Articles by Anya Pelshaw

US Tops Overall Medal Table With 40 Gold, 126 Total Medals At 2024 Paris Olympics

China also had 40 gold medals but only 91 total medals. The US has led the medal table in the last four Summer Games now.

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Tatjana Smith Highlights Latest Swimmers Announced As Closing Ceremony Flag Bearers

Smith announced her retirement from competitive swimming and will be South Africa’s flag bearer at today’s closing ceremony.

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Reports: Glasgow To Host 2026 Commonwealth Games After Victoria Withdrew As Host

Glasgow is looking to host a “cost-effective” Commonwealth Games in the summer of 2026. Glasgow hosted the 2014 Games.

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Summer McIntosh Named Closing Ceremony Flag Bearer For Canada

McIntosh became the first Canadian swimmer to ever win three individual gold medals at the same Olympics. The closing ceremony is set for tonight.

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Aspden, Smith, Abrahams, and Austin Named US Swimming Captains For Paralympics

21 women and 12 men will swim at the Paralympics for the US beginning later this month. All four captains have previous Paralympic experience.

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NCAA Qualifier Max Berg Returning To Kentucky For COVID Fifth Year

Berg swam at NCAAs as a sophomore (relay only) and junior (individual invite) and holds 3 individual SCY school records at Kentucky.

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Ranking The 2024 Women’s Recruiting Classes: #1-4

Leah Hayes is the #4 ranked recruit in the class and Virginia brings in a large class of 8 ranked recruits (plus Claire Curzan).

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Shannon Sharpe Awards Bobby Finke $50,000 Bonus After 1500 Freestyle World Record

Finke was the highest man with $145,000 from the USOPC and USA Swimming earnings but earned another $50,000 from Shannon Sharpe for breaking the World Record.

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Paltrinieri (Italy), McSharry and Wiffen (Ireland) Named Closing Ceremony Flag Bearers

Wiffen won Ireland its first gold in men’s swimming last week as he won the 800 free. At least 6 swimmers will be flag bearers for the closing ceremony.

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China Completes Diving Sweep As Cao Yuan Wins Men’s 10m Platform

China is now the first country to sweep all 8 diving events at the same Olympics since diving was expanded from 4 to 8 events in 2000.

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Torri Huske, Katie Ledecky Lead US “Operation Gold” Earnings At 2024 Paris Olympics

Huske leads all swimmers from the US with $261,875 earned at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Bobby Finke is the highest male with $145,000.

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SCAD Hires Former TCU Assistant Rob Zamorano As Next Head Coach

Zamorano spent two seasons at TCU as an assistant coach and becomes the 3rd head coach for SCAD in three seasons.

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WADA Study Finds Low Prevalence Of TUEs Among Olympic And Paralympic Athletes

Results found that across 4 Olympic Games, TUEs were present in 0.90% of athletes while the 4 Paralympic Games had a total TUE prevalence of 2.76%. 

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What Are Team USA’s Swimming Superstitions?

Paige Madden does not do her nails before her races while Nic Fink always warms up a second time before his race.

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Open Water Swimmer Leonie Beck Experiencing GI Symptoms After Women’s 10km In Seine

Beck swam in the women’s open water race on Thursday, finishing 9th out of 24 women. She won gold in the open water race at the 2023 World Championships.

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