Editorial – The most significant announcement at the annual gathering of the European Aquatics regulator in Madeira this weekend was missing from the official press release: the old Continent is...

Lewis Pugh, the British endurance swimmer and first UN patron of the oceans, added another mighty swim in support of healthy arteries, veins, valves and the source of life on...

Editorial – Under a banner declaring “Carnage”, we learn that Adam Peaty is “bloodied after horror punch-up with Team GB teammate Luke Greenbank over girlfriend jibe”, the story in a...

Editorial, first reaction to the news release at the foot of this file: World Aquatics has opted to let athletes from Russia and Belarus back into global competition on the...

Kristóf Milák, “programmed for pain” and hungry to get back to best and better, returned to the pool for training this morning at Budapest’s Duna Arena for the first time...

Hector Pardoe, Britain’s top open-water marathon swimmer, broke a 26-year-old World record when crossed a 10.5-mile stretch of Lake Windemere on Saturday in 3 hours 40 minutes and 28 seconds...

Editorial – Part 3 – In the last part of our long essay on things that make it “Increasingly Difficult For Serious Journalists” to cover Olympic sport, we turn to...

Olympic champions and World record holders Adam Peaty and Kristof Milak are set to make their return to international racing at the World Cup series in Europe this autumn after...

Swimming Australia, already steeped in a clash of constitutions with World Aquatics, is once again on the head-hunt for a new president – its fifth in the last three years...

Editorial, Part II – in Part I yesterday, we looked at the massive imbalance in mainstream media coverage of athletics and swimming World Championships this summer and why the mixed...

Editorial, Part 1 – The World Athletics Championships ended Sunday in Budapest, the location doubtless contributing to track and field’s ability to attract far greater (think in the order of...

The World of swimming mourns John Devitt, the Australian two-time Olympic and three-time Commonwealth Games freestyle champion. John, much loved and known as one of the old-world gentlemen of world...

Tributes have been paid to Helen Smart (née Don Duncan), the former Olympic swimmer for Great Britain and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist for England who died suddenly this week at...

Australia will have its champions in the pool at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games even if national federation Swimming Australia proceeds with plans to defy World Aquatics in a clash...

World Aquatics, the global regulator that introduced rules in June 2022 aimed at ring-fencing women’s sport for females in June 2022, will test a new Open category at the Berlin...

Poor water quality in the River Seine, where the Olympic swimming marathon will take place a year and two days from now, has forced cancellation of the World Aquatics Open...

Editorial: Australia’s status as the No1 swimming nation at the 20th World Championships that ended last weekend was not only secured on gold count alone but as the best team...

There’s more than a touch of tongue in cheek about the moment Cate Campbell took a swipe at the USA and labelled the Americans “sore losers” after the official U.S....