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2024 Junior Pan Pacs: Day 2 Prelims Live Recap

USA’s and Florida Gator commit (2025) Lilla Bognar enters the 400 IM as the top seed by over 4 seconds and will look to improve upon her time of 4:37.86.

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2024 Junior Pan Pacs: Day 1 Finals Live Recap

American 17-year-old Madi Mintenko is the top seed in the girls 200 free final tonight after clocking a 1:58.81 in prelims this morning.

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2024 Junior Pan Pacs: Day 1 Prelims Live Recap

American 15-year-old Audrey Derivaux enters as the top seed in the girls 200 fly by nearly 3 seconds.

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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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How Many Non-Americans, Who Trained In the U.S., Won Olympic Swimming Medals?

The two best swimmers of the Olympics, Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh, both train in the U.S., but neither are American.

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SwimSwam Awards: 2024 Paris Olympic Games (Women’s Swimming Edition)

Summer McIntosh’s Olympic performance in Paris was the best by a junior swimmer since at least Missy Franklin at the 2012 Olympics in London.

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125 Swimmers Take Home Medals From the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

China’s Zhang Yufei, above, leaves Paris with the most Olympic swimming medals. She won 5 bronze and 1 silver for 6 total medals.

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2024 Paris Olympics Day 9 Finals: Fun Facts

The United States closed out the meet with a new world record in the women’s 4×100 medley relay tonight. What else stood out from the last day of finals?

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The Streak Continues: Women’s 200 And 400 IM Won By Same Swimmer Since 1996 Olympics

The winner of the 200 and 400 IM has been the same on the women’s side in the last 8 Olympic Games. It is the most common double for gold.

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Canada Making History In Paris While Led By Teenagers Summer McIntosh And Ilya Kharun

Summer McIntosh became the first Canadian to ever win three individual gold medals at the same Olympics. Kharun won bronze tonight alongside Josh Liendo.

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2024 Paris Olympics Day 8 Finals: Fun Facts

Katie Ledecky and Paige Madden won gold and bronze for the United States in the women’s 800 freestyle, a historic swim for the United States.

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Summer McIntosh Breaks Katinka Hosszu’s 200 IM Olympic Record, #3 Swim All-Time With 2:06.56

McIntosh broke the World Junior record and Canadian Records as well, swimming the #3 performance of all-time.

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Josh Liendo Clocks 49.99 100 Fly Canadian Record, Becomes #5 Performer Of All-Time

Liendo is now just the fifth man in history to get under 50 seconds in the 100 fly after winning his first-ever Olympic medal.

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2024 Paris Olympics Data Dive: Day 8 Prelims

Sarah Sjöström has the chance to win her first Olympic gold medal in the 50 freestyle. What else stands out from the last day of prelims?

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Sporting Globalism: What Do Simone Biles and Leon Marchand Have in Common?

While one of France’s best Leon Marchand is trained by American coach Bob Bowman, America’s top gymnast Simone Biles relies on a French coreographer.

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