After a swimming year filled with world records, the expectations are high ahead of the World Championship in Singapore. The stars, with the Canadian prodigy Summer McIntosh at the forefront, have shone unexpectedly strongly already. But one of the biggest stars is missing – the World Championship's most individual medal winner Sarah Sjöström who is pregnant. At the same time, a 12-year-old prodigy from China joins.
SportsIn seven weeks, it is planned that she will become a mother, but already now Sarah Sjöström is thinking further ahead. Towards what can be the championship comeback – in the city where the swimming star made Olympic Games success. I entered it in my calendar immediately, says Sjöström about last week's message about next year's European Championship dates.
SportsThe 23 Chinese swimmers who were cleared of doping would have needed to eat five kilos of food each to reach the levels shown by their doping tests. This is claimed by the American anti-doping agency USADA in a committee hearing.
SportsLotta Engberg, Lasse Kronér, Johan Hedenberg, Sarah Sjöström – and E-type. It is the profiles in this year's "The Stars on the Castle". - They must have received a cancellation from a real star, says Martin "E-type" Eriksson.
EntertainmentSuperstar Sarah Sjöström is pregnant and that she would miss the summer's World Championship in swimming in Singapore was clear earlier. Now, ten blue-yellow swimmers have received clearance for the championship and the team includes names such as sisters Louise and Sophie Hansson and Victor Johansson.
SportsBehind two of the costumes in the final of "The Masked Singer" hid veterans in the entertainment industry - but the winner of the competition was a 26-year-old singer. It felt pretty cool that I knocked out just them, says winner Lisa Ajax.
EntertainmentIn the semifinal of "Masked Singer" duetts were on the program and the participants got to sing along with some of Sweden's biggest artists. Panel member "Berra" Badreh had a good evening with two guesses right on the spot.
EntertainmentThe Octopus has to leave "Masked Singer" in the quarterfinals – and the entire jury could rejoice after the unmasking. Everyone guessed correctly about the three celebrities hiding behind the mask.
EntertainmentThe American swimming star Gretchen Walsh has struck again on Sarah Sjöström's old world record limit – twice. Walsh is now the first woman in history to swim under 55 seconds on 100 meters butterfly.
SportsIt was Glödlampan who had to leave "Masked Singer" - after three of the panel members had guessed completely right about who was in the costume.
Entertainment"The Masked Singer" is halfway through the season and so far, it's only the two newcomers on the panel, Carina Berg and Behrouz "Berra" Badreh, who have managed to score a point each.
EntertainmentAnis Don Demina usually is Pernilla Wahlgren's standing guess in "Masked Singer". However, not this time, when the author and upper-class references led both her and the rest of the panel completely off track.
EntertainmentThird distance – third personal record. Sofia Åstedt, 21, is approaching an individual World Championship ticket. I don't know what happened, she says after the record crush on 100 meters freestyle.
SportsNo Sarah Sjöström in training or competition. Then she is missing from the Swedish swimming elite. It's sad not to have her here, says Louise Hansson.
SportsSarah Sjöström's pregnancy has been difficult. The swimming queen suffered from extreme nausea, known as hyperemesis. She has felt desperate, she says.
SportsThe swimming program is expanded to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 2028. Then Sarah Sjöström gets the chance on 50 meters butterfly – the distance where she has six consecutive World Championship golds.
SportsAnother major sports profile has to leave "Masked Singer". The chess queen hid an Olympic Games medalist and World Champion in high jump.
EntertainmentDespite a skilled and "infectious" rap, it was Bacillen who was the first to have to leave "Masked Singer". Behind the mask hid one of Sweden's foremost sports stars.
EntertainmentArmand Duplantis declines collaborations with Chinese sponsors. The pole vault star's agency has learned from the criticism storm against Sarah Sjöström's Huawei collaboration. It became almost unbearable, says agent Daniel Wessfeldt.
SportsArmand "Mondo" Duplantis can be named the world's top male athlete. He is one of five nominees in the category in the prestigious Laureus World Sports Awards. On the other hand, Sarah Sjöström does not get a place among the year's top female athletes.
SportsSwimming star Sarah Sjöström, 31, is pregnant and expecting her first child with her husband Johan de Jong Skierus. "Life's greatest adventure is about to begin", she writes in a post on Instagram.
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