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Australia's Birmingham 2022 swimwear unveiled

  • Birmingham 2022

Australia’s swimmers are to wear 100 per cent chlorine-resistant race suits at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Commonwealth Games teams since the 1958 event in Cardiff, when Australia won all but one of the men’s swimming

The Australians have named a swimming team of 73, a line-up which includes 27 Para swimmers.At the Gold

Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, Australia won 28 gold medals in swimming and a further three in diving.Competition



Tanzania Olympic Committee hosts course for sports officials

  • ANOCA

The Tanzania Olympic Committee (TOC) has organised a course for sports officials, as part of its initial preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Federation of Tanzania, Tanzanian Athletics Federation, Zanzibar Athletic Association and the Tanzania Swimming


Sierra Leone

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

For Sierra Leone, the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games could not just be about the sport.

take a team of 30 athletes to Birmingham 2022 in athletics, badminton, boxing, judo, powerlifting, swimming


Paralympic swimming champion Dubrov dies aged 33

  • Swimming News

The Paralympic community has come together to mourn the loss of Ukrainian swimmer Denys Dubrov, who has died at the age of 33.

metres individual medley SM8, won four gold medals and 11 in total across two Paralympic Games.He began swimming

, however, as the athlete had previously been competing as an able-bodied swimmer.It was at the IPC Swimming

last year, Dubrov added three more Paralympic medals to his haul.To honour his success in the Para swimming


Botswana

  • Birmingham 2022 Chef de Mission interviews

At the 2017 World Athletics Championships, Botswana's Isaac Makwala was forced to run a solo 200 metres in front of a packed crowd at a wet London Stadium.

international basketball player.Botswana is sending 26 athletes to Birmingham 2022, with boxing, cycling, judo, swimming


Capralos praises European Olympic support for Ukraine as Flame of Peace lit for Banska Bystrica 2022

  • EOC

The "Flame of Peace" for the 2022 European Youth Olympic Festival in the Slovakian town of Banska Bystrica has began its journey from the temple of Ara Pacis in Rome, as European Olympic Committees President Spyros Capralos insisted it had a particular significance in 2022.

successive host city in a new EYOF tradition.The ceremony had been introduced by Massi Rossolini, Olympic swimming


Swimming programme for Santiago 2023 Parapan American Games revealed

  • Santiago 2023

A total of 148 Para swimming medal events are set to feature on the programme at the Santiago 2023 Parapan

submission of final entries, with "non-viable events" to be combined with previous classifications.Para swimming

treasurer of the National Paralympic Committee of Chile (COPACHI), welcomed the announcement on the Para swimming


Swimmer to raise money in rowing effort for Malta Paralympic Committee

  • Swimming News

Maltese swimmer Julian Bajada is set to row longer than any other Para athlete from his country for the Malta Paralympic Committee (MPC), who are raising money to set up their own programme in the sport.

Bajada, who represented his nation at the 2015 International Paralympic Committee Swimming World Championships


Eliott Brennan: Faroe Islands ambition on full display through growing sports facilities

  • Inside the Blogs

"People are crazy about sports," Jon Hestoy, the vice-president of the Faroese Confederation of Sports and Olympic Committee (FCSOC), argues while discussing how sport is viewed in the Faroe Islands.

serving in various sporting roles, including three separate terms as President of the Faroe Islands Swimming

internationally recognised are archery, badminton, darts, football, handball, judo, rowing, shooting, swimming

in sporting facilities.The North Atlantic archipelago poses 22 full scale football pitches, over 20 swimming

Svimjihøll sports complex is equipped with the facilities to stage handball, badminton, volleyball, swimming

training pitch and the home of football clubs B36 and Havnar Bóltfelag.A new Olympic-standard 50 metre swimming



Hangzhou set to open Asian Games venues to public

  • Hangzhou 2022

Chinese sports authorities have announced that the venues built for the postponed 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou will open from July "to benefit the people."

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FIG update code of conduct to ban gymnasts from displaying political propaganda in events

  • Gymnastics

Athletes have been officially banned from using political, racial or religious propaganda in competition by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).

athlete to have been banned for showing their support for the Ukraine invasion.Last month, double Olympic swimming

champion Evgeny Rylov was suspended for nine months by the International Swimming Federation after taking


Philip Barker: The many "firsts" of the London 1934 Games

  • Inside the Blogs

Next week, the Queen’s Baton is set to visit London as part of celebrations for her Platinum Jubilee.

motorway system and Birmingham's Gravelly Hill interchange, better known as "Spaghetti Junction".This swimming

began in October 1933 at a cost of £150,000 ($187,327/€177,352)Workers add finishing touches to the swimming

 Twelve kilometres away at Wembley, swimming and diving was under way.The indoor sports arena built


Site more than 150 miles from Paris now preferred venue for shooting at 2024 Olympics

  • Paris 2024

Châteauroux is now favourite to host shooting at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, according to reports in France.

Seine-Saint-Denis ©Paris 2024Officials in Seine-Saint-Denis do not want to lose shooting.Volleyball, badminton and swimming

Stade de France which will host athletics and rugby sevens is located there.Sport climbing, artistic swimming