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☆ The World Aquatics Championships in pictures
  + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Jillian Kumagai | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: 1 min
The Yamuna River's levels were at their highest in 45 years this week following unusually heavy rainfall in New Delhi, India, and hilly northern states, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people as the Yamuna, which runs through the city, breached its banks.
Locations: New Delhi, India
☆ Olympic champion Dressel fails to qualify for world championships
  + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
July 1 (Reuters) - Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Caeleb Dressel failed to qualify for this month's World Aquatics Championships in Japan after more disappointing results at the U.S. National Championships in Indianapolis on Saturday. In his final chance to make the U.S. team, Dressel finished tied for 22nd in the preliminaries of the 50-metre freestyle, 1.07 seconds behind the leader. Dressel's struggles were not wholly unexpected as the 26-year-old has not competed in a major meet since abruptly pulling out of the world championships in Budapest last summer citing an unspecified health issue. "He's very happy where he's at now," University of Florida head coach Anthony Nesty was quoted as saying by SwimSwam on Saturday. Nesty said Dressel is capable of getting off to excellent starts but struggles to close races.
Persons: Caeleb Dressel, Dressel, Dressel's, Anthony Nesty, SwimSwam, it's, I've, Nesty, He's, Rory Carroll, Toby Davis Organizations: U.S, National, U.S ., University of Florida, Tokyo, Paris Games, Thomson Locations: Japan, Indianapolis, U.S, Fukuoka, Budapest, Los Angeles
☆ Australian sprinter O'Callaghan suffers injury ahead of worlds
  + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
SYDNEY, June 28 (Reuters) - Australian Mollie O'Callaghan, who owns the fastest times of the year in both the 100 and 200 metres freestyle, has injured her knee a few weeks out from the start of the world championships in Japan. "It's all looking good for being at worlds, and there's nothing saying she's not going to be there," Taylor told The Australian newspaper. But there's nothing saying she won't be at worlds." The swimming at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka begins on July 23. Taylor said O'Callaghan, who already owns two Olympic and two World Championship relay gold medals at the age of 19, was an integral part of the Australia team.
Persons: Mollie O'Callaghan, Rohan Taylor, she's, Taylor, We've, O'Callaghan, Ariarne Titmus, Emma McKeon, Nick Mulvenney, Sonali Paul Organizations: SYDNEY, Australian, Tokyo, Australia, Thomson Locations: Japan, Budapest, Australia, Fukuoka
☆ Mexican Olympians avoid auctioning medals as airline steps in to fly them to world championships
  + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
Reuters —Mexico’s largest airline has offered to fly Olympic divers Alejandra Orozco and Gabriela Agúndez to this year’s world championships for free after government funding cuts forced them to try to find ways to pay their own passage. Elite Mexican aquatic athletes have been driven to selling towels and bathing suits among other fundraising initiatives since government funding was cut in a row over the governance of the Mexican Swimming Federation (FMN). Moments later, however, they received an on-air call from an Aeromexico executive, who said the airline would ferry the entire diving team to the Aquatics World Championships in Japan in July. The Aeromexico offer is not the first case of private initiative coming to the aid of Mexico’s aquatic athletes. Billionaire businessman Carlos Slim, through his philanthropic foundation, funded the Artistic Swimming team’s trip to the World Championships in Egypt, where they won three golds and a bronze earlier this week.
☆ No medal sale as airline steps in to fly Mexican Olympians to worlds
  + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Elite Mexican aquatic athletes have been driven to selling towels and bathing suits among other fund-raising initiatives since government funding was cut in a row over the governance of the Mexican Swimming Federation (FMN). Moments later, however, they received an on-air call from an Aeromexico executive, who said the airline would ferry the entire diving team to the Aquatics World Championships in Japan in July. The Aeromexico offer is not the first case of private initiative coming to the aid of Mexico's aquatic athletes. Billionaire businessman Carlos Slim, through his philanthropic foundation, funded the Artistic Swimming team's trip to the World Championships in Egypt, where they won three golds and a bronze earlier this week. Reporting by Janina Nuno Rios in Mexico City; Editing by Peter RutherfordOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Mexican government takes pride in artistic team after cutting funding
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Mexico increased their World Cup medal tally to four on Monday at the competition in Egypt, having travelled there thanks to the support of businessman Carlos Slim. With three golds and a bronze, the North American country finished second in the medal table behind Spain. Their first medal success came in the Mixed Team Technical event on Saturday, when a statement from the government praising the swimmers raised eyebrows after the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sport (CONADE) cut support from the team. "The Mexican artistic swimming team's historic participation in the World Cup in Egypt was a golden one. loadingCONADE head Ana Guevara announced the cut in funding in January after global governing body World Aquatics did not recognise the president of the Mexican Swimming Federation, Kiril Todorov, who is facing a trial for embezzlement.
☆ "We're being hounded" - French transgender sprinter decries Olympics ban
  + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Noemie Olive | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
[1/2] French sprinter Halba Diouf, 21, a transgender woman athlete who dreams to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Games, attends a practice session on an athletics track in Aix-en-Provence, France May 3, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesAIX-EN-PROVENCE, France, May 9 (Reuters) - French sprinter Halba Diouf feels she is being marginalised and hounded after her dream of participating at next year's Paris Olympics was shattered when World Athletics (WA) banned transgender women from elite female competitions. "The only safeguard transgender women have is their right to live as they wish and we are being refused that, we are being hounded... In March WA's council cut the maximum amount of plasma testosterone for DSD athletes in half to 2.5 nanomoles per litre from five. The WA rules also stated the level must be maintained for at least 24 months before DSD athletes can compete in female competitions.
☆ The trans soccer team that’s making history
  + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( Hannah Ryan | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +12 min
On the rainy evening of March 31, 2023, he captained what he says is the first ever all trans masculine soccer team in Europe in a match. “I was quite nervous before the match,” Webber told CNN. They now also aim to make soccer a more inclusive sport and connect the trans community. “After the all trans feminine team played their game and once I’d played with the all-gender team, she took me aside and said she’d been thinking about what we could do next and asked if I’d be interested in captaining an all trans masc team,” Webber said. “One day, there’ll be hundreds of trans people playing football all over the country at all levels.”
☆ Chikunova sets 200m breaststroke world record in Kazan
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
April 21 (Reuters) - Russia's Evgeniia Chikunova shattered the 200m breaststroke world record with a time of two minutes 17.55 seconds on the final day of the Russian swimming championships in Kazan on Friday. A World Aquatics spokesman said Chikunova's time "will follow the World Aquatics world record process of approval that any other world record follows. "Only when the necessary steps are taken and verified can a world record then be ratified." Russian and Belarusian swimmers are banned from competing internationally due to the war in Ukraine, but World Aquatics this month established a task force to explore their return as neutrals. read moreThis year's world swimming championships are scheduled to take place in Fukuoka, Japan from July 14-30.
☆ Swim England updates transgender policy with 'open' category
  + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) - Swim England announced an updated transgender and non-binary policy on Monday with a 'female' category restricted to athletes with a declared birth sex of female and a new 'open' category for everyone else. Swim England said it saw a general consensus that post-puberty transgender females retained a biological level of performance advantage post-transition. The transgender youth charity Mermaids called on Swim England to reverse its decision. "Swim England's trans policy is disappointing. World Aquatics voted last year to restrict participation of transgender athletes in elite women's competitions and create a working group to establish an open category.
☆ CeCé Telfer: After a regulation change for transgender athletes, CeCé Telfer is determined to 'keep pursuing her dreams'
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Interview Amanda Davies | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
CNN —CeCé Telfer calls it the moment her dreams seemed to be shattered as she questioned whether years of “blood, sweat and tears” were in vain. Last week, governing body World Athletics (WA) announced it would be prohibiting athletes who have gone through what it called “male puberty” from participating in female world rankings competitions. That includes Telfer, an American 400-meter hurdler who became the first out, transgender athlete to win an NCAA title in 2019. “The overriding feeling was definitely devastation for myself and for many around the world,” Telfer, speaking about her initial reaction to the announcement, tells CNN Sport in an exclusive interview. “I’m still going to keep pursuing my dreams and keep competing and keep running as much as I can, wherever I can, however I can,” Telfer adds.
☆ Rome hopes to reverse decline and relive La Dolce Vita
  + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Giselda Vagnoni | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
[1/5] General view of the Colosseum next to a subway's construction sites in Rome, Italy, February 16, 2023. However, flailing public services can make La Dolce Vita seem a remote dream, for both visitors and residents alike. "It is the biggest investment plan Rome has ever had," Gualtieri told Reuters. "Milan was turned around by the EXPO and has become a city capable of attracting capital from all over the world. Rome is an incredible place and second to none," Luca Luciani, head of BAI Communications Italia, told Reuters.
☆ The Dramatic World of Artistic Swimming Will be Open to Men at the Paris Olympics
  + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Louise Radnofsky | Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Bill May and Natalia Vega Figueroa perform during the Mixed Duet Technical Artistic Swimming Preliminary at the FINA Swimming World Championships 2019. An Olympic competition long associated with dramatically made-up women swimming and swirling will have a new addition for the 2024 Paris Games: men. World Aquatics announced Thursday that countries would be allowed to include up to two men in their entries for the 2024 Olympic team event—in which eight swimmers perform a routine as a group. Nations could also choose not to field men in their lineups. The duet event will remain limited to pairs of women.
☆ Dive boat captain pleads not guilty in fiery deaths of 34
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
LOS ANGELES — A dive boat captain pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court for a second time to manslaughter in the fiery deaths of 34 people trapped below deck on his burning vessel three years ago off the Southern California coast. A federal grand jury issued a new indictment last month alleging that Captain Jerry Boylan acted with gross negligence aboard the Conception during one of the deadliest maritime disasters in recent U.S. history. A judge threw out the original case on the third anniversary of the Sept. 2, 2019, tragedy. Truth Aquatics is seeking to avoid payouts to the families of the victims under a provision in federal maritime law. The court is going to move along and try this man, try this captain who allowed our 34 to be killed and burned on that boat.”
☆ Zhou Jihong: She apologized for verbally abusing an Olympic judge, but questions over the conduct of China's 'Iron Lady' of diving remain
  + stars: | 2022-05-11 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +13 min
That was after Zhou, who has been dubbed the “Iron Lady” of Chinese diving, allegedly launched a verbal tirade at Wright at the 10m platform event’s conclusion for underscoring Chinese divers. In a diving event, judges on the panel award each dive a score ranging from zero to 10. Lintao Zhang/Getty ImagesAccording to Latimer, Zhou has “substantial input” when it comes to deciding which judges are chosen to officiate at competitions. From FINAAllegations against Zhou, Latimer says, have been slow to emerge due to her influential status within the sport. The “Iron Lady” of Chinese diving, Zhou became the country’s first ever Olympic gold medalist in the sport in 1984.
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