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Adam Peaty has been named Sportsman of the Year by the Sports Journalists' Association of Great Britain after he became the first British swimmer to retain an Olympic title. The 26-year-old won the 100 breaststroke in Tokyo, five years after gold at Rio 2016, and on Thursday became the first swimmer...

Adam Peaty Awaits Unpaid Wages From The ISL And Urges Athletes To Exert Greater Power The ISL final will go ahead this week without Adam Peaty who only returned to training following his stint on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and who is still awaiting payment from last season. Peaty was a mainstay for Lon...

Hannah Miley has announced her retirement following a career that saw her serve Britain at the very top for over a decade and encompassed five Olympic finals. The Scot also claimed two consecutive titles in 2010 and 2014 in the 400IM in which she claimed a European medal of each colour including gol...

Three-Time Olympian Julia Hassler of Liechtenstein Calls Time on Career Julia Hassler, who represented Liechtenstein at the last three Olympics, has retired from swimming. She made the announcement on Instagram following the final meet of the International Swimming League season with the Toronto Tit...

Adam Peaty Won’t Return for London Roar at ISL Grand Final Adam Peaty won’t be part of the London Roar’s squad for this week’s International Swimming League Grand Final. Peaty has yet to swim this season for the Roar, and general manager Rob Woodhouse confirmed that Peaty will not be back in time fo...

As Career Of Federica Pellegrini Comes To a Close, Tributes Pour in For 'Legend' When Federica Pellegrini touched the wall after anchoring the Aqua Centurions' 4x100 mixed medley at Sunday's ISL playoff, it was the final moment of her competitive career. It was a career that spanned 17 years and fiv...

ISL Playoff Match 6, Day 2: Cali Condors Surge to Another Victory Entering the final day of the final semifinal match Sunday, there’s not much left to settle ahead of the ISL Grand Final. With Energy Standard (on 11 points) and London Roar (10), two of the spots in the final are spoken for. Anything...

Ilya Shymanovich Breaststroke is Unconventional But Legal The best male breaststroker during this ISL season has been Ilya Shymanovich, the 27-year-old Belarusian representing Energy Standard. Over the course of the season, Shymanovich has recorded 16 individual wins, with six of those coming in the...

David McNulty has been honoured as the Coach of the Year at the Team GB Awards after three of his swimmers at Bath NTC claimed five golds in Tokyo. Tom Dean won the 200 free and was part of the men's 4x200 freestyle relay that claimed gold with James Guy - also coached by McNulty - with Matt Richard...

Commonwealth 400IM champion Aimee Willmott has confirmed her retirement after an 11-year senior international career that featured two Olympic finals. The Briton last competed at Tokyo 2020 in which she finished seventh in the 400IM, matching her result from Rio 2016. That followed her silver in the...

The Con of Michelle Smith: How the Irish Lass Cheated the Swimming World (From May's Swimming World Magazine) Her presence on the international stage was inconsequential. She didn’t affect the makeup of podiums. She didn’t influence any championship finals. At least, that’s the way the career of Mic...

Sara Mardini, Sister of Olympic Swimmer, Facing Charges in Greece Sara Mardini, the Syrian refugee who fled to Greece with her sister and Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini, is among 24 humanitarian aid works in Greece who face criminal charges for assisting people on the island of Lesbos. The trial bega...

Flash: Ilya Shymanovich Shaves .02 off World Record in 100 Breast Energy Standard’s Ilya Shymanovich won the men’s 100 breaststroke in 55.32 seconds Friday, lowering his world record by .02 seconds. Shymanovich won the race at ISL Playoff Match 3. He takes down his time from Brest in his native Bela...

ISL Playoff Match 3: Energy Standard Rolls, Toronto Surges for Second With the way Energy Standard has swim in 2021, it’s not spoiling anything to say that the battle in ISL Playoff Match 3 is mostly for second. The lead of 61 points after Day 1 didn't seem insurmountable. But given the parade of sw...

COVID-19 to Keep Katinka Hosszu from Rejoining Team Iron for ISL Katinka Hosszu announced on Instagram on Friday that she has contracted COVID-19, which ruins plans for a return to action in ISL with Team Iron. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Katinka Hosszu (@hosszukatinka) “U...

Adam Peaty On The Gladiator Mindset, Muhammad Ali And International Men's Day It seems fitting that Adam Peaty should be talking about inspiring others through the 'Gladiator Mindset' ahead of International Men's Day. Peaty became the first British swimmer to defend - or in his words attack - an Oly...

Allegations of Abuse Levied by Laszlo Cseh, Others at Hungarian Coach Gyorgy Turi Hungarian swimming is dealing with a crisis after Laszlo Cseh, the five-time Olympian, leveled charges of an abusive training environment at former coach Gyorgy Turi. Cseh’s revelations led others to come forward, and ...

FINA has voted to strip Dr Lothar Kipke of the honour he was awarded by the global federation almost 22 years after he was convicted of playing a key role in the doping of East German swimmers. Kipke, now 92, was the chief doctor of the East German swimming team during the 1970s and 80s and he was p...

Governing body FINA does not recognise LEN's exclusion of Croatia and Portugal and has called on the Bureau to "apply fair and due process". The European governing body had voted to impose one-year suspensions on the two countries in November after they were accused of an unauthorised use of the LEN...

Progress continues at Sandwell Aquatics Centre, which will host the swimming, para-swimming and diving at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. The competition and diving pools at the venue in Birmingham, a city in the English midlands, have been completely tiled, the moveable floor is now complete and the s...