Editorial – Bravo Hummel! Bravo Denmark! A model for being there, playing the game but not that game; for making a statement against human rights abuses that Qatar, World Cup...

Anastasia Davydova, the five-times Olympic champion in synchronised swimming and since her retirement after the London 2012 Olympic Games the secretary general of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), has fled...

Sharron Davies, longtime advocate and campaigner for women in sport and justice in the face of the consequences of cheating and discrimination endured by female athletes, is the co-author of...

The Athletes of Ukraine and Global Athlete have joined forces to call on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and its affiliates to hold firm on the blanket ban on Russia...

Chad Le Clos pauses to contemplate the question from me that coach Dirk Lange had started their first conversation with when the South African ace called to speak about working...

Chad Le Clos’ impending move to coach Dirk Lange in Frankfurt offers not only hope of revival for the South African ace a decade after he produced one of the...

Paolo Barelli, the former president of the European Swimming League (LEN), ex-vice-president and member of the FINA executive and current president of the Italian Swimming Federation, has been slapped with...

David Popovici has surely earned a rest – two global, two European championships in two months, two weeks and two days, each one delivering confirmation that the Romanian teenager who...

José Fernando Baltar Leite, known to the swimming community, friends and family in Portugal as Zé Nando, passed away late last week after battling cancer. He is survived by his...

Born on the eve of Independence Day, July 3, 1947, Michael Burton, of Sacramento, California, would grow into one of the greats of distance freestyle: he won three Olympic gold...

On this day 50 years ago in Munich, The United States 4x100m medley quartet of Melissa Belote, Cathy Carr, Deena Deardurff and Sandy Neilson dominated the Olympic final for gold in...

Melissa Louise Belote, of Washington, D.C., sat and watched four days of racing at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games before her turn came: after heats and semi-finals of the 100m...

Chad Le Clos, London 2012 Olympic 200m butterfly champion, is to join coach Dirk Lange’s Frankfurt program to prepare for a fourth Olympics campaign at Paris 2024. Now 30, Le...

This day 50 years ago at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, 16-year-old Rick DeMont and 18-year-old Brad Cooper were split by 0.01sec as first and second home in the 400m...

On his day 50 years ago at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, Mark Spitz claimed golds No4 and 5 of a record seven-titles campaign and the women’s crowns went to...

It would be the first and last time that Olympic swimming gold would be won by such an infinitesimal margin – 4:31.981 and 4:31.983, Gunnar Larsson the victor, Tim McKee...

Roland Matthes did not live to see the 50th anniversary of a towering week at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972 but his achievement remains unique in swimming history to...

Shane Gould claimed the first of three golds and five solo medals on this day 50 years ago in Munich at the 1972 Olympic Games, the feat of the “Goldfisch...