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Mel Marshall with her charge Adam Peaty - courtesy of Mel Marshall

The Vortex, May 16-22: Dynamics Of The Athlete-Coach Partnership From Sweetenham & Lawrie

The Vortex is our weekly day-by-day digest of swimnews, views, top picks and links to the best coverage of world swimming and related issues in the Olympic world, such as the athlete-coach partnership and welfare. Craig Lord is currently on […]

Craig Lord 2022-05-16 3 minutes

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The Vortex, May 9-15 – The Architecture Behind Australia’s Greatest Olympic In The Pool Explained In AWS Video

The Vortex is our weekly day-by-day digest of swimnews, views, top picks and links to the best coverage of world swimming and related issues in the Olympic world. Craig Lord is currently on...

Craig Lord 2022-05-15 12 minutes

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World Coaches – WSCA – Urge FINA To Back Model Of Trans Inclusion That Protects Women Through Birth-Sex Catgorisation

The World Swimming Coaches Association (WSCA) has urged FINA to form new categories for transgender athletes while preserving traditional and long-standing birth-sex categorisation in the best interests of all. The...

Craig Lord 2022-05-13 8 minutes

Opinion

Questions Of Integrity Over China’s ‘Iron Lady’ of Diving Zhou Jihong Will Test Reform Pledge To Extend Scrutiny To FINA Leaders

Editorial: The case of FINA vice-president Zhou Jihong, a former Olympic diving champion for China, raises one of the biggest tests of the seriousness and strength of the reform process...

Craig Lord 2022-05-12 4 minutes

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Adam Peaty On The Back Foot As Broken Bone Rules Him Out Of Budapest World Titles – Aims To Be Back For Commonwealths

Adam Peaty is out of the World Championships and will not defend of his two solo global crowns nor the 4x100m medley relay title for Britain in Budapest next month...

Craig Lord 2022-05-11 5 minutes

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Canada Selects 31 Swimmers For Maple Mission To Birmingham Commonwealths

Canada has selected 31 athletes, among them eight para swimmers, for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, from July 28 to August 8. One of the most anticipated classes: Summer...

Craig Lord 2022-05-09 4 minutes

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The Vortex, May 2-8 – London Swimmers Form Reach-Out Group as Swim England Safeguarding Officers Look Into Concerns Over Years John Wright, Charged With Abuse In Australia, Led Kingston’s World

The Vortex is our weekly day-by-day digest of swimnews, views, top picks and links to the best coverage of world swimming and related issues. This week, May 2 to May 8...

Craig Lord 2022-05-08 11 minutes

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When IOC Vice-President John Coates Said Sydney 2000 Olympics Bought ‘To Large Extent’

John Coates, the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and outgoing president of the Australian National Olympic Committee, suggested that “to a large extent”, the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games...

Craig Lord 2022-05-01 3 minutes

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The Vortex, April 25-May 1 – Katie Ledecky Inside 15:40 For 15th Time As U.S. Trials Conclude With Selection Of 41 For Budapest World Titles

The Vortex is our weekly day-by-day digest of swimnews, views, top picks and links to the best coverage of swimming and related issues. This week, April 15 to May 1,...

Craig Lord 2022-04-30 27 minutes

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Katie Ledecky 8:09 Shows Gritty Intent To Make It A High Five Of World Titles In 800m Free

The 10-year anniversary of the arrival of Katie Ledecky in the big time of the big pool with 800m free victory at the London 2012 Olympic Games is nigh and...

Craig Lord 2022-04-26 4 minutes

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The Vortex, April 18-24 – Australia Set To Host Its 1st World Short-Course Champs As Talks With FINA Near Deal After Russia Stripped Of Rights

The Vortex is our weekly day-by-day digest of swimnews, views, top picks and links to the best coverage of swimming and related issues from around the swim world. This week...

Craig Lord 2022-04-23 25 minutes

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Emily Seebohm ‘Biological Males Will Always Be Faster & Stronger’; Urges Fairness First For Women As FINA Pens Transgender Inclusion Rules

Olympic gold medallist Emily Seebohm, one of Australia’s most decorated swimmers in history during her 18-year international career, has called on sports bosses to find a balance in the transgender...

Craig Lord 2022-04-23 3 minutes

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Evgeny Rylov Banned For Nine Months Over Role In Putin’s Pro-War ‘Z’ Rally As Ukraine Burned

Russian Olympic 100 and 200m backstroke champion Evgeny Rylov has been suspended for nine months by FINA after attending a rally in support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the pro-war Z symbol stitched...

Craig Lord 2022-04-22 2 minutes

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Swim Greats Emma McKeon & Tracy Stockwell Say No To Biological Males In Female Racing & Urge ‘Fairness First’ In Trans Debate

Two of the greatest women swimmers in history, Emma McKeon, the most decorated athlete at the Tokyo 2020ne Olympics, and Tracy Stockwell (nee Caulkins, triple Olympic champion for the USA),...

Craig Lord 2022-04-20 4 minutes

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Australia Offers Wild Cards To McKeon & Chalmers In Bid To Get Them On The Blocks At Commonwealths Without Racing At Trials; They & Titmus To Bypass World Titles

Australia is offering wild cards to Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers in a move that breaks what is described by the Telegraph Down Under as “one of its oldest and...

Craig Lord 2022-04-15 4 minutes

Opinion

How The War On Ukraine Is Linked To Swimming & Why It Follows That The Aquatics Integrity Unit Must Have Retrospective Powers

Editorial: All moves in sport, including event hosting arrangements, are coming under scrutiny of a much wider audience as a result of the war on Ukraine and Putin’s links to...

Craig Lord 2022-04-15 4 minutes

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British Shoal Of 23 Swimmers Bound For Budapest 2022 World Championships In June With 8 Olympic Gold Medallists

A British selection of 23 swimmers are bound for the Budapest 2022 World Championships in June, Adam Peaty the roar at the helm as he seeks to retain the 50...

Craig Lord 2022-04-14 5 minutes

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The Vortex April 11-17 In Budapest 2022 Trials Season: Lima, Peru, To Host 2022 World Junior Champs – & Why Integrity Unit Must Have Retrospective Powers

Budapest 2022 World Championships trials season runs through out weekly day-by-day digest and SOS Vortex of swimnews, views, top picks and links to coverage of the sport and related issues...

Craig Lord 2022-04-14 13 minutes