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2022 European Championships: Watch Race Videos from Day 5 Finals

The finals tonight included the women’s 100 fly, men’s 200 free, women’s 200 breast, men’s 50 back, women’s 1500 free, and mixed 4×100 free relay.

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Euros Day 5 Flash Quotes: David Popovici Credits Focus to Avoiding Social Media

“As positive as it can be, social media can be toxic as well. I knew I would have had a hard time falling asleep, so I think that was a good decision.”

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Italy’s Breaststrokers Help The Nation Stay Atop The Euros Medal Table

Italy remains atop the overall swimming medal table through five days’ worth of competition at these 2022 European Championships.

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David Popovici Busts Out 1:42.97 200 Free World Junior Record

Romania’s Davic Popovici continued his freestyle tear, putting up the 4th fastest performance of all-time in the 200m distance for a new World Junior Record.

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Texas State Finalist Hannah O’Leary Sends Verbal Commit to Texas A&M

Breaststroke and IM specialist Hannah O’Leary is already a four-time Texas high school state finalist. She will join the Aggies’ class of 2023.

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Class of 2024 Swimmers Have Started Making Their College Commitments

Tennessee anonymously posted that they have received a commitment from the class of 2024, the first commitment of the class as a whole.

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Two 2022 NCAA Qualifiers Returning to Kentucky for 5th Year; Gati and Knight

Gati and Knight have qualified for NCAAs in each of their three (four) years at Kentucky. They combined for 124 points at 2022 SECs.

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Michael Phelps Hits 20-Year Anniversary Of Owning The 400 IM World Record

Phelps first broke the 400 IM world record in August 2002, and now that he’s hit the 20-year mark, is closing in on the world record reign in recent history.

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2019 World Junior Championships Medalist Suspended for Whereabouts Failings

Stanford swimmer Isabel Gormley, a 2019 World Junior Championships silver medalist, has been suspended for missing three doping tests in a year.

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2022 European Championships: Day 5 Finals Live Recap

We are off with a busy finals session, which has the women’s 100 fly, men’s 200 free,  women’s 200 breast, men’s 100 back, and the mixed 4×100 free relay.

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Bob Bowman on David Popovici: “He reminds me of Michael at a very young age”

Bowman says “they were built similarly, really skinny, little guys… they’re generating speed by reducing drag, right? Which is the best way to do it anyway”

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WATCH: David Popovici Hits 1:42.97 200 Free, Fastest Textile Swim In History

Popovici is the first swimmer to break 1:43 in the 200 free in a textile suit, blasting a blistering 1:42.97 at the European Championships.

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Katie Hoff Discusses the Pros and Cons of Foregoing the NCAA to Turn Pro

With Regan Smith turning pro, we wanted a perspective from someone who had made this decision and seen how it played out in their career.

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Christou & Ceccon Check In With National Records As 1-2 In 50 Backstroke

Tonight’s final of the men’s 50m backstroke at the 2022 European Championships saw two national records bite the dust when all was said and done.

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WATCH: World’s Best Cliff Divers Take Flight From Oslo’s Opera House

The first half of the 2022 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series season wrapped up over the weekend with the fourth stop of the year in Oslo, Norway.

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