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Dave McNulty Awarded TeamGB Olympic Coach Of The Year For Work At Bath With 200 Champ Tom Dean & Mates Who Helped Deliver Relay Bonanza At Tokyo 2020ne

Dave McNulty, head mentor at the Bath University Performance Centre, has been awarded Team GB’s Olympic Coach of the Year honour for his work with four swimmers who landed six gold medals, Tom Dean‘s victory in the 200m freestyle at […]

Craig Lord 2021-11-26 6 minutes

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LEN Leaders Capitulate – Suspension Of Croatia and Portugal Lifted & February Elections Confirmed

The Leadership of LEN, the European Swimming League, has been forced to perform a u-turn on its threat to suspend Croatia and Portugal in the row over a vote of...

Craig Lord 2021-11-25 < 1 minute

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Aimee Willmott Calls Time On Her Life In The Fast Lane As One Of Britain’s Top 2 400 IMers Of The Past Decade

Aimee Willmott, who provided Britain’s World and European champion and medallist Hannah Miley with a great rivalry and the only close competition she had over 400m medley in the past...

Craig Lord 2021-11-25 4 minutes

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Happy 65th To Shane Gould, Still The Only Swim Sorority Champ To Claim Five Solo Medals In The Olympic Pool At One Games

Today marks the 65th birthday of Shane Gould, who at 15 back at the 1972 Olympic Games claimed three gold, all in World-record times, a silver and a bronze for...

Craig Lord 2021-11-23 17 minutes

Opinion

Time For Thomas Bach To Leave His Bubble After Woeful Week For Women’s Sport In An Olympic Ring Of Fire & Flame

Editorial: As a man born in Würzburg, Bavaria, on the 29th December 1953, a little over eight years after World War II came to an end, and then 36 years...

Craig Lord 2021-11-22 12 minutes

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IOC “Fails Athletes, Aligns With Abusive Authoritarian Regimes, Disregards Human Rights” – Global Athlete To Bach

Global Athlete, the campaign and representation organisation, has slammed the International Olympic Committee – IOC – as a leadership group “that fails athletes, aligns with abusive authoritarian regimes, and disregards...

Craig Lord 2021-11-22 3 minutes

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Opinion

China & IOC Under Pressure On Peng As Global Athlete & United Nations Add To Chorus Of Criticism Around The World

Editorial: The disappearance of the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has dominated international news in recent days, but inside China there is barely a whisper – and, more disturbingly, the same might...

Craig Lord 2021-11-19 15 minutes

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FINA Sends Strong Message In Reform Process By Stripping “Disgraced” GDR Dr. Lothar Kipke Of 1980s Honour 20 Years After Criminal Conviction

The ruling FINA Bureau, the top table of global swimming governance, has voted unanimously to strip Dr. Lothar Kipke of the honour bestowed on him in the 1980s when he...

Craig Lord 2021-11-16 6 minutes

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FINA Rejects LEN Suspensions Of Croatia & Portugal; Calls On European Bosses For ‘Fair, Due Process’

FINA, the global regulator for swimming, has rejected the decision of two of its own board members, in their capacities as LEN executives, to impose the one-year whole-nation suspension on...

Craig Lord 2021-11-15 2 minutes

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How Gary Hall’s First Pair Of Goggles Became The Blueprint For Speedo’s Iconic ‘Swedish’ Model With Help From Don Gambril & Ron Gilchrist

Gary Hall, one of the most versatile US team members and swimmers in history as setter of 11 world records involving all four strokes, has unearthed the first pair of...

Craig Lord 2021-11-11 3 minutes

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Boycott Averted At Eleventh Hour Before ISL Eindhoven Play-Offs But Athletes Seek Answers As Deadline Passes On Solidarity Payments

Boycott of the International Swimming League playoffs in Eindhoven was averted in the past week when most but not all athletes were finally handed their prize money from Season 2...

Craig Lord 2021-11-11 2 minutes

FINA Reform Part 4: Events Highlight The Need To Torch Bad Culture & Swimming’s Cluttered, Chaotic, Worn-Out Window To The World

FINA Reform, Part 4 – Showcase events and the drive to move from cheese and wine to caviar and champagne have underpinned the culture and direction in which FINA, the international...

Craig Lord 2021-11-10 19 minutes

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Swim Dad’s Anti-COVID-19 Nasal Spray Market Bound After Birmingham Biotech Signs Licensing Deal With University of Birmingham

The anti-COVID nasal spray developed by swim dad and professor Liam Grover and Dr Richard Moakes, business partners in Biomaterials Science at the University of Birmingham, has taken a big step...

Craig Lord 2021-11-09 3 minutes

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Sarah Sjostrom Tops Europe’s Golden League Of Short-Course Champions With Four Victories in Kazan

Sarah Sjostrom, the Swedish ace who overcame a broken elbow to make the Olympic podium against the odds in Tokyo, emerged from the European short-course Championships in Kazan as champion...

Craig Lord 2021-11-08 3 minutes

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European Swim Bosses ‘To Impose Heavy-Handed Whole-Nation Suspensions’ On Portugal & Croatia Over Use Of LEN Logo In Exchanges Over Schism

The war at the top table of the European Swimming League intensified today when the LEN executive and its backers voted to suspend Portugal and Croatia at a meeting in...

Craig Lord 2021-11-06 4 minutes

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Bill Sweetenham Awarded Life Membership of Swimming Australia

Bill Sweetenham, coach and coach mentor, has been awarded Life Membership of Swimming Australia. Recognition comes at a turning of the tide in the governance of global swimming seven years...

Craig Lord 2021-11-05 5 minutes

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Tom Dean Talks The Trail To Olympic Gold With Honest Athletes Podcasters Quigley and Carlin

Tom Dean, yesterday named on the Britain squad for World Short-Course Championships in December, returned from the Tokyo Olympic Games a double champion, with victory in the 200m freestyle and...

Craig Lord 2021-11-04 < 1 minute

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European Swim Bosses Set February 5 Date With Their Own Destiny: Congress Will Test A Big Vote Of No Confidence Against Them

Under pressure from its member federations, the leadership of LEN, Europe’s regulator for aquatics, has set a date with its own destiny: an extraordinary congress will be held on February...

Craig Lord 2021-11-03 2 minutes