability for…
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Olympics: Sports Minister Dips Into Seine River In Attempt To Prove Water Safety | DW News
Preparations for the Paris Olympics are in their final stages and river Seine will play a starring role in the games. National teams will sail down the waterway during the opening ceremony on July 26. Swimming events are also scheduled to take place in the river. But it’s still not clear whether the water quality…
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France Taps Swimmer Manaudou, Discus Thrower Robert-Michon To Bear Olympic Flag | France 24
Host France’s flagbearers at the Paris Games’ opening ceremony on the River Seine will be former Olympic swimming champion Florent Manaudou and discus thrower Melina Robert-Michon, it was reported on Thursday. The July 26 opening ceremony is due to break with Olympic tradition and be held away from the Games’ main stadium and instead on…
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Can Paris Fix Its Poop Problem Before The Olympics? | VOX
Paris’s bold Olympic promise to clean the River Seine.
