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MULTIPLE triathletes have been hospitalised after swimming in the Seine at the Paris Olympics. The polluted river was used for the men’s, women’s and mixed relay triathlon events. It is also set to host the 10km open water swims on Thursday and Friday. However, two athletes have reportedly been hospitalised after swimming in the river. […]

Multiple Olympics 2024 athletes hospitalised after swimming in polluted Seine in nightmare for Paris organisers

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PARIS — (AP) — Quincy Hall became the latest American to electrify Olympic track and field with an out-of-nowhere comeback Wednesday night at the Paris Olympics. Hall sprinted from far behind in the 400 meters to reel in three runners and capture the gold medal. Hall, buried in fourth place as the runners rounded the last bend, outran the runner on his outside, then two more to the inside to cross the line in 43.40 seconds, the fourth-fastest time ever.

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Start your day with some Olympic climbing at 9 a.m. ET, as one female climber will walk away a gold medalist in the women’s speed final. 

Polish climber Aleksandra Miroslaw wowed the crowd at Le Bourget, breaking her own world record — twice — by recording a time of 6.21 seconds in her first run and 6.06 in her second. 

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PARIS (Reuters) -Netherlands' iron-woman Sharon van Rouwendaal claimed her second Olympic women's 10km marathon swimming gold as she snatched victory from her Australian friend and training partner Moesha Johnson in the long slog through the river Seine on Thursday.

Olympics-Swimming-Netherlands' Van Rouwendaal wins marathon gold after slog through Seine

Zac Stubblety-Cook tested positive for COVID-19 four days before winning silver in the men's 200 breaststroke at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography. Australian swimming legend Dawn Fraser revealed on a podcast this week that at least seven swimmers on the Australian team tested positive for...

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 The Paris Olympics will soon come to a close. U.S. gymnastics star Simone Biles made a triumphant return, taking her Olympic gold tally to seven. French swimmer Léon Marchand won five medals — four of them gold — fulfilling comparisons to Michael Phelps. Armand “Mondo” Duplantis won another gold medal, but the real show for the 80,000 at the Stade de France — which will be the site of Sunday's closing ceremony — was when he broke the world record for the ninth time.There's been controversy, too. Boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria has been in the spotlight because of...

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At the 2024 Pennsylvania Championships, Smith placed 9th in the 200 IM (2:11.57) and 13th in the 100 breast (1:08.39) to help Fox Chapel to a runner up finish Current photo via CJ Smith. Fitter and Faster Swim Camps is the proud sponsor of SwimSwam’s College Recruiting Channel and all...

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

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Stephen Nedoroscik, who has affectionately been nicknamed Pommel Horse Guy by the internet, is more than just a bronze medalist at the Paris Olympics. He is also a cat dad. And after we learned about his kitty, Kyushu, we knew that this gymnast was going to be a Dog O'Day favorite.

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The two best swimmers of the Olympics, Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh, both train in the U.S., but neither are American. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography. A famous swimmer asked us on Wednesday for an analysis of ‘Olympic swimming medalists who aren’t Americans, but trained in America.’

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PARIS (Reuters) - France will have the opportunity to win back-to-back gold medals in Olympic men's volleyball after the hosts dispatched world champions Italy in straight sets in Wednesday's second semi-final at a packed South Paris Arena 1.

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Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands used a late pass on the Seine course to win the women's 10-kilometer open water swimming at the Paris Olympics.

Netherlands' Sharon van Rouwendaal wins open water gold in Seine

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