Europe

Hungarian swimming is bracing itself for more positive coronavirus-COVID-19 tests after Boglarka Kapas, Dominik Kozma, David Horvath and Richard Bohus tested positive following training camps with teammates. The Hungarian swimming federation arranged virus checks for all members of the national squa...

Olympic Perspective from the Past for the Present generation coming to terms with a shift from Tokyo 2020 to 2021 that offers hope not finality This weekend, Swimming World is trawling back in history to find some of the stories of the past that contribute to our series in search of perspec...

Olympic Perspective from the Past for the Present generation coming to terms with a shift from Tokyo 2020 to 2021 that offers hope not finality This weekend, Swimming World is trawling back in history to find some of the stories of the past that contribute to our series in search of perspec...

In our look at coaches and athletes around the globe who have had goals and plans ripped up by the coronavirus pandemic, Swimming World talked to Walter Bolognani, head coach to the Italian Junior team, about what is and what is to come as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Today, we ca...

The international and development Energy Standard program in Turkey has been suspended in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and all squad members have returned home to their respective countries. Head coach James Gibson told Swimming World that all club activities were suspended on the...

Commentary In the wake of the tardy decision to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Swimming World is talking to athletes and coaches about what the change of schedule forced by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic means to them. Here, we consider the backdrop, the extent of the global health ...

The summer swim season that was over before it began British Swimming has cancelled the 2020 summer swim season, the summer national championships wiped from the calendar and the London leg of the FINA Diving World Series today joining the list of events blown away in the coronavirus (COVID-19) pand...

Swim Ireland closed down its national competitions and events program until September 1 today as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The news comes with a call for all to observe lockdown measures and avoid training, that directive aimed at the National Team as much as club swimmers. In...

Sabrina Knoll, Swimming World's Germany correspondent, called Jacob Heidtmann at his base in San Diego with Coach David Marsh. It was 9.30am for the medley ace and normally he'd be in the pool working hard at that time of day. Not in coronavirus season. A member of the German Olympic team in Rio 201...

The Portuguese Olympic Committee (COP) and the nation's Athletes Commission today joined the chorus of "Postpone Tokyo 202o Olympics for the sake of athletes" when it sent a letter to the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, requesting that “he quickly announce to the...

The German Swimming Federation (DSV) has said that it will not be sending a team to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games if they are held in July. The federation called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) run by German Thomas Bach to come to a sift decision on the fate of the Tokyo 2020 Games after...

French Health and Solidarity Minister Olivier Véran has fired another shot among many travelling across the bows of an indecisive International Olympic Committee by stating that he does not see France sending any athletes to the Olympic Games in Tokyo this July given the impact of the coronavirus (C...

Michael Gross, the great German butterfly and freestyle swimming ace of the 1980s. has called for the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games until 2021 or 2022 in a direct appeal to Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee. One of the legends of swimming history, known...

The European Aquatics Championships, the continental showcase event for swimming scheduled for May 11-24 in Budapest, Hungary, has been postponed. The news on a shift to tentative dates in August for the continental swimming showcase was announced by the European Swimming League (LEN) and Budapest o...

The British Olympic Association (BOA)  will not “endanger the health and wellbeing of the athletes” as they prepare for Tokyo 2020 in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. There has been mounting criticism of the International Olympic Committee’s assurance the Games will take place as sch...

The European Swimming Championships and the continental showcase event for all aquatics sports scheduled for May 11-24 in Budapest, Hungary, is on the verge of being postponed, a senior source has told Swimming World as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to take a toll. Confirmation of th...

Little is certain in the world at the moment but what is not in doubt is Adam Peaty’s single-minded quest for constant improvement. Take this. “This is my journey. I don’t want to be going 58.5s at the championships – I want to be going 56.5s so that’s the end game really. “To me, I’m just trying to...

Swedish swimmer Louise Hansson never envisioned herself swimming in college in the United States. But as she prepares for this month’s women’s NCAAs, the University of Southern California senior says that moving to the U.S. was the best thing she’s ever done. At her first Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,...

The British Olympic Swimming Trials (London, 14-19 April) and British Para-Swimming International Meet (Sheffield, 9-12 April) have been cancelled due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. British Swmming also announced the postponement of the FINA Diving World Series - London (27-29 March) and th...

These are unsettling times but what does not change is the ability of elite athletes to produce world-class performances in the face of uncertainty. So it was at the Edinburgh International Swim Meet where Duncan Scott, Tom Dean, Adam Peaty, Luke Greenbank and Jacob Peters all stood atop the podium,...