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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 a judgment delivered at Nottingham County Court on 14 December 2022, Deputy Judge […]
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, in part reflecting the fact that circumstances have moved on […]
Editorial & Essay On Reform – Let’s exchange the experience, sings Kate Bush in her Deal with God that’s Running Up That Hill to the top of music charts the world over almost four decades after she first poked the […]
International Women’s Day (IWD): a fine moment to highlight the achievements and work of women pioneers and pathfinders in swimming, including Cate Campbell, the Australia sprinter who spoke truth to power in decisive fashion in 2017. To mark the occasion, SOS rolled […]
Russian Olympic 100 and 200m backstroke champion Evgeny Rylov has been suspended for nine months by FINA after attending a rally in support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the pro-war Z symbol stitched on his sports kit. When images of Rylov’s appearance at […]
Rūta Meilutytė, the Olympic 100m breaststroke champion of 2012, has swum across a lake near the Russian Embassy in Lithuania* that was turned red with dye to represent the blood of the Ukrainian people murdered by the invading troops of […]
The retired Swiss prosecutor appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency- Wada – to judge whether the people who appointed him mishandled the cases of 23 swimmers from China allowed to go free without independent inquiry into the 28 positive doping […]
Organisers of the U.S. Olympic Trials that have been underway in a stadium in Indianapolis this past week, have boasted of the biggest ever crowd for a swimming competition but the standard has belonged to London’s White City since 1908, […]
Ryan Murphy will arrive in Paris with a tradition to restore after adding the 200m backstroke to his 100m target for a third successive Games on day 6 at U.S. Trials for the Paris Olympics. There were fine wins for […]
Florent Manaudou and Maxime Grousset thundered to home-Olympic team tickets in the 50m freestyle at French Elite Championships in Chartres this evening, their duel in heats and the final practically a snap: respective 21.52 and 21.66 this morning, 21.54 and […]
Katie Ledecky in 1:55.22 and Luke Hobson in 1:44.89 atop the 200m freestyle finals and Lilly King‘s 1:05.43 win in the 100m breaststroke joined the backstroke bonanza on day 3 at U.S. Trials in the vault of American relay prospects […]
Gretchen Walsh practiced the art of equilibrium in the American selection cauldron to make her first Olympic Team USA with a scorching 55.31 victory in the 100m butterfly on day 2 at U.S. Trials, the courage of a 25.20 jaw-dropping, […]
Zac Stubblety-Cook checked into the defence of the Olympic 200m breaststroke crown in a duel with Josh Yong that ended 2:07.40 to 2:08.08 in favour of the Tokyo 2020ne champion, both men well inside the cut for Paris 2024. Stubblety-Cook, […]
Gold in Rio, silver by 0.06 in Tokyo and now Kyle Chalmers heads to Paris with a 47.75 trials win over 100m freestyle in the bag knowing that he will need to axe the best part of a second off […]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has kicked out a challenge by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to World Aquatics rules barring any who experienced male puberty from competition in female events. The tribunal’s decision to dismiss the challenge comes 11 […]
Three second-generation Olympians made their way onto the Australian team for Paris on the first night of the Australian Olympic trials in Brisbane: Lani Pallister, the daughter of 1988 Olympian Janelle Elford, and Ella Ramsay, the daughter of 2000 Olympic […]
Today, we have the pleasure of announcing that Wayne Goldsmith will write an exclusive column – StreamLines – for State of Swimming, with an emphasis on coaching, mentoring and the environment in which athletes, coaches, parents and others experience sport. […]
Blake Tierney, Sydney Pickrem, Kelsey Wog and Ilya Kharun stamped tickets to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on day 5 of Canadian Trials in Toronto, Tierney’s 1:56.74 a Canadian record 200m backstroke record. There was disappointment and joy in the women’s […]