Tag: swimming
The keys to the Doha Swimming World Cups
By From February 2 to 18, Qatar welcomes the great specialists in water sports, with Paris on the horizon. In artistic swimming, Spain will try to get closer to the…
Swimmer Van Rouwendaal ready for the World Cup: ‘But luck plays a major role’
Van Rouwendaal is counting on this to work. She has recently been training about forty hours a week in Magdeburg, Germany. “My form has to be good enough. I am…
Veera Kivirinna’s swimming career on a new rise as a police officer – an unattainable dream still draws her to the pool: “Yes, it tickles” | Sport
Veera Kivirinta arrives at the main entrance of Helsinki’s Mäkelänrinne swimming hall exactly at the agreed time at 6:45. Normally, he shows up for morning rehearsals at five instead of…
Swimming: Sjöström won the classification in the debut of the year
Sjöström’s winning time was 25.23 – 49 hundredths above her WC gold time last year – and Junevik was almost a second behind at 26.22. In just over two weeks,…
Municipalities have to make drastic cuts: will the library and swimming pool remain open?
What is going on? Dutch municipalities expect a joint budget deficit of 1.1 billion euros in the so-called ‘ravine year’ 2026. Last year they still had 3.7 billion euros left.…
2024 World Swimming Championships: France without Marchand, Grousset, but with Bonnet in Doha
The French delegation will be very small for the next swimming worlds which are taking place in Doha. The long course swimming world championships are approaching. In an Olympic year…
Eid’s arm was amputated after the attack: “Swimming was everything to me”
The sea was 17-year-old Gazan Eid Salman’s favorite place. Now he has been in the hospital bed for just over a month. At the same time, more lives are being…
In Chad, Hissène Habré’s “swimming pool” finally razed
Chad’s most famous political prison, a hotbed of torture during the Hissène Habré regime, has just been demolished, as has the headquarters of the Documentation and Security Directorate. The place…
Opening ceremony, transport, swimming in the Seine… Amélie Oudéa-Castéra tries to reassure 7 months before the 2024 Olympics
“We’ll be ready!” At the microphone of BFMTV Monday evening, the Minister of Sports was reassuring a few months before the 2024 Olympic Games. Between July 26 and September 8,…
High tide in the Lek attracts a lot of attention and even a lonely swimmer
He often comes to this place, even in summer. He says he has many photos on his phone of the face of Ameide on the other side. He looks at…