FINA vice-president Zhou Jihong, Olympic platform champion for China in 1984, has been forced to apologise after a complaint that she verbally abused officials at the Tokyo 2020ne Olympic Games while serving in her capacity as FINA Bureau liaison to […]
USA Swimming has made a tentative but potentially impossible bid to stroke a balance between the right of biological women to compete against biological women and honour a commitment to gender inclusion policies for trans athletes in a sport like […]
Tokyo 2020ne Olympic champions Adam Peaty (GBR, 100m breaststroke) and Florian Wellbrock (GER, marathon) and Olympic silver medallists Sarah Sjostrom (SWE, 50m Freestyle) and Sharon van Rouwendaal (NED, marathon) have been voted European swimmers of the Year for 2021. For […]
Adam Peaty, the 2016 and 2020ne Olympic 100m breaststroke champion, has called on the International Swimmers’ Alliance and fellow racers to “show they’ve got a spine” at a time when their race calendar is tearing their sport apart, the International […]
Ranomi Kromowidjojo, the London 2012 double Olympic sprint champion and triple Games gold medallist with 89 international senior podiums to her name for The Netherlands since 2006, has retired from the fast lane at 31 years of age. Her international […]
Adam Peaty and Tom Dean, double Olympic champions at Tokyo 2020ne, and fellow medallists at the Games in Japan last July and August, Anna Hopkin and Luke Greenbank are joined by six Britain teammates as the first 10 to be […]
Duncan Scott and Kathleen Dawson, both Olympic champions for Britain at Tokyo 202One, have been confirmed as the first two swimmers to be selected to represent Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham this August. Scott, silver medallist in the […]
The great investigative journalist Andrew Jennings passed away early this year and the first month of 2022 was not allowed to go by without a bumper 80-page tribute to the slayer of the corrupt at FIFA, the International Olympic Committee […]
There will be no World Swimming Championships this year, pandemic conditions and related strains having caused a further postponement of the FINA showcase event due to have been held in Fukuoka, Japan, 2021, then May 2022 but now heading for […]
Sunday Essay – On July 10, 2019, Dr Emma Hilton, a prize-winning development biologist and research associate specialising in Cellular & Developmental Systems and well as Evolution, Systems and Genomics at the University of Manchester, was introduced to the audience […]
Swimming Australia has acknowledged and apologised for the various forms of abuse – none defined as sexual – endured by girls and women under its jurisdiction. In welcoming a report from independent investigators into abuse claims, Swimming Australia president Kieren […]
The World Championships, set to be staged in Fukuoka, Japan, in May this year, would be postponed until October if the COVID pandemic conditions make the delivery of the biggest FINA event in Cherry Blossom Season a strategic or diplomatic […]
Editorial and resources – The chief tragedy in the NCAA statement that passes the ball to USA Swimming when finding a way out of poor transgender / sex category rules pouring injustice into its pool this season is the scream […]
Amnesty International has bolstered its Free The Five campaign to have peaceful human-rights protesters released from detention with a call for the world to engage in “a very loud and very public condemnation of China’s human rights record”. Several leading […]
Ariarne Titmus, Kaylee McKeown, Cate and Bronte Campbell, Kyle Chalmers and almost half of the Australian swimming team medallists who made the Tokyo 2020ne Olympics the most successful in Games history for the Dolphins are set to bypass the 2022 […]
Helsinki Commission leaders have welcomed the first charges to be laid under the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act in the United States, which have prompted a call for the GOLD Act to be passed by Senators to extend the scope of the […]
Eric Lira, 41, of El Paso, Texas, goes down in history today as the first person to be charged under the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act after being accused of supplying banned substances to athletes preparing for the Tokyo 2020ne Olympic Games. […]
Global Athlete, the umbrella body that represents competitors and campaigns for athlete rights, has called for urgent reform of the International Olympic Committee today after accusing the IOC of “placing the safety and wellbeing of every athlete at risk”. In […]
