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FISU America Assembly elects representatives for next four years

  • FISU Section Pages

The FISU America 2024 Assembly took place, during which the authorities for various positions within the leadership of the International University Sports Federation of America were elected for the next four years. Alim Maluf Neto was re-elected President.

feature competitions in: Chess, Athletics, Basketball, Futsal, Judo, Karate, Taekwondo, Weightlifting, Swimming


Paris 2024: Torch Relay Test Event, a real success

  • Paris 2024

Like the elite athletes, the Torch Relay has been fine-tuning its training, with a key test on 22 March. This first full one-day test was successfully carried out in the Aube, a unique area on the outskirts of Paris, where the final Torchbearer will finish in Troyes.

Roger Couderc stadium in Nogent-sur-Seine, via the Nigloland theme park in Dolancourt, the 3 Vagues swimming


Paris 2024: Volunteers Convention gathers 40,000 volunteers ready to party

  • Paris 2024

Paris 2024 held its Volunteer Convention to give the 45,000 volunteers selected for the Games a unique behind-the-scenes experience of the world's biggest sporting event. The event took place at the Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre, a future venue for the Paris 2024 Games.

 "At the Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre, which will host the swimming, para-swimming and water


ICF hails legacy of Rio 2016 venue after hosting Olympic qualifier

  • Canoeing

The International Canoe Federation (ICF) has praised the sustainability of the Canoe Slalom venue used during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after it hosted the Pan American qualifier for Paris 2024.

Park and is now used the year as a training base for the Brazilian Canoe Slalom team and as a public swimming

This venue is a public swimming pool used by the citizens of Rio.

It is part of a larger recreational park, so the citizens can use it for swimming," said Konietzko.

 Part of the Deodoro Radical Park is used as a public swimming pool.

During the week, aqua gym and swimming lessons are offered and at weekends it functions as a public pool


Jessica Long turned 'anger and abandonment' into Paralympic glory

  • Swimming News

Paralympic swimming legend Jessica Long is aiming for more success at the upcoming Paris Games after

Jessica Long is a swimming legend for the USA, having won 29 Paralympic medals - one more than Michael

after being adopted from an orphanage at the age of one by American couple Steve and Beth Long.The swimming


African Games: Egypt, six gold medals short of a historic haul

  • Ghana 2023

Egypt has been the dominant force in the African Games throughout the history of the competition. In this year’s event, hosted in Ghana, could reach a historic achievement by getting 100 gold medals in just one Games.

No matter what sport it was, Bassem Amin at chess demonstrated its superiority or at the swimming pool


Paris 2024: IOC approves change of nationality for seven athletes

  • Olympics

 At its meeting on Tuesday, the Executive Board of the IOC approved the requests of seven athletes to change their Olympic nationality in order to be eligible to take part in the next Olympic Summer Games. The decision was taken on the basis of Article 41 of the Olympic Charter.

Olympic Games:Chahrazed Ayachi – Wrestling – from France to Tunisia Anastasiia Kirpichnikova – Swimming

Wrestling – from Russia to Serbia Rachel Neylan – Cycling – from Australia to Ireland Lisa Pou – Swimming

– from France to Monaco Levenia Sim – Swimming – from the USA to SingaporeIngrid Simão Souto Maior


Scaled-down 2026 Commonwealth Games?

  • Commonwealth Games

The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) said on Monday that it was considering hosting a scaled-down Commonwealth Games in 2026, although the final decision would rest with the government.

which split from Malaysia in the 1960s) hosts the annual Formula One night race and will host the World Swimming


Brisbane 2032: Stadium plans change

  • Brisbane 2032

Brisbane Olympic Games organisers are moving away from their original plans for the 2032 Summer Games, rejecting the idea of a new stadium to replace the existing Gabba. They have the backing of Athletics Australia and others to upgrade other existing structures instead.

Organisers have yet to decide where to build an indoor stadium to host swimming during the Games, although


The FISU Interamerican Games to be held in Cali from 5-14 November

  • FISU Section Pages

The continent's most important university sporting event is changing its dates to avoid coinciding with the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) in Santiago de Cali.

Regulations and in the entry forms for each event).As compulsory sports: Chess, Athletics, Basketball, Judo, Swimming


Kaylee McKeown 24 hundredths off the 100m backstroke world record

  • Swimming

The Australian swam 57.57 at the New South Wales Championships, just 24 hundredths of a second off her world record of 57.33. In just four months' time, McKeown will defend her Olympic title at Paris 2024.

performance of all time, and now she owns 8 of the 10 fastest swims in history. pic.twitter.com/DkcM52hheL— Swimming


Paris 2024 Organising Committee examines the legacy of the Olympic Games

  • Paris 2024

Five months before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, all the stakeholders gathered at the Docks d'Aubervilliers in Seine-Saint-Denis to take stock of six years of work and to set out their commitments to ensure that the momentum of the Games does not dissipate once the event is over.

A total of four new aquatic centres, 18 new swimming pools, 24 Games preparation centres and new and


Paris 2024: Hellenic Olympic Committee presents team uniforms

  • Paris 2024

In a glamorous event held at the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC), the organisation thanked its sponsors, introduced the new High Priestess, the new composer of the music for the Olympic Flame Ceremony and the new priestesses' costumes. Six athletes also presented the 4F outfits that will be worn by the Greek delegation at Paris 2024.

Olympic Games in Paris, was also presented by top Greek athletes such as Evangelia Platanioti (artistic swimming

Alexandra Asimaki (water polo), Christina Bourbou (rowing), Stefanos Ntouskos (rowing), Dimitris Markos (swimming


FISU World University Games 2025: New 'Sportpark Lohrheide' on schedule

  • FISU Section Pages

Exciting developments are taking place in Bochum-Wattenscheid: The renovation of the 'Lohrheidestadion' and the surrounding area, designated as the venue for the athletics competitions of the 2025 Rhine-Ruhr FISU World University Games, is progressing smoothly.

Medals will be awarded in sports including athletics, swimming and basketball, among others.


Swimming at the African Games: Egypt on top, South Africa close

  • Ghana 2023

Egyptian swimmers are leading the medals table, but South Africa is the country with the most medals after three days of competition at the 13th African Games in Accra. The four athletes with the most medals of the entire event are swimmers.

With two days of swimming remaining at the 13th African Games, Egypt's dominance at Ghana 2023 extends

also to swimming as they lead the medal table with 11 golds, but South Africa could stage a comeback

African Games, Accra 2023 (@Accra2023AG) March 10, 2024The male swimmers have led Egypt to the top of the swimming

However, South Africa has won more medals, 30 to 22.Other countries that have won gold medals in the swimming

 There are 16 more opportunities to win a swimming medal at the African Games between the last two