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Ariarne Titmus Unleashes 1:53.09 World Textile Best 200 Free A Hand Shy Of The Spitz Of Mark Spitz

As they say about a crisis, injury, what injury: Ariarne Titmus unleashed a storming 1:53.09 World textile best and World-record rattler over 200m freestyle at Australian Olympic trials in Adelaide today, the World 400m champion crushing her domestic opponents and […]

Craig Lord 2021-06-14 4 minutes

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Kaylee McKeown Puts On Show Of Versatility With 2:08.1 All-Comers 200IM Record For All-Time No6 In Textile

Kaylee McKeown added another podium shot to her Tokyo 2020ne Games schedule with a 2:08.19 all-comers record in the 200m medley on day 3 at Australian Olympic trials in Adelaide,...

Craig Lord 2021-06-14 3 minutes

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Kalisz, Weyant & Smith Take First USA Tickets To Tokyo At Omaha Trials

Honour and heartache flowed according to the tradition of U.S. Olympic trials on the opening day of the Tokyo 2020 qualifier in Omaha, with solid wins and tickets for Chase...

Craig Lord 2021-06-14 4 minutes

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Kaylee McKeown Sends 57.45 Thunder From Down Under World Record Rolling Across Pacific As Titmus Joins Ledecky in Sub 3:57 Club

Kaylee McKeown sent a Thunder-from-Down-Under 57.45 World-record roller from the 100m backstroke final at Australian Olympic trials in Adelaide this evening out across the Pacific to World champ and record...

Craig Lord 2021-06-13 4 minutes

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Ariarne Titmus Punches 3:56.90 All-Time No2 An Arm-swing From Katie Ledecky On Way To Olympic 400m Bout of Bouts

If Olympic freestyle gold is to be found in abundance in the vault of swim roos boxing above their weight in the pool down the decades, then the speedy efforts...

Craig Lord 2021-06-13 5 minutes

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McKeon Joins Sub-56 100 ‘Fly Club; Smith Sets 400IM Standard; & Winnington & McLoughlin Halt Horton Defence Of 400 Olympic Crown

Emma McKeon took the pace of Australian 100 ‘fly just into 55-second waters for the first time and Brendon Smith joined her in the club of 2021 Olympic ticket holders...

Craig Lord 2021-06-12 4 minutes

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Swimming Australia To Set Up All-Women Panel To Investigate Maddie Groves Complaint Of Misogyny

Swimming Australia chief executive Alex Baumann has asked Maddie Groves to bring forward her complaints about misogyny and related matters that caused her to withdraw form Olympic trials this week...

Craig Lord 2021-06-12 4 minutes

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Does The Athlete Understand The Difference Between ‘I Cannot Be Beaten’ & “I Will Win”? Bill Sweetenham Explains

In a recent discussion between world-class coaches. Australian mentor Bill Sweetenham asked “does the athlete understand they cannot be beaten in preference to the concept that they will win”? His...

Craig Lord 2021-06-11 13 minutes

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Regular & Strenuous Exercise Raises Risk Of Motor Neurone Disease Among Genetically Vulnerable

Genetic profiling is the subject of debates on ethics, morals, the general direction of humanity and in sport any implications for gene doping, with a nod to the dark side...

Craig Lord 2021-06-11 2 minutes

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Maddie Groves Boycott’s Australian Olympic Swim Trials in Protest Over “Misogynistic Perverts In Sport & Their Boot Lickers”

Maddie Groves, the Olympic silver medalist over 200m butterfly and a national champion, is boycotting Australia’s Olympic swimming trials and will miss the Covid-19-delayed Tokyo 2020ne Olympic Games. The 26-year-old,...

Craig Lord 2021-06-10 2 minutes

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The New Alliance Focus Of Ranomi Kromowidjojo – 50:50 Revenue Share With Governors For Next Wave Of Olympic Swimmers

Ranomi Kromowidjojo, the Dutch sprinter with three Olympic golds and a silver in a vault stacked with 42 international victories atop 83 podium places for The Netherlands since 2007, will...

Craig Lord 2021-06-09 19 minutes

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Independent International Swimmers’ Alliance Off The Blocks In Partnership With Global Athlete

The world’s top swimmers have united to formally establish the Independent International Swimmers’ Alliance and a partnership with Global Athlete, the groundbreaking representative body pressing for changes to the way...

Craig Lord 2021-06-08 6 minutes

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Swim Ireland Challenges FINA Flip-Flop On Irish 4x100m Medley Relay invitation To Tokyo Olympics

FINA farces that hurt athletes are nothing new so the latest one, the withdrawal of a place for the Swim Ireland men’s medley relay at the Tokyo Olympic Games within...

Craig Lord 2021-06-07 2 minutes

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International Swimming League Names Protected Athletes Ahead of The Draft, Starting With Condors & Energy

The International Swimming League today starts to unveil the lists of protected athletes for each pro-team before the upcoming ISL Draft begins on June 29, beginning with Cali Condors and...

Craig Lord 2021-06-07 2 minutes

Opinion

Why FINA Funding By IOC Should be Slashed In Absence Of Integrity Unit As Brent Nowicki Becomes Exec Director

Editorial: The first test of Husain Al-Musallam when he takes the throne of FINA this weekend will be to look straight in a mirror, declare his innocence and hand over...

Craig Lord 2021-06-05 11 minutes

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Abbie Wood Rattles Her Career High With 2:09.24 Win In Glasgow 200IM

Abbie Wood is making 2:09 200IMs a habit this year, her latest effort, an unrested, unpressured 2:09.24 at the British Swimming Glasgow Meet the fourth-fastest time in the world in 2021,...

Craig Lord 2021-06-04 4 minutes

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Jacco Verhaeren Appointed Head Of French Swimming On Way To Home Paris 2024 Olympics

Jacco Verhaeren, who returned to Europe late last year after seven years at the helm of Australian swimming, has been appointed Performance Director of swimming in France for the build...

Craig Lord 2021-06-02 3 minutes

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Britannia Rules The Waves At Budapest Europeans As Medley Relays Triumph & Four-Peat Peaty Makes It 16 Out Of 16 Golds Since 2014

Britannia ruled the waves in Budapest when the Great Britain swim team grabbed the curtain-closing medley relays for men and women ahead of Russia to top the European Championships medals...

Craig Lord 2021-05-24 11 minutes