The Ellesmere Titans campaign group of parents whose children’s lives were thrown into chaos by a decision to disaffiliate their club program last year have welcomed the findings of an...

Editorial, Weekend Essay – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, described in The Times as the “Jewish defender” of his country’s democracy (so much for Putin’s excuse for going to war), has...

The International Olympic Committee – IOC – has confirmed its ban on Russia and Belarus but has opted to stick to its decision not to exclude athletes from both nations...

Editorial – Plaudits started to roll in for Amelia Strickler the moment the British shot put ace chucked a couple of heavy balls at World Athletics governors she wished had...

A county court has ordered British Swimming to pay out £6,000 for Masters swimming to comply with a legal settlement signed in the wake of the London 2016 European Masters Championships. In...

Australia is just nine years away from hosting the Olympic Games for the third time in history and there’s no time to waste: now is the moment for leaders to...

The U.S. District Court in San Francisco has drawn a line in the ISL Vs FINA anti-trust dispute by ruling in favour of the regulator now known as World Aquatics,...

The new International Consortium on Female Sport – ICFS – was launched globally today as the “preeminent international lobby group to advocate for the preservation of the female sport category worldwide”....

World Aquatics has averted a potential boycott of the 2024 World Championships in Qatar by listening to athletes and coaches asking for bosses to ditch an obligation for teams to...

The following is a statement from World Aquatics: 22 December 2022; LAUSANNE –  The International Olympic Committee has given its approval for World Aquatics to allow men to participate in the...

World Aquatics is the new name of FINA, the global regulator for swimming, diving, synchro and water polo announced today as the latest step on the road to reform. Name...

Editorial – The week ahead will kick the four-letter word FINA overboard to where it belongs at the bottom of the sea with a bygone, misogynist culture; honorary positions that...

The working group tasked with shaping a new Open category in aquatics sport after a widely praised June decision of FINA to ring-fence the women’s category in aquatics sports for...

Key swimming stakeholders in Australia have called for an urgent and independent review of governance in a bombshell letter to Swimming Australia boss Eugenie Buckley and the board of the...

Editorial – Ian Thorpe and journalism let themselves down badly this week in a short, lazy and bewildering interview that appeared in various places, including The Guardian online. The Australian...

Paolo Barelli, the former vice-president of FINA, ex-head of the European Swimming League (LEN) and current president of the Italian Swimming Federation (FIN), has been suspended for two years by...

Katie Ledecky has made short-course swimming a rarity during her illustrious career. With each passing 25m World record set in women’s distance freestyle, her absence always felt more ‘when’ than...

Adam Peaty has described the demon of fourth place at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last summer as the “poison in my veins” fuelling a relentless pursuit of a pioneering...