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Three 400m runners qualify for Paris 2024 at Central American and Caribbean Games

  • Multi-Sport Games

Trinidad and Tobago's Jereem Richards and Saint Lucia's Michael Joseph qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympics in the men's 400 metres at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, and Dominican Republic's Marileidy Paulino secured her place in the women's event.

4-2 in the match for bronze.The medals-table topping nation found further success in the open water swimming



Duncan Mackay: Indonesia’s 2036 Olympic bid sunk by ANOC World Beach Games fiasco

  • Inside the Blogs

Indonesia, a chain of thousands of islands between Asia and Australia, Southeast Asia's biggest economy and ethnically diverse, with more than 300 local languages, seemed like an attractive new destination for the sports world when it begun bidding for major events.

But Israelis were still due to compete in the open water swimming."Don’t ask me.


Solomon Islands athletes depart for Pacific Games training in China

  • Solomon Islands 2023

A group of 80 athletes set to compete for the Solomon Islands at their home Pacific Games later this year have left for China to undergo an intensive 90-day training programme.

the Pacific Games for the first time, it agreed to train 80 athletes across athletics, boxing, judo, swimming



Fifty years since the first World Aquatics Championships

  • The Big Read

This week, the next generation of swimmers have been in action at the European Junior Championships in Belgrade but 50 years ago, the same city was the setting for the inaugural World Championships in aquatic sports.

host them.The idea was also discussed in meetings at the Mexico 1968 Olympics.By December, Italian Swimming

, diving, water polo and artistic swimming, then known as synchronised swimming."

The main stumbling block is money," concluded Pat Besford, a respected swimming journalist who later

It is sure to be a good thing for swimming, they have made a lot of progress in a very short time, it

swimming coach, made an undeniable offer: to make him a world champion before he was 16.



Paris Prefect Guillaume insists River Seine will be "above standards required" for test events

  • Paris 2024

International Olympic Committee and Paris 2024 Organising Committee when the river is used for marathon swimming

test events in the summer of 2023," Guillaume insisted.The Paris leg of the World Aquatics Open Water Swimming

triathlon on August 19 and mixed relays on August 20.The River Seine is set to be used for marathon swimming

scheduled for July 30 and 31 2024, with the mixed team event set to take place on August 5.Marathon swimming

and 9 2024.At the Paralympics, the Paratriathlon events are planned on September 1 and 2.Open water swimming

When the Olympics were first held in Paris in 1900, eight swimming events took place in the waters of





Patrick Burke: European Games gradually finding its place in congested continental calendar

  • Inside the Blogs

On paper, the European Games as a concept should thrive in a continent which loves its sport. Its inaugural edition in Baku in 2015 completed a full set of five continental Games across the Olympic Movement.

Regarding swimming, he said that while a full European Championships programme may not be feasible due

We have very good relations with the European Federation, so there is I think a mutual wish to have swimming

Having European Championships in swimming I don't think is feasible, the number of athletes at such a

Of course swimming qualification for the Olympics is based on times.

We are in talks with LEN, but from both sides there is a wish to have swimming on the programme."



Azerbaijan's Rahimov elected as IBSA President in Fátima

  • Paralympics

Ilgar Rahimov was elected as the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) President at its Extraordinary General Assembly in Fátima, Portugal.

South Korea and Gael Riviera of France were chosen as regional representatives.Five-time Paralympic swimming