VIDEO, PHOTO VAULT: Snyder Completes Alcatraz Swim For Sight
Video highlights courtesy of The Foundation For A Better Life, video edit courtesy of Coleman Hodges: The following is a press…
Brad Snyder To Take On 2-Mile Alcatraz Swim For Sight Sunday
Five-time Paralympic gold medalist Brad Snyder will compete in Sunday’s 2-mile open water Alcatraz Swim For Sight event to raise funds and awareness for visual impairments.
Brad Snyder to Swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco For a Great Cause
Snyder, a Navy veteran blinded in Afghanistan, won three gold medals at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.
Tokyo Committee Wants to Use Existing Pools for Tokyo 2020 Olympics
A committee in Tokyo has proposed changes to reign in ballooning costs of the 2020 Olympics. Changes include scrapping plans for a new aquatics center and using the existing Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center.
Joseph Schooling Gifts Year of Free Rides To Para-Swimmer Benson Tan
Schooling had to decline a year’s worth of free rides from Grab, a ride-sharing service, to maintain NCAA eligibility. Instead, he gifted the free rides to para-swimmer Benson Tan, an 11-time ASEAN Para Games medalist.
Congress Approves Bill to End Olympic ‘Victory Tax’
This past Thursday, the Senate approved a bill that will put an end to the so-called Olympic “victory tax”. American…
Brad Snyder Wins US Olympic Committee Male Athlete of the Paralympics
Brad Snyder won the top Paralympic honors tonight at the U.S. Olympic Committee Awards, taking home the award for Male Athlete…
President Obama to Honor Team USA Olympians at the White House
The President and First Lady are set to welcome members of the 2016 USA Olympic and Paralympic teams on Thursday, September 29th on the White House South Lawn.
Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Dias Makes Paralympic History
The home crowd was raucous as the most-decorated male swimmer in the history of the meet crushed the field – we’re not talking Michael Phelps. We’re talking Daniel Dias.
China Sets Paralympic Record With 92 Swimming Medals, 37 Gold
China has been crushing the Paralympic swimming medal table all week, and finished the 2016 Rio Paralympics with what is believed to be the most swimming medals in Paralympic history.
Daniel Dias Becomes Most Decorated Paralympic Male Swimmer in History
Brazil’s Daniel Dias swam to history on Saturday in front of his home crowd.
Bogodaiko Sets New SM7 World Record in 200 IM
Ievgenii Bogodaiko set a new SM7 200-meter individual medley world record on Tuesday night at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.
Paralympic Cyclist Dies After Crash During Race
A 48-year old Iranian cyclist has died following a crash during his race at the Paralympics on Saturday morning. Bahman…
Maddison Elliott Becomes First S8 Ever Under 30 Seconds in 50 Free
Maddison Elliott (left) and Lakeisha Patterson (right) have gone 1-2 again in Rio, with Elliott this time coming away with a World Record.
Snyder Breaks 30 year old world record in S11 100M Freestyle
2016 RIO PARALYMPIC GAMES Wednesday, September 7 – Sunday, September 18, 2016 Swimming: Thursday, September 8 – Saturday, September 17,…
