Nancy Hogshead-Makar, the three-times Olympic swimming champion and civil rights lawyer, has invited Lia Thomas to think again after the first trans athlete in history to claim an NCAA women’s swimming title insisted that sportsmen with two decade of male […]
The Vortex is SOS’ weekly day-by-day digest of swimnews, views, top picks and links to news coverage of world swimming and related issues in the Olympic world. Craig Lord is currently on writing retreat and taking a break from usual […]
The USA’s elite swimming program is in the headlines once more for all the wrong reasons, this time over an investigation by The Orange County Register in which Teri McKeever, the first woman to head a USA women’s Olympic team, […]
Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus added World-Record treasure to her pantheon of middle-distance honours with a 3:56.40 storm that shaved 0.06sec off American Katie Ledecky‘s six-year-old global standard over 400m freestyle to provide the perfect ending to the Australian Swimming Championships […]
Emma McKeon, the seven-times Olympic medallist of Tokyo2020ne who did not race at Australian Championships this past week in Adelaide, and Ariarne Titmus, fresh from cracking the 400m freestyle World record, have been named among the 46 swimmers selected to […]
The Vortex is our weekly day-by-day digest of swimnews, views, top picks and links to race and news coverage of world swimming and related issues in the Olympic world. Craig Lord is currently on writing retreat and taking a break […]
Griffith teammates Kaylee McKeown and Lani Pallister doubled down on their winning form at Australian Swimming Championships and trials in Adelaide with solid victories of 2:05 over 200m backstroke for the triple Olympic gold medallist and 15:55 over 30 lengths […]
Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus tested her Commonwealth and World textile best with a dominant 1:53.31 victory at the helm of a 200m freestyle Australian championship final in which a 1:54.94 World Junior Record from Mollie O’Callaghan, two on 1:55 and […]
Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Cook cracked the World Record with a 2:05.95 victory in the 200m breaststroke at Australian Championships in Adelaide with a sizzling performance that burst the 2:06 dam of pressure that’s been building since Japan’s Ippei Watanabe became […]
Australia will not have Emma McKeon, nor the sisters Campbell, Cate and Bronte, nor Emma McKeon nor others who have helped the Dolphins top the 4x100m free on big occasions in the past decade and more but look at the […]
The Vortex is our weekly day-by-day digest of swimnews, views, top picks and links to the best coverage of world swimming and related issues in the Olympic world. Craig Lord is currently on writing retreat and taking a break from usual coverage of […]
The World Swimming Coaches Association (WSCA) has urged FINA to form new categories for transgender athletes while preserving traditional and long-standing birth-sex categorisation in the best interests of all. UPDATE FINA decision: Swimming Ban On Transgender Athletes Who Grew Through […]
Editorial: The case of FINA vice-president Zhou Jihong, a former Olympic diving champion for China, raises one of the biggest tests of the seriousness and strength of the reform process at a global regulator with a history of protecting its […]
Adam Peaty is out of the World Championships and will not defend of his two solo global crowns nor the 4x100m medley relay title for Britain in Budapest next month after breaking a bone in his right foot in an […]
Canada has selected 31 athletes, among them eight para swimmers, for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, from July 28 to August 8. One of the most anticipated classes: Summer McIntosh, after a fine Olympic debut and excellent performances (1:55.3 […]
The Vortex is our weekly day-by-day digest of swimnews, views, top picks and links to the best coverage of world swimming and related issues. This week, May 2 to May 8 has seen squads selected for European Junior Championships and Commonwealth […]
John Coates, the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and outgoing president of the Australian National Olympic Committee, suggested that “to a large extent”, the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games were bought, according to a recently discovered hour-long interview in […]
The Vortex is our weekly day-by-day digest of swimnews, views, top picks and links to the best coverage of swimming and related issues. This week, April 15 to May 1, top action is to be found at U.S. Trials in […]
