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Molly Renshaw Matches British Record, Abbie Wood A Touch Away; Greenbank & Peaty Powerful As Brits Return To L/C Racing At Manchester International

The first day of the Manchester International Swim Meet, a moment of relief and race-pace test for the best of Britain swimmers who have not experienced much action of late,...
Craig Lord 2021-02-12 4 minutes
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Tokyo Olympics Boss Yoshihiro Mori Resigns Over Sexist Remarks

Tokyo Olympics Boss Yoshihiro Mori has announced his resignation a week after he made derogatory, discriminatory and sexist remarks about women in the work place. Mori’s demise, announced by Kyodo...
Craig Lord 2021-02-12 3 minutes
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Anti-Doping Sweat Patch & Silkworm Sensor Is Fast & Cheap; May End Long Waits In Control Room & Need To Watch Athletes Pee

Researchers in South Korea have developed an Anti-Doping sweat patch sensor system that is cheap and fast, can be scaled for use at major events such as the Olympics and...
Craig Lord 2021-02-11 3 minutes
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Sarah Sjostrom nurses a broken elbow after a fall on the ice; top right, sending a message to Rikako Ikee, with Maggie McNeil and Emma McKeon on the podium at World titles in 2019; and, Rikako Ikee, sending a message back...(Images, courtesy of Sarah Sjostrom and Roikako Ikee, Instagram; and Patrick B. Kraemer, on the podium)

Sarah Sjostrom Olympic Defence On Thin Ice After Swedish Ace Breaks Elbow In Fall

Sarah Sjostrom, the Olympic 100m butterfly champion and multiple holder of World titles and records, suffered a blow in her quest to defend the crown at the delayed Tokyo 2020...
Craig Lord 2021-02-08 3 minutes
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Best Of British To Race In Pandemic-Compliant Bubble At Manchester International This Month – Adam Peaty Leading the Charge At Olympic-Race Test Event

Adam Peaty, James Wilby, Luke Greenbank and Paralympic champions Ellie Simmonds and Ellie Robinson and their Britain teammates will race this month at the Manchester International after organisers and backers...
Craig Lord 2021-02-04 4 minutes
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Yoshi Mori, head of Tokyo 2020 organising committee and a man who cops it today in Japanese media and at home over sexist remarks

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Boss Yoshiro Mori Cops It At Home & Abroad Over Sexist “Women Too Talkative For Boards” Remarks

Yoshiro Mori, the head of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, has apologised for making sexist remarks about “talkative” women in sports organisations, but said he would not resign. Mori, a former...
Craig Lord 2021-02-04 4 minutes
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Clap But Don’t Sing For Athletes At Tokyo 2020 Olympics Says Playbook Guide To Games In COVID Season

Those fans, parents and supporters of athletes who do make it to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics from July this year should clap but not sing as a precautionary...
Craig Lord 2021-02-03 4 minutes
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Army Of High-Achievers Calls On Team Biden To Find Middle Way In Transgender Female Rules To Protect Integrity and Fairness of Women’s Sport

High-profile athletes and other advocates for safety and fairness for women in sport in the United States have proposed federal legislation to exempt girls’ and women’s competitive sports from President...
Craig Lord 2021-02-02 6 minutes
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Scrap Olympic Charter Rule 50 Barring Freedom Of Expression: Global Athlete Calls On Olympic and Paralympic Sponsors To Back Athletes’ Rights

The TOP sponsors of Olympic sport must demand that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) “respect athlete freedom of expression and rescind Olympic Charter Rule 50...
Craig Lord 2021-01-29 6 minutes
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Cate Campbell

Cate Campbell Feels Tokyo 2020 “Off” Headlines In The Pit Of Her Stomach As Olympic Bosses Stay “On Message”

Cate Campbell is among many elite athletes feeling Tokyo 2020 “off” headlines in the pit of her stomach. All she can do is work on, pray and hope and believe...
Craig Lord 2021-01-23 5 minutes
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Olympic Tickets To Tokyo 2020 For Six Canadian Swimmers At Core Of Efforts To Work Through Covid Crisis

The Canadian Olympic Committee and Swimming Canada have provisionally nominated six swimmers for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, set to get underway from July 23, COVID-19 pandemic allowing. As...
Craig Lord 2021-01-23 5 minutes
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Japan ‘Privately Concludes’ It Cannot Host Delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics While Publicly Insisting ‘Games Will Go On’

The Japanese government has privately concluded that the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will have to be cancelled because of the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, the nation’s capital looking instead...
Craig Lord 2021-01-22 3 minutes
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Adam Peaty, Duncan Scott, Luke Greenbank & James Wilby Pre-Selected By GBR For Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Britain has pre-selected Olympic champion Adam Peaty, fellow World-Champion medley relay members Duncan Scott and Luke Greenbank, as well as the nation’s second breaststroke podium chaser, James Wilby, for the...
Craig Lord 2021-01-20 4 minutes
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“Working From Home Isn’t An Option” – Cate Campbell Advocates COVID Jab Priority For Olympic Athletes (2nd Or 3rd Phase) If Needed To Save The Games

The best point among many made by Cate Campbell when the Australian Olympic gold medallist argues today in the Sydney Morning Herald for athletes to be granted priority in “second...
Craig Lord 2021-01-12 4 minutes
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Reaching beyond the blue of his lane into the black and white of life and its bigger issues: Adam Peaty - snapped by Gary McCaffery on a training camp in Tenerife - courtesy of Gmcphotography.org

Adam Peaty Wants UK Swimming Pools & Leisure Centres To Stay Open “At All (financial) Costs”

Adam Peaty wants pools and leisure centres should be kept open ‘at whatever (financial) cost’ in Britain, in the face of a UK Government plan to close down facilities in...
Craig Lord 2020-10-16 4 minutes
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Why Water Safety Holds Hands With Pool Culture & Risk Assessment On Swimming Revival

As many nations contemplate water safety the dangers of a second wave of the novel Coronavirus COVID-19, swimming and the home of swimmers, the swimming pool – and with them...
Craig Lord 2020-10-16 12 minutes
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Seb Coe: “If an athlete wishes to take a knee on a podium, then I am supportive of that. Athletes are a part of the world”

Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said on a site visit to Tokyo 2020 Olympic facilities, that athletes should have...
Craig Lord 2020-10-09 4 minutes
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Italy’s Alex Di Giorgio Tests Positive For Banned Substance – Inquiry & Defence Begin

Alex Di Giorgio, the Italian 200m free specialist, has tested positive for a banned substance in an out-of-competition check by agents from the national anti-doping agency Nado Italia. The test...
Craig Lord 2020-10-08 < 1 minutes

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