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Hope of a brighter day in the water, courtesy of the robust, independent processes urged by the Weston Review - Photo "A great day on the waterfront" by Craig Lord

Hope Of A Brighter Day As Titans Welcome Weston Review Backing Their Call For Overhaul Of Governance Regime That Failed The Sport

The Ellesmere Titans campaign group of parents whose children’s lives were thrown into chaos by a decision to disaffiliate their club program last year have welcomed the findings of an independent review that slates Swim England’s “unsatisfactory” safeguarding and disciplinary […]

Craig Lord 2023-02-03 10 minutes

Opinion

Why Bach Should Answer Zelenskyy’s Call To Visit Bombed-Out Bakhmut & Bury IOC Fake Neutrality

Editorial, Weekend Essay – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, described in The Times as the “Jewish defender” of his country’s democracy (so much for Putin’s excuse for going to war), has...

Craig Lord 2023-01-28 12 minutes

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Olympic Bosses Confirm Ban On Putin’s War Machine But Bypass Rulings On Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan & Apartheid To Give Russians A Ticket To Compete Against Ukrainians

The International Olympic Committee – IOC – has confirmed its ban on Russia and Belarus but has opted to stick to its decision not to exclude athletes from both nations...

Craig Lord 2023-01-25 7 minutes

Opinion

The Class Action World Athletics Should Fear As Storm Amelia Joins The Weather Girls To Stop It Raining Men In Women’s Sport

Editorial – Plaudits started to roll in for Amelia Strickler the moment the British shot put ace chucked a couple of heavy balls at World Athletics governors she wished had...

Craig Lord 2023-01-24 No comments 7 minutes

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Court Orders British Swimming To Pay Out So Masters Settlement Is Honoured

A county court has ordered British Swimming to pay out £6,000 for Masters swimming to comply with a legal settlement signed in the wake of the London 2016 European Masters Championships. In...

Craig Lord 2023-01-23 5 minutes

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Pay Bohl, Boxall & Raleigh Top Dollar If You Want Dolphins To Leap Like Its Melbourne 1956 At Brisbane 2032, Sweetenham Urges

Australia is just nine years away from hosting the Olympic Games for the third time in history and there’s no time to waste: now is the moment for leaders to...

Craig Lord 2023-01-23 2 comments 5 minutes

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U.S. Court Draws A Line Under ISL Vs FINA Antitrust Case With Judgement In Favour Of Regulator’s Right Of Approval

The U.S. District Court in San Francisco has drawn a line in the ISL Vs FINA anti-trust dispute by ruling in favour of the regulator now known as World Aquatics,...

Craig Lord 2023-01-09 4 minutes

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ICFS Launched As Global Fighting Force In Face Of Threats & Discrimination Against Women in Sport

The new International Consortium on Female Sport – ICFS – was launched globally today as the “preeminent international lobby group to advocate for the preservation of the female sport category worldwide”....

Craig Lord 2023-01-09 4 minutes

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World Aquatics Hears Athlete & Coach Voices To Lift Doha Relays Lock For Paris Olympics

World Aquatics has averted a potential boycott of the 2024 World Championships in Qatar by listening to athletes and coaches asking for bosses to ditch an obligation for teams to...

Craig Lord 2022-12-22 5 minutes

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Men To Take Plunge In Olympic Artistic Swimming At Paris 2024 Alongside Women In Team Event

The following is a statement from World Aquatics: 22 December 2022; LAUSANNE – The International Olympic Committee has given its approval for World Aquatics to allow men to participate in the...

Craig Lord 2022-12-22 2 minutes

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World Aquatics Leaps From The Blocks As Reform Replaces FINA After 114 Years

World Aquatics is the new name of FINA, the global regulator for swimming, diving, synchro and water polo announced today as the latest step on the road to reform. Name...

Craig Lord 2022-12-12 3 minutes

Opinion

A 40% Female Quota, New Name & Hoisting Honoraries Overboard Highlight The Good News On A FINA Reform Voyage In Its Infancy

Editorial – The week ahead will kick the four-letter word FINA overboard to where it belongs at the bottom of the sea with a bygone, misogynist culture; honorary positions that...

Craig Lord 2022-12-09 No comments 8 minutes

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Working Group Given More Time To Shape A New Open Category As FINA Confirms Women For Females Only

The working group tasked with shaping a new Open category in aquatics sport after a widely praised June decision of FINA to ring-fence the women’s category in aquatics sports for...

Craig Lord 2022-12-08 4 minutes

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Swimming Australia Board Sent Bombshell Letter Calling For Urgent Governance Review Of Boss Buckley & Her Board

Key swimming stakeholders in Australia have called for an urgent and independent review of governance in a bombshell letter to Swimming Australia boss Eugenie Buckley and the board of the...

Craig Lord 2022-12-03 4 minutes

Opinion

Why Ian Thorpe Needs To Go Back To Dolphin School On Fair Play & Women’s Sport

Editorial – Ian Thorpe and journalism let themselves down badly this week in a short, lazy and bewildering interview that appeared in various places, including The Guardian online. The Australian...

Craig Lord 2022-11-18 4 minutes

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Paolo Barelli LEN president at the opening of the Nyon offices - Photo courtesy of Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia

Paolo Barelli Banned By FINA For Two Years Over Huge Payments Related To Euro Champs Contracts Between LEN & Italian Federation

Paolo Barelli, the former vice-president of FINA, ex-head of the European Swimming League (LEN) and current president of the Italian Swimming Federation (FIN), has been suspended for two years by...

Craig Lord 2022-11-12 3 minutes

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Opinion

Katie Ledecky Delivers ‘When’ Not ‘If’ With 7:57 World S/C Record Over 800 Free

Katie Ledecky has made short-course swimming a rarity during her illustrious career. With each passing 25m World record set in women’s distance freestyle, her absence always felt more ‘when’ than...

Craig Lord 2022-11-06 4 minutes

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Fourth Place The Poison In Peaty Pushing Him To Paris: “It’s Relentlessness; Almost Demonic”

Adam Peaty has described the demon of fourth place at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last summer as the “poison in my veins” fuelling a relentless pursuit of a pioneering...

Craig Lord 2022-10-31 5 minutes