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Speedo sponsored athletes; Adam Peaty, Alice Tai, Freya Anderson, Anna Hopkin, Tom Dean and Duncan Scott raise their hands to show the 1 in 4 sign, raising awareness of the fact that 1 in 4 children in the UK leave primary school unable to swim 25m or self-rescue.

Speedo Swim United Launches Petition To Turn Tide Of 1 In 4. Children Leaving Primary School Unable To Swim

Speedo, Swim England, The Black Swimming Association and Active Black Country to form Speedo Swim United, a collective which aims to ensure all children are able to swim 25m by 2025. Collectively, Swim United has started a petition to ask […]

Craig Lord 2022-08-05 3 minutes

Opinion

Why Brittney Griner Jailing Is A Duma-Slam-Dunk In Favour Of Locking Russia Out Of World Sport For Years To Come

Editorial – Brittney Griner, a big name in sport, messed up – and admitted it – but in a politically charged atmosphere and a Russia in the grip of a...

Craig Lord 2022-08-05 6 minutes

News

Duncan Scott Vs Dean Part II – 200 Medley Gold To Scotland, Silver To England, As Sparring Partners Set Records For Biggest Medals Hauls For Their Home Nations

Duncan Scott Vs Tom Dean in rival home-nation camps over 200m Part II: the blue corner takes it over the red corner once more at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, this...

Craig Lord 2022-08-03 10 minutes

News

Williams, Wilby, Guy & Dean Halt Aussie Gold Rush With 4×100 Medley Victory To Takes England Swim’s Captain Tom To Top Of Home Medals Haul & Adds To Jimbob’s Pioneering Relay Treasury

Tom Dean ended his and the England campaign at a home Games in Birmingham on a soaring high when he held off mighty Australia to deliver gold in the 4x100m...

Craig Lord 2022-08-03 3 minutes

News

Ben Proud Punches An England 1-2 With Lewis Burras In Dashing 21.36 For Commonwealth Double Double & Triple

Ben Proud is having the swim Summer of his life, an historic World title last month propped up by a second Commonwealth gold in Birmingham and three 50m freestyle titles...

Craig Lord 2022-08-03 3 minutes

News

Australia Alpha Status Reinforced By Titles For Titmus, Short & Relay As Wiffen Claims A First For N. Ireland

The Australia visitors came and largely conquered in the pool in Birmingham, the Dolphins’ gold and overall medals tally so large that it came uncomfortably close to matching the haul...

Craig Lord 2022-08-03 3 minutes

News

Hunger Games End With Roar As Adam Peaty Adds Missing Gold To Pantheon After England Mate Brodie Williamson Joins Club Of Champions

Brodie Williams and Adam Peaty shared something in common in the Commonwealth pool in Birmingham this evening: both celebrated a career-first gold, ever for Williams, in the dash at this...

Craig Lord 2022-08-02 12 minutes

News

McKeown Takes 200 Back Gold Then Silver Lining Adrift McIntosh In 200IM, Both At The Double In Record Times

Kaylee McKeown fell 0.82sec shy of two golds in an hour at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre this evening, the Australian following a dominant 2:05.60 victory in the 200m backstroke with...

Craig Lord 2022-08-01 2 minutes

News

Chalmers Takes Back Commonwealth Control Of 100 Free in 47.5 Ahead Of Dean & Defender Scott

Kyle Chalmers turned tables on the defending champion with a 47.51 win in the 100m freestyle to get day 4 Commonwealth-Games finals off to a blast this evening in Birmingham,...

Craig Lord 2022-08-01 10 minutes

News

Peaty Heartbroken By 100m Defeat & ‘Following Emotion Not Process’

Adam Peaty has told fans that his defeat and loss of former form in the 100m breaststroke final at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last night has left him heartbroken. In...

Craig Lord 2022-08-01 2 minutes

News

Dolphins Leap To 7:39.29 World Record As Titmus Wraps Up 4×200 With 1:52.82 Swiftest Split Ever

The Australian Dolphins 4x200m freestyle women’s quartet wiped more than a second off the World record for Commonwealth gold in 7:39.29 at the Birmingham Games this evening, switching Ariarne Titmus...

Craig Lord 2022-07-31 3 minutes

News

Wilby Takes Gold For England As Adam Peaty Eight-Year Bull Run Ends in 4th, Loss Of Title & Start Of A New Chapter & The Art Of “If”

James Wilby the champion for England, Adam Peaty, the 2016 and 2020ne Olympic champion defeated for the first time in more than eight years over 100m breaststroke and off the...

Craig Lord 2022-07-31 7 minutes

News

Ben Proud Pulverises Dash Pretenders With 22.81 Blast To Become First Ever To Claim Commonwealth ‘Fly Crown Twice

It’s a summer of plenty for Ben Proud, who in a dominant 22.81 became the first man to claim the Commonwealth 50m butterfly crown twice, a champion once more after...

Craig Lord 2022-07-30 No comments 11 minutes

News

Duncan Scott For Scotland Turns Tables On England’s Tom Dean To Make 200 Gold His First Podium Of The Night, Tartan Immortality Calling

Duncan Scott got the edge over over Tom Dean 1:45.02 to 1:45.41 in the Commonwealth 200m freestyle fight in Birmingham tonight to reverse the British 1-2 of the Tokyo Olympic...

Craig Lord 2022-07-30 No comments 10 minutes

News

Masks Are Off As Adam Peaty Says He Will Not Go To Doha World Titles in 2024 & GB Mate Tom Dean Calls On FINA To Rethink

Adam Peaty has joined Britain teammate James Guy in stating that he will not attend the FINA World Championships scheduled for February 2024 in Doha, while their fellow Olympic champion...

Craig Lord 2022-07-30 5 minutes

News

Ross Murdoch – “Just A Wee Boy Fae The Vale .. With Ma Heid Doon”, An Ace Who’d ‘Get A Piece At Anyone’s Door, As Yer Granny Might Say’

As the tale of Ross Murdoch at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games reminds us, some reactions to success and the reports that flow stand out from the crowd for their sheer...

Craig Lord 2022-07-30 3 minutes

News

At 15, Global Champ Summer McIntosh Warns Rivals That Winter Is Coming On Way To Paris Olympics With 4:29 World Junior & Commonwealth 400IM Record

Summer McIntosh now has just two Olympic champions ahead of her on the all-time 400m medley World rankings after a 4:29.01 Commonwealth and Games-record demolition of opponents in the opening...

Craig Lord 2022-07-29 3 minutes

News

Titmus Gets Going With Games Record As Dolphins Leap To Two Sweeps In First Three Finals & 4/5 Golds For Booming Start In Birmingham

Games records for Canadian 15-year-old Summer McIntosh and Aussie Terminator Ariarne Titmus combined with a pair of Australian sweeps in the first three finals gave the swimming at the Birmingham...

Craig Lord 2022-07-29 7 minutes