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Titmus, McKeown, Campbells, Chalmers & Half Of Dolphins School That Leapt Onto Tokyo 2020ne Podium Set To Bypass 2022 World Titles – Sights Set On Birmingham Commonwealths Priority

Ariarne Titmus, Kaylee McKeown, Cate and Bronte Campbell, Kyle Chalmers and almost half of the Australian swimming team medallists who made the Tokyo 2020ne Olympics the most successful in Games history for the Dolphins are set to bypass the 2022 […]

Craig Lord 2022-01-14 5 minutes

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Helsinki Commission Call For GOLD Extension To Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act Follows First Charges Under Olympic Legislation

Helsinki Commission leaders have welcomed the first charges to be laid under the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act in the United States, which have prompted a call for the GOLD Act to...

Craig Lord 2022-01-13 4 minutes

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Eric Lira The First To Be Charged Under Olympic Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act In Manhattan Federal Court Case

Eric Lira, 41, of El Paso, Texas, goes down in history today as the first person to be charged under the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act after being accused of supplying banned...

Craig Lord 2022-01-12 5 minutes

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IOC Needs Urgent Reform As It Places ‘Safety & Wellbeing Of Every Athlete At Risk’ – GA

Global Athlete, the umbrella body that represents competitors and campaigns for athlete rights, has called for urgent reform of the International Olympic Committee today after accusing the IOC of “placing...

Craig Lord 2022-01-12 3 minutes

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November 2023 World Long-Course Championships In Qatar Risk Calendar Chaos & Another Snag In ISL Vs FINA Dispute

The 2023 World Swimming Championships are set to be held in November just eight months before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to avoid daytime temperatures of more than 50C in...

Craig Lord 2022-01-12 4 minutes

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FINA Reform Part 5: Communication & Digital Transformation

Editorial – FINA Reform, Part 5 : Communication covers a multitude of purposes – and, in FINA and Olympic history, sins, as in “an act regarded as a serious or regrettable...

Craig Lord 2022-01-12 19 minutes

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Australia Must Base Decision On Djokovic Right To Stay & Play Or Leave & Learn On The Playbook Of Life In A Pandemic We All Abide By

Editorial – Novak Djokovic tells us that his agent cocked up and that it wasn’t he, the athlete and World No 1 tennis player, who erred when the two foreign...

Craig Lord 2022-01-12 4 minutes

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RIP Andrew Jennings, Journalist & Giant Thorn In The Side Of Olympic Rogues

Andrew Jennings, the journalist delivering damning and uncomfortable Olympic truth upon truth down the decades and author of Lords of the Rings, and Francois Carrard, the lawyer working inside the...

Craig Lord 2022-01-10 27 minutes

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Jon Rudd Takes The Rudder As President Of World Swimming Coaches Association In Era Of Reform

Jon Rudd, the performance director who has led a revolution in Irish swimming this past and long Olympic cycle and played a key role in establishing the country’s Covid pandemic...

Craig Lord 2022-01-04 3 minutes

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SOS Review & Awards 2021 – The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times, The Season Of Light & Darkness At Swimming’s Watershed

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,...

Craig Lord 2021-12-31 17 minutes

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Bill Sweetenham & The Knowledge-Based Experience Enriching Australian Coaches On Their Mission To Be Top Dolphins

In the relatively hidden depths of Australian swimming’s 2021 Olympic tour de force is a rich, long-term thread and transfer of knowledge-based experience, the role played by Bill Sweetenham highlighted...

Craig Lord 2021-12-31 8 minutes

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Emre Sakci Shatters 50 Breast World S/C Mark As First Ever Under 25Sec On Steep Curve Of Progress

Emre Sakci today became the first Turkish swimmer to hold a World swimming record and the first swimmer ever inside 25sec over 50m breaststroke: in 24.95sec, the 24-year-old bolter pulverized...

Craig Lord 2021-12-27 1 minute

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Merry Christmas To The Swimming Shoal & All Who Support Our Efforts At SOS

Best wishes for a peaceful, healthy and Merry Christmas to the swimming shoal wherever you may be and to all who support our State of Swimming efforts

Craig Lord 2021-12-24 < 1 minute

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How The International Swimming League Muscled Ahead Of World Titles In Top 10 Global Ranks Race

The pandemic and the International Swimming League have changed the face of swimming since the last pre-Covid World short-course Championships, results at the latest edition of the global winter showcase...

Craig Lord 2021-12-23 9 minutes

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Florian Wellbrock Caps Stellar Year With 14:06 World Record For Global S/C 1500m Title As 1st German To Scale Those Twin Peaks Since Hoffmann’s L/C High 30 Years Ago

Florian Wellbrock, Germany’s Olympic marathon champion, capped a stellar 2021 by cracking the 1500m freestyle World short-course record in 14:06.88 for the global crown in a terrific tussle with three...

Craig Lord 2021-12-21 5 minutes

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Large Shoal Of Swimmers Home-From-Home Alone In Their Abu Dhabi Hotel Rooms For Christmas In Covid Crunch At World Titles

More than 30 swimmers attending the World Short-Course Championships in Abu Dhabi will spend Christmas in isolation in their hotels after being pinged as Covid contacts, FINA has confirmed with...

Craig Lord 2021-12-21 4 minutes

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Fly Queen Maggie MacNeil Flips Over For 25.27 World 50 Back Mark On Canada Day & Daiya Seto Makes It High Five Of 400IM Crowns

Maggie MacNeil became a household name back home in Canada when she claimed the Olympic 100m butterfly title in Tokyo last summer, just as Daiya Seto, a household name in...

Craig Lord 2021-12-20 12 minutes

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Integrity - time for swimming to take the plunge and harness independent scrutiny to the governance of the sport

Green Light For Aquatics Integrity Unit As FINA Congress Backs Reform Plans

An Aquatics Integrity Unit will be established and other reform plans put into practice after the FINA Congress, the ultimate authority of the global regular for swimming, approved recommendations of...

Craig Lord 2021-12-18 5 minutes