Tokyo 2020

Reigning World Champ Yang Jian Leads Men’s 10m Platform Diving Prelims In Tokyo

Yang and Chinese teammate Cao Yuan comfortably qualified 1-2 out of the men’s 10m platform diving preliminaries in Tokyo.

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Tokyo 2020 Men’s Water Polo Semifinals: Greece and Serbia Advance to Gold Match

Greece and Serbia will meet for the Gold medal match on Sunday, while losing teams Spain and Hungary will play in the Bronze medal match.

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Hector Pardoe Withdraws from Men’s OW 10k in Tokyo Following Eye Injury

Great Britain’s Hector Pardoe was forced to withdraw from the men’s open water 10k at the Olympics due to an injury to his eye.

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Olympic Results Digest: Cunha, Wellbrock Triumph In Open Water 10k

Germany’s Florian Wellbrock (center) won Olympic gold in the men’s marathon swimming event in Tokyo just days removed from earning a bronze in the pool.

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Stanford’s Minakov At Peace With Fourth Place Olympic Finish In 100 Fly

19-year-old Andrei Minakov said of Tokyo, “I did everything I could, and because of this feeling it doesn’t hurt as bad to take fourth place.”

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Great Britain’s Alice Dearing Already Eyeing Paris 2024

24-year-old Alice Dearing of Great Britain is taking her 19th place finish in the women’s open water race in Tokyo as a learning experience for Paris 2024.

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14-Year-Old Quan Hongchan Flawlessly Wins Olympic Gold In Women’s 10m Platform

Quan received a perfect score on two of her dives, smashing the Olympic Record with a score of 466.20 as China went 1-2.

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Summer McIntosh Entered Olympics Without Expectations, Surprised by Performance

14-year-old Summer McIntosh sat down with SwimSwam’s Coleman Hodges to reflect upon her first Olympic Games, where she set multiple Canadian records.

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Florian Wellbrock of Germany Dominates the Men’s Open Water 10k in Tokyo

Germany’s Florian Wellbrock dominated the men’s 10k Open Water race, winning his second medal of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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Tokyo Silver Medalist Lorenzo Zazzeri Has Olympic Memorabilia Stolen From Car

Zazzeri’s car was broken into while he was at a local pool in Florence celebrating his Olympic performance with the community.

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COACH’S EYE: The Late Breath is Key To Schoenmaker’s 200 Breast World Record

Tatjana Schoenmaker waited to initiate her breath until she’d almost completed her entire breaststroke arm-pull – leading to a world-record 200 breast.

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Olympic Results Digest: All The Medalists & Records Set In The Pool In Tokyo

Everything you need for a quick refresher on what went down over eight days of swimming in Tokyo’s Olympic Aquatics Centre.

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Tokyo 2020 Men’s Water Polo Quarterfinals: Hungary (#3) Eliminates Croatia (#2)

The 4 men’s quarterfinals matches took place today, with Spain, Greece, Hungary, and Serbia winning, and therefore, advancing to the semifinals.

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15-Year-Old Diving Star Chen Yuxi Leads Women’s 10m Platform Prelims In Tokyo

15-year-old Chen Yuxi led the prelims, while her 14-year-old Chinese teammate Quan Hongchan advanced second overall.

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USOPC Announces 240-Member 2020 U.S. Paralympic Team

The squad is led by 23-time Paralympic medalist Jessica Long (pictured), who is set to compete in her fifth Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

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