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• ‘Sometimes you really have to let go’: can Olympians embrace retirement?

  11-08-2024 09:00
  Alice Dearing, the first Black swimmer to represent Team GB, ended her career in April – and has some advice for those retiring after the Paris OlympicsAlice Dearing knew she would retire if she failed to qualify for the Paris Olympics. So when things began to go “catastrophically wrong” for the 27-year-old Team GB swimmer in the middle of a qualifying event earlier this year, she was forced to confront not only the demise of her dream of Paris, but the end of her career.Dearin
  
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• San Jose State Women’s Volleyball Team Finds Itself at Center of Transgender Debate

  29-10-2024 20:35 via nytimes.com
  
  After reports that the team includes a transgender player, several schools have forfeited matches against the university out of protest.
  
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• Christian Louboutin Makes a Splash at Paris Fashion Week

  28-09-2024 16:43 via nytimes.com
  
  Christian Louboutin enlisted the French Olympic synchronized swimming team to introduce his new Miss Z stilettos at Paris Fashion Week.
  
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• College Investigating Report of a Student Scratching a Racial Slur on Another

  22-09-2024 23:46 via nytimes.com
  
  A family says their son, a member of the swim team at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, was victimized when a teammate etched the slur across his chest with a box cutter.
  
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• Beaches Close in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia as Needles Wash Ashore

  16-09-2024 15:07 via nytimes.com
  
  Beachgoers were urged to stay out of the water after dozens of hypodermic needles, as well as tampon applicators and other medical waste, were found on beaches over the weekend.
  
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• WADA Report Concludes China Broke Rules in Doping Case

  12-09-2024 21:59 via nytimes.com
  
  An investigator hired by the global antidoping regulator found no bias toward China in a case that has outraged Olympic athletes and led to an F.B.I. investigation.
  
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• Australia’s Paralympic athletes’ final week in action in Paris – in pictures

  07-09-2024 04:03
  World records and gold medals have been just part of the story during the second week of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. Here are some of the highlightsAustralia’s Tim Hodge calls for greater para-sport funding after winning third medal Continue reading...
  
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• Lindsay Mintenko Resigns as Managing Director of the National Team

  06-09-2024 21:15 via usaswimming.org
  Lindsay Mintenko, Managing Director of the National Team at USA Swimming, the national governing ...
  
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• Swimming Australia sack Olympic coach after ‘Go Korea’ comment at Paris 2024

  06-09-2024 02:25
  
  Michael Palfrey said he hoped South Korean would win 400m freestyleAustralia’s Elijah Winnington won silver with Sam Short fourthIn the tight-knit sport of swimming, the utterance of “Go Korea” from within the Australian camp is now a sackable offence.The position of Michael Palfrey as a Swimming Australia coach was terminated on Friday following his comment in support of a South Korean swimmer before the Paris Olympics that was dubbed “un-Australian” by his boss. C
  
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• From a shark attack to Paralympic silver: Truwit’s remarkable journey

  05-09-2024 21:16
  American wins medal just 16 months after losing a leg while Becky Redfern and Alice Tai win golds for Great BritainEven in the story-laden world of the Paralympics, where things are never monochrome, it is hard to trump getting your leg bitten off by a shark one year and swimming for medals in Paris the next.Yet that is the true tale behind the success of Ali Truwit, the 24-year-old former Yale competitive swimmer and now silver medallist at La Défense Arena in the S10 400m freestyle
  
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• 6 European Cities Where You Can Swim in the Wild

  04-09-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Looking to take a dip in or near a city center? Here are some urban areas that have successfully opened up waterways for swimmers.
  
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• Australia’s Paralympics 2024 glory: week one – in pictures

  03-09-2024 08:30
  Australia’s first-ever rowing gold, pool victory for mixed relay team and table tennis triumph as medals pile up in first week of Paris Paralympic Games The latest medal table | Full results Continue reading...
  
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• Britain's Sam Farrow claims women’s record for Lake Geneva crossing – video

  02-09-2024 12:32
  
  The British endurance swimmer, Sam Farrow, is believed to have broken a world record with the fastest swim by a woman across Lake Geneva. Farrow, a 31-year-old from Wigan, swam the length of the lake from the Château de Chillon to the Bains des Pâquis – a distance of 45.2 miles (72.8km) – in 22hr and 48min. "I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet," Farrow said. "We went out there to try and get the fastest British female record and just in hopes of finishing it.
  
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• The Lure of New York’s Secret Swimming Holes

  02-09-2024 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Tucked into forests and often unmarked on maps, swimming holes offer relief from increasingly hot summers but also pose risks for adventure seekers.
  
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• British swimmer claims women’s record for fastest Lake Geneva crossing

  01-09-2024 17:42
  
  Sam Farrow, from Wigan, says she is in ‘complete shock’ after swimming 45.2-mile length of lake in 22h 48mA British endurance swimmer is believed to have broken a world record for the fastest swim across Lake Geneva.Sam Farrow, 31, from Wigan, swam the length of the lake from the Château de Chillon to the Bains des Pâquis – a distance of 45.2 miles (72.8km) – in 22 hours and 48 minutes. Continue reading...
  
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• ParalympicsGB enjoy Super Saturday in pool as Clegg, Ellard and Tai win gold

  31-08-2024 19:17
  Trio of swimmers take gold in flurry at La Défense ArenaMaskill adds a silver and Fiddes bronze in medal delugeParalympicsGB swimmers enjoyed a Super Saturday in Paris, collecting five medals – including three golds – in a 40-minute flurry at La Défense Arena, and breaking two world records in the process.The deluge helped solidify Great Britain’s spot in second place in the medal table – China having disappeared over the horizon at the top – on a day
  
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• Athlete Accused of Abuse Had Harassed Other Paralympians, Lawsuit Claims

  31-08-2024 17:40 via nytimes.com
  
  A para swimmer who sued the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee in 2022 now says it knew that the teammate he accused of rape was a threat.
  
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• Maisie Summers-Newton overcomes nerves to retain Paralympic medley title

  30-08-2024 19:46
  
  Briton destroys field in SM6 200m individual medley‘I have a lot of self-doubt, no matter how hard I train’Maisie Summers-Newton says she had to overcome “a lot of self doubt” on making her return to the Paralympic pool in Paris. Watching on you would not have known it, however, as the 22-year-old destroyed the field to retain her Paralympic title in the women’s SM6 200m individual medley on Friday night.A breakout British star of the Tokyo Games, where she won two
  
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• Poppy Maskill earns ParalympicsGB’s first Paris gold with world-record swim

  29-08-2024 23:32
  Teenager wins ‘unreal’ S14 100m women’s butterflyTully Kearney adds second gold in S5 200m freestyleBritain’s first gold medal of the Paralympic Games went to a teenager, and in world record time, as Poppy Maskill cleared the field in the pool to win the S14 100m women’s butterfly, a moment she described as “unreal”.The 19-year-old from Middlewich, competing in her first Paralympics, led from the front and held off the challenge of Hong Kong’s Yui
  
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• ‘We lived one day at a time’: how Ukraine’s Paralympians kept their dream alive

  26-08-2024 13:08
  Displaced from their homes and bombed-out training facilities, Ukraine’s Paralympic swimmers have somehow still made it to ParisAt the near end of the pool hangs a banner depicting a soldier, standing in a field of golden corn underneath a rich blue sky. A column of tanks stretches behind him and overhead flies a national flag that the scene’s essential elements are designed to replicate. “I believe in the armed forces, glory to Ukraine!” reads the accompanying slogan. Be
  
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• Three things with Michael Klim: ‘If times get really tough, I can always sell my Olympic medals’

  25-08-2024 17:00
  In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the athlete turned author shares why he doesn’t keep his trophies at home – and the object he can’t live withoutRead more Three Things interviewsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailLike many of us, Michael Klim spent much of the past month tuning into the Paris Olympics. Unlike most viewers, however, the two-time gold medallist could relate to how the athletes on screen were feeling.“There’s some g
  
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• Michigan Doctor Accused of Recording Nude Images in Hospitals and Changing Rooms

  23-08-2024 00:28 via nytimes.com
  
  Dr. Oumair Aejaz recorded women and children in a swimming school’s changing room, the police said. The authorities also say he filmed patients in hospitals.
  
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• The Trials of a Paralympian Whose Disability Doesn’t Always Show

  22-08-2024 09:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Christie Raleigh Crossley has trained for most of her life to be an Olympic swimmer. After surviving two car crashes and a brain tumor, she is finally going for gold.
  
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• Former Investigator Assails World Anti-Doping Agency

  20-08-2024 01:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The agency, which has faced intense criticism for its handling of positive tests among Chinese swimmers, should be replaced by a “truly independent” organization, its former chief investigative officer said.
  
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• Frank Chalmers obituary

  19-08-2024 18:54
  My father, Frank Chalmers, was a journalist and political activist who also achieved a degree of fame as a wild swimmer.Always keen to take to the open water, Frank never missed the New Year’s Day “dook” in the River Tay near Dundee, where he was born, and in his 40s embarked on a series of intrepid swimming feats. Continue reading...
  
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• China’s Extreme Fan Culture Makes Olympic Gold a Mixed Blessing

  14-08-2024 08:25 via nytimes.com
  
  Fans have mobbed athletes in public and staked out their homes. State media outlets denounced their “visibly aggressive” behavior.
  
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• Paris Olympics 2024: Guardian photographers at the Games – picture essay

  13-08-2024 21:00
  Among 1,578 accredited photographers in the French capital were three covering the Games for the Guardian and ObserverAfter the Covid-affected Olympics in Tokyo, Paris 2024 welcomed the return of packed stadiums, venues and also photographer enclosures. Among the 1,578 accredited photographers were three covering the Games for the Guardian and Observer.A multiple exposure shot of Alice D’Amato performing on the vault during the final of the women’s gymnastics team all-around where th
  
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• Less is more: LA Olympic Games do not need every sport so let’s cut your favourite | Jonathan Liew

  12-08-2024 21:00
  With five extra sports at LA 2028, events that feel peripheral, repetitive or involve horses should face the chopBehold the giant feast. Courses upon courses. Over the past 17 days this has been a city engorged, its every nook and crevice stuffed with sport, to the point where they had to parcel some of it off to the outskirts and even wrap some of it up in a doggy bag and send it to Tahiti.Are we not sated? As we stagger down the boulevards with a toothpick and a smug burp, trying not to think
  
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• Highs, lows and Snoop Dogg: the Guardian’s most memorable Paris Olympic moments

  12-08-2024 13:00
  Léon Marchand and Antoine Dupont led the way as home athletes put on a show, but it was the city itself that proved the ultimate star of a wonderful GamesBest moment Julien Alfred winning the women’s 100m, St Lucia’s first medal in any Olympic Games. Followed instantly by panic at how to write 900 coherent words on this in the next 20 minutes. Continue reading...
  
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• From Biles to Yee and Bol: 10 great moments at the Paris Olympics

  11-08-2024 09:00
  Abiding memories of the Games included Marchand’s dominance, Ngamba’s bronze and 100m and 1500m thrillersThree years after Simone Biles was forced to withdraw from all but one of her Olympic finals due to the twisties, she returned to produce one of the great Games comebacks. Across nine days of excellence that yielded three gold medals and a silver, Biles most notably held off a brilliant challenge from Rebeca Andrade to become the oldest ever all-around champion
  
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