March 8, 2022
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Members of the Ukraine National Artistic Swimming Team will live and train at the Federal Training Center in Ostia, Rome after Russia invaded their country.
June 28, 2021
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The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. China's Sun Yang had his doping ban reduced to four years and will miss the 2020 Olympic Games
June 23, 2021
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Reigning 1500m freestyle Olympic champion Gregorio Paltrinieri is suffering from mononucleosis just one month out from this year's Games in Tokyo.
May 9, 2021
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The European Championships start in Budapest on Monday with 51 countries competing in swimming, open water, diving and artistic swimming.
March 20, 2020
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The European Aquatics Championships , the continental showcase event for swimming scheduled for May 11-24 in Budapest , Hungary, has been postponed. The news on a shift to August for the continental swimming showcase by the European Swimming League (LEN) confirms what sources tol yesterday as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to take a toll, global infections passing the quarter of a million mark, deaths now topping 10,000, Italy now counting more graves than China, where the outbreak of the virus began back in mid-November last year. The European Aquatics Championships, ...
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European Aquatics Championships postponed until August ...
March 20, 2020
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A member of the Japanese Olympic Committee has said it’s time to postpone this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, publicly going against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and it’s recent statement that the plan was for the Games to go on as scheduled. Kaori Yamaguchi, a former judo world champion, told the Japanese news outlet “Nikkei” that the IOC is “putting athletes at risk”, and that she plans to argue her position when the Japanese Olympic Committee next meets on March 27. “As far as I can tell from news reports coming out of the U.S. and Europe, I don’t think the situatio ...
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Olympic committee official goes against IOC, "it’s time to postpone this summer’s Olympic Games"
March 20, 2020
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The circumstances linked to the outbreak of the coronavirus throughout the continent, the travel restrictions and the other measures currently implemented by most European governments forced the LE…
March 20, 2020
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Paolo Barelli translated from his native Italian the IOC issued a press release Italy Giusy Cisale here Italian Swimming Federation president believes that with many athletes unable to train it's unrealistic for the IOC to continue to plan on running the Games.
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Paolo Barelli pushes to postpone 2020 #Olympics