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The University of Florida men's swimming and diving team and head coach Anthony Nesty has officially announced the addition of Mateusz Dubas, who will join the Gators for the 2020-21 season. Dubas, a native of Siemianowice Slaskie, Poland, heads to Gainesville after achieving various succes...

The story of Dr. Gary O'Toole, his courage, the courage he encouraged, the woeful failings of sports authorities and indeed the legal system to deliver justice to victims and survivors of sexual abuse in swimming is a tortured tale layered with issues that demand inquiry anew and changes to the law,...

British swimmers were among Olympians used as "guinea pigs" to test an experimental substance "in a secret UK Sport project costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money" on the way to the London 2012 Olympic Games, according to an investigation by The Mail on Sunday. The allegations on a ...

UK Sport and Sport England are to immediately undertake the first joint review of the Code for Sports Governance. The announcement coincides with a newspaper investigation that calls in question a secret research project organised by UK Sport in 2012. UK Sport's governance review will focus on three...

24-year-old Arno Kamminga from the Netherlands has been on fire all-year long as he was expected to be a key player among the medalists in the 100 & 200 breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympic Games that were set to take place two weeks from now. But with the Olympics being move back a year, that gives ev...

2020s Vision - after introducing the theme of Athlete Sustainability, we dip into the archive to see what we learn from the long career of Therese Alshammar and why Sweden's head coach Ulrika Sandmark wants to tap into the wisdom to be had from it Back in 1991, a 13-year-old junior won the Swed...

2020s Vision - Athlete Sustainability and Lessons From Sweden  That Speak Louder After COVID-19 Lockdown There was a sobering moment at the World Aquatics Development Conference in Lund back in January when Ulrika Sandmark, performance head coach of Swedish swimming, put a slide up on the board...

Greek open-water ace Spyros Gianniotis will lead the shoal out for The Authentic Marathon Swim at Artemision this September, 2,500 years after Skyllias and Hydna, recorded by Herodotus as the first long-distance swimmers in history, swam the same course. The Authentic Marathon Swim, originally due t...

Sarah Sjöström had to be bribed to get her away from the water not long after she took up the sport for fun at 10 to be with a school friend, her mother Jenny Sjöström has revealed in a timely interview in which she raises one of the most critical issues of the age for the sport of swimming: leading...

The Spanish swimming team, led by Olympic 200m butterfly champion Mireia Belmonte, is planning to return to racing at the Loulé Meet in the Algarve if the Portuguese event goes ahead on August 14-16. The Royal Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN) has named a travelling squad comprised of members of th...

The Black Swimming Association in Britain has called on UK Sport to "immediately review its values and reconsider the power they have to make sports accessible and inclusive for everyone" after a report into Olympic sports diversity revealed heavy underrepresentation of Black, Asian and minority eth...

FINA will return to the same thorny issue of a bolt-on diet for aquatic sports at the Olympic Games in its lobbying of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ahead of the Paris 2024 Games. According to sources close to the top table of the global governance of swimming, diving, synchro and water ...

I'll be honest. When I first saw the London Aquatics Centre in London I was puzzled. Impressed with its size and grandeur, yes. But puzzled. Why the bewilderment? Well, I didn't really 'get' what the design was meant to signify but for me it resembled a whale. All undulation and smooth curves, a wha...

Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty has been forced to cancel his 2020 AP Race Clinics due to the confines and constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic. He left open the possibility of a few clinics still being possible late this year. Peaty, who spoke to Swimming World of late about the mini-...

July 2020 dawns with few performance swims in the bank due to the COVID-19 pandemic but June saw a slow and modest return to racing in Europe, Finland's Ida Hulkko providing the highlights on the clock. Racing at the long-course Invitational in Tampere on June 13, Hullko, who opted to redshirt the 2...

Some of the best humour relies on timing and flying closest to the truth. In that sense, coach Mel Marshall hit the jackpot when Adam Peaty asked if he could have a chat on training camp in Australia back in January and she replied: "You've not gone and got someone pregnant have you?" "No!," said Pe...

Swim England will present a petition to the government next week with almost 45,000 signatures calling for swimming pools to reopen as chief executive Jane Nickerson reflected on the campaign over recent days that has encompassed Olympic champions and grassroots. There had been some real optimism th...

A. E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” is an English 101 staple. Employing a simple rhyming scheme, anyone can easily follow Housman’s poetical path, culminating in a four-stanza punch line: Now you will not swell the rout Of lads that wore their honors out, Runners whom renown outran And the n...

Alex Popov on Olympic Double Defense: 'It's Probably Twice as Hard' No matter what unfolds in the sprint events at next summer’s delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo, another Olympiad will pass with Alex Popov standing alone, his career celebrated in our 20th anniversary feature this month. The Russian se...

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...