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LUXEMBOURG CITY, Luxembourg (AP) The European Short-Course Swimming Championships in Israel will be delayed a year until 2015.
The European swimming federation, known by its French initials LEN, says its policy-making bureau voted to change the event date and city to avoid a ''quite overloaded'' sports calendar.
The annual event, originally scheduled for 2014, will be held Dec. 2-6, 2015, in Herzliya.
The European body made no mention in a news release of Israel's military conflict with Hamas in Gaza. It says Israel's swimming federation had already requested moving the event from Netanya.
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