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Josh Liendo, Ilya Kharun Hoping to Elevate Canadian Men to Olympic Podium The last decade has brought a renaissance for Canadian women's swimming, with an Olympic-medal-free streak of two decades ending in dramatic fashion at the 2016 Games in Rio and the momentum continuing to build from there. Two...

How Absence of Ahmed Hafnaoui Changes Freestyle Prospects For Paris The pre-Olympic year World Championships typically represent something of a dress rehearsal, with all of the world's best swimmers aiming for top form to see where they stack up before the final push to the Olympics. That's not to s...

Summer McIntosh Set for Seven Events at Next Week's Canadian Trials (PSYCH SHEET) Next week, Summer McIntosh will attempt to secure qualification on her second Olympic team for Canada as the country's best swimmers assemble in Toronto for the Bell Olympic & Paralympic Trials. The meet was relocated ...

Now Honored With Medal of Freedom, Katie Ledecky Represents Complete All-American Status Before Katie Ledecky, no Olympic swimmer had ever been honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. The 27-year-old received the honor Friday in Washington, a ...

Acalanes High School Swimmers Denied Entry Into CIF Championships After Technical Error Thirteen swimmers were unable to race this weekend at the CIF-North Coast Section Championships after their coach had an issue submitting entries to the meet's online database. According to multiple Northern Cali...

Aaron Shackell Heading to Texas to Continue College Swimming Career He spent the first few months of his college career at Cal before returning home to prioritize training for the upcoming U.S. Olympic Trials. Now, Aaron Shackell will head to a new destination for the remainder of his college career...

Teagan O'Dell Falls Just Short of National High School Record at CIF-SS Championships One of the top high school swimmers in the country nearly knocked off a national high school record Saturday when Teagan O'Dell of Santa Margarita Catholic High School came up just shy of her own record in the 200 ...

USADA Says WADA 'Trying to Pull The Wool Over Our Eyes' With Independent Investigation The revelation that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine prior to the 2021 Olympics but were not suspended brought immense criticism to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for an apparent failure ...

Michael Andrew Will Have Best Chance at Paris Olympics in 100 Breaststroke It has been 10 months since Michael Andrew, for the first time since his 19th birthday, did not qualify for the year's senior-level U.S. international team, with a spot at the World Championships in the 50 butterfly evaporati...

Owen McDonald Transferring From Arizona State to Indiana Following Bob Bowman's departure as head coach of the Arizona State swimming program to take over the men's team at the University of Texas, numerous Sun Devil swimmers have announced their intentions to continue their swimming careers elsewhe...

ARD Delves Further Into Questions on Chinese Anti-Doping Case ARD, the German broadcaster which originally broke the story of 23 Chinese swimmers testing positive for Trimetazidine (TMZ) in 2021 along with the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph, has realized a supplementary Q&A containing pushba...

Adam Peaty and the Elusive History He's Chasing — The Three-Peat No accomplishment in men's swimming has been as tough to achieve as winning Olympic gold in the same event at three consecutive Games. Russia's Vladimir Salnikov might have done so in the 1500 freestyle, with gold medals in both 1980 a...

Hubert Kos Will Transfer to Texas, Joining Bob Bowman With Longhorns During his two seasons swimming for coach Bob Bowman at Arizona State University, Hungarian star Hubert Kos evolved from a solid medley swimmer, with one European title in the 200 IM to his credit, to one of the world's premier bac...

WADA Releases Fact Sheet on Chinese Doping Violations The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has released a fact sheet laying out the process the organization followed in determining that the 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) in early 2021 would not receive suspensions. In...

Four-Lap Fight: Martens, Richards, Popovici to Highlight Race for 200 Freestyle Olympic Gold Remember when it appeared David Popovici would dominate the men's 200 freestyle for the foreseeable future? That was the status quo heading into last year's World Championships, with Popovici having missed t...

Missy Franklin Pool Dedicated at Regis Jesuit High School Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colo., has chosen to honor its most famous alum by dedicating its pool in her honor. Missy Franklin began her Hall-of-Fame career during her time attending the school, winning four Olympic gold medals plus ...

China Preparing to Challenge in All Relays at Paris Olympics It has been less than a week since Australia’s Daily Telegraph, the New York Times and German broadcaster ARD published stories revealing that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned heart medication just months before the Tokyo O...

Australia Fast in April, Americans Preparing for Paris Primetime Clash Last week's Australian Championships, not the country's selection meet for this summer's Olympic Games, saw most of the country's top swimmers performing at a high level despite the relatively low stakes of the meet. Perhaps most...

Column: Amid Chinese Doping Controversy, Clean Swimmers Rightfully Angry About 'Irreparable Damage' Why were 23 Chinese swimmers not sanctioned after testing positive for trimetazidine in early 2021? How were these swimmers allowed to compete in the Olympics and win medals despite their positive tes...

USADA CEO Travis Tygart Blasts WADA’s 'Defense Tactics' as It Threatens Legal Action Following the revelation that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) months before the Tokyo Olympics but none were suspended and their test results never publicly disclosed, the CEO of the U.S....