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Gabriele Detti, Simona Quadarella Among 10 Italian swimmers to Test Positive For COVID-19 The Italian Swimming Federation announced ten of its national team athletes have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a news bulletin. World champs Simona Quadarella and Gabriele Detti were among the ten ...

The Mare Nostrum Swim Tour schedule for 2021 has been revealed with Monaco launching the three-stop series on 29 May. This year's series was cancelled in the wake of the coronavirus which continues to wreak havoc across the world. However, organisers have announced the dates for 2021 as follows with...

Energy Standard sprinter Femke Heemskerk missed the opening match of the 202o International Swimming League (ISL) season because of a positive COVID-19 test. On Monday, she tested negative and will begin the process of traveling to Budapest to rejoin her team in the ISL bubble. "results come back ne...

The comment from Rowdy Gaines, just after the 200 backstrokes at ISL Match 2, couldn’t have been more spot on. “We’re not knowledgeable about where everyone sits,” the commentator said, just after assumed favorite Katinka Hosszu was upset in the 200 back, fading to a distant fifth place. With the ra...

A study by a Stanford postdoctoral fellow published last week finds that Olympic swimmers are more than a third of a second faster, on average, in the evening than in the morning. The study is titled, “Gold, silver or bronze: circadian variation strongly affects performance in Olympic athletes.” It ...

Freya Anderson may be a world, European and Commonwealth medallist preparing to race for London Roar at the International Swimming League but that is a world away from the shy 10-year-old in tears on poolside. The Briton was trying out for Hoylake Swimming Club on the Wirral, north-west England, but...

Alice Dearing wants to shine the spotlight on Kevin Burns and Paul Marshall, the first two black swimmers to represent Great Britain at the Olympic Games. Former world junior champion Dearing is hoping to become the first black woman to swim for Team GB at an Olympic Games in Tokyo next July. The 23...

Aqua Centurions swimmer Stefania Pirozzi is in quarantine at home in Italy after announcing she has tested positive for Covid-19. Pirozzi, who won gold as part of the Italian women's 4x200 quartet at the 2014 European Championships, has not travelled to season 2 of the International Swimming League ...

Femke Hemskerk has announced she has tested positive for COVID-19. The result came before Heemskerk headed to Budapest for the International Swimming League (ISL) season. "Unfortunately I recently tested positive for COVID-19. I'm NOT sick and have NO symptoms at all. I have been so careful, so it w...

The BBC will broadcast all London Roar's matches in the upcoming season 2 of the International Swimming League, the team based in the British capital has announced. The British public broadcaster will show all Roar's fixtures across their platforms including the BBC Sport website and BBC iPlayer and...

Two-time Olympian Alex Di Giorgio has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance in an out-of-competition test, the Italian anti-doping organisation NADO has announced. Di Giorgio, part of the Italian 4x200 relay that won gold at the 2013 Mediterranean Games, tested p...

Grant Robins has been appointed as team leader for Team England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Robins, who was fifth in the 200 back and eighth over 100m at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand, will repeat the role he undertook at the 2018 Games in Gold Coast, Au...

The Aqua Centurions, London Roar and Tokyo Frog Kings finalized their rosters ahead of the start of the International Swimming League season next week in Budapest. The Aqua Centurions made the most acquisitions since the initial roster announcements, adding in 400 IM junior world record holder Apost...

Olympic 4x100m relay bronze medallist and backstroke specialist Mie Nielsen has announced her retirement, nine years after gracing her first senior international podium. The Danish swimmer - who won Olympic, world and European medals - won her first senior medals aged 15 at the 2011 European Short-C...

Anton Chupkov won the 100m breaststroke in 59.79 as he stopped the clock 0.01secs ahead of Kirill Prigoda at the Russian Swimming Cup. Prigoda had taken gold over four lengths on Saturday, touching first in 2:07.58 ahead of the fast-finishing Chupkov. Roles were reversed in the final session of the ...

Kirill Prigoda swam 2:07.85 to win the 200m breaststroke and relegate world-record holder Anton Chupkov to second at the Russian Swimming Cup in Obninsk on Saturday. Prigoda won bronze as part of the Russian 4x100 medley relay at last year's World Championships in Gwangju where Chupkov set the world...

Members of the Russian national team returned to racing on Saturday in Obninsk as Andrei Minakov and Mariia Kameneva swam some impressive times in the 100 freestyle after some time away from the racing pool. Both swimmers are training to make their first Olympic team after having success on the Euro...

Energy Standard and Team Iron have confirmed their full rosters for the upcoming International Swimming League second season in Budapest. Energy Standard won the title in the inaugural season of the ISL with victory at the grand finale in Las Vegas, thanks to Florent Manaudou's progress through the ...

The French Open Water Championships concluded on Monday in Jablines with two trips to the top of the podium for Olympic bronze medallist Marc-Antoine Olivier. Olivier won the 5 and 10km races at Ile des Loisirs while countrywoman Oceane Cassignol also twice visited the rostrum. Olivier - third in th...

The International Swimming League Monday released medical protocols governing how it will handle the threat of COVID-19 during the 2020 ISL season, which will commence next month in Budapest. The 13-page document includes a strict choreography for foreign swimmers on arrival to the country, clear ru...