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Before Emre Sakci goes out to compete for Team Iron in the ISL at the Duna Arena, the Turkish swimmer writes Izmir in big, black letters across his heart. Following his race - and regardless of the outcome - he turns, sits on the lane rope and makes the heart gesture with his hands in tribute to the...

The world junior championships showed us some promising talent in the pool, but none as spectacular as Turkey’s Viktoria Guynep Gunes. The 17-year-old vaulted herself from future star to gold medal hopeful in next year’s Olympic Games with four gold medals and a history-making swim in the 200 breast...

HOW SWEDE IT IS! KAMMERLING FLYS TO WORLD RECORD! By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey - Anna-Karin Kammerling, an 18-year-old student from Sundsvall in Sweden, set the first world record of the 24th European championships in Istanbul, Turkey, to win the inaugural 50m butterfly title in 26.29, 0.1 better ...

By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey - The records started to fall on the first day of the 24th European Swimming Championships in Istanbul, the Dutch men's 4x100m freestyle relay setting a European record of 3:16.27 and both women's finals producing championship records that replaced the best that the GD...

The Health Benefits Of Your Favorite Thanksgiving Foods Picture this. Your mom just made your favorite meal for dinner: Steak and potatoes! You sit down at the table, tuck a napkin into your shirt, and dig in. You're a swimmer, after all. You need the calories. You scarf down every last morsel of th...

The Cranberry Sauce Dilemma: How Many Calories Are in My Thanksgiving Dishes? Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching, bringing with it the promise of meticulous cooking and ample food for the dinner table. Though swimmers are often characterized as enthusiastic eaters, they pose little competition to t...

NEWPORT BEACH, CA. THE Sea Kings are still kings of the pool! Coach John Vargas' Corona del Mar High Sea Kings, defending CIF champs, edged La Jolla The Bishop's, 8-6, last week in the finals of the South Coast boys' water polo tourney at Newport Harbor High. Vargas, who will take over t...

DUTCHMAN FLIES TO FOURTH GOLD By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey - There was no stopping the Flying Dutchman, Pieter van den Hoogenband, as he thundered to a 1:47.09 victory in the 200m freestyle. Only one man came close enough to feel the wash, Britain's Paul Palmer, winner of the 400m last Monday. Pal...

The start date of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games having been reset to July 23, 2021, this week marks the first for goals and plans reset. At the pointy end of business, no surprise to find a note pinned to coach James Gibson's Energy Standard Elite Team planner: ‘new training cycle begins’. It will be...

Turkish Olympians Batur Unlu, Deniz Ertan Lead Georgia Tech Wins over Emory Georgia Tech’s Turkish connection paid dividends in its opener, with Batur Unlu and Deniz Ertan winning two individual events each in dispatching Emory on Saturday. The Georgia Tech women won by a score of 178-63. The men pr...

Ben Proud and Anna Hopkin had weeks of being on dry land and training in unfamiliar surroundings without the water in which they live and breathe. Both are sprinters – Proud the 2017 world 50 fly champion and 50 free bronze medallist and Hopkin on an upward trajectory following a move to the Arkansa...

Emel Ersan coaches a goup of orphaned teenagers in the South of Turkey every summer. Some of these kids are burned and deformed from accidents and fires and the recent earthquake, and swimming to them is the little bit of rainbow they desperately need in their young lives. If anyone can donate swimm...

By Josh Jeffrey In what is setting up to be a very fast summer for European swimmers, Anna Karin Kammerling broke Inge De Bruijn's 50m butterfly world best at the Swedish National Championships, held July 1st through the 4th in Halmstad. The teenager blazed to a 26.39 finish, erasing the new record ...

Hungarian swimming is bracing itself for more positive coronavirus-COVID-19 tests after Boglarka Kapas, Dominik Kozma, David Horvath and Richard Bohus tested positive following training camps with teammates. The Hungarian swimming federation arranged virus checks for all members of the national squa...

Turkey Issues Arrest Warrant for Six-Time Olympian Derya Buyukuncu A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Derya Buyukuncu, the six-time Olympian from Turkey, for social media posts allegedly insulting Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Buyukuncu is the subject of one of eight warrants issu...

Four-time Olympic medallist Chad le Clos had just 36 hours to leave his training base in Gloria, Turkey, and now doubts Tokyo 2020 will go ahead as the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues its deathly march. Le Clos, who won 200m butterfly gold at London 2012 when he touched out Michael Phelps at the Aq...

NETANYA, Israel, March 7. THE Middle East continues its progression to becoming a major mecca for international competitions with the announcement that Israel will be the host of next year’s European Short Course Championships. The meet, scheduled for January 2015, will be the first major internatio...

LONDON - The British Olympic Association (BOA) virtually ruled out a London bid for the 2008 Olympics, hoping, instead, to seek the 2012 Olympic Games. The BOA said that the decision was made because Toronto, Canada; Osaka, Japan; Seville, Spain; and Istanbul, Turkey want to host the 2008 Games. Bue...

TUNIS, TUNISIA, Sept. 6. RECORDS fell faster than you can say "Thorpedo" on the third and fourth days of competition at the 15th Mediterranean Games here. Celebrating the Games' 50th year -- they began rather modestly in Alexandria, Egypt a half-century ago -- the competition in general, and swi...

DUTCH RELAY DQ'd; HOOGIE DENIED FIFTH GOLD By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey - Flying Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband today swam the fastest ever split over 200m freestyle in a relay - 1:45.20 - but was denied the chance to win a Spitzean seven gold medals because the Dutch quartet he brought home w...