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Sun Yang Faces WADA The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will argue that a penalty of between two and eight years be handed down to Chinese Olympic champion Sun Yang at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday. WADA is challenging a FINA Doping Panel decision to issue a caution to Sun over...

Tim Hinchey, the CEO of USA Swimming, could face a vote of no confidence from the the federation's ruling Board if he cannot explain an apparent gap in his knowledge of the organisation’s anti-abuse training. As we report that news, we take a look back at the historic backdrop of abuse cases and the...

Tatjana Schoenmaker lifted the South African Sportswoman of Year and the South African Sports Star of the Year honours at the 2019 SA Sports Awards in Johannesburg. There was also a Minister’s Excellence Award for Bloemfontein’s Zane Waddell in recognition of his World 50m backstroke title. Swimming...

The Australian Olympic Committee has today opened its doors to negotiate with its National broadcaster the ABC just 24 hours after news broke that there would be “radio silence” form the Olympic Games for the first time since 1952. While ABC Programming director Judith Whelan has declared its budget...

ABC Olympic Radio Silence Video may have killed the radio star, as the song goes, but live broadcasts for the ear have been a part of Olympic Games coverage in Australia since it hosted the biggest multi-sports event in history in Melbourne back in 1956. If a decision by Australian ABC to pull the p...

In his first Remembrance Day tribute in Canberra today, Australian Governor-General David Hurley AC DSC, has paid tribute to legendary Olympic swimming gold medallist Cecil Healy – who remains the only Australian Olympic gold medallist to lose his life in the line of duty. And sadly a man whose extr...

George Breen, a four-time Olympic medalist between the 1956 Games in Melbourne and the 1960 Games in Rome, died on Nov. 9 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 84. Breen is considered one of the finest distance freestylers in the history of United States Swimming and was inducted into the Interna...

Russian Short-Course Championships came to a close in Kazan today with a hint of the potential of 15-year-old Eugenia Chikunova, who took the 200m breaststroke in 2:18.59 ahead of a rival nine years her senior, Maria Temnikova, on 2:19.73. Chikonova had entered the race with a best of 2:26.17 from a...

Adam Peaty and his mentor Mel Marshall topped the billboard as swimmer and coach of the year at the 2019 British Swimming Awards at the Athena in Leicester. The honour for Marshall extends beyond her work with Peaty: she also steered Luke Greenbank to bronze in the 200m backstroke and as a member of...

Sun Yang Vs WADA On Friday this week, the Court of Arbitration will consider the arguments of Sun Yang and the World Anti-Doping Agency in WADA's challenge to a FINA Doping Panel decision to impose no penalty but issue the Chinese swimmer with a caution over an acrimonious and now controversial out-...

Cate Campbell and Vladimir Morozov lifted the top prizes of $150,000 each today as queen and king of a 2019 FINA Cup series speedy up top but struggling just below the surface to justify the use of the word 'World' in its title. Campbell, the first Australian to lift the $150,000 prize on Cup tour, ...

GDR 30 Years On Germany today celebrates the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We'll be celebrating the moment in our family, too, it having made it possible for me to meet my wife and for us to know our sons and the lives we lead. The Peaceful Rev...

World 1500m freestyle champion Simona Quadarella (Circolo Canottieri Aniene) led a run on meet records at the short-course Nico Sapio Trophy in Genova with an 8:12.19 victory over 800m as the meet came to a close. Quadarella, whose was chased all the way by Rita Caramignoli, second home in 8:15.73, ...

The first of two days from the 2019 Nico Sapio Meet in Genova, Italy took place on Friday night as the meet is serving as a qualification for the European Short Course Championships in December for the Italian team. Two Italian SCM records fell on the first night with the likes of Francesca Fangio i...

Kira Toussaint matched the Dutch record of 59.14 she set at the Kazan round to the Swimming World Cup to take the 100m backstroke at the concluding round of the series in Doha this evening. On a day with few highlights in a shallow pool of world-class racing, Toussaint turned in 28.84 and then, with...

Simona Quadarella, the World 1500m freestyle champion and a member of the "Fiamme Rosse" (Red Flames, firefighters sports team), is dedicating her efforts at the three-day Nico Sapio meet that gets underway in Genova today to colleagues who lost their lives in an explosion last Monday in Quargnento,...

World Cup, Round 7, Doha, day 1 Cate Campbell hurtled towards the US$150,000 World Cup series top prize with a 24.11 blast over 50m freestyle in Doha on the first day of the concluding round of a season drowning in a depth of mediocrity. The Australian sprinter has done a fine job for self and bank ...

Witold Bańka was minus-4 when Moscow held its boycotted Olympic Games in 1980 and the GDR was sinking the hopes of most in the pool but then again, if you're going to be head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) at 35, you're going to need a sense of history before your time. Bańka, born after boy...

Gene Testing  It's that time of pre-Olympic season again: time for Games bosses and anti-doping authorities to send out a warning that a new testing method "could" be rolled out in time to catch the cheat at ... Tokyo 2020 (just as it was for any other Games going back to at least 1996). The latest ...

The fifth edition of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) World Conference opened on Tuesday in Katowice, Poland, with the opening day focusing on the 2021 World Anti-Doping Code. The Code is scheduled to be approved on Thursday and go into effect on January 1, 2021. Ahead of its approval, various ...