The International Olympic Committee has stripped Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia who ordered the invasion of Ukraine, and other top-ranking Russian officials of the Olympic Order and recommended to international federations that they ban all Russian and Belarussian athletes […]
Ukraine sportsmen and women have called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and International Paralympic Committee (IPC)to slap a universal ban on all athletes and the National Olympic Committees of Russia and Belarus in response to Vladimir Putin’s attack on […]
FINA has confirmed that it had stripped Kazan of the World Junior Championships scheduled for August in response to the Russian attack on Ukraine and is now seeking an alternative host. Initial bets are on Brazil to host the relocated […]
The Ukraine Swimming Federation has called on FINA to suspend Russia and Belarus and remove all events from the aggressors in Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion of the sovereign territory of Ukraine in defiance of international law and worldwide condemnation. President […]
The Nordic Swimming Federations have called on FINA and the rest of the international swimming community to “immediately suspend Russia and Belarus from all involvement in International aquatics until a peaceful resolution” in the war Russian president Vladimir Putin and […]
Editorial – Red Card For Russia is the only option for sports authorities that must rapidly wipe a warmongering regime off the sporting map in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign country with a legitimate, […]
FINA has opened the process by which it will elect the first “independent” Aquatics Integrity Unit as part of the reform process being driven by president Husain Al-Musallam and new director Brent Nowicki. There are five key categories of application, […]
The International Olympic Committee – IOC – as urged Sports federations, including FINA, to cancel all events scheduled to take place in Russia or Belarus in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Fina is due to host several events […]
War on Ukraine – FINA has cancelled water polo and synchronised swimming events scheduled at Russian venues for March and April but has left the World Championships, junior long-course and senior short-course, scheduled for Kazan in August and December “under […]
Editorial and archive: The Blood in the Water match, the name given to the water polo fight between Hungary and the USSR at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, offers lessons on appeasement and why sports organisations must banish Russia from all engagement in the […]
Editorial – FINA, the global regulator for sport, must act swiftly to guarantee the safety of all athletes and other stakeholders working in aquatic sports by removing all its events and funding from Russia in the wake of the declaration […]
The International Swimmers’ Alliance has slammed a lack of “meaningful” consultation with athletes and described a chaotic and over-cooked international swimming competition calendar as “unsustainable”. In a strong statement issued within the last hour, Katinka Hosszu, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Brent Hayden […]
Kyle Chalmers, the 2016 Olympic 100m freestyle champion who took silver at Tokyo2020ne just 0.06sec shy of retaining the crown for Australia, has signed up with Team arena on the way to what would be his third Games, at Paris […]
Ross Tucker, a PhD in exercise physiology who runs the Science of Sport podcast and is a leading brain-with-voice on performance analysis, has shot an arrow to the heart of rules that concentrate on testosterone levels to determine whether transgender […]
The FINA Athletes’ Committee will no longer be an entirely in-house affair after the ruling Bureau of the global regulator agreed to change the system of electing members so that athletes can have a say in who represents them at […]
Sunday Essay – Editorial – Hell would have to freeze over before Olympic organisers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) would have us all nodding in agreement with its summary of a Games but the red lines between truth and […]
Editorial: A 200 freestyle in which Lia Thomas crushed female opponents with a last 50 faster than the first 50 last night became the yardstick by which we can measure the essence of injustice and concentration of poison being poured […]
FINA, the global regulator for aquatics, has distanced itself from moves by the Dutch Swimming Federation (KNZB) that effectively oblige its elite swimmers to forfeit their eligibility to race for their country in international championship waters if they opt to […]
