Report: Michael Phelps planning comeback
The son of the U.S. national swim team director is reporting that Michael Phelps is planning a comeback for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The son of the U.S. national swim team director is reporting that Michael Phelps is planning a comeback for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
National Capital Region all but wrapped up yet another Palarong Pambansa overall championship yesterday with its swimming wonder girls Catherine Bondad and Regina Erin Castrillo each pulling off electrifying seven-of-seven gold medal finishes like Central Luzon’s Rafael Barreto at the San Lorenzo Teves Aquatics Center here.
National Capital Region came up with record-breaking performances in swimming and major victories in track and field and other fronts to display its full sporting might yesterday in the 2013 Palarong Pambansa here.
Swimming’s world governing body on Thursday said it had written to organizers of a regional swimming championships in the United States, requesting that shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong be barred from competing.
Lance Armstrong is looking to make a splash with a return to competition. The disgraced cyclist is signed up to swim three events this weekend at the Masters South Central Zone Swimming Championships at the University of Texas. Armstrong spokesman Mark Higgins said Wednesday that Armstrong, 41, will compete in the 40-44 age group in the 500-, 1,000- and the 1,650-yard freestyle.
Australian swimming officials Wednesday said head coach Leigh Nugent will resign after a dismal London Olympic campaign marred by ill-discipline, drug use and drunkenness.
Ahead of her first nude ocean swimming race, 43-year-old Sydney mother Jo Davison was a little nervous.
Ryan Lochte won two more races at the short-course world championships in Turkey on Sunday, finishing the event with six golds and one silver.
A FILIPINO-American swimmer based in Wisconsin broke Miguel Molina’s Philippine record Thursday in the ongoing Fina World Swimming Championship in Istanbul, Turkey.
US swim star Ryan Lochte bagged two golds on the opening day of the world shortcourse championships on Wednesday to add to the five medals he won in the London Olympics in the summer.
Bacolod City and Negros Occidental swamped the opposition in swimming even as a runner from Aklan bucked a hurting foot to score a come-from-behind win in the 5,000 meters yesterday at the start of the Visayas leg of the POC-PSC Batang Pinoy 2012 here.
Athletes in track and field, boxing and swimming take the spotlight as the POC-PSC Batang Pinoy 2012 Visayas qualifying kicks off today at Leyte Sports Development Center here.
Australia’s five-time Olympic gold medallist Ian Thorpe has spent much of his life battling depression, and even considered suicide, excerpts from a new book by the swimmer revealed Saturday.
