Tag: Tokyo 2020
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Kylie Masse: “I was always comfortable in the water.” | The Big Picture | CBC Sports
Competitive swimmer Kylie Masse is the first Canadian woman to win a world title in swimming at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. A year earlier in Rio 2016, she won bronze for the women’s 100m backstroke. Now she is heading to Tokyo 2020.
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Five UVA Swimmers Are Headed to Tokyo
Five UVA swimmers are on the U.S. Olympic swim team headed to Tokyo.
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Myanmar’s Top Swimmer Gives Up Olympic Dream to Protest Military Coup | TIME
Win Htet Oo worked all his life to become an elite swimmer, with the dream of representing Myanmar at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But after the Feb. 1 military coup that overthrew the democratically elected government in Myanmar, he forfeited his chance at Olympic glory, saying he would not represent the military junta in international…
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Marathon Swimmer, Michelle Weber Chats Tokyo Olympics | Expresso Show
The countdown to the Tokyo Olympics has begun! In just 11 days Team South Africa will compete in 17 of the 33 Olympic sports on offer. South Africa’s squad will include 185 athletes, one of them being Olympic marathon swimmer Michelle Weber, who specializes in the 10km event. The 24-year-old has been on SA’s elite…
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Former Uni-High Swimmer Ema Rajic Will Represent Croatia at Olympic Games | WCIA
WCIA 3’s Marlee Wierda chats 1-on-1 with future Olympian and former Uni-High swimmer Ema Rajic. The current Cal swimmer will represent Croatia at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, after coming off a standout junior season. Rajic set multiple school records on the way to a Pac-12 Championship, and will compete in her first Olympic event…
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Extra Olympic Year Helped American Swimmer Torri Huske Make the Tokyo Games a Reality | USA Today
At 18, Torri Huske already holds American record in 100 fly and she’s just getting started.
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“We chose to keep our dreams alive†Yusra Mardini | #StrongerTogether | Olympics
The starting line doesn’t care who we are. Yusra Mardini reminds us that each refugee Olympic athlete has a different story. Each carried their dreams across oceans, deserts, and cities to form a team that defies borders and belongs to everyone. #StrongerTogether #Tokyo2020 #Olympics.
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More Than a Dozen Olympians With East Tennessee Connections Head to Tokyo | WBIR Channel 10
Over the weekend, a UT swimmer also joins that list.