Record breaker Fiona Doyle victorious in Victoria

Irish swimmer Fiona Doyle had a weekend to remember as she broke three Irish senior records in Canada. The Limerick woman, who is based in Calgary, was competing at the Canadian Intervarsity Swimming Championships in Victoria. Doyle has now set her sights on Olympic qualification for Rio in 2016. She has said that I am really hoping to succeed for the Summer Olympics. I believe that is possible as I have already gone under the cut twice this year.

Doyle’s record-breaking feats began in the heats of the 100m breastroke when she recorded a time of 1:05.95 and qualified first into the final. In the final, Doyle went under World Championship and FINA

Olympic ‘A’ times to win the event for the third year running in a time of 1:07.76. Competing in the 200m breaststroke heats a time of 2:23.64 set a new Irish record, breaking the 23-year-old's own previous mark. She also won the long course final and set a further Irish records way coming home in a time of 2:27.63.

Katie Ledecky continue her preparation for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games

Katie Ledecky, the three-time All-Met Swimmer of the Year and ruling world record holder in the 400-meter, 800 and 1,500 free-form occasions, made the eagerly awaited choice to concede enlistment at Stanford University for the 2015-16 school year Friday, deciding to stay at home to prepare in the most critical year yet of her young vocation.

After watchful thought and joint talk with both my present club mentor, Bruce Gemmell of Nation's Capital Swim Club, and Stanford Coach Greg Meehan, I have chosen to concede my enlistment at Stanford for one year so that I may proceed with my preparation in my home surroundings in Maryland paving the way to the 2016 U.S. Summer Olympic Trials. Ledecky said in an announcement issued by Stone Ridge School, where she is a senior.

choice appears to be auspicious, four years and a day after the 18-year-old world record holder came to her first Summer Olympic Trials cut at age 14. After thirteen months, Ledecky's swimming vocation took off when she set first at trials, procuring a spot on the U.S. Olympic group in London, where she would win gold in the 800 free-form. She has following softened seven world record up the mid-separation and separation free-form occasions, and has kept on amplifying her range in free-form and individual medely as July's big championships approach.

Tokyo’s compact Games go beyond the bounds

The Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020 must be 'compact'. The most compact Games in living memory. Compact was among the enchantment words, when in 2013, the International Olympic Committee settled on Tokyo as the 2020 host city. It is a serious guarantee that Tokyo has made the universe of game.

Calling the Olympic Games "compact" portrays a concentrated event occurring in a restricted land area, which is plainly characterized for the candidates and fans present. You are right amidst it. You are a piece of it at all times. You don't wander in from the outside with a specific end goal to partake or watch the event for a couple of hours and afterward backpedal to the outside world.

The fundamental thought is that few of the Summer Olympic Games have been too noisy and scattered. This time, we will be taken back to the sentimental thought of a united Olympic town, where competitors from everywhere throughout the world are mingling, becoming acquainted with each other crosswise over nationalities. It must be anything but difficult to get starting with one spot then onto the next and it must be focal and the observers must experience the Summer Olympic climate when they have demonstrated their plentifully acquired tickets and have entered the negligible group. 

Russia’s Olympic swimming team finalized

The Russian Swimming Federation finalized its 2016 competition calendar last year, and cemented Moscow as the hosts of its 2016 Olympic Trials. The final dates for the meet that will select Russia’s Olympic Team were not announced, but the meet will be held in April. The Russians held their 2012 Olympic Trials from April 17th-22nd.

Swimming at this year’s Olympic Games will be approximately a week later than they were last year in relative terms. Also at the meet, Russia announced that it would bid to host the 2019 European Aquatics Championships in its Krasnodar region. The far western area has a population of approximately 5 million residents and lies on the Black Sea.

That adds to the growing list of meets that Russia is bidding to host after its 2015 duties at the World Aquatics Championships, and includes the 2017 and 2019 European Short Course Championships and the 2018 and 2019 European Junior Championships.

Rio 2016 unveils test events schdules

The Rio 2016 Organizing Committee has announced the details of 44 test events that will be held in preparation for next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. The programme includes 34 Olympic sports events, six Paralympic events and four events that feature both Olympic and Paralympic disciplines.  The events will give the Organizing Committee an imperative chance to test the Olympic competition territories and results frameworks, and additionally coordinating all the significant partners and preparing the group of individuals who will be in charge of running the events amid the Games.

There are 21 events booked to occur in 2015, with the first arrangement of open air occasions to be held in the middle of July and October this year. A progression of indoor events will then be held from November 2015 to February 2016, with the last events to occur in the middle of March and May 2016, in front of the Summer Olympic Games, which start on 5 August.

More than 7,800 athletes will take an interest in the test events, giving each of them an essence of the Olympic and Paralympic host city, while pretty nearly 16,000 volunteers will likewise pick up experience over the 156 days of competition. Some events will be ticketed, while others will not be open to spectators. There will also be events in the Copacabana region – such as triathlon, sailing, marathon swimming and road cycling  that the public will be able to see without tickets.  

Anderson Silva wants to compete in taekwondo at 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio

Anderson Silva is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC Middleweight Champion. The former UFC middleweight champion this week wrote a letter to the Brazilian Taekwondo Confederation stating his desire to compete in the sport at the upcoming Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Silva said that Everybody knows that the Olympic Games are a dream for every athlete. It is  going to be a big pleasure for me to be part of that gold team, so I register officially in this letter my desire to represent taekwondo and Brazil in the Rio Olympic Games.

Fernandes stated that he will meet with Silva this week but made clear that, if “The Spider” accepts, the 40-year-old fighter will have to participate in the national trials. As the host nation, Brazil is granted the right to issue four special invitations -- two female and two male -- but last week, CBTKD announced that one of those invites will be given to Lucas Oliveira.

Silva is currently serving a temporary suspension from the Nevada Athletic Commission after testing positive for multiple banned substances following his win over Nick Diaz at UFC 183. He is expected to be formally disciplined at a hearing next month, though any suspension issued by the NAC would not necessarily affect Silva’s Olympic eligibility. Silva’s longtime friend and training partner Antonio Rogerio Nogueira brought Brazil a bronze medal in boxing at the 2007 Pan American Games, the same competition where Ronda Rousey won gold for the U.S. in judo.

Sale of 7.5 million Olympic Games tickets begins in Rio de Janeiro

The most reasonable of the 7.5 million tickets are 40 reais and all buys can be paid for in up to five portions. The least expensive tickets at London 2012 were 20 pounds, at the time about $32. The most costly tickets in Rio for the athletics, basketball, beach volleyball and volleyball finals are valued at 1,200 reais, far over Brazil's base month to month compensation of 788.

Tickets for the prominent opening ceremony will cost up to 4,600 reais. The declaration came the same number of Brazilians struggle to keep their heads above water in the midst of a developing financial crisis. The economy grew 0.1 percent a year ago and is relied upon to shrink in 2015 as sleaze scandals hit investment.

The Summer Olympics competition schedule was additionally released on Tuesday, with eight finals on the last day, Sunday 21 August. The men's football competition is the first game to commence on 3 August, two days prior to the opening ceremony. Tickets for the seven soccer matches booked for Sao Paulo have been kept down because of an impasse over who will take care of everything for the redesigns at the Corinthians stadium.

Olympic Champion Pendleton Demands Change of Girl’s Sport Education

Olympic and World cycling champion Victoria Pendleton says the method of teaching Physical Education to girls in British schools should be changed. Half of the girls who leave school are not as fit as boys according to recent statistics. Lack of physical education lessons designed for girls is the reason of this leaving. Pendleton said the way of teaching sport at school is difficult for girls. She explained they had for example to wear horrible blue knickers and a polo shirt at cross country tours which was the smallest uniform for the coldest weather and she also hated communal showers which every teenage girl dislikes.

The Olympic champion said a few shower curtains, a bit of space to wear dress, some mirrors and hairdryers can solve this problem and it is good thing if more girls are to be attracted towards sports. The 34-year-old was addressing at the Girls Active Camp at Loughborough University which is the Youth Sport Trust’s lastest effort to solve problem of little participation by girls in PE and Sports. 165 girls aged from 14 to 16 took part in three day The Girls Active Camp whose idea was taken from a project implemented through 2014 in 20 schools with the following results.

1. Girls who were happy about the way rose from 25% to 56%

2. Number of girls unhappy about the way fell from 37% to 16%

3. Girls who looked forward to PE rose from 38% to 71%

4. Girls who felt positive about school rose from 24% to 78%