Welcome to the State of Swimming (SOS), an oasis for occasional news and thoughts on governance and the climate set by the guardians of the sport and how such things...

Below are a set of recommendations from the COMMITTEE TO RESTORE INTEGRITY TO THE USOC, the United States Olympic Committee that has failed its major stakeholders and placed the preservation of...

The International Swimming League’s (ISL) inaugural season will unfold in seven cities across the U.S. and Europe, culminating in a December showdown at a custom-built pool in the heart of...

Chris Bostock, a former senior member of English swimming’s governing body, has apologised to two female Masters swimmers after being ordered to do so by a disciplinary committee. The committee...

How to make a bomb. The last 10 minutes or so of the ARD film "Doping Top Secret: Confession – Inside the mind of a doper” take us closer to...

German athletes, their representatives and the national Cartel Office have forced a big shift in the tectonics of Olympic sport in favour of athletes and athlete rights.

Dr Michael Peyrebrune, whose work as a sports scientist with the Great Britain swim team played a part in the success stories of double Olympic distance freestyle champion Rebecca Adlington...

Ed Accura, the man behind “A Film Called Blacks Can’t Swim” has added a music video to his work to highlight the need for and presence of black role models...

Triple Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu, of Hungary and American national-team swimmers Tom Shields and Michael Andrew have filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of all swimmers against FINA in the...

From The Archive – The SwimVortex Safe Sport Series – USA Swimming was handed what amounts to a manifesto matching many of the core principles of its 2010 Safe Sport program almost 27 years...

In Lund in 2014 at the World Aquatics Development Conference organised by the Swedish Center for Aquatic Research, Prof. Joan Duda talked about quality environments, the lack of them, the conditions...

Rob Greenwood, the coach accused of “bullying” Paralympic swimmers in a report that led to British Swimming issuing an apology to athletes and parents, has broken his silence to issue...

Rob Greenwood, the coach of the year who has been accused of “bullying” para-swimmers, has been given the “full support & backing” of the British Swimming Coaches Association in the face of an...

Editorial – Anthony Ervin, the American sprinter who in Rio last year became the oldest Olympic swimming champion in history when he reclaimed the 50m freestyle crown 16 years after...

British Swimming has issued an apology after an independent investigation concluded a former member of staff “created a climate of fear” for a number of athletes in the British Para-Swimming...

Hansje Bunschoten, the European Junior 400 and 800m freestyle champion of 1971 and 1973, has passed away after a long battle with cancer. She was 59. Back in 1972 at...

Adam Peaty (GBR) and his 57.13sec world record in the 100m breaststroke accounted for the single most outstanding performance in the pool at the 2016 Olympic Games. The following is the SwimVortex version...

Forbes Carlile (3 June 1921 – 2 August 2016) – by Shane Gould The end of life is so final, I’m so glad I went to see Forbes as often as...