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George Floyd was still alive when Lia Neal uploaded her first video to YouTube in early March. The project started on Jan. 20, the two-time Olympian using her cell phone and a bathroom mirror to record the intro, which would make its way onto the Internet some weeks later. The inaugural upload, titl...

After Stellar 2019, Marcelo Chierighini Content to Wait, Improve for Tokyo Games On paper, the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics could not have come at a worse time for Marcelo Chierighini, you might think. The Brazilian sprinter will turn 30 in January. He’s coming off the biggest win of his caree...

2021 Trials Vision: Simone Manuel, Abbey Weitzeil in Line for Repeat Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will loo...

Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. A wide open 50 freestyle wouldn’t exactly be news. But ...

A group of American athletes, led by 1968 Olympian John Carlos, Saturday published a letter to the International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee urging the abolition of IOC Charter Rule 50. The letter was sent on behalf of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee Athletes’ ...

2021 Trials Vision: Katie Ledecky and Who Else in the 800 Free Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like i...

2016 Trials Throwback: Katie Ledecky Takes Victory Lap in 800 Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in...

Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. Being a reigning Olympic backstroke champion proved per...

Malta Olympian Neil Agius has completed a swim from Sicily to Malta in a record-setting time this week. Agius departed from Punta Braccetto in Ragusa, Sicily in in the early morning hours of Thursday. He arrived in Balluta Bay in St. Julian’s at 9:21 am on Friday, a time of 28 hours, seven minutes a...

Canadian swimmer Kelsey Wog was named the Female Athlete of the Year for the 2019-20 season by U SPORTS, the Canadian equivalent of the NCAA. Wog, who swims for the University of Manitoba, was presented the award at the 2020 Lieutenant Governor Athletic Awards Presented by Makadiff Sports via a remo...

2016 Trials Throwback: Cal Pals Ryan Murphy, Jacob Pebley Take 200 Back Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will lo...

Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. The counterweight to the IOC’s and FINA’s longtime inju...

Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. Michael Phelps isn’t coming back. We’re sure this time....

Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. The world was first introduced to a fresh-faced 15-year...

Anthony Ervin has visited the top step of the Olympic podium often enough to understand how sacred a place it can be. The gold medalist in the men’s 50 free in 2000 and 2016, two very different versions of the cerebral Ervin rose to that hallowed place. If he gets the chance to mount the top step ag...

Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. For six straight Olympic Games, the 100 backstroke has ...

Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. The last time the United States failed to win the gold ...

Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. A year on from the 2019 World Championships, the possib...

Jaylon Nixon, a rising sophomore diver at Southern Connecticut State University, was killed in a car accident Sunday. He was 18 years old. Nixon was involved in a two-car accident in his hometown of Meriden, Conn., around 4 a.m. Sunday. He was ejected from his vehicle as it rolled over, and Nixon wa...

Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. At most Trials races, there are two bids to the Olympic...