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US swimmers face paying own way to compete at Chengdu 2021

  • Swimming

American swimmers face paying more than $3,000 (£2,450/€2,800) to compete at this year's International University Sports Federation Summer World University Games in Chengdu.

to participate in the Chinese city will need to pay $2,595 plus the cost of plane tickets after USA Swimming

no support from the national governing body, athletes face paying their own way to compete in the US swimming

other sporting events.The US-IUSF is inviting student-swimmers to compete at Chengdu 2021 after USA swimming

The US topped the swimming medal table when the Games were last staged in Naples in 2019 after notching



McKeown smashes four-year-old backstroke world record

  • Swimming

Australia's triple Olympic gold medallist Kaylee McKeown has broken the 200 metres world backstroke record at the Sydney Olympic Aquatic Centre on a dramatic night at the New South Wales State Open Championships.


Ofosu-Asare confident Accra 2023 facilities will be finished on time

  • Ghana 2023

Accra 2023 African Games executive chairman Kwaku Ofosu-Asare says he is confident that facilities for the event would be completed on time.

is expected to be finished by February 2024 ©Accra 2023"For Borteyman, the key facility there is the swimming

With the swimming pool what came up yesterday was that we can have the open one, and if we are to have




Gulyas and Elgendy rally for individual wins at Pentathlon World Cup

  • Modern Pentathlon

Hungary's Michelle Gulyas and Egyptian Ahmed Elgendy both produced stunning comebacks to take individual victories at the Pentathlon World Cup in Cairo.

Abdelmaksoud made up the top three with 1,392 points across the four disciplines of riding, fencing, swimming


National Olympic Committee of Kenya to host Beach Games in Malindi

  • ANOCA

The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC-K) has announced that its inaugural Beach Games is scheduled to be held in Malindi from March 17 to 19.

soccer, tennis, 4X4 volleyball, rowing, freestyle football, kata karate, kiteboarding and open-water swimming


Record-setting diver McCormick dies aged 92 in California

  • Diving

Quadruple Olympic champion Pat McCormick has died of natural causes at the age of 92 in Santa Ana in the United States.

Kilimanjaro, boated down the Amazon river, and modelled for swimwear brand Catalina.The International Swimming

Hall of Fame inductee was visited by four-time Olympic swimming champion John Naber in her final days.Besides


Armenia NOC promises backing to Russia after meeting between two countries

  • EOC

Representatives from the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and National Olympic Committee of Armenia (ARMNOC) have met to discuss developing relations between the two bodies.

athletes in competitions hosted in Russia last year in a number sports, including judo, sailing, karate, swimming


Denmark's 1948 Olympic champion and long distance swimming pioneer Andersen dies aged 95

  • Swimming

Greta Andersen, winner of the Olympic 100 metres freestyle gold medal and 400m relay silver for Denmark at London 1948, before becoming one of the world’s most celebrated long-distance open water swimmers, has died at the age of 95.

unknown causes at her home in Solvang in California on February 6, was announced by the World Open Water Swimming

greatest female swimmer in history, according to Bruce Wigo, former President of the International Swimming

she emigrated to Long Beach in the United States to look for opportunities in open water, or marathon swimming

contests, which carried prizes of about $3,000 - worth about $33,000 today.For decades, she ran a swimming

school and health spa in Los Alamito,  teaching swimming to students of all ages.She was the first



Philip Barker: How Kuala Lumpur 1998 set a new course for the Commonwealth Games

  • Inside the Blogs

This week, 25 years ago on a sunny spring morning in London, an ensemble of 10 Bunga Manggar bearers carrying floral decorations and 20 drummers beating Kompang drums made their way onto the courtyard at Buckingham Palace. 

Auckland 1990 and Victoria 1994.They were joined by 1994 1500 metres champion Kelly Holmes and triple swimming

200 metres, only two years after her Olympic hockey gold medal at Atlanta 1996 ©Getty ImagesIn the swimming



Los Angeles middle school girls receive sportswear from LA28 during Girls Empowerment Day

  • Los Angeles 2028

The Los Angeles 2028 (LA28) Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee celebrated International Women's Day by gifting 2,100 middle school girls sportswear during the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) LA's second annual Girls Empowerment Day at the Dignity Health Sports Park.

commitment to create interest in the event.Kara Lynn Joyce, a four-time Olympic silver medallist in swimming