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Liquid poetry: The best action photos from the British Swimming Championships 2016 in Glasgow
Britain's best swimmers
are competing at the British Swimming Championships 2016 in Glasgow and
hoping to secure a place on the Olympic team. The six-day competition,
which runs from 12 to 17 April, follows a highly successful and
record-breaking 2015 World Championships in Kazan, Russia .
British
Swimming will use the event to identify and nominate senior teams for
the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as well as the European
Championships in London in May. Getty Images photographers Ian McNicol and Clive Rose captured the action in the pool. Kirsty Simpson competes in the women's 200m backstrokeIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesChristopher Walker-Hebrorn competes in the men's 100m backstrokeIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesRoss Murdoch competes in the men's 200m breaststroke heatsClive Rose/Getty ImagesLuke Greenbank competes in the men's 100m backstrokeClive Rose/Getty ImagesJames Wilby competes in the men's 100m butterfly heatsClive Rose/Getty ImagesJennifer King competes in the women's 200m backstrokeIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesRoss Leslie competes in the men's 100m butterfly heatsClive Rose/Getty ImagesBrittany Horton competes in the women's 200m backstroke heatsClive Rose/Getty ImagesRoss Murdoch prepares to compete in the men's 100m breaststrokeIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesOliver Taverner competes in the men's junior 100m breaststrokeIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesZak Logue competes in the men's 400 individual medley heatsClive Rose/Getty ImagesCalum Jarvis competes in the men's 100m freestyle heatsClive Rose/Getty ImagesDaniel Wallace competes in the men's 400 individual medley heatsClive Rose/Getty ImagesGeorge Clough competes in the 400m men's individual medleyIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesAlys Thomas competes in the women's 200m butterflyIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesJay Lelliot of Bath competes in the men's 100m butterfly finalClive Rose/Getty ImagesHannah Miley competes in the women's 800m freestyleIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesLauren Quigley competes in the women's 100m backstrokeIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesElizabeth Simmonds competes in the women's 100m backstrokeIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesCraig McNally competes in the men's 100m backstroke heatsClive Rose/Getty ImagesNicholas Grainger competes in the heats of the men's 400m freestyleIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesHannah Miley interacts with Amiee Willmott after they competed in the final of the women's 400m individual medleyIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesHannah Miley competes in the heats of the women's 400m individual medleyIan MacNicol/Getty ImagesJames Guy reacts after winning the men's 400m freestyle finalClive Rose/Getty ImagesChloe Tutton reacts after winning the women's 200m breaststroke finalClive Rose/Getty ImagesBritish Swimming Head Coach Bill Furniss warns the results will not pre-determine the Olympic outcome in August. "It's
important that we don't leave Glasgow and start to compare our
championship results with those on the world stage as many nations are
also holding their own events at the moment," he said. The British
Olympic Association is due to ratify the Team GB squad later this month.
It said Daljinder Kaur gave birth to a baby boy at a fertility clinic in the northern Indian state of Haryana, following two years of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment. The report noted that though Kaur doesn’t possess any official paper to justify her age, but doctors at the hospital have registered her age as 72 years. It noted that if Kaur’s age is correct, that makes her one of the world’s oldest woman to become mother.
I believe that we were all sent here for a reason and that we all have significance in the world. I genuinely feel that we are all blessed with unique gifts. The expression of our gifts contributes to a cause greater than us.
The son of former Nigerian military head of state Yakubu Gowon is due to return to Nigeria after spending 22 years in a US prison after being convicted on drug-related charges. It is believed Musa Gowon was released from the Taft Correctional Facility Bakersfield, California, after US President Barack Obama granted him pardon earlier in November.
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