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ARD’s “Doping Top Secret – The China Files” – Parts 1-4 – Watch Why WADA U-Turn Is Urgent

The China Files by ARD – last night, the German television station broadcast its Sportschau program on the new China Doping Crisis in sport coincided with the launch of all four videos, with English subtitles, setting out just why China […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-22 1 comment. Reading Time: 4 minutes
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New China Crisis As ARD Reveals That 23 Swimmers, Zhang, Wang & Qin On The List, Tested Positive For Sun’s 1st-Offence Drug

On the way to the Tokyo Olympics, 23 China swimmers tested positive for the same banned substance responsible for Sun Yang‘s first offence but were let off and cleared to race in Tokyo because world governing bodies agreed with an […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-20 4 comments. Reading Time: 8 minutes
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Kaylee McKeown, left, and Mollie O'Callaghan - by Delly Carr, courtesy of Swimming Australia

McKeown & O’Callaghan Crush It Once More: 2:03.8 200 Back, 1:53.5 200 Free

They’ve spent the week competing for headlines but Kaylee McKeown and Mollie O’Callaghan deserved several curtain calls apiece as the Australian Open Championships drew to a close today on the Gold Coast. O’Callaghan was first to wrap up, with a […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-20 No comments. Reading Time: 5 minutes
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Australian Open: Titmus 3:59 Tops 400 Tussle With Pallister & Winnington Pips Short In 800 On 7:43s

Ariarne Titmus, Olympic champion, tolerated close company until the 100m mark of the 400m freestyle at the Australian Open Championships on the Gold Coast before pressing on to a 3mins 59.13sec victory, Lani Pallister the only rival close to her […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-19 Reading Time: 3 minutes
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Kaylee McKeown EOWN of Australia celebrates after winning in the Women’s 200m Backstroke Final already her 3rd title after already winning the 50m and 100m Backstroke during the swimming events of the 20th World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Saturday, July 29, 2023. (Photo by Patrick B. Kraemer / MAGICPBK)

Kaylee McKeown Goes All-Time No3 With 4:28.22 Aussie 400IM Mark, Another Rice Record Boiled

Kaylee McKeown pinned her towering versatility and consistent speed to the mast with a thumping 4:28.22 Australian record in the 400m medley on day 2 at the Open on the Gold Coast, her time taking down a second Stephanie Rice […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-18 No comments. Reading Time: 3 minutes
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McKeown 2:06.99 Boils Rice’s 2009 Shiny Suit 200IM Mark & Winnington/Short Go 3:41 In 400

Kaylee McKeown‘s challenge to America’s prevailing medley might gets ever more serious: in 2:06.99 at the Australian Open Championships on the Gold Coast today, she took down the 2009 national record set in a shiny suit by 2008 double medley […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-17 No comments. Reading Time: 3 minutes
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Three of Britain's 4x200m Olympic champions, l-r, Duncan Scott, Matt Richards and Tom Dean, led the charge to put Britain on the prospects map in the 4x100m freestyle at the Paris Olympic Games

Dean, Richards & Scott Join Chorus Calling On Swim Bosses To Match Athletics In Offering Money For Olympic Medals

Tom Dean, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott, Olympic 4x200m freestyle champions for Britain in Tokyo, have joined a chorus of calls from athletes asking their federations to step up and match the money-for-medals $50,000 gold-medal prize being offered by World […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-16 Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Olympic champions in Tokyo - the shoal that helped build Britain's best Games in the pool now heading back to the fray in Paris - all images by Patrick B. Kraemer

Great Britain Announce Team Of 33 For Paris Olympics, Scott’s Six-Pack Of Targets Heading For A High Five With Dean

Olympic champions of Tokyo 2020ne Adam Peaty,  Tom Dean, Duncan Scott, James Guy, Matt Richards, Anna Hopkin, Kathleen Dawson and Freya Anderson will lead a 33-strong team across pool and marathon swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Team in full at the foot of this […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-16 No comments. Reading Time: 6 minutes
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The Paris 2024 Olympic Medals

World Aquatics Will Not Match Coe Money For Athletics Olympic Gold Medals Move In Paris

World Aquatics will not match the move of Sebastian Coe and World Athletics to break with 128 years of Olympic tradition by becoming the first sport to award winning athletes prize money at the Paris 2024 Olympics this summer. Swimming […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-10 No comments. Reading Time: 2 minutes
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The plan to place the Seine at the heart of Paris 2024 was described by The Washington Post as "bold, audacious ... and risky".

Seine Or In-Seine? Paris Boss Prays For Rain, Rain, Go Away … Or Olympic Marathon May Be Flushed Away In Tide Of Pollution

Heavy rain could wash dangerous levels of pollution into the River Seine and flush the open water marathon down the plughole altogether at the Paris 2024 Olympics this August, according to the head of the organising committee for the Games. […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-10 Reading Time: 4 minutes
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Relay Giants - the awesome-foursome Olympic champions will defend the 4x200 crown in Paris, l-r: James Guy, Duncan Scott, Matt Richards and Tom Dean

Richards & Scott 1:44s Take Paris 200 Tickets, Dean & Guy Ensure Awesome Foursome Will Defend 4×200 Crown For Great Britain

Battling 1:44s from Matt Richards and Duncan Scott and 1:45s from Tom Dean and James Guy over 200m freestyle solved the impossible sum of two solo slots between four Olympic champions, three World champions and a European champion, the joy […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-07 No comments. Reading Time: 12 minutes
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Dash kings and the champion's queen - l-r: Matt Richards, Sally Proud, Ben Proud and All Cohoon

When Sally Met Ben On The Deck After Her Son Had Done The Family Proud In 21.25

Ben Proud punched a 21.25 ticket to Paris and a shot at the biggest prizes in his sport with a majestic blast that posted his third-swiftest dash to the mast at the London Aquatics Centre. Proud, based for a while […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-06 No comments. Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Wood Joins The 2:08 200IM Club As Loughborough Mate Colbert Makes It Two Go To Paris

Abbie Wood said that seeing her family up in the stands at the London Aquatics Centre was “just so weird; they never see me when I actually swim well.” Well, they have now. In 2:08.91, Wood entered the sub-2:09 club […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-06 No comments. Reading Time: 2 minutes
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The stacked 200IM podium in London, l-r: Tom Dean, champion Duncan Scott, and Max Litchfield - image courtesy of Aquatics GB/Channel 4

Hail The Scott & Dean Show, A Speedy, Skilful Art Of Calm Before The Summer Storm Of Paris

The Duncan Scott and Tom Dean show is a privilege to watch and witness, the skills, the speed, the flow, the fight and the 200m medley tickets to the Paris Olympics all thrilling, of course, but as much as that […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-05 No comments. Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Three poised for Paris action at the Olympics this summer, l-r: Joe Litchfield was the shock winner of the 100m butterfly, while Katie Shanahan and champion Honey Osrin raced inside the 200m backstroke QT, the bronze to Holly McGill

Paris Olympic Cuts For Osrin, Shanahan As Litchfield Locks Out All Favourites To Grab ‘Fly Berth In Medley Relay

Honey Osrin and Katie Shanahan raced inside the qualification time in the 200m backstroke and Joe Litchfield produced a shock victory in the 100m butterfly to grab the right to a medley relay berth at the Paris Olympics on Day […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-05 No comments. Reading Time: 4 minutes
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Three of Britain's 4x200m Olympic champions, l-r, Duncan Scott, Matt Richards and Tom Dean, led the charge to put Britain on the prospects map in the 4x100m freestyle at the Paris Olympic Games

Richards & Scott Take Olympic 100 Tickets As Dean Makes It Three On 47s & Cohoon Joins Britain’s Paris Sprint Relay Party

Matt Richards gold, Duncan Scott scorching home from fifth at the turn to silver and Tom Dean confined to bronze by 0.02 after speeding from seventh at the turn, his and sprint relay prospects buoyant on a podium split by […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-04 No comments. Reading Time: 5 minutes
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Max Litchfield, hugs with dad on the deck and when handing out the medals (nice touch the parents giving medals...) and the two men who shared the podium, main image (l-r): Charlie Hutchison, Max Litchfield and George Smith

Colbert, Shanahan, Hopkin & Record-Breaking Litchfield Swell The Ranks Of Britain’s Pool Prospects In Paris

Max Litchfield wrote a rare line in swimming’s chronicle today when he followed up a pair of fourth places in the 400m medley at the past two Olympics with a ticket to a third Games in a British record no […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-04 No comments. Reading Time: 4 minutes
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Jervis Tops 1500 With Paris-Pass 14:47, Robinson Roars Inside Sub-15 Goal & Davies 20-Year-Old Mark Lives On

Dan Jervis, on 14:47.94 (David Davies British standard now 20 years old and going strong), will race the 1500m freestyle at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and may well be joined by Toby Robinson, whose big 14:54.75 lifetime best fell […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-04 Reading Time: 7 minutes
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