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World Championships Medalist Daiya Seto Misses 400 IM Olympic QT

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2024 JAPANESE OLYMPIC TRIALS It was a shocker of a day for the men’s 400m IM at the Japanese Olympic Trials. First, favorite medal Tomoru Honda missed out on making the final entirely. During this morning’s heats, the 22-year-old Honda clocked a time of 4:16.97. That was well off the 4:09.98 personal best he put on the books last December to render him 10th and out of the top 8. Then, during tonight’s final, 13-time world champion Daiya Seto missed hitting the Japanese Swimming Federation (JASF)-mandated qualification time of 4:10.63 needed for Paris. 18-year-old Tomoyuki Matsushita upstaged Seto this evening.…
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2024 Olympic Games: Paris mayor says she would prefer Russian athletes to be banned

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CNN — Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Wednesday that she is against Russian athletes participating in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and attending the Opening Ceremony scheduled for July 26. “I would prefer them not to come,” Hidalgo told Reuters on Wednesday. “I think [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is a dictator who threatens Europe as a whole and is waging war against Ukraine, denying them their right to exist as people and as a nation. “It will be very, very difficult to see, even under the neutral flag – because we know how much emphasis Putin puts on Russians…
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Olympic paddler asks for help to make a difference in Paris

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Photo: PHOTOSPORT Olympic kayaker Alicia Hoskin is turning to the community to help her compete with the best in the world. Hoskin, 24, is likely to be a member of the New Zealand K4 crew that will head to this year’s Paris Olympics. They won the World 2023 K4 500 title, but doing it again at an Olympics is another step up. Hoskin and her Gisborne based family are running a fundraiser to help her with that extra two percent that turns a very good athlete into the best. “We do get good support from Canoe Racing New Zealand and…
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