A few weeks before the FINA World Championships, 33 year old Thomas Lurz contemplated the events he would swim in Barcelona. Of the four events on the open water swimming program, Lurz must have had trouble making a decision. Instead h e entered all four of them; the 5K, 5K Team Event; 10K and 25K. His program would include a staggering total of 45 kilometers of racing in Moll de la Vista harbour. The three time Olympian was certainly accomplished at collecting medals in the shorter events but he had...

Buenos Aires elected as Host City for 2018 Youth Olympic Games The 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games will be hosted by the city of Buenos Aires in 2018, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge announced today following a vote by the IOC members at an Extraordinary IOC Session in Lausanne. Buenos Aires (Argentina) was elected ahead of Glasgow (Great Britain) and Medellín (Colombia). For full results of the vote, please see below. Prior to the vote, the Candidate Cities each had 15 minutes to give a presentation to the...

CCCAN FIRST FOR AUGIER Jordan Augier achieved a swimming first for St Lucia when he captured two medals at the 28th Central American and Caribbean championships (CCCAN) being held in Costa Rica Augier has become the first male St Lucian swimmer to ever achieve a medal at this level. Swimming in his favored backstroke events Jordan captured a Silver in the 50M Back and Bronze in the 100M back. His 1:02.09 in the 100m and 27.10 in the 50m were also national Records Not to be outdone, Brad Worrell placed...

Barcelona 2013 ready to make a splash In 16 days, Barcelona (ESP) will host the 15th FINA World Championships, where no less than 2,000 of the best athletes from every continent (representing more than 170 nations) will compete at the highest level in FINA's six disciplines - Swimming, Diving, Water polo, Synchronised swimming, Open water and High diving - to be crowned World Champion. The diversity of the events combined with the skill of the athletes makes it an awe-inspiring spectacle of strength, acrobatics, speed, teamwork, artistry and stamina which...

JULY 2, 2013: The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) met today in Lausanne ahead of the 2013 Extraordinary IOC Session, with IOC President Jacques Rogge conducting a drawing of lots to determine the order of the presentations to be made to the full IOC membership on 4 July by the six IOC members vying to become the next IOC President. The order of presentations will be: Richard Carrión, Ser Miang Ng, Thomas Bach, Ching-Kuo Wu, Denis Oswald, and Sergey Bubka. The presidential elections will take place...

Medellín secures landslide victory on insidethegames poll on eve of 2018 Youth Olympics vote July 3 - Medellín has secured victory by an overwhelming margin on the insidethegames poll asking readers which city they think should hold the 2018 Youth Olympics just a day before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) elects the host city. The Colombian city garnered 114,805 of the 154,310 total votes – translating to 74.4 per cent, and was followed by Glasgow in Scotland, which received 34,825 votes or 22.6 per cent. However, Argentina's capital Buenos Aires...

The FINA Office sent new proposals recommended by the FINA Technical Swimming Committee, the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and the FINA Facilities Commission on June 28, 2013. The FINA Office reminded National Federations that all of these proposals may be considered "...On a motion of urgency approved by a two thirds majority of those delegates present and voting, the Congress may deal with new proposals not appearing on the agenda, " as stated in the FINA rule C 16.7 The memo titled: FINA Technical & General Congresses, July...

USA Head Coach Adam Krikorian Announces Squad for 2013 FINA World Championships Huntington Beach, Calif. - July 2, 2013-- USA Water Polo Women's Senior National Team Head Coach Adam Krikorian has announced the travel roster for the 2013 FINA World Championships set for this July in Barcelona, Spain. Out of the 14 athletes selected, 13 will be chosen to compete at the FINA World Championships closer to the start of competition, with the remaining athlete serving as an alternate. The 14 athletes selected feature eight returners from the team that...

The following statement is attributable to Larry Probst, chairman of the United States Olympic Committee: "I am truly honored to be nominated for membership in the IOC, and extremely grateful for the potential opportunity to serve the Olympic Movement." Larry Probst and Alexander Zhukov Poised to Become IOC Members 7/2/2013 Larry Probst and Alexander Zhukov. (Getty Images) (ATR) The heads of the United States and Russian Olympic Committees are set to become IOC members, part of a group of nine proposed for election at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos...

U.S. Open Set To Begin In Texas, July 9-13 U.S. national team, swimmers from Canada, China and Mexico to compete INDIANAPOLIS - Elite synchronized swimmers from around the world will gather in Irving, Texas, for the 2013 U.S. Open Synchronized Swimming Championships, July 9-13. The event is hosted by the Pirouettes of Texas Synchronized Swimming Club. Swimmers will compete for solo, duet, trio, team and combo titles in junior and senior divisions at the North Lake College Natatorium. Club teams from the United States will compete against teams from other...