Alice Dearing has two key reasons to be cheerful about becoming the first black woman to be selected to swim from Great Britain at the Olympic Games: delighted at being “the person to break this barrier”, she is also happy […]
One might imagine it’s getting a touch close to the Olympic Games to go firing off national records but as the flames of June die down, Italians Nicolo Martinenghi and Arianna Castiglioni chose the first evening at the Sette Colli […]
Alice Dearing and Hector Pardoe will contest the swimming marathon at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the pair named today by the British Olympic Association (BOA) as the last two additions to the Team GB swim squad bound for Japan next month. […]
Cullen Jones, the retired American sprinter with two relay golds, 4x100m free and medley, and silvers in the 50m freestyle and 4x100m free, in his Olympic vault, is joining the coaching staff of Pro-Swim team DC Trident ahead of International […]
Chad Le Clos and Tatjana Schoenmaker will lead the charge for South Africa in the pool at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the helm of a team of 12 announced on national TV this evening. Chad Le Clos is […]
Canada has named a team of 26 swimmers for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games after the conclusion of Trials in Toronto yesterday. The Olympic-team coaching staff compromises seven men. The national federation, through a number of programs, is committed to increasing […]
The Opposition Democratic Alliance Party of South Africa has written to the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) over concern that a coach who had a criminal case opened against him for sexual abuse is about too be named […]
Kylie Masse (2:06.67) and Taylor Ruck (2:09.26) raced inside the Tokyo Olympics cut in the 200m backstroke as Canadian Trials drew to a close in Toronto this evening. There were also last-day Tokyo cuts for Sydney Pickrem (4:37.03) and Tessa […]
Penny Oleksiak was just 16 when she became Canada’s youngest ever Olympic champion in a 52.70 snap wit American Simone Manuel for 100m free gold at the Rio 2016 Games and is now the sole survivor for the defence of […]
The second anti-doping violation committed by Chinese swim controversy Sun Yang has now led to a damning ‘guilty’ verdict for a third time, the latest and last Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling having confirmed that the athlete must […]
On a day when Sydney Pickrem clocked 2:09.24 to confirm her 200IM ticket to the Tokyo Olympics, Team Canada welcomed six others to the swimming squad, Finlay Knox marking his Games debut with a national record of 1:58.07 in the […]
Caeleb Dressel matched the biggest rattling the 21sec barrier has ever had when he equalled his 21.04 American record in the dash in a curtain-closing session at Olympic Trials in Omaha that delivered redemption for Simone Manuel and a U.S. […]
Summer McIntosh and Kelsey Wog added their names to the Canadian team for the Tokyo Olympic Games on day 2 at trials in Toronto, a 1:56.19 from 14-year-old McIntosh in the 200m freestyle one of the most outstanding efforts in […]
There have been cracks in the American canvas the whole week long at U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha and while it is true that every cycle of Games brings its tribulations, the third-place finish of Regan Smith in the 200m […]
Kylie Masse, World 100m backstroke champion of 2019 at the last time of global-elite asking before the pandemic, stamped her ticket not only to the Tokyo Games on the opening day of Canadian Olympic Trials in Toronto, but to the […]
Marie Wattel, the European 100m butterfly champion for France last month, and Charlotte Bonnet took gold and silver in the 100m freestyle on the penultimate evening at French Championships in Chartres as Melanie Henique blasted a 25.17 French 50 ‘fly […]
The double defence of both backstroke crowns is on for Ryan Murphy, Michael Andrew will be the top American hope in an Olympic 200m medley that holds some of the biggest hopes of triumph for the Japanese hosts and will […]
Maxime Grousset will fly the French tricolour in the 100m freestyle at the Tokyo Olympic Games after posting two sub-48 swims on the day at French Championships in Chartres, a 47.99 in heats followed by a 47.89 in a final […]
