Swimming

A test run meant to allow Olympic athletes to familiarize themselves with the marathon swimming course in the Seine River was canceled Tuesday over concerns about water quality in the Paris waterway. World Aquatics made the decision to…
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After days of delays and uncertainty over water quality in the Seine River, the women’s and men’s Olympic triathlon races will go forward Wednesday with a swim in the famed Paris waterway, organizers said. The decision to go ahead with…
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With scorching temperatures and power cuts, Wissam Abed cools off from Baghdad’s brutal summer by swimming in the Tigris River, but as Iraqi rivers dry up, so does the age-old pastime. Near a bridge linking the east of the city to the…
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Sarah Sjostrom, who has been winning world titles for 13 years, and Summer McIntosh, who has been winning them for four days, both collected their second gold medals of the week in Budapest on Saturday. Sjostrom, a 28-year-old Swede who…
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Dolphins are among the marine creatures that humans love to watch, especially when they jump over the water or swim on its surface, as is shown in a video clip taken on an American beach. And a video clip shows hundreds of dolphins…
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A North Korean defector wore a diving suit and fins during a daring six-hour swim around one of the world’s most fortified borders, a Seoul official said, and was caught only after apparently falling asleep. Bungling South Korean forces…
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Of all the things I’ve missed during the pandemic, swimming ranks high. In the water, all of my worries disappear, and as those worries have piled up at an alarming rate over the past six months while the pools in New York City have…
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