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Great Races: When Michael Phelps Nearly Broke the World Record in the 100 Backstroke With 28 Olympic titles on the ledger, the career of Michael Phelps is well-documented. He is known as the greatest swimmer in history, one of those rare athletes where there is no debate about his status as the GOAT...

N.C. State Sweeps Tennessee; Katharine Berkoff and Nyls Korstanje Shine For Wolfpack North Carolina State kept its early-season roll going as it registered a sweep of Tennessee. The Wolfpack men claimed a 205-95 decision over the Volunteers while the women cruised to a triumph of 182-118. N.C. State...

Auburn Women Take Down Florida State; Seminoles Better Tigers in Men's Meet Auburn and Florida State split a dual meet on Friday, with the 23rd-ranked Auburn women registering a 177-123 win over the Seminoles. Meanwhile, 15th0-ranked Florida State edged the Tigers in the men's meet, 153-147. Full Re...

Olympian Andrei Minakov Makes Stanford Debut As Cardinal Topple Utah Stanford men's swimming and diving opened the season with a 191-104 victory over Pac-12 rival Utah on Friday. The Cardinal placed first in 14 of 16 events in the dual meet and featured four swimmers winning multiple events. 2020 Ol...

What If The NIL Rule Had Been Passed Earlier? Maybe Michael Phelps In a College Suit? The NCAA recently made an impactful change to its landscape. Passing the NIL, or Name, Image and Likeness rule, now allows student-athletes in the NCAA to profit off of their own brands, make deals with other brand...

Tyler Clary Breaks Down Open-Heart Surgery on Inside With Brett Hawke Podcast In the 199th episode of the Inside with Brett Hawke Podcast, Olympic champion Tyler Clary joined the host, a two-time Australian Olympian, and discussed the recent open-heart surgery he underwent. Clary had to have the pro...

Out of the Pool: Tara Kirk Sell on Communicating Risk During a Pandemic When Tara Kirk Sell and her colleagues at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security convened in the fall of 2019 for an exercise, one of the questions the experts weighed was in how to make the lessons tangible and a...

Golden Goggle Award Nominees Announced by USA Swimming, led by Dressel, Ledecky, Jacoby, Finke Following standout performances at the much-anticipated Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, USA Swimming will honor the top swimmers of Team USA at the 18th annual Golden Goggle Awards set for Tuesday, December 7 at...

Now On Road to Paris Games, Swimming Canada Riding Massive Wave of Momentum John Atkinson’s message of uncertainty was, in its paradoxical way, consistent. Swimming Canada’s High Performance Director was unsure what the Tokyo Olympics would bring. As one of the last major swimming nations to return ...

Cal opens its dual-meet season with a home matchup of top-4 finishers from last year's NCAA Championships, hosting Virginia at 5 p.m. PT Friday at Spieker Aquatics Complex. The meet will feature men's and women's teams from both schools, and admission is free. Last March, Cal placed fourth at the na...

Jose Angel Martinez and Hector Ruvalcaba Emerge As First Mexicans In the ISL The International Swimming League (ISL) has concluded its third regular season, and the campaign proved to be an opportunity for a pair of Mexican athletes. The Cali Condors and Los Angeles Current reinforced their rosters ...

Great Races: The End of the Michael Phelps-Ryan Lochte Rivalry; When Phelps Managed the Quad As part of Swimming World's Great Races Series, we take a trip back to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the night Michael Phelps won a fourth consecutive Olympic title in the 200-meter individual...

Cal Swimming Wins Chick-Fil-A Invite Behind More Pool Records in Fresno Cal's women's swimming team finished out the third and final session of the Chick-Fil-A Invitational Saturday morning by setting pool records in both the 400-yard medley relay and 400-yard free relay, giving the Golden Bears a s...

Tom Shields Lowers Dressel's 50 Butterfly American Record at World Cup 30-year-old American Tom Shields has recorded a very successful streak of racing in Europe over the past two months. After five weeks in Naples where he helped the LA Current secure a spot in the International Swimming League (IS...

Olympians Katie Grimes, Michael Brinegar Capture Titles at Las Vegas Open Water Cup A pair of United States Olympians from the Tokyo Games last summer captured titles at the Las Vegas Open Water Champions Cup on Friday. Katie Grimes and Michael Brinegar won their respective 10K races, which were hel...

Road to the Hall of Fame: When Brendan Hansen Captured the 'Shinest Bronze Medal Ever' This column was written from the 2012 Olympic Games in London, following Brendan Hansen's bronze-medal showing in the 100-meter breaststroke. Swimming World is re-running the piece as Hansen will be inducted into ...

Paralympic Gold Medalist Danielle Campo McLeod Shares Harrowing Health Scare Canadian Paralympic gold medalist Danielle Campo McLeod shared details of a harrowing health journey that has kept her in the hospital for the last six weeks since giving birth. Campo McLeod gave birth to a daughter, Morgan...

Missy Franklin has been appointed to the Board of the Laureus Sport Foundation. It is an organization she has been a member of, but is now on the board of the worldwide organization that champions gender equality in sport. Franklin made the announcement on social media. "It is with SO much pride, jo...

Eddie Reese Discusses the Importance of Underwater Kicking The recent interview of Eddie Reese, conducted by Brett Hawke on his eponymous podcast, keeps on giving. Originally a 90-minute interview on the Inside With Brett Hawke Podcast, Hawke has been gradually releasing smaller segments of his disc...

Tie Game: The 20th Anniversary of Gary Hall Jr. and Anthony Ervin Sharing Olympic Gold Training together at the Phoenix Swim Club and living as roommates in the Olympic Village, veteran Gary Hall Jr. and upstart Anthony Ervin wrote an intriguing chapter in the history of sprinting when they shared t...