swimming

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Keri-Anne Payne talks us through her Olympic experience, her cookery skills and her guilty TV pleasure...

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Strokes of genius

Sport sits down with Ellie Simmonds, the precocious 17-year-old swimmer looking to defend double Olympic gold in the Aquatics Centre

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Swimming: Women's 400m Freestyle Final

Aquatics Centre, 8.15pm

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The only British swimmer to qualify for three individual disciplines at London 2012 is known for her non-stop chatter. But, chasing five medals, Fran Halsall could soon be famous for what she does when her mouth closes

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Michael Phelps has won more Olympic golds than any athlete in history, but London 2012 may represent his final appearance on swimming’s biggest stage. Ahead of the US Olympic trials, he spoke exclusively to Sport...

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At Beijing in 2008, alongside partner Olivia Allison in the duet, Jenna Randall was part of the first GB synchro team to compete at an Olympic Games since Barcelona in 1992

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In most sports, a ‘split position’ would result in injury. For synchronised swimmers, though, it’s merely routine

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The South African-born swimmer started her career in the pool but was convinced to enter the open water by her coach. Before she knew it, she had an Olympic silver medal in hand…

After leading the field for much of the race in the 10km open water swim at the Beijing Games, Keri-Anne Payne was just pipped to the finish by Russian swimmer Larisa Ilchenko, who’d been unbeaten since 2004.

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It’s a gruelling test of endurance, and the only Olympic event with the threat of swan attacks this summer…

The venue
Britain’s open water world champion, Keri-Anne Payne, has contended with jellyfish and floating carcasses of dead animals in some of her least favourite 10km open water swimming venues around the world. So the chill of Hyde Park’s Serpentine holds no fear.

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Trained by her helicopter pilot father in a 25m pool in Aberdeenshire, Miley shone at the recent Olympic trials, qualifying for the 200m medley as well as her favoured 400m distance…

Hannah Miley could be the first British swimmer to race for a medal this summer, with the 400m individual medley among the first events in the Aquatics Centre.