World Aquatics is the new name of FINA, the global regulator for swimming, diving, synchro and water polo announced today as the latest step on the road to reform. Name changes are a good way to mark a new start […]
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 […]
The working group tasked with shaping a new Open category in aquatics sport after a widely praised June decision of FINA to ring-fence the women’s category in aquatics sports for female athletes only, has asked for more time to work […]
Key swimming stakeholders in Australia have called for an urgent and independent review of governance in a bombshell letter to Swimming Australia boss Eugenie Buckley and the board of the regulator Down Under. Swimming Australia (SA) confirmed receipt of the […]
Editorial – Ian Thorpe and journalism let themselves down badly this week in a short, lazy and bewildering interview that appeared in various places, including The Guardian online. The Australian Associated Press file delivered the news that the swim legend […]
Paolo Barelli, the former vice-president of FINA, ex-head of the European Swimming League (LEN) and current president of the Italian Swimming Federation (FIN), has been suspended for two years by the global regulator for aquatics after a ruling by the […]
Katie Ledecky has made short-course swimming a rarity during her illustrious career. With each passing 25m World record set in women’s distance freestyle, her absence always felt more ‘when’ than ‘if. When was sent into the pantheon in 7mins 57.42sec […]
Adam Peaty has described the demon of fourth place at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last summer as the “poison in my veins” fuelling a relentless pursuit of a pioneering third gold at the Paris Olympic Games in 2024. American […]
A decade after her international breakthrough at the start of a stellar career as one off there all-time swimming greats, Katie Ledecky added a different kind of first to her pantheon at the World Cup in Toronto: with 15 World […]
Li Bingjie stunned the world of swimming this week with a 3:51.30 Word short-course record in the 400m freestyle at Chinese nationals, a day before two others, Summer McIntosh and Katie Ledecky, went stroke-for-stroke into the 3:52s at the FINA […]
Fran Crippen lost his life in a FINA World Cup race off the coast of the United Arab Emirates with no official USA Swimming staff present 12 years ago this day, 10-23-10. He was 26 years old. His passion lives […]
On this day, as each October 2 each year since his passing in 2012, we remember Nick Thierry. Today marks the tenth anniversary of his death. The Father of World Rankings and publisher of Swim Magazine, later SwimNews, has been much missed […]
Karen Webb Moss has become the first woman to Chair British Swimming, her brief to lead the regulator‘s Board “and its focus on organisational strategy and development, as well as ensuring the best high-performance environment and resources are available to […]
Anastasia Davydova, the five-times Olympic champion in synchronised swimming and since her retirement after the London 2012 Olympic Games the secretary general of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), has fled the country, according to the state news agency TASS. The […]
Sharron Davies, longtime advocate and campaigner for women in sport and justice in the face of the consequences of cheating and discrimination endured by female athletes, is the co-author of a new book on the theme with this writer, Craig […]
The Athletes of Ukraine and Global Athlete have joined forces to call on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its affiliates to hold firm on the blanket ban on Russia and Belarus from International sport. The move comes as s[eculkation […]
Chad Le Clos pauses to contemplate the question from me that coach Dirk Lange had started their first conversation with when the South African ace called to speak about working together on a Paris 2024 campaign: “What do you want […]
Chad Le Clos’ impending move to coach Dirk Lange in Frankfurt offers not only hope of revival for the South African ace a decade after he produced one of the upsets of London 2012 for Olympic 200m butterfly gold ahead […]
