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Shane Gould claimed the first of three golds and five solo medals on this day 50 years ago in Munich at the 1972 Olympic Games, the feat of the “Goldfisch aus Australien” still unmatched to this day. Michael Wenden, the […]
Today marks the 65th birthday of Shane Gould, who at 15 back at the 1972 Olympic Games claimed three gold, all in World-record times, a silver and a bronze for Australia, her five-solo-medals tally yet to be repeated by another […]
Shane Lewis, former Australian international, passed away aged 47 in February this year and while the coroner is yet to determine cause of death, his family believes it was suicide as a result of the abuse he suffered as a […]
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, October 27 Savage Waters opens in UK cinemas today. I […]
Ursula Carlie 1937-2023 – Australian Swimming [Make that World – Ed] has lost a national treasure, with the peaceful passing of Ursula Carlile in Ryde today, aged 86. Carlile Swimming’s Tribute from Tim Ford and other contributors at Carlile Ursula […]
Ursula Carlile, the matriarch of the eponymous swimming project in the Sydney suburb of Ryde she shaped and ran with her husband and fellow pioneer Forbes Carlile, has passed away. Carlile Swimming: an obituary, memories and tributes to a pioneering […]
Zhang Yufei is on a roll, a 56.06 World Cup record in the 100m butterfly as the Athens round of the World Cup drew to a close this evening joining a bull run of podium punches stretching back to World […]
Summer McIntosh, 16, sang a song of swimming greatness at home in Toronto this evening: the first Canadian to hold the World 400m freestyle record, she is now the 400m medley global standard, too, after a phenomenal 4:25.87 blast at […]
Celebrating IWD 2023: A good day to consider the issue of weighing athletes, the essential reasons why that is done, why, at elite senior level it is a part of many measures highly pertinent to outcomes in performance sport. The […]
Celebrating International Women’s Day 2023 – In the days when the founding father of the Olympic Movement told women that sport was not for them and their best efforts would be to put garlands round the necks of the great […]
Editorial – The week ahead will kick the four-letter word FINA overboard to where it belongs at the bottom of the sea with a bygone, misogynist culture; honorary positions that tow the baggage of failed governance, wilful harm, awards for […]
It would be the first and last time that Olympic swimming gold would be won by such an infinitesimal margin – 4:31.981 and 4:31.983, Gunnar Larsson the victor, Tim McKee the vanquished after an epic 400m medley final at the […]
Roland Matthes did not live to see the 50th anniversary of a towering week at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972 but his achievement remains unique in swimming history to this day: no other swimmer has ever retained both the […]
Games records for Canadian 15-year-old Summer McIntosh and Aussie Terminator Ariarne Titmus combined with a pair of Australian sweeps in the first three finals gave the swimming at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games a roaring start. By the close, the […]
Today is World Drowning Prevention Day, a good moment to noted that drowning is one of the leading causes of death globally for children and young people aged 1-24 years: every year, an estimated 236,000 people drown. In early coverage […]
“My health began to deteriorate drastically – my strength, my athleticism – was being taken away from me and I couldn’t do anything to stop it!” – Michael Klim Michael Klim, who claimed medals for Australia in the pool at […]
The Vortex is SOS’ weekly digest and soak of swimming news, views and links to big events. Craig Lord is currently on writing retreat and taking break from usual coverage in 2022, barring focus on the European Championships in Rome […]
The Vortex, SOS’ weekly day-by-day digest of developments in swimming, turns into our World Championships Diary for the coming couple of weeks as Budapest hosts the FINA showcase. Beyond our coverage of swimming finals from the Hungarian capital and its […]