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The McCullagh International concluded in Bangor, Northern Ireland, little more than five weeks ago but in reality a lifetime has elapsed since then with the world thrown into chaos with the march of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The four-day event at the Bangor Aurora Aquatic and Leisure Comp...

The prospect of the 2021 World Championships being moved back a year to 2022 appears to be a step closer with world governing body FINA being forced to act following the rescheduling of Tokyo 2020. The IOC announced on Monday the Olympic Games would take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, a year l...

Boglarka Kapas, who won bronze in the 800m freestyle at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, has announced she has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). The Hungarian, who also won gold in the 200m butterfly at last year's World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, revealed the news on s...

Tokyo 2020 will take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, the International Olympic Committee have announced. The Olympic Games were scheduled to start on 24 July 2020 but the relentless march of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic meant they were postponed last week for the first time in their hist...

Ironically it was a judge who overrode the time-keepers to deny Sydney boy John Davies of an Olympic bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 1948 Games in London. Davies first won a NSW swimming championship in 1946 at the old Manly Baths – destroyed by the storms of 1974 – and was discovered a...

Tokyo 2020 will take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, reports are claiming. The Olympic Games had been scheduled to run from 24 July to 9 August this year but the relentless spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to them being postponed by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC ...

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...

Four-time Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima – the only man in history to have won back-to-back breaststroke titles – believes athletes must prepare for every eventuality and overcome every hurdle in the light of the postponement of Tokyo 2020. Speaking exclusively to Swimming World, Kitajima looked b...

With much of the sporting world shut down due to the coronavirus outbreak, Swimming World continues to reach out to those areas struggling against what the World Health Organization (WHO) has now labeled a pandemic. In the past week, Spain has seen a spike in Covid-19 infections, with Wednesday's co...

Australian Olympic legend Grant Hackett says Tokyo 2021 will be just the inspiration the world will need in 12 months time after the IOC confirmed the Games of the XXXII Olympiad would be postponed till next year. The two-time 1500m freestyle gold medallist from 2000 and 2004, produced two of the mo...

Australia’s Olympic family has reacted collectively and positively in the face of enormous adversity to the news that Tokyo 2020 will now become Tokyo 2021 with the Australian Team hash tag remaining #TokyoTogether. Athletes with their dreams on hold, households struggling and thousands of people ou...

The coronavirus cloud has hovered over the 2020 Tokyo Olympics since the virus started to spread between countries. Those weeks led to an anxiety filled month for sports across the globe, culminating with the postponement of the games until 2021, officially declared on Tuesday. It is a time of disap...

Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty has described the postponement of Tokyo 2020 by a year as the right decision as "this is a matter of life and death" with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic wreaking havoc across the world. Peaty was seeking to become only the second man along with Kosu...

These are unprecedented times, and the announcement earlier today by Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to postpone the Tokyo Games has addressed uncertainty caused by the global coronovirus pandemic. But, for teams like the U.S. Senior Women's national water polo t...

British Swimming moved quickly to respond to the announcement by the International Olympic Committee that the Olympic Games have been postponed for a year by describing it as "undoubtedly the right decision". A joint statement from the IOC and Tokyo 2020 organising committee came four months to the ...

Tokyo 2020 To Become Tokyo 2021 The International Olympic Committee has announced the postponement of the Olympic Games to 2021 "at the latest" as the coronavirus (COVID-21) pandemic continues its relentless march across the world. The decision marks the first time in Olympic history that the Games ...

Australian Dolphins head coach Jacco Verhaeren never for one moment thought that it would get to this – an Olympic year without the Olympics. The seventh and final year of his contract in charge of the number two swimming nation in the world – a coach in charge of a team that now can’t train and hea...

Last week, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) issued new guidance about doping enforcement during the coronavirus pandemic. Monday, it followed with a promised document addressing frequently asked athlete questions. Included in the nine-item document (pdf) is a provision for “enhanced measures” to ...

As the world awaits official confirmation of the postponement of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound said was on the way Monday, American sports legends Donna de Varona and Edwin Moses put their support behind a postponement. De Varona, a two-time gold...

Breaking: Tokyo 2020 postponed! Dates not official. According to USA Today, International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound said that the Tokyo Olympic Games are likely to be postponed to 2021. Details will be worked out within the next four weeks as nothing is official as of this moment. “On ...