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FINA has stripped Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia and aggressor in the invasion of Ukraine, of the highest honour of the global regulator, the FINA Order, granted in 2014. At the same time, athletes and officials from Russia and […]
Qin Haiyang fell just shy of his six-year-old Chinese record in clocking 2:07.55 (2:07.39, 2017 National Games, aged 18) to claim the 200m breaststroke crown on day 5 at China’s swimming championships in Hangzhou, as Ye Shiwen clocks first personal […]
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 – How do you solve a problem like Doha 2024, the FINA World Championships destined to be the biggest damp squib in the history of the global showcase dating back to 1973? Key stakeholders have made their view clear […]
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 […]
The Vortex, SOS’ weekly day-by-day digest of developments in swimming, turns into our World Championships Diary for the coming couple of weeks as Budapest hosts the FINA showcase. Beyond our coverage of swimming finals from the Hungarian capital and its […]
Editorial: The case of FINA vice-president Zhou Jihong, a former Olympic diving champion for China, raises one of the biggest tests of the seriousness and strength of the reform process at a global regulator with a history of protecting its […]
The Vortex is our weekly day-by-day digest of swimnews, views, top picks and links to the best coverage of swimming and related issues from around the swim world. This week marks the start of a writing retreat for this author […]
FINA has finally banned three Russian swimmers, among them at least two cases dating back to 2013 and said to have been known to FINA since 2016, linked to the scandal of RUSADA’s concealment and manipulation of historic doping data […]
FINA has thrown Russian and Belarusian athlete and officials out of the World Championships in Budapest in June as the aggressor nations in Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine and stripped Kazan of its hosting rights to the global short-course showcase […]
Editorial – March 21, the spring equinox at the start of a week in which FINA must place integrity above all else, cancel all remaining events scheduled to be hosted in Russia and inform Kazan that it has no choice […]
FINA is to issue a new transgender, inclusion and Fair Play policy “that is easy to understand and sets an industry standard” when it comes to finding “the right balance of inclusion and fairness”, the director of the international federation […]
The threat of World-Championships boycott from Swiss Aquatics has given FINA, the global regulator and its neighbour in Switzerland, one more reason to trigger what would the first use of a new bylaw that would allow Russian and Belarussian athletes […]
The majority of Ukraine’s national junior swimming team has made it to safety outside their war-torn country and is being hosted at two cities and sports centres in Hungary thanks to the efforts of the Hungarian Swimming Association and a […]
Funding of the German World Championships swimming team and other aquatics sports squads will be frozen if FINA allows Russians and Belarussians to compete and officiate at the showcase event in Budapest this June. A directive from Germany’s Ministry of […]
The elite athletes of Ukraine are in a race against time as Russia’s menacing military might prevents them from reaching their country’s western border without “risking their lives” to get to safety and support in the many “friendly neighbours” offering […]
The Ukrainian Swimming Federation has claimed that some of its athletes and coaches have been injured in the Russian invasion of their country and insists that FINA honour its Constitutional obligation to forbid discrimination on political grounds by removing Russians […]