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The death of George Floyd and murder charge against one of four police officers caught on camera at the heart of events that have sparked nationwide protests in the United States over racial discrimination and the treatment of minorities by police and society, have prompted African-American swimmers...

Who could really benefit from the Olympic Games postponement to 2021? When the Olympic Games got pushed back a year, there was a huge sigh of relief for many athletes who were struggling to find adequate training locations to be at their best this year. So with the Games moved to 2021, that provides...

George Floyd Olympic champions and world record holders Simone Manuel and Katie Ledecky - Stanford teammates - and fellow pro-swimmer Natalie Hinds shared their thoughts on the death of George Floyd on social media on Saturday. Floyd's name has been heard all around the world the last week following...

World Record Untouchables As the sport sits in competitive limbo, the day when racing will resume is nothing more than a guessing game. Will athletes chase times again in the fall? Could racing be further down the road? The lack of clarity is frustrating, a powerful virus calling the shots. At some ...

Our helicopter over a comparison of water safety in 2019 and 2020 conducted with Professor Vincenzo Spica yesterday veers off and comes to rest on an outcrop affording us other angles on the issues swimming has to consider as it plans its revival in a season of postponement, cancellation and closure...

Who could really benefit from the Olympic Games postponement to 2021? When the Olympic Games got pushed back a year, there was a huge sigh of relief for many athletes who were struggling to find adequate training locations to be at their best this year. So with the Games moved to 2021, that leaves a...

Swim Ireland performance director Jon Rudd has called for the nation’s Olympic and Paralympic swimmers to be able to return to the pool. Rudd’s plea came shortly after the Team Ireland Athletes’ Commission echoed the request by the Olympic Federation of Ireland for exemptions to be offered to a smal...

Swim England is seeking clarification from the Government after they eased lockdown measures further which means groups of up to six people from different households can now meet outdoors in England. The Government announced the further relaxation of lockdown on Thursday with the news that groups of...

Swimming Pool Safety: Swimming World reported of late on the "Covid-19 Swimming Pool Study" by Vincenzo Spica, Professor of Public Health at the Università degli Studi di Roma "Foro Italico", at a time of intensive research into the nature of the novel coronavirus at the heart of a global pandemic. ...

Rio 2016 200m fly champion Mireia Belmonte believes a return to full fitness is some way off after she returned to the water. Belmonte, the four-time Olympic medallist, is back in the pool working with coach Fred Vergnoux and now planning for Tokyo 2021 after the Games were pushed back a year due to...

The Swim Ireland Awards Night, provisionally down for late September in Derry, a national squad training camp in Tenerife and a tentative return to regional racing scheduled for October mark the start of the 2020-21 Irish calendar in a first-draft of a Swim Ireland Season Plan out of the COVID-19 pa...

The UK Government has given the green light to competitive sport taking place behind closed doors in England from Monday 1 June. Horse racing at Newcastle, north-east England, and snooker Championship League event in Milton Keynes - 90km north-west of London, will both take place on Monday while foo...

Kieren Perkins - Distance Legend The history of men’s distance swimming is rich with Australian flavor, from the early days of Andrew “Boy” Charlton to the dominance of Murray Rose to the recent excellence of Grant Hackett. Wait, didn’t we forget one of the all-timers? Obviously, Kieren Perkins is p...

Daiya Seto, Japan's top shot at gold in the pool at a home Tokyo 2020 Olympics in 2021, has stunned his sport and nation by appointing a former classmate as his new mentor in the pool. Seto, who parted company last month with longtime coach Takayuki Umehara towards the end of a winter that ...

Olympedia Database There is good news for fans of the sport as the OlyMADmen, an international group of Olympics experts and historians, have made their exhaustive Olympics database available to anyone who wants to familiarize themselves with the history of the Games. The database features informati...

“Girl Power” exclaimed the headline alongside a picture of Siobhan O'Connor on the cover of the August 2011 edition of Swimming Times, the then magazine of the Amateur Swimming Association and British Swimming. It accompanied pictures of O’Connor and Molly Renshaw, two 15-year-olds who had booked th...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has fully reinstated the Sports Medicine Research and Testing Laboratory (SMRTL) in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, that was partially suspended in September. This is the same Salt Lake City lab that was in the middle of controversy surrounding testing of Russian swimm...

British Swimming have announced that 32 swimmers will be allowed to return to training at the national centres in Loughborough and Bath. British Swimming released a statement on Tuesday saying that those athletes would be able to resume working in the pool in Step One of a two-phased return. It foll...

Swimming Records In this competitive lull in the sport, it seemed like an appropriate time for readers to familiarize themselves with just how fast the men and women we watch have gone. So, Swimming World is directing its readership to its resource of records. A little more than a year shy of the re...

Sunday Essay: Anniversaries are usually celebrated not for the loss but the gain of something. This day marks a 40th milestone graced with the name Tracy Caulkins on it because of the status she relinquished, one that changed the face of women's medley swimming for almost three decades. Consider thi...