Articles by Yanyan Li

Paris 2024, North America Day 3: Team USA Is Getting Hits And Misses By The Closest Of Margins

There’s been a ton of close races at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and Team USA has been on both the good and bad side of them.

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Paris Olympic 100 Back Bronze Medalist Ryan Murphy And His Wife Are Expecting A Baby Girl

Murphy found out the gender of his baby just moments after he won his third consecutive Olympic medal in the men’s 100 backstroke.

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Brazilian Swimmer Ana Carolina Viera Sent Home From Olympics, Gabriel Santos Also Disciplined

Viera was sent back home to Brazil for arguing about a relay decision, while she and Santos both received a warning for leaving the Olympic village.

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Paris 2024, Day 2 North America Recap: Torri Huske’s Gold Is A Symbol Of Perseverance

Torri Huske knew what was best for her and stayed at Stanford despite the school seeing a mass training exodus, and it paid off with Olympic gold.

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2023 Worlds Finalist Felix Auboeck No-Shows 200 Free Prelims At 2024 Olympics

Auboeck has previously finished as high as fifth in the 200 free at the 2022 World Championships, and was originally seeded 18th.

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Paris 2024, North America Day 1: Torri Huske Earns Redemption On 4×100 Freestyle Relay

Huske’s 52.06 relay split on the women’s 4×100 free relay erased sour memories of her 100 fly mixed medley relay leg at the 2023 Worlds.

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Let The Theories Begin: Is The Paris 2024 Olympic Pool “Slow”?

In the first prelims session at the Paris Olympic Games, a lot of the winning times were slower than they were at previous meets.

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Tokyo Bronze Medalist Li Bingjie Misses Paris 2024 400 Freestyle Final

Li is the Asian record holder and the defending bronze medalist in the 400 free, but will not get a shot at a medal this time in Paris.

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2024 Olympics Previews: It Will Be Milak Vs. Marchand In The Men’s 200 Fly

Kristof Milak dominated the 200 fly from 2019 to 2022. Can he win once more in Paris, or will Leon Marchand upsurp him this time around?

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Phelps Ranked No. 1, Ledecky Ranked No. 15 On ESPN’s Top 100 21st Century Athletes List

American sports media outlet ESPN ranked a list of the top 100 athletes of the 21st century, and both Phelps and Ledecky were ranked.

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Top 20 NCAA Swimming Recruits In The Boys’ Class Of 2025

Maximus Williamson has overtaken his future teammate Thomas Heilman as the top recruit in the high school class of 2025.

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2024 Olympic Previews: Will The Aussie Women Go Back-To-Back In The 100 Free?

After back-to-back world titles in 2022 and 2023 and the #1 ranking this season, Mollie O’Callaghan is the bonafide favorite in the women’s 100 free in Paris.

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Review: Katie Ledecky’s “Just Add Water” Further Proves What We Already Know

Ledecky’s autobiography reaffirmed a lot of what we already knew about her, but what mattered the most was her insight on those things.

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2024 Olympics Preview: Will We Finally Get The Race We Anticipated In The Women’s 200 IM?

For the first time ever, Alex Walsh, Kate Douglass, Kaylee McKeown, and Summer McIntosh will race against each other in a 200 IM. How will it end?

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How Unprecedented Is Kate Douglass’s Olympic Swimming Lineup?

Douglass’s 100 free, 200 breast, and 200 IM lineup at the Olympic games is a type of lineup that not many swimmers have taken on before.

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