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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....

Chinese National Championships, Day 2: Tang Qianting Blasts Asian Record 1:04.68 in 100 Breaststroke Day two of racing at the Chinese national championships saw world champions Zhang Yufei and Qin Haiyang book their spots at the Paris Games, but the standout performance came from Tang Qianting, who ...

American Swimmers Told of Chinese Doping Violations at Tokyo Olympics Three years ago at the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese swimmers captured six medals, including gold medals by Zhang Yufei in the 200 butterfly and gold in the women's 800 freestyle relay, with Zhang swimming the third leg, later that even...

Erik Posegay Joins Bob Bowman's Staff at Texas as Associate Head Coach The University of Texas announced Thursday that Erik Posegay will become the new associate head coach of the men's swim team. Posegay heads to Austin to reunite with Bob Bowman, who was named Director of Swimming and Diving and h...

Matt Fallon Established as Leading American 200 Breaststroker, Chasing Olympic Medal Whenever a swimmer takes down Leon Marchand in one of the Frenchman’s main events, that accomplishment deserves recognition. Marchand is clearly established as the world’s best swimmer, and he is coming off an NCAA ...

American Women’s Swimming Depth Ratchets Up Pressure With Olympic Trials Approaching The meet that all elite American swimmers have been anticipating for almost three years is now less than two months away. The stakes of that competition, set to be held in the largest venue ever to host a swim meet,...

Surging Torri Huske Shakes Up Indy and Paris Status Quo The 2023 World Championships did not go as planned for Torri Huske. Individually, she swam only the 50 and 100 butterfly, and she fell to bronze in the 100-meter race after swimming almost one second off her American record. After racing on fou...

Katie Grimes Swims World's Fastest 400 IM Among Four Wins at Fran Crippen Swim Meet of Champions While most top American swimmers travelled to San Antonio this weekend for the final stop of the TYR Pro Swim Series, a handful of west-coast-based Olympic contenders swam in Mission Viejo, Calif., at th...

Gutter Talk: What Has Your Previous Olympic Experience Taught You? Because it only comes along every four years, the Olympic experience is unique. For those who have the opportunity to compete in a second Olympiad, the experience gained during that initial trip can be highly beneficial. In this edit...

TYR Pro Series San Antonio, Day Three Finals (Men’s Events): Caeleb Dressel, Hubert Kos Tie For 100 Butterfly Win Two of the world's most prominent men's swimmers were scheduled to swim in their signature events Friday evening at the TYR Pro Swim Series in San Antonio, Texas. Fresh off another recor...

TYR Pro Series San Antonio, Day Three Finals (Women’s Events): Torri Huske Just Misses American Record in 100 Butterfly A collection of top American and international swimmers are racing in San Antonio this week at the final stop of this year's TYR Pro Swim Series as they zero-in on upcoming Olympic...

TYR Pro Series San Antonio, Day Two Finals (Women's Events): Katie Ledecky Swims 2024's Second-Fastest Time in 400 Freestyle A strong field has assembled this weekend in San Antonio for the final TYR Pro Swim Series meet before the 2024 Olympic Trials, with many top Americans and foreign swimmers in...

Summer McIntosh Blasts World's Fastest 200 Freestyle at Canadian Open One month out from Canada's Olympic Trials, many of the country's top swimmers are racing this weekend in Toronto, and to no one's surprise, the star of night one of the Canadian Swimming Open was the swimmer who has become the co...

Anna Peplowski Riding Momentum From Worlds and NCAAs, Targeting 200 Free at Trials The chance at earning a World Championships spot appeared to vanish when Anna Peplowski finished seventh in the 200 freestyle at last summer’s U.S. Nationals. Six swimmers typically receive the nod to join the America...

Luka Mijatovic Lowers Own NAG Records in 500 Free, 400 IM At almost every meet in which Luka Mijatovic competes, he breaks at least one National Age Group record, with the 14-year-old Californian owning nine such marks in his age group as he approaches his 15th birthday. Mijatovic's collection of re...

As Hype Builds for Paris Olympics, Men's 100 Butterfly Could Be a Race to Remember At the last Olympics, the men’s 100 butterfly unfolded as a showdown of two world-record-holding, Olympic-gold-medal-winning swimmers with very different racing styles. The United States’ Caeleb Dressel, already the g...

Great Britain Relay Analysis: Four Teams Head to Paris as Medal Favorites Three years ago in Tokyo, Great Britain won Olympic gold in the men's 800 freestyle relay, the country's first gold medal in any swimming relay since the inaugural Olympic relay at the 1908 Games in London. Now, with British T...

YMCA Nationals: Anna Moesch Shines Again; Emily Thompson, Garrett Gould Earn Third Titles One day after moving the YMCA National record in the 200 freestyle into 1:43 territory, Greater Somerset County's Anna Moesch continued to shine with another record-breaking performance in the 50 free at YMCA N...

Leon Marchand, Gretchen Walsh, NCAA Stars Return to Long Course at TYR Pro Swim Series San Antonio (Psych Sheet) Many of the top collegiate swimmers who excelled at the women's and men's NCAA Championships last month will begin their Olympic racing season in earnest with top-level long course compet...