Commentary

2020s Vision - The Athlete Voice Mack Horton, Duncan Scott, Adam Peaty, Katinka Hosszu, Cate Campbell, Tom Shields, Michael Andrew and all swimmers who have stood up for change in their sport in the past few years are on the right track. That's the view of ... Lord Coe. Sebastian Coe, the h...

2020s Vision: The Athlete Voice The story of Markus Thormeyer reminds us of another way in which The Athlete Voice - about so much more than 'more money and freedom to race where I want' - has been and remains so important when it comes to helping shape the future of sport and make it a healthier pl...

The Division I conference championships kick off this week with the SEC swimming and diving championships batting lead-off hitter on Tuesday night, followed by the ACC and Big Ten women's meets on Wednesday. The SEC is the only conference meet that stretches across five days and is one of two confer...

2020s Vision: The Athlete Voice Shane Gould, winner at Munich 1972 of what remains a record five solo medals in the Olympic pool, has urged Swimming Australia to join a sex-abuse redress scheme aimed at delivering justice for victims of historic crimes. Swimming Australia (SA) has not yet signed up...

Ryan Murphy The January issue of Swimming World Magazine included a feature on Ryan Murphy, the triple Olympic champion from the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. The profile takes a look at Murphy's preparation for the 2020 Olympic season. The January issue can be purchased here as a PDF while subscrip...

2020s Vision: Swimming Culture. On a day when Denmark apologised to its swimmers for the harm caused by practices including weigh-ins at which girls and young women athletes were called fat and humiliated in front of their teammates, including boys and men, we take the moment to reflect on lessons ...

A couple days ago, the Swedish Olympic Federation announced it was adding six athletes to its Olympic team for Tokyo this summer with swimmers Louise Hansson and Erik Persson on that early entry list. Both of them will be making their second appearances in the Olympic Games and will join Sarah Sjost...

2020s Vision - Swimming Culture - science and progress - the thoughts of Jonty Skinner  To mark the retirement from coaching of Jonty Skinner, we recall the man's connection to two watershed moments in swimming history, both involving progress in the sprint shoal, the first his own pioneering pace i...

Mary Dowling, Head Age Group Coach at Nations Capital Swim Club, on what parents need to know when it comes to knowing what their children want from them at a swim meet: “Love me and support me and my teammates - and that is it.” Recently I asked my swimmers what they wanted their parents to do at a...

2020s Vision - The Pro-Athlete Voice: The New World On The Swimmers' Horizon The first theme of 2020s Vision, a year-long look at the challenges for swimmers and swimming in the decade ahead, is The Athlete Voice. In our opening look at the topic, we spoke to Matt Biondi on what the International Sw...

Nancy Hogshead-Makar, the 1984 three-time Olympic gold-medal winner, has issued a plea for more men "to become advocates for women in sport, including advocating to lower women's risk of sexual violence in sport". Having spent a legal career doing both those things, Hogshead-Makar swam against the t...

202os Vision - Swimming Culture - Sunday Essay The name’s Shane Gould. Dr. Shane Gould. At 15, she raced to what remains the single biggest solo-swims medal haul at one Olympic Games, three of five orbs the colour gold. Pour a rip tide under that bridge and look up. At 61, she became the oldest winn...

The Athlete Voice has become louder and more effective in forcing change in sports governance of late. It has the likes of Matt Biondi and Adam Peaty as its champion. But what of the Coach Voice? Has it been drowned out by the noise of athletes on the rise? Would swimming not be better off hearing t...

2020s Vision - Matt Biondi & The International Swimmers' Alliance, Part 2 Part 1: Matt Biondi’s Mission To Enrich & Educate Swimmers "It's not a union", says Matt Biondi. Change. Demands. Speaking out. Insisting sports bosses engage, listen, act on the word of the athlete. Moving in numbers. Acting ...

Over the coming year, Swimming World will consider key challenges facing aquatic sports athletes, swimming, swimmers, players, coaches, leaders and others working in this, one of the biggest, Olympic sports and its governance in the decade ahead. In the first quarter, 2020sVision will ask for the co...

2020sVision - The Athlete Voice In The Mirror Moscow Boycott (From January Issue of Swimming World Magazine) Years of hard work went unfulfilled. Dreams turned into nightmares. Sadness and anger abounded. The repercussions of the United States’ decision to boycott the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow we...

Swimming World presents the reprise of the Ross Report, which was formerly a video series on various athletes from around the world. This year, it will be a bi-weekly analysis feature from US Correspondent Andy Ross as he observes and analyses the ebb and flow of  the swimming world. It is officiall...

2020s Vision. Do we have it? Do you have it? Do the athletes and coaches have it? Do parents have it? Do politicians have it? Do investors and sponsors have it? Do guardians and governors have it? Does the swimming community have it? Not always easy but as everyone seeking to unlock the best version...

The End - When the Final Race Looms “Step up.” “Take your mark.” “Go!” Between practices and meets, practically every swimmer grows up having these three phrases ingrained into their heads. We condition ourselves in preparation of hearing the horn of a starting system beginning our race. Age groups....

The International Swimming League has been a huge success this fall with many of the world's best swimmers participating in the exciting league that gives them a chance to race the best and travel around the world more often. It's been a big win for the athletes who have been longing for something m...