Two days of FINA Reform Committee meetings concluded with former World champion and now athletes’ representative Britta Kamrau declaring: “After months of study, the Reform Committee has done a great service to FINA by laying out the path towards the […]
On this day, as each October 2 every passing year since 2012, we remember Nick Thierry. It is the ninth anniversary of his death. The Father of World Rankings and publisher of Swim Magazine, later Swim News, has been much missed since […]
Transgender inclusion in sport could be improved by adding ‘open’ and ‘universal’ categories to male and female ones, the UK Sports Councils Equality Group (SCEG) states in new guidance. In a review of transgender inclusion in non-elite sport in the […]
Michelle Ford, the Olympic 800m freestyle champion and bronze medallist behind two GDR swimmers in the 200m butterfly for Australia in 1980, shares extracts from her forthcoming autobiography on the 40th anniversary of an important milestone in Olympic history, described […]
On the 40th anniversary of the first time athletes got to address the International Olympic Committee with their concerns and their collective voice, the International Swimmers’ Alliance – ISA – held its first post-Olympic board meeting on the sidelines of […]
The LEN Bureau, the governing body and regulator of European swimming and other aquatic disciplines, was rocked by a vote of no confidence at the weekend in a move that looks set to force an extraordinary Congress and the election […]
Katie Ledecky, who added two gold and three silver medals to her growing-legend pantheon in the pool at the Tokyo 2020ne Olympic Games this summer, is moving to train with coach Anthony Nesty at the Florida Gators for the next […]
The International Swimming League – ISL) – has been called out for “lightness of practices towards suppliers and employees” by two senior figures who resigned from from the pro-swim organisation last season and now complain that, despite assurances to the […]
Australian sprinter Shayna Jack is free to return to swimming after an appeal lodged by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) was dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Jack was delighted, posting on […]
An Olympic swim season like no other is well and truly behind us, the result book of the 32nd Olympiad sealed, the ripples from the Tale of Tokyo 202One on their way down the decades to come as part of […]
Kristof Milak, the Olympic 200m butterfly champion in a Games record in Tokyo, has switched coach, leaving behind his long-term mentor Attila Selmeci in favour of working with Balazs Virth, guide to Hungary’s other ‘fly World-title holder Boglarka Kapas and […]
Sunday Editorial – This week marks the biggest test of the “review and reform” credentials of the established leadership figures still in charge at swimming regulator FINA but yet to turn new words into deeds where it would really count. […]
The exacting standards of Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky and where they led her and her sport to in a time of pandemic and heightened empathy and perspective at the Tokyo Olympic Games offered us two overriding narratives: there was the surface […]
Documents new to the public domain have revealed that the United States Department of Justice has sought assistance from Kuwaiti authorities in its investigation into the alleged roles of Husain al-Musallam, the president of FINA, the global regulator for swimming […]
Swimming Australia’s Board has voted to adopt an independent compliance process in line with its country’s National Integrity Framework in the wake of concerns highlighted this year by the withdrawal from Olympic trials of Madeleine Groves, the Rio 2016 silver […]
Olympic kingmaker and power broker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah faced more than five hours of questioning in a Geneva courtroom at the start of a forgery trial involving parties connected to an alleged plot against political rivals in Kuwait. The […]
The assistant director, director of communications, the sports and events project manager and head of legal have been dismissed with immediate effect in a purge of senior FINA staff who worked under former director Cornel Marculescu at the international swimming […]
There was no topping the USA in the pool, as was the case for Australia at a home Games in Melbourne back in 1956 with 8 golds for the hosts, 2 for the top threat, but in Tokyo the Dolphins […]
