Americas

The coronavirus pandemic had caused the world to go into a frenzy the last few weeks. Athletic events were being cancelled left and right. Facilities were closing down. Sports, what was once a form of escape during times of panic like these, was suddenly completely wiped away from our lives in a mat...

Olympic Perspective from the Past for the Present generation coming to terms with a shift from Tokyo 2020 to 2021 that offers hope not finality This weekend, Swimming World is trawling back in history to find some of the stories of the past that contribute to our series in search of perspec...

The YMCA has announced that they will be cancelling the long course summer championships that were set for this summer July 28 - August 1 in Greensboro, North Carolina. As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to evolve, the YMCA remains focused on supporting YMCAs and their communities thro...

Swimming Canada has announced the cancellation of all summer 2020 national events due to the global coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The cancellations include the suspension of the Olympic and Paralympic trials that had been slated for rescheduling, and the wipe out of the Canadian Masters Swimming Ch...

The postponement of the 2020 Olympics has created a year of transition and uncertainty for many swimmers. For Hali Flickinger, it is nothing new. She has been in the middle of a transition year anyway. After spending the past seven years training at Georgia, Flickinger moved to Arizona State to trai...

Michael Phelps, winner of 23 gold medals atop 28 Olympic podium places between 2004 and 2016, is praying "we don’t see an increase in athlete suicide rates because of" the postponement of the Olympic Games in Tokyo. In an interview with NBC Sports, Phelps, an advocate for Mental Health and Wellbeing...

Ryan Lochte insists he is still going to fight for a spot on the Tokyo team which would be his fifth Olympic Games. With the Olympic Games being postponed another year to 2021, that leaves a lot of athletes with questions on what their futures will look like having to extend their training another 3...

Mark Schubert doesn’t take early dismissal of practice lightly. So when the Mission Viejo Nadadores head coach, a man who’s been on the staff of eight Olympic teams, got official word Tuesday that the 2020 Olympic Games would be postponed to the summer of 2021, the symbol of dispersing the group car...

USA Swimming has submitted a statement after finding out the news that the International Olympic Committee will push back the Olympic Games to 2021 to ensure the safety of the entire world while the coronavirus pandemic causes events everywhere to be postponed or cancelled. Many athletes were unable...

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Micha Shaw won the USA Swimming national open water swimming championships in 2008, qualifying for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualification race. She upset eventual two-time Olympian Chloe Sutton and a number of other top American swimming stars in...

As the world awaits official confirmation of the postponement of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound said was on the way Monday, American sports legends Donna de Varona and Edwin Moses put their support behind a postponement. De Varona, a two-time gold...

Following the closure of the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana because of the coronavirus pandemic, USA Swimming will be unavailable to host the TYR Pro Swim Series that was originally set to be swum from May 6 - 9. Indianapolis marked the final stop of the 2020 TYR Pro Swim Series, following p...

Seven out of 10 American athletes surveyed by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee favor postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games, the USOPC revealed Monday. Surveys were distributed to nearly 4,000 American athletes, of which more than 1,700 responded, as the organization and the world ...

The shutdown of the coronavirus pandemic has caused athletes all around the world to step up and use their voice to help those in need. Olympic gold medalist swimmer Nathan Adrian stated that he was going to "donate a signed Speedo Racing Suit to Athletes for Relief as a way to help out in this chal...

The Canadian Olympic Committee Sunday night escalated the pressure on the International Olympic Committee to postpone the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, releasing a statement that it has “made the difficult decision to not send Canadian teams to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2020.” That st...

Nearly 300 American athletes participated in a U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) town hall meeting on Saturday. The two hour meeting followed calls from USA Swimming and USA Track & Field to advocate for postponing this summer's Olympic Games in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, whic...

USA Swimming’s letter to the USOPC advocating for the postponement of the 2020 Olympic Games due to the coronavirus outbreak can count Swimming Canada among its supporters. A letter from Swimming Canada CEO Ahmed El-Awadi Friday states that it is “very much aligned” with the position of USA Swimming...

Superman when you need him? There's a bug out there that needs more than world-class medical minds chasing down whatever the kryptonite of coronavirus turns out to be. [caption id="attachment_423374" align="alignright" width="192"] Clark Kent was named after his father's obsession with Superman - Ph...

The Toronto Titans signing spree continues, with American sprinter Blake Pieroni and Icelandic Olympian Anton Sveinn McKee joining the roster of the newest International Swimming League franchise Friday. Pieroni, 24, won a gold medal with the American 400 free relay at the Rio Olympics and a bronze ...

Taylor Covington is a senior swimmer at Boston College. She is a former Swimming World Intern and current Swimming World contributor. She was swimming at the CSCAA meet when the COVID-19 cancelled NCAA events.  This is the silence I have been dreading. Six nights ago, I perched myself on the plush e...