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According to a report from Inside The Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board member Kirsty Coventry has been named the Minister of Sport for he native country, Zimbabwe. Coventry, who retired after her fifth Olympic Games appearance in 2016, is also the current chair of the IOC...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Feb. 23. WHEN he was UCLA's men's hoops coach a few moons ago, current Georgia head man Jim Herrick characterized a particularly important upcoming game as follows: "It's gonna be another ball burner." That same phrase could well be applied to the women's team rac...

HOUSTON, Texas, January 16. NEWS broke recently that British superstar diver Tom Daley had been looking at leaving Plymouth to train with Houston head coach Jane Figueiredo with a focus on the 2016 Rio Olympics. It looks like British Swimming didn't like that idea, and instead found a way to bring F...

Meet Records by Ali Khalafalla, Farida Osman Cap African Games Meet records in the men’s and women’s 50 freestyle events by Egyptians Farida Osman and Ali Khalafalla on the final day highlighted the African Games in Ghana this week. Osman won her eighth medal and fourth gold in the 50, with a time o...

Don Gambril, a legendary coach in the Olympic and U.S. collegiate canon, voiced his opinions to a local newspaper about the worldwide controversy surrounding a dentist who allegedly shot a famous lion illegally in Africa. Gambril, a member of several prominent Hall of Fame lists and a five-time Olym...

Kirsty Coventry has been selected as Zimbabwe's flag bearer for the Olympic Opening Ceremonies on Friday night, she shared on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/BImsCcOAbt4/?taken-by=officialkirstycoventry&hl=en Coventry explained the honor, "I’m so proud to announce that I will be the ZIMBABWE ...

By Ian Hanson EDINBURGH, Scotland. August 12. AUSTRALIAN Swimming has unearthed another breaststroke find in 15-year-old Brisbane schoolgirl, Kelli Waite, who stormed up the world and national rankings with her gold medal performance on day one of the Millennium Commonwealth Youth Games in Edinburgh...

CANCUN, Mexico, March 5. LAST week, Swimming World spoke with Olympic gold medalist Brenda Villa to get her hopes and thoughts on what would occur the World Water Polo Conference in Cancun. FINA put on the two-day event in Mexico, and invited some of the top thinkers from sports, media and social me...

A Coventry-less Zimbabwe roster evokes the same feelings for Zimbabweans as a Phelps-less roster does for Americans. After announcing her retirement after the Rio Olympic Games, Coventry will not be competing at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest. But nonetheless, the nation is sending four ot...

Subj: MILLENNIUM FINAL WRAP Date: 8/13/00 7:21:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time By Ian Hanson EDINBURGH, Scotland. August 14. AUSTRALIA'S unstoppable youth swimming team took their overall gold medal tally to 25 today when they won nine gold medals on the final day's competition of the innaugural...