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Mark Spitz Is Back for More; Balancing Glass During Fly & Challenging Caeleb Dressel Olympic great Mark Spitz is certainy having some fun with balancing a glass of water on his head. A few days after he responded to Katie Ledecky's ability to swim 50 meters of freestyle without spilling a glass of c...

NCAA Designing Reprieve for Athletes Affected by COVID-19 Conference Shutdowns The NCAA Division I Council has recommended that fall athletes do not lose eligibility if they opt out of their sport due to COVID-19 concerns, or if the pandemic causes the cancellation of their seasons before half of th...

12th Anniversary of Jason Lezak's Epic Anchor Leg at Beijing Games (Video) When Jason Lezak entered the water for the United States on the anchor leg of the United States’ 400 freestyle relay at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the race was seemingly over. Lezak trailed Frenchman Alain Bernard by ...

Workouts From the Past: A Todd Schmitz Set for 14-Year-Old Missy Franklin Swimming World, courtesy of longtime staff member Michael Stott, is pleased to offer this latest training set as part of a Workouts from the Past series. Through the years, Stott has discussed the training routines of numerous...

Mark Spitz Shows He Still Has It by Following Katie Ledecky's Balancing Act Nearly 50 years after he made Olympic history at the 1972 Games in Munich, Mark Spitz still enjoys a challenge. Answering Katie Ledecky's recent effort of swimming without spilling the glass of chocolate milk she was balanci...

The sport of swimming lost one of its giants in coaching on Friday, when Gennadi Touretski died at 71 following a stroke at his home in Switzerland. The loss has been felt around the world, as Touretski's reach was wide. Not only did he mentor some of the greats in the sport, most notably Alexander ...

Pennsylvania Governor Recommending No Sports Until January 1, 2021; Would Affect Swimming Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf, at the end of his Thursday press conference, recommended that there should be no sports in the state until January 1, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What is unclear is whethe...

The 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials Represented a Road to Nowhere Today marks the 40th anniversary of the final day of the 1980 United States Olympic Trials. The competition was held after the conclusion of the swimming events at the Moscow Games, an unusual circumstance for athletes who were robbed of the...

Tokyo Vision: Katie Ledecky Makes Inaugural 1500 Freestyle for Women a Coronation Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a competi...

Milorad Cavic Opens Up About Beijing Showdown With Michael Phelps in Feature in The Ringer An excellent takeout feature by John Gonzalez was posted on The Ringer this morning, the piece catching up with Milorad Cavic 12 years after his narrow defeat to Michael Phelps in the final of the 100-meter bu...

Tokyo Vision: Katie Ledecky Searching for 200 Free Repeat Against Stacked Field Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a competiti...

NJAC Announces the Cancellation of Fall Sports Season The New Jersey Athletic Conference announced its decision to cancel fall sports on Tuesday, albeit with the possibility that seasons will be conducted in the spring. Although swimming is a winter sport in the NJAC, the fact that the COVID-19 pand...

Training Sets of the Past: How Dave Durden Trained Fred Bousquet As the head man at the University of California-Berkeley, Dave Durden has established himself as one of the premier coaches in the world. In addition to guiding the Golden Bears to multiple NCAA titles, he has routinely sent his athlet...

Virginia High School Sports Going With Condensed Seasons Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Virginia High School League announced on Monday morning that it will adopt a condensed-season approach for the 2020-21 school year, with winter sports held first and running from December 14-February 20. Fall ...

Tokyo Vision: Daiya Seto Seeking to Ride Momentum to Top of Podium in 400 IM Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a competition ...

Memories of Moscow 1980, the 40th anniversary of the 22nd Olympic Games in Moscow, where Craig Beardsley should have been, along with hundreds of American teammates in a variety of sports. But the United States' boycott of the Moscow Games robbed them of their chance at Olympic glory and, in Bea...

An emergency meeting of the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) was held Thursday night, with the organization’s Board of Directors deciding to postpone the start of fall sports to August 24 due to the prevalence of the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The meeting was held three days aft...

Florida High School Athletic Association Sets Emergency Meeting for Thursday Three days after the Florida High School Athletic Association voted to move forward with its original July 27 start date for fall sports, the organization has called for an emergency meeting of its Board of Directors to be ...

Decision on Virginia High School Sports on Horizon; Short Seasons Possible How Virginia will handle its high school sports season during COVID-19 is scheduled to be determined on Monday, when the Virginia High School League (VHSL) holds a meeting. With Virginia’s decision looming, states around the ...

Over the past few weeks, a variety of decisions have come down regarding upcoming high school sports season across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some states have opted to proceed with their seasons, while others have pushed back starting dates or moved fall sports to another point on the...