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Melissa GORMAN of Australia competes in the women's 10km open water swimming at the 13th FINA World Championships at the beach in Ostia near Rome, Italy, Wednesday, July 22, 2009. (Photo by Patrick B. Kraemer / MAGICPBK)

The Vortex – November 2023: Busselton Braced For Australian Open Water Championships

The Vortex is SOS’ digest and soak of swimming news, views and links to big events, with new snippets added most days and collated in one monthly file. In November, coverage will be restricted while Craig Lord completes a book-writing […]

Craig Lord 2023-11-10 No comments 13 minutes

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Coaches Opt For Schism: Big Four Split From Global Body WSCA In Clash Of Cultures

Four of the biggest and most influential coaches associations in swimming, from Australia, Britain, Canada and the United States, have announced they are parting company with the World Swimming Coaches...

Craig Lord 2023-11-08 4 minutes

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Coaches Ask Swim England To Withdraw Survey After Damning Report Concludes It Violates Code

The British Swimming Coaches Association (BSCA) has complained to the Market Research Society (MRS) about a survey sent to Swim England members. The coaches have called on Swim England to...

Craig Lord 2023-11-02 3 comments 4 minutes

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Clareburt Quits Wellington In Heartbreak Split From Coach Hollywood After Council Fails On 50m Provision & Bans Cameras In Training

Lewis Clareburt, New Zealand’s top swimmer, has been let down by authorities in Wellington in a saga from the ark of amateurism that has forced the all-round ace to quit...

Craig Lord 2023-10-31 No comments 7 minutes

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RWB Academy Petition Calls Out Trinidad & Tobago Swim Bosses Over Swimmer-Free “Ghost Clubs” That Feed World Aquatics With Officials

The RWB Aquatic Academy has launched a petition in which it urges the Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad and Tobago (ASATT) to embrace “fairness and transparency” and stop giving votes...

Craig Lord 2023-10-30 No comments 3 minutes

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Grousset & Gastaldello Lead 20-Strong French Squad To European S/C Championships

Maxime Grousset and Beryl Gastaldello, with five national short-course titles apiece by the end of the battle that ended in Angers on Sunday evening, will lead a 20-strong France squad...

Craig Lord 2023-10-30 2 minutes

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The Vortex – October 2023: Savage Waters – A Tale Of Tall Waves, Thrill, Terror, Team Bonding, Passion, Psychology – In Extremis

The Vortex is SOS’ digest and soak of swimming news, views and links to big events, with new snippets added each day and collated in one monthly file Friday Vortex,...

Craig Lord 2023-10-27 No comments 21 minutes

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World Aquatics & European Federations Confirm They Neither Received Nor Requested Doha Worlds Be Shifted Over Latest Middle East Horrors

Claims that European “officials” have called on World Aquatics to scrap the Doha 2024 World Championships scheduled for Qatar in February and move the whole event elsewhere have been exposed...

Craig Lord 2023-10-26 3 minutes

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Chelsea Gubecka - first Australian swimming ticket to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games - courtesy of the Australian Olympic Committee

Chelsea Gubecka Grabs First Dolphin Ticket To Paris 2024 For First Games Race In The Seine Since 1904

Open water swimmer Chelsea Gubecka has been announced as the first Australian Olympic Team member selected for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games by the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC). Gubecka will...

Guest Writer 2023-10-26 3 minutes

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Queensland Boss Hasemann Warns Of Danger To Grassroots In Watering Down Local Say In Favour Of Remote Control Of World Aquatics

Swimming Queensland, the only regional body to oppose the recent adoption of a new Swimming Australia constitution at the insistence of World Aquatics under threat of suspension, has issued a...

Craig Lord 2023-10-26 4 minutes

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Wayne Goldsmith On SOS: The Power Of Choice, Signposts For Parents & Why Competitive Sport Is In Crisis

Wayne Goldsmith has been delivering seminars and presentations on performance sport, his work with coaches and athletes and sports program for the past 30 years and in the digital era...

Guest Writer 2023-10-25 No comments 3 minutes

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Kaylee McKeown - by Istvan Derencsenyi, courtesy of World

McKeown Caps 2023 World Cup Tour With Aus$300,000 Pay Day After 2:04 World Cup 200m Record For 9 in 9 Backstroke Wins, 2 WRs

Australian ace Kaylee McKeown capped a sensational World Cup Tour as the top swimmer of the series, the ninth of her clean-sweep of nine backstroke victories, a 2:04.81 Cup record...

Craig Lord 2023-10-22 No comments 6 minutes

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Kaylee McKeown - 57.33 World record - relief and gratitude follows

McKeown Shadows Pace Of Matthes: 57.33 For World Record No 2 in 24 Hours

Kaylee McKeown is the World swimmer of the year: in 57.33sec in a league of her own at the helm of the 100m backstroke on day 2 of the concluding...

Craig Lord 2023-10-21 4 minutes

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Kaylee McKeown Mangles 50 Back WR In Thumping 26.86 To Go With 100 & 200 Marks

Kaylee McKeown crept ever close to the World 50m backstroke record throughout the World Cup series, the building over today in Budapest with a whacking 26.86 thump that knocked Liu...

Craig Lord 2023-10-20 5 minutes

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Shymanovich & Mates Return As Neutral Athletes Caught In A Neutrality Mission Impossible

Ilya Shymanovich is one of four Belorussian swimmers allowed to return to World Aquatics competition as Neutral Athletes this morning in Budapest despite a remaining ban on them when it...

Craig Lord 2023-10-20 10 minutes

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Gina Rinehart with two of the many swimmers her money has supported, the third one a legend, Dawn Fraser - courtesy of GinaRinehart.com

Dolphin Roller-Coaster: Peace With World Aquatics Follows Word On Why Gina Rinehart Pulled Her Millions From Swimming Australia

The Swimming Australia roller-coaster took a couple more twists this week, an announcement today that peace broke out with World Aquatics on the Board’s acceptance of a new constitution a...

Craig Lord 2023-10-20 6 minutes

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Swim England's Swim Mark affiliation scheme

Swim England Apologises After Young Swimmers Sent “Scaremongering” Email With Warning Of Club Suspensions

Swim England had apologised after being slammed on social media for sending out what parents of swimmers have described as a “scaremongering email” to junior athletes along with other members...

Craig Lord 2023-10-19 No comments 4 minutes

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Meet those at the forefront of the campaign: from left to right: Martina Manresa, Laura Cabanes and Pablo Ortega

Spanish Swimming Partners GoStudent To Help Young Athletes Balance Education With Devotion To Training

GoStudent, one of the world’s leading tutoring providers and education platforms, has partnered with the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN) to offer free lessons to their members, ensuring that competitive swimmers aged 14...

Guest Writer 2023-10-18 No comments 2 minutes