18 December 2019: A year-end letter from a fledgling athlete-representative body at a time when the Athlete Voice is not only getting louder but intends to be heard directly at...

The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Compliance Review Committee (CRC) has the names of all suspicious athletes in the Moscow Laboratory database, which is said to be manipulated before being handed over...

GDR 30 Years On Germany today celebrates the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We’ll be celebrating the moment in our family, too,...

Witold Bańka was minus-4 when Moscow held its boycotted Olympic Games in 1980 and the GDR was sinking the hopes of most in the pool but then again, if you’re...

The latest threat to the would-be cheat – that effective gene testing may be in play come Tokyo 2020 – was made by Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic...

Today – as we do with each passing year – we remember Nick Thierry. It is the seventh anniversary of his death. The Father of World Rankings and publisher of Swim Magazine...

Editorial In a column in the Washington Post this week, Sally Jenkins writes: “An organization that couldn’t bring itself to move against child molester Larry Nassar for allegations of abusing...

Shayna Jack, the young Australian sprinter who finds herself making headlines around the world after testing positive for a banned substance, wrote a note and placed it in the public...

World Swimming Championships (Gwangju 2019 In The Mirror) We hope you enjoyed the Swimming World coverage of the World Championships, the efforts of Liz Byrnes, Andy Ross, David Rieder, John...

What a day 1 at World Championships in Gwangju. Adam Peaty’s “Project 56” is history. The Olympic champion confined the days of 57 seconds as the global standard over 100m...

Eight days of racing get underway at the World Championships in Gwangju, Korea, this Sunday. I’m looking forward to working with the Swimming World team alongside John Lohn, Andy Ross,...

Obituary. Mike Higgs, Britain Olympic coach, mentor to Olympic medallist, World short-course and Commonwealth Sarah Hardcastle, Worlds medallist and Commonwealth champion Jackie Willmott, multiple world short-course champion and Commonwealth champion Mark Foster and...

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has been unable to fast-track a hearing into the latest Sun Yanganti-doping case to cause consternation in the swimming world because no parties...

Alexander Popov, the Olympic 50 and 100m freestyle champion at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games, has been cited among prominent members of the International Olympic Committee accused by the...

This U.S. Independence Day, here’s some news from the water on a new voyage back and forth across The Pond and a declaration of press freedom and independent journalism: “A...

The details of the allegations and evidence of a trail of “corruption, organised crime” and criminality at the heart of Track and Field on the way to implosion and IAAF...

On the day Australia learned that it will need to start the search for a new head coach after Jacco Verhaeren announced he will returned to his native Netherlands and...