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16 minutes ago, Vektor said:

Our economy is on the brink of collapse, the World Aquatics Championships is the last thing we need right now... 

The annoying thing is the US still hasn't ponied up the funds to host even a single world champs in its whole history.

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10 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Completely ridiculous, but hey if the Hungarian government wants to pay for me to have some entertaining swimming to watch I ain't going to complain too much.

 

(Having worlds in 2022 isn't ridiculous, it's the January 2024 edition that is complete nonsense).

Having it 4 consecutive years (2022-2025) is ridiculous. An athlete lucky enough to have their career peak during these years can achieve quite an inflated number of world titles.

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FINA is officially a joke federation:

 

Budapest to host additional FINA World Aquatics Championships in 2022

 

So that's three WCs: June 2022, July 2023, January 2024

 

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So it is confirmed:

 

FINA Confirms Fukuoka Worlds Rescheduled For July 2023; Doha Edition Switched To January 2024

 

I hope Australia skips that shit in Doha in January 2024. Two long course World Champs and an Olympics in 12 months is ridiculous.

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Looks like FINA World Championships in Fukuoka will be postponed until 2023.

 

https://swimswam.com/report-fina-to-postpone-fukuoka-world-championships-to-july-2023/

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59 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Can these races be seen anywhere? I don't see any regular live stream and the finals videos on YouTube are swiftly deleted all the time.

The full sessions are up on the FINA channel on YouTube if they're not geoblocked in your country. Here's the finals from yesterday: 

 

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https://swimswam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SW-Final-Sport-Entries_Abu-Dhabi.pdf

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1 minute ago, Grassmarket said:

Women’s records continue to tumble in the NCAA as heroic transgender superhero Lia Thomas breaks new boundaries.

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10282301/Transgender-UPenn-swimmer-Lia-Thomas-smashes-records-weekend-meets-14-SECONDS-ahead-rival.html

 

Yas Queen 

I hope they crush everyone at NCAAs next year so I can watch the fallout. 

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The provisional entry list must surely be due any time now you'd think. 

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Australia has a whole two swimmers going: Kyle Chalmers and Holly Barratt

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Not that I've noticed. Based on past experience they won't be out until end of November/early December.

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5 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Sensational silver for Italy  Beating Australia is huge. Russia's training has gone very wrong, their form was not worthy after all the hype..

Australia was expected to get Bronze at best. We were fortunate that the Brits failed to qualify for the final because of stupid coaching decisions and Russia was off.