Hints and tips:
...The pool isn’t for serious swimmers, being 35 feet long and a slightly strange triangular shape, but ideal if you’re looking for some R&R....
...I loved my routine, the walk to it from my hotel, the welcome at the pool, the friendliness of my fellow swimmers, the space, the light, and swimming buoyantly in seawater....
...Also on Tuesday, Georgia Taylor-Brown overcame a flat tyre to win silver in the women’s triathlon....
...He was part of the British team that won the first ever mixed sprint triathlon, alongside Jessica Learmonth, Georgia Taylor-Brown and Alex Yee. “Olympics?...
...But during desegregation, white communities were so determined to exclude black swimmers from these pools that many shut down these recreational assets instead of sharing them. The result?...
...Closing Ceremony If the Tokyo Olympics were concluding this weekend, as had been the plan before the coronavirus pandemic struck, US swimmer Katie Ledecky was set to be one of the stars in the pool....
...André Kertész, the Hungarian-born photographer, will also feature with “The Underwater Swimmer”, his first distortion photograph, which was taken in 1917....
...For others, such as swimmer Michael Phelps, it will be retirement. And for a few, a new career beckons advising business leaders on what it takes to succeed....
...“I think that’s one of the biggest problems for swimmers, or competitors....
...The wider issue is that, when even war in Georgia fails to lift prices, commodities markets as a whole appear angst-ridden....
...With US sports fans transfixed for days by swimmer Michael Phelps’s week-long quest for a record eight gold medals in the Beijing pool, it is a safe bet that the latest figures will do nothing to cool the...
...Masae Ueno of Japan won the women's 70kg and Irakli Tsirekidze of Georgia won the men's 90kg in judo. Manuchar Kvirkelia of Georgia won the 74-kg in Greco-Roman wrestling....
...There were 132 individuals who won more than one medal, obviously headed by the American swimmer Michael Phelps with his eight....
...Elsewhere, the US lost ground in the Caucasus when the Russian army invaded Georgia, a pro-western former Soviet republic pressing for membership of Nato....
...I read an excellent political blog on opendemocracy.net about Georgia. I looked at TrueTube to view films that ex-offenders had made (www.truetube.co.uk)....
...They come from Ethiopia, like the great distance runner Haile Gebrselassie, and from Equatorial Guinea, like the charmingly incompetent Sydney swimmer Eric the Eel....
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