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Cate Campbell Feels Tokyo 2020 “Off” Headlines In The Pit Of Her Stomach As Olympic Bosses Stay “On Message”

Cate Campbell is among many elite athletes feeling Tokyo 2020 “off” headlines in the pit of her stomach. All she can do is work on, pray and hope and believe that the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will open on […]

Craig Lord 2021-01-23 5 minutes

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Olympic Tickets To Tokyo 2020 For Six Canadian Swimmers At Core Of Efforts To Work Through Covid Crisis

The Canadian Olympic Committee and Swimming Canada have provisionally nominated six swimmers for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, set to get underway from July 23, COVID-19 pandemic allowing. As...

Craig Lord 2021-01-23 5 minutes

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Japan ‘Privately Concludes’ It Cannot Host Delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics While Publicly Insisting ‘Games Will Go On’

The Japanese government has privately concluded that the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympics will have to be cancelled because of the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, the nation’s capital looking instead...

Craig Lord 2021-01-22 3 minutes

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Adam Peaty, Duncan Scott, Luke Greenbank & James Wilby Pre-Selected By GBR For Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Britain has pre-selected Olympic champion Adam Peaty, fellow World-Champion medley relay members Duncan Scott and Luke Greenbank, as well as the nation’s second breaststroke podium chaser, James Wilby, for the...

Craig Lord 2021-01-20 4 minutes

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Sun Yang walks past a FINA banner at the 2017 World Championships - by Patrick B. Kraemer

2020/1 Spillover Stories: No 3 – Sun Yang & The Sequel With WADA … But Will Any Puppet Masters Be Called To Account?

Editorial – Sun Yang is the story that not only keeps giving but refuses to go away but as we await a retrial of his case, the spillover nature of...

Craig Lord 2021-01-16 24 minutes

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Swiss Federal Tribunal Makes Clear That Partiality Of Judge Shown In Anti-Animal-Cruelty Tweets, Not WADA Argument, Behind Decision To Send Sun Yang Case For CAS Retrial

The Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT) today makes clear in the release of a full reasoning that its decision to overturn the anti-doping verdict against Sun Yang is based on issues...

Craig Lord 2021-01-15 9 minutes

Klete Keller, Olympic symbols he associates with and another form of Olympic coat - a CCCP souvenir

When Judging Klete Keller In A Political Storm, Don’t Ignore The Bruises Of An Olympic Bubble Burst

Editorial – Klete Keller; Silly boy: Sick man. I use ‘boy’ not to insult: when you grow up in the Olympic bubble, serve as a soldier for Team USA and...

Craig Lord 2021-01-13 11 minutes

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“Working From Home Isn’t An Option” – Cate Campbell Advocates COVID Jab Priority For Olympic Athletes (2nd Or 3rd Phase) If Needed To Save The Games

The best point among many made by Cate Campbell when the Australian Olympic gold medallist argues today in the Sydney Morning Herald for athletes to be granted priority in “second...

Craig Lord 2021-01-12 4 minutes

2020/1 Spillover Stories: No 4 – The Swim League, The Wrangle & The Womenfolk

In our top 5 2020-21 spillover stories, No4 brings us to a swim league revolution, where its going and why its partnership with athletes and their growing voice is key...

Craig Lord 2021-01-12 19 minutes

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80% Want Tokyo 2020ne Olympic Games To Be Cancelled Or Delayed Again As IOC Works On Making Athletes Vaccine VIPs

Going ahead with the delayed Tokyo 2020ne Olympic Games this July will not be popular with the host country: 80% of people in Japan say the showcase should be cancelled...

Craig Lord 2021-01-11 4 minutes

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Here’s To A Return To The Source Of Happiness & Health In 2021 To S.O.S. Readers & The Wider Swim Shoal

S.O.S. indeed – there has been no year quite like it in swimming: even during the dreaded days of the Spanish ‘flu more than 100 years ago, swimming witnessed World...

Craig Lord 2020-12-31 2 minutes

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Favourite Interview of 2020: Memories of A Missed Moscow 1980 & Much More With Sippy Woodhead

One of the upsides of a barren 2020 swimming race season, in a sea of downsides, was the chance to spend a little more time talking to some of the...

Craig Lord 2020-12-31 3 minutes

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Role of Judge Romano Subiotto In World Anti-Doping Agency Vs Sun Yang Retrial Up To CAS Not Us, Says Swiss Tribunal

The Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT) has issued further clarification in its decision to send the Sun Yang case and the eight-year suspension imposed on the Chinese swimmer by the World...

Craig Lord 2020-12-28 5 minutes

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Merry Christmas To S.O.S Readers, Happy And Healthy New Year Of Fire, Ice And A Return Of Swimmers To Water In 2021

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Healthy 2021 to all readers of S.O.S. Here’s to the death of viruses and new beginnings…

Craig Lord 2020-12-24 < 1 minute

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Racism Rules Out Judge Now Judged But WADA Case Against Sun Yang Is Not About Cruelty To Dogs But To Clean Athletes

Editorial: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has been ordered by the only court above it, the Swiss Federal Tribunal, to retry the case of Sun Yang and his...

Craig Lord 2020-12-24 8 minutes

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Swiss Court Sends Sun Yang 8-Year Ban Back To CAS For Retrial As Judge Is Judged On Claim Of Racism; WADA Says “Substance Of Case” Prevails

The eight-year doping ban imposed on Sun Yang, of China, is heading back to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for reevaluation after the Swiss Federal Tribunal upheld aspects...

Craig Lord 2020-12-23 5 minutes

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Russian Still Making A Mockery Of Anti-Doping Authority & System, Says Global Athlete After CAS Waters Down WADA Punishment

“Russia continues to make a mockery of both the anti-doping system and the judicial powers in place to enforce it” – that’s the damning verdict of Global Athlete, the representative...

Craig Lord 2020-12-17 3 minutes