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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 […]
International Women’s Day (IWD): a fine moment to highlight the achievements and work of women pioneers and pathfinders in swimming, including Dr. Shane Gould. Over the course of the day, SOS will be rolling out a package of features on legends of […]
Australia Day – January 26, 2020: – The name’s Shane Gould. Dr. Shane Gould. At 15, she raced to what remains the single biggest solo-swims medal haul at one Olympic Games, three of five orbs the colour gold. Pour a rip […]
Forbes Carlile (3 June 1921 – 2 August 2016) – by Shane Gould The end of life is so final, I’m so glad I went to see Forbes as often as I did in his later life and see Milt [Nelms] […]
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 […]
Summer McIntosh, 16, has become the first Canadian ever to hold the women’s World record over 400 metres freestyle with a 3:56.08 blast on the opening night of Canada’s World-Championship swimming trials in Toronto. (highlights from other sessions in Toronto, […]
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 […]
Editorial – Bravo Hummel! Bravo Denmark! A model for being there, playing the game but not that game; for making a statement against human rights abuses that Qatar, World Cup football host, and FIFA had, presumably, hoped might be sports-washed […]
Born on the eve of Independence Day, July 3, 1947, Michael Burton, of Sacramento, California, would grow into one of the greats of distance freestyle: he won three Olympic gold medals in distance freestyle and set seven world records, five […]
On this day 50 years ago in Munich, The United States 4x100m medley quartet of Melissa Belote, Cathy Carr, Deena Deardurff and Sandy Neilson dominated the Olympic final for gold in a World record of 4mins 20.75sec. The relay unfolded on […]
Melissa Louise Belote, of Washington, D.C., sat and watched four days of racing at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games before her turn came: after heats and semi-finals of the 100m backstroke on day 5, the 15-year-old made it a gold […]
This day 50 years ago at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, 16-year-old Rick DeMont and 18-year-old Brad Cooper were split by 0.01sec as first and second home in the 400m freestyle final but the American 16-year-old would keep the gold […]
On his day 50 years ago at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, Mark Spitz claimed golds No4 and 5 of a record seven-titles campaign and the women’s crowns went to his fellow American Karen Moe, on a World record of […]
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 […]