Swimming will pack a pugilistic punch in Birmingham from today as racing starts at the Commonwealth Games and Tom Dean and Duncan Scott get set to rejoin battle as Britain...

Editorial – How do you solve a problem like Doha 2024, the FINA World Championships destined to be the biggest damp squib in the history of the global showcase dating...

Swimming Canada has confirmed that 15-year-old world champion Summer McIntosh has withdrawn from the 200m butterfly at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where six days of racing gets underway on...

The University of Birmingham has a fine team of world-leading experts in sports performance and psychological wellbeing lined up to talk to media during the Commonwealth Games in Britain’s second-largest...

Today is World Drowning Prevention Day, a good moment to noted that drowning is one of the leading causes of death globally for children and young people aged 1-24 years:...

In The Vortex – Ariarne Titmus heads into the Commonwealth Games in pioneering form, plus: Isaac Cooper says wellbeing issues, not banned substances, behind return home before start of commonwealth...

“My health began to deteriorate drastically – my strength, my athleticism – was being taken away from me and I couldn’t do anything to stop it!” – Michael Klim Michael...

Four-times Olympic medallist Duncan Scott will not race for Great Britain in 2022, having missed the World Championships as a result of a Covid infection last month and now having...

The International Olympic Committee and FINA have gone against the wishes of many of the world’s leading swimming nations and, in a move that favours the United States above all...

The Vortex is SOS’ weekly digest and soak of swimming news, views and links to big events. Craig Lord is currently on writing retreat and taking break from usual coverage...

It does not take a genius to work it out: in going back in time to correct Olympic injustice and declare American Jim Thorpe as the sole gold medalist in...

FINA, the global regulator for aquatics, has sent a signal to the World swimming community that it will remain deaf to myriad calls for a rethink on staging a World...

The Vortex is SOS’ weekly digest and soak of swimnews, views and links to big events such as European Junior Championships and notable coverage of swimming elsewhere when time allows....

Mary-Sophie Harvey, the Canadian medley ace, says she was drugged on the final night at the World Championships in Budapest last month, leaving her with a concussion and rib sprain...

Editorial & Essay On Reform – Let’s exchange the experience, sings Kate Bush in her Deal with God that’s Running Up That Hill to the top of music charts the...

FINA is being called on to drop what has been described as a plan to force national federations to send elite teams to a World Championships in Doha at the...

Great Britain was forced to reset its summer 2022 competition plans as a result of Budapest World Championships being “parachuted in” on a “crammed” calendar, Bill Furniss, head coach, acknowledged...

What a fortnight for Gregorio Paltrinieri, what a World Championships for Europe’s top distance swimmers, the Italian joined bay Florian Wellbrock, Mykhailo Romanchuk, Domenico Acerenza and others making open water...