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Committed to delivering marquee events for our athletes, FINA revealed the calendar for the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2022 and the FINA Diving World Series 2022 on Thursday. The FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2022 will be held over five legs, starting with a virtual event joi...

Breaking Down the 2021 ISL Final: Which Team Will Win in Eindhoven? This week’s ISL final will feature a familiar collection of teams. Just like December 2019 in Las Vegas and November 2020 in Budapest, this Eindhoven final will feature Energy Standard, the Cali Condors, the London Roar and the LA C...

 ISL Wins Report: Nicholas Santos is Mr. 8-for-8 in 50 Butterfly It’s a very narrow path that Nicholas Santos and his Team Iron mates tread in the International Swimming League season. For six of the league’s franchises, four matches were sufficient to book a spot in the semifinals. Team Iron and DC...

They Deserve Better: A Look At Swimming's Overlooked Stars How could they be forgotten? Or overlooked? It doesn’t make sense, not with their credentials and the success they managed during their illustrious careers. Yet, there is a routine state in sports for some athletes – as elite as they might h...

ISL Founder Konstantin Grigorishin Joins Inside with Brett Hawke Podcast The final of the third season of the International Swimming League (ISL) will be held in Eindhoven on Friday and Saturday, so the timing of the latest episode of the Inside with Brett Hawke Podcast was perfect. In his latest in...

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...

Thank You! How Swimming Changed My Life and Inspired Deep Appreciation (From the November issue of Swimming World Magazine) I’ve been covering this sport for 20-plus years, most of that time for Swimming World. It’s been a pleasure, and I feel beyond fortunate to have attended four Olympic Games, mu...

Passages: Amman Jalmaani, Three-Time Olympian from the Philippines, 72 Amman Jalmaani, a three-time Olympian representing the Philippines, died on Nov. 23. He was 72 years old. A breaststroke specialist, Jalmaani made his Olympic debut just before his 16th birthday at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. He ...

ISL Playoff Match 6, Day 1: Aqua Centurions Take Stunning Lead Over Cali Condors The Cali Condors are missing superstar Caeleb Dressel in the last match of the ISL playoff round, and in his absence, the reigning ISL-champion Condors have not looked particularly sharp. They have individual wins from ...

Toronto Titans Need an Upset to Advance to ISL Final With five of the six matches of this year's ISL playoffs completed, Energy Standard and the London Roar have already clinched spots in the ISL final, and two other teams, the Cali Condors and LA Current, are close to securing their spots. However,...

Caeleb Dressel Absent for Cali Condors in Final ISL Playoff Match (Start Lists) After returning in time to race in the Cali Condors' second ISL playoff match last weekend, Caeleb Dressel was again absent this weekend. Dressel was the MVP of last season's ISL final as the Cali Condors stormed to the ...

ISL Match 5: Shymanovich, Haughey, Sjostrom Lead Energy Standard Past London The fifth match of the ISL playoffs saw London Roar leading Energy Standard by 16 points after day one. Halfway through day two, the teams were still close together in the standings. But then, Energy Standard took off and n...

Siobhan Haughey Swims Second-Fastest Time Ever in Women's 200 Freestyle Through her first six appearances in the 200 freestyle this ISL season, Siobhan Haughey was undefeated, and the fifth playoff match was no different as she dominated the field and won by 3.71 seconds. This time, Haughey was unde...

Ilya Shymanovich Swims 55.28 to Take Down World Record in 100 Breaststroke One week after Ilya Shymanovich of Belarus and Energy Standard swam a 55.32 to break his own world record in the men's 100 breast by two hundredths, he did it again during the fifth playoff match. Here, Shymanovich went out i...

Ryan Murphy and Evgeny Rylov Face Off for First Time Since Tokyo in ISL Playoff Match 5 At the Tokyo Olympics, 26-year-old American Ryan Murphy was the defending gold medalist in both the 100 and 200-meter backstroke events, but this year, Russia's Evgeny Rylov took both titles away from Murphy, set...

Ryan Murphy set a new US and ISL 50 backstroke record as London Roar ended day one of playoff match five at the head of the standings. ISL Playoff Match 5 Results Murphy touched the wall in 23.53 to take 0.01 off his own record of 23.54 set in November 2020 in Budapest and also won the 200 back. Ily...

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...

The final weekend for the International Swimming League (ISL) semifinals begins on Thursday as two matches will whittle eight teams down to four for the final match. Playoff Match 5 begins Thursday with the DC Trident, Energy Standard, LA Current and London Roar. The match will begin at 1 p.m. ET an...

FINA to Recognize ISL Times as Qualifiers for Short-Course World Championships FINA on Tuesday announced that it is willing to “approve and consider” International Swimming League matches as qualification for the Short-Course World Championships. The decision is noteworthy given FINA’s ambivalence t...

FINA announced that the World Championships (25m) 2022 in Kazan (RUS) will be held from 17-22 December 2022 at the Aquatics Palace in Kazan, Russia. Hosts of the 16th FINA World Championships 2015 and the recent FINA Swimming World Cup 2021, Kazan will welcome over 1,200 athletes from more than 180 ...