On her way to the Hall of Fame, Aussie breaststroke legend Leisel Jones endured abuse that ought never to be a part of performance sport – but is. There has been a...

 Australia Day – January 26, 2020: – The name’s Shane Gould. Dr. Shane Gould. At 15, she raced to what remains the single biggest solo-swims medal haul at one Olympic Games,...

Federica Pellegrini, the Italian superstar swimmer of the past two decades, raised the possibility of a sixth Olympic campaign beyond Tokyo 2020 as she received the “Leone del Veneto 2019” – Lion of Venice –...

Roland Matthes, the most decorated backstroke ace in history, the G.OA.T. of the stroke, died on Friday in Wertheim, Baden-Württemberg, after a short, severe illness. He was 69. His wife...

Matt Biondi, Olympic legend of Seoul 1988, has been appointed Director of what was referred to as a type of athletes’ union but will be known as the International Swimmers’ Alliance by world-class swimmers...

18 December 2019: A year-end letter from a fledgling athlete-representative body at a time when the Athlete Voice is not only getting louder but intends to be heard directly at...

The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Compliance Review Committee (CRC) has the names of all suspicious athletes in the Moscow Laboratory database, which is said to be manipulated before being handed over...

Witold Bańka was minus-4 when Moscow held its boycotted Olympic Games in 1980 and the GDR was sinking the hopes of most in the pool but then again, if you’re...

The latest threat to the would-be cheat – that effective gene testing may be in play come Tokyo 2020 – was made by Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic...

Andrew Gemmell’s Red Flag To FINA: Athlete Safety In Focus It is “only a matter of time until we have another tragedy that will do more to diminish the stature...

Note to John Devitt: if you’re out there tuning into the League, fellow Aussie Minna Atherton just swam the 100m backstroke a fingernail slower than your first World record over 100m freestyle...

Mental health issues are driving coaches out of sport, says Leigh Nugent, Australian Olympic head swimming coach and mentor. Nugent spearheaded Australia’s successful Athens 2004 Olympics campaign in the wake...

Today – as we do with each passing year – we remember Nick Thierry. It is the seventh anniversary of his death. The Father of World Rankings and publisher of Swim Magazine...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the first women’s world record over 440 yards (later 400m) freestyle – and the first global standard set by Ethelda Bleibtrey. A year later, she would become...

Sheffield has been confirmed as the sixth Swim England National Performance Centre. The former ASA, the oldest federation in the world, Swim England is working in partnership with swimming clubs and universities...

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...