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 Monday Vortex, October 2 Daniel Wiffen, the Irish distance freestyle ace who […]

On this day, as it has been each October 2 in each passing year since his death in 2012, we remember Nick Thierry. Today, we’re 11 years on. The Father of World Rankings and publisher of Swim Magazine, later SwimNews, has been […]

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 Saturday Vortex, September 30 Today marks the 90th anniversary of the day […]

China completed six days of dominance at the Asian Games in Hangzhou with four more golds and two more 1-2 finishes in seven finals, its 28-title triumph including a record six-gold-medal haul by Zhang Yufei, the butterfly triple in the […]

Kim Woomin, of Korea, took down the Asian Games record of Sun Yang* with a 7:46.03 Asian-Games-record victory over 800m freestyle in Hangzhou today. Three days ago, Kim stunned the sport with a 1:44 split at the heart of the […]

Hwang Sunwoo, the Korean ace who left his teens behind in May this year on the way to bronze in the World-title 200m freestyle fight topped by Brits Matt Richards and Olympic champion Tom Dean, clocked 1:44.40 for an Asian […]

Day 4 at the Asian Games started with a 52.17sec 100m freestyle meet record from Hong Kong’s double Olympic silver medallist Siobhan Haughey and ended with China’s 4x100m medley men chucking a thumping great gauntlet at the USA when it […]

Global Athlete today sets out the case for the International Paralympic Committee – IPC – to uphold its ban on Russia and Belarus at the Paris 2024 Games next summer. In its appeal to the IPC, Global Athlete, which recently […]

Double Olympic silver medallist Siobhan Haughey shattered the Asian Games record with a dominant 1:54.12 victory in the 200m freestyle for Hong Kong and China’s Qin Haiyang clocked his fourth sub-58sec 100m breaststroke for a 57.76 meet-mark victory on the […]

Wang Shun and Pan Zhanle set Asian records as China took all seven golds, five of them 1-2 finishes, on a bull-run of an opening day for the hosts at a home Asian Games in Hangzhou. Wang, the Olympic 200m […]

Sunday Essay: The International Olympic Committee has been accused of proposing amendments to the Olympic Charter that will be used to further suppress freedom of expression among athletes as “a direct effect of the Russian war against Ukraine”. Dr. Sven […]

Sophie Angus won her first World-Championship medal, with the Canadian medley relay team, back in July. A year earlier, she’d been ready to quit the sport but a chat with coach Ryan Mallette persuaded her to persevere and in November […]

Editorial – The mental wellbeing and interests of half the planet, namely women, have been, well … kicked to the curb by researchers at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, who concluded that biological males who identify as trans women should be allowed […]

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has ruled in favour of FINA (now rebranded World Aquatics) and against Paolo Barelli, former FINA Bureau member and president of LEN (now rebranded European Aquatics) and FIN, the Italian federation. The CAS […]

When Harry Findlater, 7, met Duncan Scott, the ripple of Scotland’s ‘Generation Swim’ program to create a nation of safe and competent swimmers built a wave of inspiration. Learn To Swim programs, many under threat from pool closures far and […]

Evgeny Rylov, the double Olympic backstroke champion of Tokyo 2020ne, has ruled himself out of the defence of his crowns at Paris 2024 if his only ticket back to global waters is for him to deny support for Putin’s illegal […]

Editorial – Global Athlete, the representative group battling for the rights of sportsmen and sportswomen, has accused the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) of publicly threatening athletes with the removal of accreditation at the Asian Games in China should they […]

Dean Boxall landed a record – and no-brainer – fourth Swimming Coaches And Teachers Australia (SCTA) Coach of the Year Award on the Gold Coast at the weekend, while former Dolphins head coach Leigh Nugent was honoured for his outstanding […]