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Olympic champions, Tokyo 2020 hopefuls and a global music star will help empower athletes’ mental health this September, the Australian Olympic Committee noted as it released the official line-up of 12 athletes and experts for Wellbeing Week in September. Cate Campbell, the Australian swimming sprin...

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) President Andrew Parsons says the organisation is working to streamline the postponed Tokyo Paralympics but will cut no corners regarding athletes, competitions and spectators - and safety - should the Games and Paralympics go ahead. In an interview with Kyod...

Today marks the start of the swimming competition at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp 100 years ago, Hawaiian Warren Paoa Kealoha the first gold medalist in the pool when he claimed the first of his career 100m backstroke titles. Swimmers from twenty one nations raced at the Bassin du Natation betw...

Swimming pools, along with gyms and indoor sports courts are allowed to open in Scotland from August 31, the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced today. Great Britain swims as one nation at the Olympic Games but its squad is divided into home countries when it comes to the Commonwealth Games - a...

The economic realities of the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic are starting to weigh in the opinions of Japanese business when it comes to the fate of the Tokyo2020 Olympic Games in 2021, the results of a poll said to reflect 'falling expectations of economic benefits' from the event. In a poll conduct...

Weekend Essay: In Part 2 of an interview with Sippy Woodhead, one of the outstanding examples in swimming history of an athlete denied by events and circumstances beyond her control the opportunity to fulfill  soaring peak-form potential in the pool, we begin where we left off in Part 1, Los Ang...

Weekend Essay: Sippy Woodhead might, could, would, should have gone to the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games as a six-podium prospect 40 years ago this summer. Boycott pulled the plug on everything she'd worked for. We know the story of Craig Beardsley, the moving tale of Glenn Mills and the thoughts of...

When She Beat the Boys: Celebrating Anniversary of Gertrude Ederle's Historic English Channel Crossing Today leaves us six years shy of the centenary of Getrude Ederle's pioneering swim across the English Channel as the first woman to conquer the most famous stretch of open water in the world, court...

A decision by the Japanese Swimming Federation to restrict the number of swimmers allowed at any meet to between 32 and 40 competitors may hasten the race-comeback plans of sprint ace Rikako Ikee, who returned to the pool in March for the first time since she was diagnosed with leukemia last year. A...

The end of the autonomy of Olympic governance is nigh: the United States Senate unanimously passed transformative Olympic reform legislation late on Tuesday, granting Congress the power to dissolve the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Board of Directors. The powers extend to de...

Around half of all Japanese sports federations want the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games organisers to make a firm decide this year: go ahead with the Olympics as planned in July next year or cancel the event altogether. In a Kyodo News survey, 35 national sports fe...

Five-time Olympian Ken Terauchi, already qualified for a sixth Games for Japan at the Tokyo 202One Olympic Games next summer, is being treated in hospital after testing positive for the novel coronavirus. He is the only member of the Japanese Olympic team known to have been infected with the coronav...

The Memories of Moscow 1980 and League of Olympic Swim Legends features Swimming World has run over the past two weeks highlight many a glorious moment in the elite pool, while taking account of the backdrop that is the focus of Dr Grigory Rodchenkov in his explosive memoir on the Russian doping...

What would have unfolded had Tokyo 2020 gone ahead as planned this week – and where would it all have fit in the thread of Olympic swim legends and pioneers like Kieren Perkins, Grant Hackett and Vladimir Salnikov? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have unfolde...

What would have unfolded had Tokyo 2020 gone ahead as planned this week – and where would it all have fit in the thread of Olympic swim legends and pioneers like Inge De Bruijn, Britta Steffen and Ranomi Kromowidjojo? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have unfo...

Seán Kelly to start role as Spain's National Performance Director as Ricardo Barreda becomes Programs' Director to work alongside Head Coach Fred Vergnoux as RFEN completes strategic restructuring Seán Kelly has been appointed National Performance Director to Spain. He takes up the new post on ...

"The Weight of Gold" documentary highlighting the mental health issues of Olympians is "a gift from these heroes to all of us", says Team Integrity, the movement pressing for the U.S Congress to pass athlete-empowering legislation and should be a catalyst for change. The Committee to Restore Integri...

Yan Zibei scorched a 58.61 Asian record over 100m breaststroke in prelims on the first day of the Summer Test Competition organised for the Chinese swimming team over three days in Shandong Province. According to screen shots of results being posted on social media by Chinese swim fans, the time is ...

The Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT), the last court of appeal for Sun Yang after the Chinese swimmer received an eight-year ban from the World Anti-Doping Agency for 'manipulation' of an anti-doping test sample, has confirmed that there is no decision in the case as yet. Sun's initial appeal, made in A...

We end our memories of the boycotted Moscow 1980 Olympic Games with an overview of the swimming events, the truth that emerged down the years and a review of the races over the closing two finals sessions of the meet and where they left the protagonists, at that moment and in the long-term of li...