Liz Byrnes - Europe Correspondent - (Author)

Triple Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu believes the lifeline thrown by the International Swimming League will be of great benefit to lesser-known swimmers whose financial status would otherwise be precarious going into 2021. The ISL on Friday announced an $11million package for the 320 swimmers on t...

Georgia Davies – world, European and Commonwealth medallist and Energy Standard athlete – has welcomed the International Swimming League’s financial package for swimmers as good news amid the relentless darkness of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The ISL unveiled on Friday morning an $11million...

The European Junior Swimming Championships, scheduled for 8-12 July in Aberdeen, Scotland, have been postponed in news that will come as little surprise in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. So too have the European Junior Diving Championships - slated for the Royal Commonwealth Pool, ...

The McCullagh International concluded in Bangor, Northern Ireland, little more than five weeks ago but in reality a lifetime has elapsed since then with the world thrown into chaos with the march of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The four-day event at the Bangor Aurora Aquatic and Leisure Comp...

The prospect of the 2021 World Championships being moved back a year to 2022 appears to be a step closer with world governing body FINA being forced to act following the rescheduling of Tokyo 2020. The IOC announced on Monday the Olympic Games would take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, a year l...

Boglarka Kapas, who won bronze in the 800m freestyle at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, has announced she has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). The Hungarian, who also won gold in the 200m butterfly at last year's World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, revealed the news on s...

Tokyo 2020 will take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, the International Olympic Committee have announced. The Olympic Games were scheduled to start on 24 July 2020 but the relentless march of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic meant they were postponed last week for the first time in their hist...

Tokyo 2020 will take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, reports are claiming. The Olympic Games had been scheduled to run from 24 July to 9 August this year but the relentless spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to them being postponed by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC ...

Four-time Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima – the only man in history to have won back-to-back breaststroke titles – believes athletes must prepare for every eventuality and overcome every hurdle in the light of the postponement of Tokyo 2020. Speaking exclusively to Swimming World, Kitajima looked b...

Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty has described the postponement of Tokyo 2020 by a year as the right decision as "this is a matter of life and death" with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic wreaking havoc across the world. Peaty was seeking to become only the second man along with Kosu...

British Swimming moved quickly to respond to the announcement by the International Olympic Committee that the Olympic Games have been postponed for a year by describing it as "undoubtedly the right decision". A joint statement from the IOC and Tokyo 2020 organising committee came four months to the ...

Four-time Olympic medallist Chad le Clos had just 36 hours to leave his training base in Gloria, Turkey, and now doubts Tokyo 2020 will go ahead as the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues its deathly march. Le Clos, who won 200m butterfly gold at London 2012 when he touched out Michael Phelps at the Aq...

Mel Marshall insists the safety of athletes will not be jeopardised as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to take its deathly toll across the world. Marshall guided Adam Peaty to Olympic gold in the 100m breaststroke gold at Rio 2016 and Luke Greenbank to 200m backstroke bronze at last ye...

Little is certain in the world at the moment but what is not in doubt is Adam Peaty’s single-minded quest for constant improvement. Take this. “This is my journey. I don’t want to be going 58.5s at the championships – I want to be going 56.5s so that’s the end game really. “To me, I’m just trying to...

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach is still optimistic Tokyo 2020 can go ahead as “we still have more than four months to go” but says the health and interests of athletes are paramount. Bach was speaking after a teleconference call with 220 athlete representatives where he was “c...

The International Olympic Committee has said "no solution will be ideal" as they responded to criticism from athletes who questioned how they could say with such certainty that Tokyo 2020 will go ahead in July as planned. Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the British heptathlete who won gold at last year's...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) may be disrupting all life as we know it but one constant throughout this crisis is the ring on the doorbell from the anti-doping testers. Fabio Scozzoli and Martina Carraro – who share an array of world and European breaststroke medals – were at home in Imola, Bologna, on...

These are unsettling times but what does not change is the ability of elite athletes to produce world-class performances in the face of uncertainty. So it was at the Edinburgh International Swim Meet where Duncan Scott, Tom Dean, Adam Peaty, Luke Greenbank and Jacob Peters all stood atop the podium,...

Adam Peaty swam a time only he has bettered with a 100m breaststroke blast of 58.13 at the Edinburgh International Swim Meet. Now that the British Olympic trials are likely to be postponed in the light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the meet at the Royal Commonwealth Pool may well be the fi...

Tom Dean and Laura Stephens delivered stand-out performances on the first day of the Edinburgh International Swim Meet. While swim meets across the world were postponed or cancelled in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, it was business as usual in Scotland as many of the British team g...