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River Seine water quality branded "excellent" in boost to Paris 2024 events

  • Paris 2024

Testing of the River Seine has revealed that the water quality is "excellent", a Paris Deputy Mayor has claimed.

Former international rugby player Pierre Rabadan said the results meant test events for the marathon swimming

competitions at Paris 2024 could go ahead.It also means that the city's goal of opening the river to public swimming

to host a unique Olympic Opening Ceremony at Paris 2024, involving boats carrying athletes.Marathon swimming


Paris 2024 Olympic Flame set to be lit on April 16 at Olympia

  • Paris 2024

The Olympic Flame for Paris 2024 is set to be lit at Olympia in Greece on April 16 next year before departing for France around one week later.

visit five overseas territories, including Tahiti which is due to host surfing at Paris 2024.Olympic swimming



Thailand outshine Indonesia on third day of ASEAN Para Games

  • Paralympics

Thailand and Indonesia racked up almost 200 medals between them on the third day of competition at the Association of Southeast Asian Nation Para Games in Phnom Penh.

T46 and Kissanapong Tisuwan in the men’s 400m T12.Thailand and Indonesia got 25 medals each in Para swimming


Olympic champions among Britain’s 178-strong team for European Games

  • Kraków 2023

A total of 178 athletes have been selected to represent Britain at the upcoming European Games in Kraków-Małopolska.

Poland for this month’s Games.Britain are due to contest 18 disciplines including archery, artistic swimming

is set to be on the line in many disciplines, with direct quota spots available in archery, artistic swimming


Indonesia impress in athletics at ASEAN Para Games in Cambodia

  • Paralympics

Indonesia racked up a whopping 32 golds in a 72-medal haul on a dominant day at the Association of Southeast Asian Nation Para Games in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.

and they also achieved seven golds and five silvers in table tennis.They continued to top the Para swimming


Mike Rowbottom: In memory of Mike McFarlane, forever atop the Commonwealth podium with Allan Wells

  • Inside the Blogs

Shortly before the London 2012 Olympics began I was with a press group that visited the Aquatics Centre to meet Peter Huerzeler, the former President of Omega, overseeing the timing operation.

he said.But then, and now, swimming remains on hundredths but not thousands.The problem with introducing

thousandths of seconds in the swimming results, as he explained, comes down to this: one thousandth

separate them on the photographic evidence.Ten years earlier at the Munich 1972 Olympics the world of swimming



IPC President Parsons among speakers as Virtus Global Games opens in Vichy

  • Paralympics

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons was among the speakers as the 2023 Virtus Global Games was officially opened at Vichy Opera House in Vichy, France.

tennis, tennis, taekwondo, karate, judo, handball, futsal, horse riding, cycling, basketball, rowing, swimming


Indonesia storm to top of ASEAN Para Games medals table with 31 golds

  • Paralympics

Indonesia amassed 31 gold medals to lead the way on the first main day of competition at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Para Games in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh.

and 400 metres freestyle S9 events, respectively.They were two of Indonesia's nine gold medals won in swimming

participating nations.The ASEAN Para Games are due to continue tomorrow with 67 medals available in athletics, swimming




South Koreans repeat World Championships relay gold at UIPM World Cup Final

  • Modern Pentathlon

World champions Kim Wun-woo and Jun Woong-tae have triumphed in the relay event at the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Cup Final in Ankara.

1,338 points to their name.They picked up finishes of fourth, tenth, second, and third in fencing, swimming

rounded out the top three on 1,332.They overcame ninth and seventh-place results in the fencing and swimming


Micheli and Shaban clinch Paris 2024 places with UIPM World Cup Final wins

  • Modern Pentathlon

Italian Elena Micheli and Mohanad Shaban of Egypt have triumphed in the individual contests at the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) World Cup Final in Ankara.

sixth-place finish, an improvement from her 10th place in the semi-final.She then came second and third in swimming