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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...

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...

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...

WILMINGTON, North Carolina, March 13. EXPRESSING a desire to spend more time with his wife, children, and three grandsons, longtime coach Dave Allen, the founding father and architect of UNCW’s swimming and diving program, is heading for dry land. Allen announced his retirement on Thursday after coa...

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...

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...

By Fred Sington LITTLE ROCK, ARK., Dec. 4.-The Delta State University men's and women's swimming and diving programs traveled to Arkansas to take part in the annual Christmas Invitational at University of Arkansas-Little this weekend, and returned with an overall second place finish behind S...

Emre Sakci headed home to Izmir from the ISL with words of praise ringing in his ears after he claimed his place at the top table of breaststrokers alongside Adam Peaty and Cameron van der Burgh. The Turkish swimmer left Budapest as the second-fastest man in history over 50m breaststroke in a short-...

Georgia Davies – world, European and Commonwealth medallist and Energy Standard athlete – has welcomed the International Swimming League’s financial package for swimmers as good news amid the relentless darkness of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The ISL unveiled on Friday morning an $11million...

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...

In an ordinary world, Monday 11 May 2020 would have marked the start of the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, with Sarah Sjostrom making those late preparations, confident in the knowledge accrued during her 12 years at the top. Olympic and world champions would have gathered at the Duna ...

POPOV DETHRONED!!! By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey - Alexander Popov, the Russian Rocket, was defeated in the 100m freestyle for the first time in eight years at a major international championship - by a medical student from Maastricht that commentators are referring to as the Flying Dutchman. Little...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, August 6. FEDERICO Morlacchi and Arjola Trimi both won gold for Italy on Wednesday (6 August) evening at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, propelling the country to fifth in the medals table. Italy have now won 11 medals - made up...

Michael Johnson, the first man to sweep the Olympic 200m and 400m in Track and Field, has accomplished another first, by winning the Jesse Owens International Award again. In winning the award for the second consecutive year, Johnson beat swimmer Michelle Smith of Ireland, the runner-up, and weightl...

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...

The International Olympic Committee has been accused of putting athletes’ health in jeopardy after two Turkish boxers and their head coach tested positive for coronavirus after returning home from an Olympic boxing tournament in London last week. In an exclusive report, The Guardian newspaper quotes...

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...

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 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...