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Liam Tancock Hopes His Meticulous Preparation Will Reap Dividends In London

30 March 2012

After blowing away the field at the British Gas Swimming Championships, which double-up as selection for the 2012 Olympic Games, Liam Tancock, the national and Commonwealth 100-metre backstroke champion pleasantly greeted the crowd with a smile and a wave. Around him other athletes who had secured t...
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Leon Taylor Predicts 2012 Olympic Success for Daley

30 November 2011

British Diving was experiencing an all-time low until Leon Taylor won a silver medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004 in the synchronised event, alongside partner Peter Waterfield. You have to go back 44 years prior to that for Britain’s last diving medal at the world’s greatest sporting spectacul...
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Adlington Gets to Grips as She Hunts World Glory

25 July 2011

Rebecca Adlington eased herself out of the pool yesterday in Shanghai, collected a silver medal after finishing second in the final of the women’s 400 metres freestyle at the world swimming championships, and immediately started to think about Saturday’s 800 metres final. The 22-year-old from...
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Super Fran is Hungrier Than Ever to Win Olympic Gold After Her Delhi Belly-Aches

21 November 2010

The last time the public saw Fran Halsall the girl tipped to be one of the big, multi-medal-winning stars of London 2012 appeared as white as a ghost, wan, sunken-eyed and close â€“ very close â€“ to throwing up. Â This was at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi last month where the 20-year...
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Breaking Through the Payne Barrier

27 October 2010

Open water swimming doesnâ€™t sound much like the most appealing of sports when described by Olympic medalist Keri-Anne Payne. Rivalries and competitive events can be an intense and hostile process with competitors battling furiously through choppy waters as close together as possible. Taking t...
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Counsellor Spofforth's Golden Aim

3 October 2010

For a girl who has recently talked people out of committing suicide in the small hours in the middle of the Florida countryside and, in another bizarre incident, given counsel to a distressed man inside an adult theatre showing pornographic films at the time, going for gold at the Commonwealth Games...
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Adlington Set For First Team England Commonwealth Medal

3 October 2010

Rebecca Adlington has the chance of not only winning English swimming's first medal at these Commonwealth Games today, but also Team England's when she competes, barring a disaster, in the final of the women's 200 metres freestyle in Delhi. � Even though the 200 metres is her weakest event out of th...
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Furniss: Adlington on Course for Commonwealth Success

15 September 2010

After being thrust into the media spotlight at the tender age of nineteen, double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington underwent a transformation from anonymous club swimmer to international sports cover girl overnight. Accompanying her medal haul was an unanticipated level of focus and scrutiny...
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Jackson v Adlington Is Back On!

14 February 2010

Double world silver medallist swimmer Jo Jackson will be competing for the first time in a serious meet next weekend in Swansea since the world championships last august where she finished runner up in both the 400 and 800 metres freestyle finals. The 23-year-old, who also won bronze in the 400 metr...
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Keri-Anne Payne

23 January 2010

Keri-Anne Payne was born in South Africa but competes as a British swimmer in the gruelling 10km Open Water event. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics she won a silver medal and at the 2009 World Championships in Rome she went one better in becoming the World Champion. How did you get into your sport? My o...
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