Category: Competition
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Swimming: Singapore’s All-debutant Line-up Hopes To Make A Big Splash At Paris Olympics | CNA
Singapore is hoping to make a big splash in the pool at next week’s Paris Games, even as it fields an all-debutant line-up. The team left for a training camp in France this morning in high spirits. Alif Amsyar reports.
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Swimmer Torri Huske Aims For Greatness At Paris Games | ABC 7 News – WJLA
Arlington’s Torri Huske will return to the 100-meter butterfly in Paris and compete in the 100-meter freestyle for the first time in her Olympic career. She sits down to talk with 7News Sports Director Scott Abraham.
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Annual Swim Meet Brings Thousands To UT Campus | WVLT News
Annual swim meet brings thousands to UT campus
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New Push On To Teach New York City Kids How To Swim | CBS New York
It comes at a time when there have been several drownings and hundreds of rescues on the water this summer. CBS New York’s Ali Bauman reports.
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Palestinian-American Swimmer Valerie Tarazi On Gaza: ‘I Swim To Compete, They Swim To Survive’ | Middle East Eye
“While I prepare to swim in Paris, I’m racing to compete. I watch the news and I see people swimming to receive packages from the sea.” Valerie Tarazi, an American-Palestinian swimmer set to compete in the Paris Olympics, highlighted the plight of Palestinians in Gaza at a send-off ceremony for the Palestinian Olympic delegation in…
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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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Riley Gaines, “Swimming Against the Current” | C-SPAN
In 2022, collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines tied for 5th place in the 200m freestyle final at the NCAA Women’s Championships. The swimmer she tied with was transgender athlete Lia Thomas. Since then, Riley Gaines has become an outspoken critic of transgender women competing in women’s sports and has even testified on the issue before Congress.…
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Sam Short From Canet, France | Australian Dolphins Swim Team
The Big Short: Sam Short is buzzing with fast times at Olympic Training Camp, Canet-en-Roussillon
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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…