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Oliver Morgan, photo courtesy of Aquatics GB

Dawson Returns As Morgan Takes Down Tancock’s 2009 British Mark, Marshall Making It 3 Backstrokers Bound For Paris

Olympic champion Kathleen Dawson, Oliver Morgan and Jonathan Marshall added more fire and ambition to Britain’s Medley Relay hopes at Paris 2024 a day after Adam Peaty‘s 57.94 breaststroke blast, all three 100m backstroke speedsters inside the Olympic target time […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-03 Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Adam Peaty soaks in his return to the 57 zone - image courtesy of Aquatics GB/Channel 4

Peaty Three-Peat Is Game On! Passage To Paris With 57.94 Blast In Hallowed Lane Of Olympic Champion’s First WR

The Adam Peaty three-peat is on! In truth, it’s been on ever since the Olympic champion opted in once more. Just a year after the 30-year-old British breaststroke ace withdrew from racing suffering from mental anguish and a loss of […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-02 No comments. Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Freya Colbert, right, and Abbie Wood claim tickets to Paris in the 200m freestyle at the helm of a first four home that made the cut for the 4x200m free - image courtesy of Aquatics GB

Colbert & Wood Lead Harris and Hope With Paris Tickets For All In 200 Solo & 4×200 Free Relay

Freya Colbert and Abbie Wood roared home in low 1:56s, inside the Paris 2024 Olympic cut for the 200m freestyle, at the helm of a first-four-home that also booked a berth at the Games for the 4x200m relay. The race […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-02 2 comments. Reading Time: 2 minutes
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Keanna MacInnes, right, and Laura Stephens are delighted to have grabbed tickets to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the 200m butterfly - image courtesy of Aquatics GB

Keanna MacInnes and Laura Stephens Gets Their Paris Pass To The Games On 2:07s

Keanna MacInnes and Laura Stephens claimed the first two British tickets to the Paris Olympics in a tight 2:07 tussle in the 200m butterfly at the London Aquatics Centre as six days of British Championships and trials got underway. Stephens, […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-02 No comments. Reading Time: 3 minutes
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Adam Peaty Edges To Top Of Early World Ranks On 58.53 On Way To Seeking Ticket To Third 100m Olympic Title Fight

There was something of the spirit of a Hobbit with a ring about Adam Peaty this lunchtime in London as the double Olympic 100m breaststroke champion, clean-shaven, ‘tash gone and looking more youthful than he has at any time since […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-02 No comments. Reading Time: 4 minutes
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cryptosporidiosis Winner Nathan Adrian of the United States of America (USA) competes in the men's 100m Freestyle Final during the Swimming competition held at the Aquatics Center during the London 2012 Olympic Games in London, Great Britain, Wednesday, August 1, 2012. (Photo by Patrick B. Kraemer / MAGICPBK)

Britain’s Olympic Swim Trials Rocked By Chlorine-Resistant Bug Cryptosporidiosis – Crisis Talks To Consider Shifting Selection Event

British Swimming will hold an emergency meeting in London this afternoon to decide whether to cancel the Olympic trials due to get underway at the capital’s 2012 Olympic pool after an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis. The source of the gastrointestinal disease […]

Craig Lord 2024-04-01 2 comments. Reading Time: 4 minutes
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Sun Devils Monster The Rest To Grant Arizona State & Coach Bowman Historic NCAA Firsts, Golden Rules On Show

In 2019, Bob Bowman sat in his commander-in-chief chair at Arizona State University (ASU) and spoke enthusiastically for about 20 minutes in answer to my simple question: what’s the mission? Almost five years on, mission accomplished. And here is how […]

Craig Lord 2024-03-31 No comments. Reading Time: 8 minutes
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Seeing the red as well as the blue - image by Patrick B. Kraemer

Swim England Apologises After Another Damning Report Urges Cultural Overhaul As Members Express Lack Of Trust

An independent report into Swim England culture has recommended a major overhaul of failing governance after a high percentage of members taking part in a mass listening exercise expressed a lack of trust in the aquatics regulator. Following on the […]

Craig Lord 2024-03-05 No comments. Reading Time: 8 minutes
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Ford’s Turning The Tide Has Bach Backing Fight To “Right The Wrongs” Of GDR Doping After Decades Of IOC Inaction

The International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has given a significant boost to hopes of justice, recognition and reconciliation for all athletes impacted by the GDR doping era when the Cold War spilled into sport. The news was broken in […]

Craig Lord 2024-03-01 No comments. Reading Time: 9 minutes
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Furniss, Hemmings, Marshall, McNulty & Tigg Lead 10-Strong GBR Coach Staff For Paris Olympics

Ten of Britain’s world-class swimming mentors have been named by British Swimming to coach at the Paris 2024 Games three years after Britain’s most successful Games in the pool at Tokyo2020ne. Bill Furniss is head coach to the pool team […]

Craig Lord 2024-02-27 No comments. Reading Time: 4 minutes
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Wiffen & Litchfield Back Up Doha Successes As Evans & Orsin Deliver Career-High Progress

Dan Wiffen and Max Litchfield backed up on their successes at the World Championships last week with more solid efforts at the British University Championships (BUCs) in Sheffield, Wiffen on 7:43.03 in the 800m freestyle and Litchfield on 4:13.58 in […]

Craig Lord 2024-02-24 Reading Time: 5 minutes
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Dan Wiffen and Andi Manley

Dan Wiffen Adds BUCs 14:42 To String Of Swift 1500 Efforts Five Days After World Title Epic

Dan Wiffen, the Loughborough-based Irish ace, swam down from his double-world-title triumphs over 800 and 1500m freestyle in Doha last week with a 14:42.05 victory at the British University Championships in Ponds Forge, Sheffield this evening. Coached by Andi Manley, […]

Craig Lord 2024-02-23 No comments. Reading Time: 4 minutes
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How & Why Doha Broke The Record For Most Nations Taking Gold & Medals

When reading the runes for Paris 2024, it would be best to largely discount the World Championships that ended in Doha last Sunday with none of the 35 Olympic events untouched by mass absenteeism or abstention from peak performance among […]

Craig Lord 2024-02-22 2 comments. Reading Time: 10 minutes
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Wiffen Grabs Gold No2 For Ireland In Roaring 14:34 Rite Of Passage To Paris Showstopper

Daniel Wiffen, of Ireland, arrived in Doha for the anomalous World Championships of avoidable circumstance already a podium prospect for the Paris Olympic Games and today he leaves Qatar a double-distance global long-course champion in a club with Grant Hackett, […]

Craig Lord 2024-02-18 No comments. Reading Time: 7 minutes
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sJOSTROM (SJOESTROEM) of Sweden celebrates after winning in the Women’s 50m Butterfly Final during the swimming events of the 20th World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Saturday, July 29, 2023. (Photo by Patrick B. Kraemer / MAGICPBK)

Sarah Sjostrom Strikes Again! Sixth 50 ‘Fly World Title For All-Time Top 23 Dashes

Sarah Sjostrom claimed a sixth straight 50m butterfly world title in Doha this evening, the Swedish Dash Queen’s 24.63 the second fastest of all her six efforts since 2015. And then she dropped a quasi repeat feat of the stellar […]

Craig Lord 2024-02-17 No comments. Reading Time: 4 minutes
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Tes Schouten, left, and Marrit Steenbergen make it a double Dutch celebration, as Spain's Hugo Gonzalez joins them in the club of Doha solo world-title debutants - courtesy of World Aquatics

Steenbergen & Schouten Lob Double Dutch Gauntlet Before Gonzalez, Dong & China Join Them In Doha World-Title Debutants Club

Marrit Steenbergen and Tes Schouten slapped a double Dutch gauntlet down on the podium contenders list for the Paris 2024 Olympics with debut World titles on day 6 in Doha this evening before Hugo Gonzalez, on backstroke for Spain, Dong […]

Craig Lord 2024-02-16 No comments. Reading Time: 5 minutes
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Finlay Knox

Curzan At The Double As Pan, Stephens & Knox Join Wave Of World-Title Debutants At Quirk Of Qatar Gathering

Claire Curzan of the United States made it double solo gold on day 5 at the anomalous Doha World titles in a session that delivered maiden world titles for Pan Zhanle, of China, Laura Stephens of Great Britain and Finlay […]

Craig Lord 2024-02-15 No comments. Reading Time: 6 minutes
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Wiffen, Haughey, Honda & Williamson Deliver Flow Of World-Title Firsts

Daniel Wiffen, Siobhan Haughey, Tomoru Honda and Sam Williamson delivered a flow of debut world titles on day 4 at the oddball World Championships in Doha. Ireland’s Wiffen, in the 800m free, and Hong Kong’s Haughey, in the 200m free, […]

Craig Lord 2024-02-14 Reading Time: 5 minutes
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