Tag: Tokyo 2020
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USA Swimmer Ryan Murphy Says Family Received Online Abuse after Doping Claim – Tokyo 2020 | CGTN Sports Scene
United States Olympic swimmer Ryan Murphy said his family has received abusive messages after he made a doping claim after winning silver in the 200-meter backstroke on Saturday. Murphy’s charge that he was unsure the race was clean was taken as a shot at Russian winner Evgeny Rylov. He backtracked on Sunday, saying he was…
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‘Amazing Journey’ for Olympic Swimmers Siobhan Haughey, Maggie Macneil, Says Coach | South China Morning Post
On the final day of the swimming competition in Tokyo 2020, coach Rick Bishop says he could not be more proud of Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey and Canada’s Maggie MacNeil, who he has coached for six and three years respectively. Haughey took home two silver medals, becoming Hong Kong’s most decorated Olympian, while MacNeil claimed…
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Women’s 3m Diving 🥇 Last 5 Champions | Olympics
Enjoy this look back at the last 5 Women’s 3m Diving winners at the Olympics: Fu Mingxia 🇨🇳 / Sydney 2000 Guo Jingjing 🇨🇳 / Athens 2004 Guo Jingjing 🇨🇳/ Beijing 2008 Wu Minxia 🇨🇳/ London 2012 Shi Tingmao 🇨🇳/ Rio 2016
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Katie Ledecky 🏊♀️ Always Out to Make History | Olympics
US-American swimming star Katie Ledecky is a seven-time Olympic gold medallist! She made her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Having won 7 Olympic gold medals and 15 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer, she is widely considered the greatest female swimmer of all time. She talks…
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Certain Countries ‘Should Not Be Here’, Says Us Swimmer Lilly King | Guardian Sport
The ongoing doping war of words has continued after Lilly King said that ‘a lot of people here that should not be here’. King made her statements seated next to Ryan Murphy, another US swimmer who appeared to take aim this week at Russia, who have run afoul of doping rules. King later added: ‘I wasn’t racing…
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Tokyo 2020: Adam Peaty ‘An Inspiration’ for New Generation of Swimmers
Tom Parmenter chats to Team GB’s record-breaking swimming team. Team GB have now won 10 gold medals at the Tokyo Games and achieved their best-ever Olympic medal haul in swimming with four golds, three silvers, and a bronze. Duncan Scott became the first British athlete to win four medals at a single Olympics with a…
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Tokyo 2020: Ledecky, Dressel Pick Up More Swimming Golds | Inquirer
Comments from US swimming stars Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel as the pair add to their gold medal collection. A ‘really happy’ Ledecky stormed to her third straight Olympic 800m freestyle title with a dominant swim to bank her fourth medal in Tokyo while Dressel received his third gold of the games after smashing his…
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Olympic Pressure “Terrifying†but Worth It – USA Swim Star Dressel after 5 Golds – Tokyo 2020 | CGTN
Caeleb Dressel said the pressure of the Olympics was “terrifying” but worth it after he finished off his gold rush at the Tokyo games with two more dazzling swims on Sunday. The 24-year-old American captured his fourth and fifth gold medals of the Tokyo Games to move into elite company. Michael Phelps did it three…
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Team GB Win Gold Medals in Mixed Swimming and Triathlon Relays | Sky News
Team GB has added two gold medals to its haul at the Tokyo Olympics in new mixed male and female relay races.