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Olympics Swimming 2024: How to Watch Olympic Swimming Events Anywhere

Olympics Swimming 2024: How to Watch Olympic Swimming Events Anywhere

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See at Sling TV Sling TV Carries the five channels you need for $57 a month Show more (5 items) Swimming events at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris kicked off Saturday, and Team USA put on a strong showing, medaling in three of four events, including its first gold. Each day, there are two sets of heats for men’s and women’s events — morning and evening sessions — concluding with the final of the women’s 4x100m medley relay on Sunday, Aug. 4. The full schedule and times are at the bottom of this page. Recent Olympics have proved to be a straight fight between the United States and Australia for dominance in pool-based events, with the US leading the swimming medal tally at the past six Games. American hopes will be largely pinned on Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel, Team USA’s two most decorated swimmers. Ledecky is widely expected to win the Women’s 800m and 1,500m freestyle. Hopes of her making it a golden hat trick were dashed on Saturday as she took bronze …

French swimmer Marchand wins gold with Olympic record in men’s 400-metre medley

French swimmer Marchand wins gold with Olympic record in men’s 400-metre medley

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France’s Léon Marchand won a gold medal and set an Olympic record in the men’s 400-metre individual medley at the Paris Games on Sunday, pulling away from his rivals as thousands of fans at La Defense Arena chanted his name. Issued on: 28/07/2024 – 21:47 3 min With a flag-waving crowd cheering his every stroke, Léon Marchand delivered a swimming gold for France with a dominating victory in the men’s 400-meter individual medley Sunday night. Marchand was ahead as soon as his head popped from the water and he steadily pulled away from the field in what was essentially two separate races: Marchand racing the clock and everyone else competing for silver and bronze. He was under world-record pace on the final turn but faded a bit coming home, touching in 4 minutes, 2.95 seconds — an Olympic record, but just shy of his own world mark of 4:02.50. Marchand claimed that mark at last year’s world championships in Fukuoka, Japan, erasing a record held by Michael Phelps for 15 years. Not surprisingly, the young …

USA Swimming Has a Secret Weapon: Linear Algebra

USA Swimming Has a Secret Weapon: Linear Algebra

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This article was originally published by Quanta Magazine. In the fall of 2014, Andrew Wilson took a front-row seat in Ken Ono’s number-theory class at Emory University, in Atlanta. Wilson was not only double-majoring in applied math and physics; he was also a walk-on member of Emory’s swim team. Ono took an interest in Wilson’s ambitions. “We thought that, together, maybe we could use our interest in mathematics to help him improve as a swimmer,” Ono says. Ono, who typically studies abstract patterns in numbers and special functions called “modular forms,” began collecting and analyzing acceleration data from Wilson and other Emory swimmers to identify and quantify their weaknesses. “It got to the point where I could just see what an athlete was doing without actually watching them swim,” he says. Within two years, Wilson had won national collegiate championships; he would go on to earn a gold medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. By then, Ono was at the University of Virginia, where he worked alongside Todd DeSorbo—the head coach for both UVA swimming …

Sweat wisely! 22 etiquette rules for exercise – from swimming lanes to selfies | Fitness

Sweat wisely! 22 etiquette rules for exercise – from swimming lanes to selfies | Fitness

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Outdoor runners have got their euphoria. In every other setting, exercise unleashes a load of more complicated emotions, many of them very strong. To be a novice in a class or at the gym is to be in an extremely vulnerable state: one mean look can send you home, a clique of friends can make you feel like an outsider. When you know what you’re doing, it fills you with a powerful self-satisfaction, but when you have an environment in which half the people are poleaxed by insecurity, and the other half are much too secure, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Nobody can change that, but etiquette does help. Here are the experts’ rules on the etiquette of fitness environments. In the gym If you don’t know how to use it, ask someoneAnna Jenkins, 51, is the founder of We Are Fit Attitude, with decades of personal training experience. She asked her clients and trainers for some gym etiquette tips. One woman said: “I was too proud to ask questions about how to …

Annual River Thames open-water swimming event cancelled over pollution | UK | News

Annual River Thames open-water swimming event cancelled over pollution | UK | News

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An annual open-water swimming event first held in the River Thames in 1890 has been cancelled this year because of fears about sewage in the water. The Boulter’s to Bray Swim in Maidenhead, Berkshire, involves competitors completing a 5km (3.1 mile), 2.8km or 1.4km swim in the water. However, the trust that manages the event said it was “unable to find any satisfactory way” in which it could be assured the river would be safe for swimmers on July 6, reports the BBC. Anyone who entered this year’s swim will see their entry deferred until the next event or refunded. The Boulter’s to Bray Swim Trust said it heoped there will be “tighter controls on what is discharged into rivers” by 2025. It said there should also be “clear guidelines for recreational users” wishing to enjoy the water. Swim trustee Keith Dixon told the BBC he would not feel safe swimming in the Thames this year, despite having done so for the past 16. He said: “If I can’t look myself in the mirror and …

Two men who secretly photographed thousands of people, including children, getting changed at swimming pools given jail sentences | UK News

Two men who secretly photographed thousands of people, including children, getting changed at swimming pools given jail sentences | UK News

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Two men who secretly photographed thousands of people getting changed at swimming pools have been handed jail sentences. Adam Dennis, 38, from Littlehampton, and Robert Morgan, 32, from London, photographed at least 6,000 people, including children, at pools across London and the South West of England. The two men were described as “insidious” by police after being sentenced to a combined total of 42 months in prison, at Inner London Crown Court, on 24 April. They will, however, spend a total of 11 months in prison, as one of the pair had their jail sentence suspended. Alongside photographing victims getting changed, they filmed members of public on the toilet and shared and traded the images in online forums. They even created profile documents for some of their victims, some of whom were children, and researched them on social media. Authorities became aware of the duo after an investigation into a separate assault, which happened on board a train in March 2017, led to a mobile being seized. Following this, they were both arrested for voyeurism …

‘Hacks’ Kicks Off Season 3 With Exclusive Event Involving Synchronized Swimming and Coconut Cake

‘Hacks’ Kicks Off Season 3 With Exclusive Event Involving Synchronized Swimming and Coconut Cake

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It was a party that Deborah Vance herself would have enjoyed—and demanded to headline. On Wednesday night the cast and creators of Hacks celebrated their new season with an intimate event at LA’s storied Chateau Marmont that included a showstopping performance by synchronized swimmers and samples of a local coconut cake made famous by Tom Cruise. The third season of the acclaimed Max series, which revolves around fictional comedy and QVC queen Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and her plucky writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder), reunites the two characters who parted ways at the end of last season, and features a scene-stealing appearance of the cake Cruise reportedly gifts every Christmas. “It is so good,” said Smart of the cake she samples onscreen. “I’ll have to shoot up some extra insulin to have some tonight.” Carl Clemons HopkinsBy Myles Hendrik. Einbinder, who also enjoys the cake in a scene, joked that she happily “ate a ton” during filming. “I eat on every take. It’s important for my process as an actor to eat on every take. They …

Prince William and Princess Beatrice’s secret Scottish swimming spot for playdates

Prince William and Princess Beatrice’s secret Scottish swimming spot for playdates

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No summer holiday is complete without plenty of time spent swimming, so we suspect a young Princes William and Harry, along with their cousins, Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice were somewhat miffed when they discovered their holiday home didn’t have a pool. While royal residences such as Buckingham Palace and Highgrove House both have swimming pools on their grounds, the royal family’s summer retreat, Balmoral in the Scottish Highlands, is not blessed with such a luxury. Luckily, the young royals found a local swimming spot just ten minutes from the estate inside the Craigendarroch Hotel and Country Club in Balloter, which their mothers, Princess Diana and the Duchess of York, took them to in 1991. © GettyThe Scottish pool Beatrice and William spent summers splashing Princess Eugenie and Zara Tindall also joined the trips to the pool with the swimming spot boasting a jacuzzi too. We bet Diana and Sarah had some good chats amidst the bubbles! Prince William was nine at the time and swimming was important to him as a boy, so we bet he …