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World 1500 free silver medallist Sarah Köhler and Germany water polo player Tobias Preuss have condemned "any form of violence and abuse of power" and called for a full investigation a week after former national open water coach Stefan Lurz resigned following allegations of sexual assault. The pair ...

Femke Heemskerk and Valerie van Roon will go head to head at the Eindhoven Qualification Meet in April to resolve who will claim the second 50m freestyle berth for the Tokyo Olympics. The issue arose when Heemskerk was forced to miss the Rotterdam Qualification Meet in December after her partner tes...

The British Para-Swimming International Meet (BPSIM) - a key selection meet for the Tokyo Paralympic Games - will go ahead in Sheffield from 8-11 April but with entries restricted to swimmers on the Elite Athlete Return to Training lists. This follows the government unveiling of its roadmap out of ...

Sean Balmer - former coach to world relay champion Luke Greenbank at Cockermouth Swimming Club - knows only too well the fragile state of swimming in Britain. England has been in a national lockdown since early January although prime minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday outdoor pools and lidos...

Turkey's Jerome Heidrich Sprinting Toward Dreams Jerome Heidrich fell in love with the comfort and silence of being underwater at a young age. His father was a member of the Turkish National Basketball Team, and athletic prowess has always been a part of his DNA. In the summer of 2015, while Heidric...

Swim England chief executive Jane Nickerson had mixed emotions after prime minister Boris Johnson announced a 'cautious' re-opening of pools among a four-step plan to guide the country out of lockdown. England has been in a national lockdown since early January but the news on Monday means that outd...

Stefan Lurz has resigned as Germany open water coach following allegations of "sexual assault, psychological manipulation and bullying" reported in news outlet Der Spiegel. Der Spiegel reports that "he (Lurz) is said to have coerced and harassed female athletes for years", allegations which Lurz veh...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Friday that since Russia's name is banned for the next two Olympic games, the country's athletes will be known as the "ROC." The acronym stands for Russian Olympic Committee, and was agreed on by the IOC and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) o...

Swim Ireland will hold their trials for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games from 20-24 April at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin. The five-day meet will replace the 2021 Irish Open Swimming Championships and will also offer an opportunity to qualify for the European Championships in Budapest...

Federica Pellegrini is back as a judge on one of the most popular shows in Italy. The Italian Olympic champion is a judge on the show "Italy's Got Talent" and just like the show in the U.S., there is a golden buzzer for someone who wow's the judges with their auditions. Pellegrini got to push that g...

Growing up on the Italian island of Sardinia, Fabio Dalu was surrounded by water. But soon it wasn’t just the Mediterranean Sea that surrounded Dalu, who grew up in Cagliari and recently broke the NCAA Division II record in the 1,650-yard freestyle. “I started swimming when I was 6 years old, along...

Marie Wattel fired off a rapid 53.40 in the 100 free and Abbie Wood concluded an excellent three days by going inside 2:10 for the first time in the 200IM at the Manchester International Swim Meet. James Guy claimed his third title of the meet in the 200fr and there was a class swim by Louise Hansso...

Adam Peaty went 26.75 in the 50br for victory by more than a second and Abbie Wood demonstrated how her star continues to rise with a win in the 200 free  in 1:57.96 on the second day of the Manchester International Swim Meet. James Guy led from start to finish for a dominant victory in the 200 fly ...

Molly Renshaw equalled the British 200br record in a time of 2:22.08 that would have secured bronze at Rio 2016 and Adam Peaty went 58.82 in the 100 breaststroke on the first night of finals at the Manchester International Swim Meet. World 200 back bronze medallist Luke Greenbank, Laura Stephens, Ma...

Olympic champion Adam Peaty went 58.87 in the 100m breaststroke heats as elite competition returned to British waters at the Manchester International Swim Meet. The eight-time world champion split 27.35/31.52 to qualify for the evening final ahead of James Wilby who stopped the clock at 1:00.99. It ...

Olympic champion Adam Peaty spearheads the first day of the Manchester International Swim Meet when elite competition gets under way in British waters for the first time in nearly a year on Friday. Peaty will compete in a long-course 100m breaststroke for the first time since the Edinburgh Internati...

The European Championships will go ahead in Budapest, Hungary, in May but without spectators, LEN announced on Wednesday. The event will run from 10-23 May in the Hungarian capital with some nations using it as a qualifying meet for Tokyo 2020. The Duna Arena - which hosted the 2017 World Championsh...

Birmingham 2022 CEO Ian Reid is confident the Commonwealth Games will go ahead in front of capacity crowds in Birmingham, England. The Games are scheduled to run from 28 July - 8 August next year in the midlands city but questions are already being asked as to whether spectators will be able to atte...

CEO David Grevemberg will leave the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) on 5 March after more than six years in the role. Grevemberg took up the position in November 2014 after overseeing the Commonwealth Games in July and August of that year in Glasgow, Scotland. The next Commonwealth Games are set...

Indiana Big Ten champion Bruno Blaskovic will miss six to eight months, including the Tokyo Olympics, due to a fractured vertebra. Blaskovic was diagnosed with a fracture in his L4 vertebra, according to a report by the Indianapolis Star. He will need to wear a back brace for six to eight months. “I...