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Swimmers Matin Balsini, Alaa Maso Named to Refugee Olympic Team Swimmers Matin Balsini and Alaa Maso have been named to the Refugee Olympic team or the Paris Olympics, the International Olympic Committee announced on Thursday. The swimming duo are among 36 individuals – 23 men, 13 women – from three...

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 28. THIRTY years ago, most of the world's best athletes gathered in the Los Angeles Coliseum to open the 23rd edition of the Summer Olympic Games. It would be marked by the absence of the Eastern bloc countries that were boycotting the competition, partly in response to the U....

Heydar Shonjani, who represented Iran at the Olympics as a swimmer and a water polo, died Sunday. He was 74 years old. Shonjani was the first Iranian swimmer at the Olympics, participating in the men’s 100-meter freestyle at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He transitioned to a career in water polo, helping...

By Phillip Whitten (This is the second in a series of articles by Swimming World editor Phil Whitten on the suspicious pattern of recent performances by China’s female swimmers. This article examines the differences between the performances of the Chinese women and men.) PHOENIX, Jan. 9. ONE of the ...

By Mark Palmer January 29, 2001, SOCCER has been nominated for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. No, seriously. A Swedish Christian Democrat politician called Lars Gustafsson has written to the committee saying that soccer has performed an "important role in the global arena when it comes to creating unde...