Tag: swimming
Swimming: Katie Ledecky’s huge 800m streak broken – snapped after 13 years
The remarkable event took place in Orlando, USA, on Thursday. Canadian 17-year-old Summer McIntosh won in 8.11.39, bettering her personal best by nine seconds and setting a Canadian record. After…
Horror film with an absolutely bizarre story that will make you think carefully about your next visit to the swimming pool
What Steven Spielberg’s classic Jaws did to the sea, the new horror film Night Swim wants to repeat for swimming pools and garden pools. From now on you can watch…
Open water swimmer Van Rouwendaal becomes world champion for the second time
Van Rouwendaal, previously world champion in 2022, took the lead again in the penultimate round. In the final round, the Baarn native was joined by the Australian Moesha Johnson, her…
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…