Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Display Featuring All Names Of Rio 2016 Olympic Medalists Revealed

This past December Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes revealed a display at the Barra Olympic Park displaying the names of all athletes and teams that stood on the podium in Rio.

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Rio Olympic Stadium in State of Abandonment,”Handed Over to the Cats”

Brazilian news outlet Globo is reporting that the site of the Rio 2016 Olympic opening and closing ceremonies has fallen into abandonment, ridden with stray cats, without power, and littered with trash.

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2016 Swammy Awards: Top 10 Swims of the Year

Hungarian iron lady Katinka Hosszu wasted no time redeeming herself after missing the 400 IM podium in 2012.

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Rusia Admite a Supervisar la Operación de Dopar Atletas en Olímpicos

Funcionarios rusos admitaron a supervisando una operación extensa de dopar sus atletas durante varios juegos olímpicos, reportó el periódico los New York…

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Russia Admits To Widespread Doping Operation At The Olympics

Russian officials have admitted to widespread doping operations across multiple Olympic Gaemes.

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Swimming New Zealand Hit with Drastic Funding Reduction

Swimming New Zealand was hit with a drastic funding reduction, dropping its annual budget from $1.5 million in 2014 to $900,000…

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Ryan Held Overcome With Emotion After Winning Olympic Gold

Charles Hartley, a free-lance writer based in New Jersey, has written more than a thousand published sports articles. He earned…

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CBDA President Coaracy Nunes Fined Following Allegations of Fraud

President of the Brazilian Confederation of Aquatic Sports (CBDA), Coaracy Nunes, was fined R $20,000 by the Court of Audit of…

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British Swimming Gets Funding Increase for Tokyo 2020

British Swimming will see a funding boost for the 2020 Olympics after their performance in Rio.

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Mira: Belmonte Narra Su Victoria en el 200 Mariposa en Rio

En el video, Belmonte narra su propia carrera como si fuera una entrenedora.

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Maya DiRado: Moments like this are really special (Video)

Swimswam got to check in with Maya at the AT&T Winter Nats over the weekend, that were hosted in Maya’s new home of Atlanta

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From Omaha To Rio: Follow Team USA’s Extraordinary Video Journey

Get chills listening to the entire Team USA Olympic squad sing “God Bless America.”

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Abbey Weitzeil: Coming down from Rio was harder than I thought (Video)

The Cal women were just .11 shy of the NCAA Record tonight in the 200 Free Relay as they raced in for a new school record

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Kathleen Baker: Post Rio I’m loving everything about swimming (Video)

Cal’s Kathleen Baker, who was the runner-up at 2016 NCAAs, topped the field in tonight’s 200 IM.

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DiRado, Margalis, & Hannis visit Childrens Hospital in Atlanta (Video)

In conjunction with the AT&T Winter National Championships in Atlanta this week, the three athletes visited the patients of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston

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