Editorial In a column in the Washington Post this week, Sally Jenkins writes: “An organization that couldn’t bring itself to move against child molester Larry Nassar for allegations of abusing...

Shayna Jack, the young Australian sprinter who finds herself making headlines around the world after testing positive for a banned substance, wrote a note and placed it in the public...

World Swimming Championships (Gwangju 2019 In The Mirror) We hope you enjoyed the Swimming World coverage of the World Championships, the efforts of Liz Byrnes, Andy Ross, David Rieder, John...

What a day 1 at World Championships in Gwangju. Adam Peaty’s “Project 56” is history. The Olympic champion confined the days of 57 seconds as the global standard over 100m...

Eight days of racing get underway at the World Championships in Gwangju, Korea, this Sunday. I’m looking forward to working with the Swimming World team alongside John Lohn, Andy Ross,...

Obituary. Mike Higgs, Britain Olympic coach, mentor to Olympic medallist, World short-course and Commonwealth Sarah Hardcastle, Worlds medallist and Commonwealth champion Jackie Willmott, multiple world short-course champion and Commonwealth champion Mark Foster and...

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has been unable to fast-track a hearing into the latest Sun Yanganti-doping case to cause consternation in the swimming world because no parties...

Alexander Popov, the Olympic 50 and 100m freestyle champion at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games, has been cited among prominent members of the International Olympic Committee accused by the...

This U.S. Independence Day, here’s some news from the water on a new voyage back and forth across The Pond and a declaration of press freedom and independent journalism: “A...

The details of the allegations and evidence of a trail of “corruption, organised crime” and criminality at the heart of Track and Field on the way to implosion and IAAF...

On the day Australia learned that it will need to start the search for a new head coach after Jacco Verhaeren announced he will returned to his native Netherlands and...

The last four teams – London Roar, Team Iron, LA Current and NY Breakers – bound for action in the International Swimming League’s inaugural and pioneering season of a global...

The judge who sentenced former sports doctor Larry Nassar to prison and a group of Olympians are backing an effort to create a commission to look into the operations of...

Timing means so much more than a clock: a year ahead of Olympic trials and we find Luca Urlando posting the swim of the Pro Swim Series at Clovis at...

The world’s biggest active swim star, American Katie Ledecky, will spearhead the DC Trident of Washington when the International Swimming League (ISL) launches the first global pro-swimming league in October....

Insight from the training camp of Adam Peaty and coach Mel Marshall’s Loughborough crew:

Does Testosterone Really Give Caster Semenya an Edge on the Track? The question, used as a headline in the New York Times on May 1 this year, cuts to the chase...

Welcome to the State of Swimming (SOS), an oasis for occasional news and thoughts on governance and the climate set by the guardians of the sport and how such things...