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An archipelago off the southern cost of Italy, Malta is one of Europe's most desirable locales, with a history as long and complicated as any of its continental neighbors. According to Lonely Planet, it's home to a "beguiling mix of cultures that has stewed together over generations." And conspired ...

By Oene Rusticus AMSTERDAM. BEGINNING this month, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) will have his own professional swim team, as an answer to the team in Eindhoven where Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn are swimming. Cees Vervoorn (multiple Olympic swimmer and coach) created the new team, whic...

VALETTA, Malta, July 9. THE kids have arrived! On the third day of the 2001 European Junior Championships here today, Greece's Ioannis Drymonakos and Hungary's Viktor Bodrogi were the stars of the show on the boys' side. Among the ladies Ukraine's Aliaksandra Herasimenia was a double...

Four swimmers are among the record-tying 22 candidates for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes’ Council, announced Tuesday. The IPC Athletes’ Council serve as the voice of the IPC athlete community in deliberations with the IPC, as a “the liaison between athletes and decision-maker...

AUG. 13. ALESSIO Boggiatto was in a quandry. The Italian medley specialist, who struck gold in the 400 IM at last month's World Championships in Fukuoka for his first major international title, so loved his precious bauble he decided he needed a matching medal. But where to get it? The next Worl...

Malta Olympian Neil Agius has completed a swim from Sicily to Malta in a record-setting time this week. Agius departed from Punta Braccetto in Ragusa, Sicily in in the early morning hours of Thursday. He arrived in Balluta Bay in St. Julian’s at 9:21 am on Friday, a time of 28 hours, seven minutes a...

VALETTA, Malta, July 6 -- IT'S a long long way from Irvine to Malta but Milorad (Michael) Cavic didn't mind the journey one bit. The Irvine Novaquatics' sprinter-flyer, who was the fastest high schooler in America this past season in the 50 free, captured his first major international go...

VALETTA, Malta, July 5. THE opening day of the European Junior Championships got off to a fast start here today when Great Britan's James Goddard went a blistering 4:19.30 to win the 400 IM. Blistering? Well, how 'bout these numbers? Goddard's time is a four-second improvement over his o...

Amidst picturesque settings, the LEN European Junior Open Water Swimming Championships kick off in Malta on Friday. The continent’s best young sea-warriors are set to race over the usual distances: 5, 7.5 and 10km in the weekend. The youngest ones, aged 14-15 years, compete in the 5km event, there w...

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, Dec. 10. BILL Sweetenham must know a thing or two about developing world-class swimmers. The former coach of double World Champion/world record-holder (400-800 frees) Tracey Wickham, who was the dominant female distance swimmer of the late 1970s and who undoubtedly would have mi...

VALETTA, Malta, July 8. IF Anthony Ervin is he "next Alex Popov," who's the next Anthony Ervin? How about Croatia's Duje Draganja. The 18-year-old Croat, playfully dubbed the "swimming Goran Ivansevic" by teammates in honor of the latter's victory at Wimbledon, won his second and third g...

JERUSALEM, July 4. ISRAEL'S Junior National Swimming Team, which had been scheduled to leave on Monday for the European Junior Championships in Malta, has been grounded due to fears about inadequate security. Israel's General Security Service (GSS) refused the team permission to attend the m...