Tag: Rio 2016
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Cammile Adams – Meet the USA Swimming Olympic Team 2016
Meet Cammile Adams, a member of your USA Swimming 2016 Olympic Team representing the stars and stripes in Rio. Cammile will be competing in the women’s 200m butterfly.
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Kelsi Worrell – Meet the USA Swimming Olympic Team 2016
Meet Kelsi Worrell, a member of your USA Swimming 2016 Olympic Team representing the stars and stripes in Rio. Kelsi will be competing in the women’s 100m butterfly.
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Coach: Swimmers Morozov, Lobintsev have never had any doping violations
Russian swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev have never taken performance enhancing drugs. Nonetheless, they have been mentioned in the WADA report (World Anti-Doping Agency) and are now at risk of missing the next month’s Olympics in Rio, head coach of the Russian national swimming team, Sergei Kolmogorov told TASS on Monday. Earlier in the…
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Blake Pieroni – Meet the USA Swimming Olympic Team 2016
Meet Blake Pieroni, a member of your USA Swimming 2016 Olympic Team representing the stars and stripes in Rio. Blake will be competing in the 4x100m men’s freestyle relay.
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Rio 2016: Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova appeals FINA ban following IOC verdict
The legal battle to compete in next month’s Olympics has begun as Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova was the first to appeal her exclusion from the Rio Games by swimming body FINA, acting on criteria set out by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The IOC declined to impose a blanket ban on Russian competitors over state-run…
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First-Time Olympic Swimmer Simone Manuel Is Perfectly Nicknamed ‘Swimone’
Simone Manuel is heading in to her first Olympics next month in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and based on her nickname, it was her destiny. Before the 19-year-old was a Stanford University student preparing for her first Olympics, she was on a club swim team, where one of the parents of a fellow swimmer nicknamed…
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Greek swimmer gets Rio spot after FINA U-turn
Greek 100 meters butterfly champion Kristel Vourna has spoken of her “relief and joy†after an unlikely U-turn by the World Swimming Federation (FINA) following an initial blunder which means she can participate in next month’s Rio Olympics. The 24-year-old, who was initially told by FINA two weeks ago that she had qualified for the…
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2016 U.S. Olympic Team Flag Signing
A new look at a fun Team USA tradition! The signing of the Olympic flags.