MOSCOW, RUSSIA--The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) met today in Moscow. As part of the meeting, changes to the sport programs for the 2016 Olympics were considered. The Executive Board maintained its earlier decision to not increase the number of athletes nor medal events at the Games. As such, all changes to the Olympic program (from 2012 to 2016) involved exchanging one event for another, or moving athlete allocations from one event to another. Exchanges were made for in four sports, based on requests made by their...

Lausanne (SUI), August 9, 2013 – Still fresh from their performances at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona (ESP), the best swimmers of the planet met again in Eindhoven (NED), for the first leg of the FINA Swimming World Cup, held on August 7-8. And the result was outstanding, with no less than six new World Records established in the two-day competition, completed by four World Cup records. The brightest star in Eindhoven (the Dutch city hosted for the first time a leg of the World Cup) was Hungary’s...

Danielle Hanus returning home with gold SHERBROOKE, Que. – After nearly a month on the road, 15-year-old Danielle Hanus is coming home. And the Newmarket, Ont., resident will have a shiny gold medal around her neck after winning the women’s 50-m backstroke to close out the pool portion of the swimming competition at the Canada Games. Hanus, who has competed at the Summer Nationals, Age Group Nationals and these Games in successive weeks, clocked a Games record 28.94 seconds to finish ahead of Ingrid Wilm-Sirum of Calgary in second in...

REMEMBERING 8-8-08 8/8/2013 BY MIKE GUSTAFSON//CORRESPONDENT Five years ago today, on 8-8-08, the greatest 8 days in Olympic sports history began. Michael Phelps’ legendary 8-for-8 commenced halfway around the world. 8 golds, 8 events, a few miracles, a race decided by .01, and a few billion eyes and ears forever captivated by one man’s mission. Today is the 5-year anniversary of that legendary run, as noted by Swimvortex.com. Today is also an appropriate day to reflect and look back at those 8 days at the Beijing Olympics, and how those...

In accordance with Article 14.5 of the World Anti-Doping Code, WADA has traditionally published two annual sets of testing figures: the first set reported by the WADA accredited laboratories on analyses performed, and the second by Anti-Doping Organizations (ADOs) on their doping control activities. In 2012, for the very first time, figures have been compiled entirely from the Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS), the system through which all WADA accredited laboratories report their positive and negative findings. This advanced method of data collation means that there is no longer...

Two bronze medals for Canada at World Cup EINDHOVEN, Netherlands - Canadian swimmers collected two more bronze medals on Thursday to conclude the opening stop on the FINA World Cup circuit. In the women’s 200-m butterfly, Audrey Lacroix of Pont-Rouge, Que., placed third in two minutes and 04.30 seconds. Katinka Hosszu of Hungary was the victor in 2:03.67 and Ellen Gandy of Australia second in 2:03.95. Katerine Savard of Pont-Rouge, Que., was also in the final and placed sixth in 2:07.34. Canada had three entries in the 4X50-m mixed freestyle...

Water Polo Men, Day 7 - Gold Medal: HUN 8 MNE 7 BCN2013 - WATER POLO Russell McKinnon, FINA Press Commission | Print | 03 August 2013 Click this link for complete OMEGA TIMING WATER POLO RESULTS 1 Five years after winning a third consecutive Olympic gold medal and nothing since, Hungary is back on the top of the podium, beating Montenegro 8-7 in an exciting match in front of a near-capacity crowd. Hungarian Viktor Nagy, named the best goalkeeper of the championship, was on fire and Montenegro’s Aleksandar Ivovic...

Link to OMEGA DIVING RESULTS - 15th FINA World Championships, Barcelona Review Diving Women’s 3m Springboard Synchro China have won the 3m Synchro event for the seventh time (in succession). In the history of Diving at the World Championships only the Women's 3m Springboard event has been won more often by a single NOC - China has won that event a record nine times. China are unbeaten in the women's 3m synchro event in world championship competition since 1998. Wu Minxia is now on a record breaking six world titles...

Click this link for OMEGA TIMING SWIMMING RESULTS – 15th FINA World Championships, Barcelona 2013 Click this link for COMPLETE RESULTS BOOK Review Swimming Men’s 50m Freestyle Cesar Cielo (BRA) becomes the first man to win this race three times. Cielo won his sixth gold medal. The only other swimmer outside the USA or Australia with 6+ gold medals is Alexander Popov (RUS). Cielo has won all his six golds in individual events. Only Michael Phelps (15), Ryan Lochte (9), Grant Hackett (7), Aaron Peirsol (7) and Ian Thorpe (6)...

Two silver, three Canadian records at World Cup EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands – Katerine Savard of Pont-Rouge, Que., and Chantal Van Landeghem of Winnipeg each won a silver medal and broke a Canadian short course record on Wednesday to open the first stop on the FINA World Cup swimming circuit. It was a great start to the short course season for Canada with Hilary Caldwell of White Rock, B.C., also setting a national mark. In the women’s 100-m butterfly, Jeannette Ottesen Gray of Denmark won the gold medal in 55.97 seconds...