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ISL Match Three Notes: Ryan Murphy Riding the Jackpot Current The third week of the International Swimming League season marked the debuts of the league’s two expansion franchises, the Tokyo Frog Kings and Toronto Titans, and the new entries carried themselves in fine fashion at the Duna Arena in Bu...

The International Swimming League's two newest teams get underway in ISL Match 3, with the Tokyo Frog Kings and Toronto Titans each hitting the water for the first time. They're joined by two teams looking to make up ground after difficult starts. The LA Current finished third against a difficult fi...

Siobhan Haughey has been one of the world’s best swimmers for the past few years, but has always been a little under the radar. After the start to the 2020 International Swimming League (ISL) season, she isn’t under the radar anymore. Haughey, a 2016 Olympian for Hong Kong, has become an ISL force f...

The operative word for Rob Kent, the general manager of the Toronto Titans in the International Swimming League, is adaptation. It applied for a team that had, by his reckoning, 70 to 80 percent of its roster in place last December, when COVID-19 remained a word quarantined to the Asian scientific v...

Tokyo Olympics officials Wednesday offered demonstrations of some of its preventative measures for a competition in the world of COVID-19, hoping to assuage fears about next summer’s games. The organizers held the event at the Big Sight convention complex in Tokyo, home of the media center. Among th...

Lia Neal and Jacob Pebley Working for Change in Swimming (From October's Swimming World Magazine) In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, elite swimmers Lia Neal and Jacob Pebley created Swimmers for Change to promote diversity and to make swimming a more inclusive sport and a more inclusive...

Tokyo Frog Kings & Toronto Titans to Make ISL Debuts This Weekend: Five Races to Watch From Budapest The first weekend of the International Swimming League season this past weekend was a welcomed sign for swimming fans who had been starving for real competition since the COVID-19 pandemic caused wor...

The 2022 Commonwealth Games will make history by being the first major multi-sport event to award more medals to women than men. The publication of the Birmingham medal event programme confirms there are 136 medal events for women and 134 for men. It follows the 2018 Games on Gold Coast, Australia, ...

Olympic Glory: When South Africa Soared to Gold in Athens 400 Freestyle Relay In Swimming World's latest Olympic flashback, attention is paid to the 2004 breakthrough triumph of South Africa in the 400 freestyle relay. As they walked to the blocks, there was a sense something special was about to un...

Energy Standard sprinter Femke Heemskerk missed the opening match of the 202o International Swimming League (ISL) season because of a positive COVID-19 test. On Monday, she tested negative and will begin the process of traveling to Budapest to rejoin her team in the ISL bubble. "results come back ne...

Analyzing the improvements in the International Swimming League's second season.  Live swimming is finally back! In a year that was supposed to see the thrill of the Olympic Games where swimming would dominate the international sporting headlines for eight days, the coronavirus pandemic had other id...

The London Roar surged to a convincing lead at the end of the first day of their opening match in the International Swimming League (ISL) in Budapest on Sunday. The Roar come into Day 2 with 294 points, ahead of the Aqua Centurions (197), Team Iron (194) and DC Trident (181). Out of the 20 events on...

The comment from Rowdy Gaines, just after the 200 backstrokes at ISL Match 2, couldn’t have been more spot on. “We’re not knowledgeable about where everyone sits,” the commentator said, just after assumed favorite Katinka Hosszu was upset in the 200 back, fading to a distant fifth place. With the ra...

Australian Swimming legend Ian Thorpe believes that his sensational 1:44.06 World record over 200 metres freestyle in 2001 remains one off the three most competitive four-length swims of the past two decades because "everyone in the world is swimming the 200 freestyle wrong." "You can't swim 150 met...

Marie Wattel, Maria Kameneva and Christian Diener helped guide London Roar to a convincing lead at the end of the first day of their opening match in the International Swimming League in Budapest. Diener won the men's 50 and 200 backstroke - the former in a new national record of 22.76 as he cut 0.0...

ISL Day Two Notes: Cali Condors' Lilly King Puts On Dominant Show Following an eight-month absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has inflicted havoc around the world, the sight of global racing (in any format) was greatly desired by athletes, coaches, fans and the media. And that is exactly what...

ISL Budapest Day 2: Cali Condors Hand Defending Champs Energy Standard First Loss on Backs of Lilly King & Caeleb Dressel The first match of the 2020 International Swimming League concluded on Saturday from the Budapest bubble as the Cali Condors handed Energy Standard their first loss led by Caeleb...

Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty says that becoming a father has given him a new perspective and clarity as he prepares to start his International Swimming League season with London Roar. Peaty and partner Eiri Munro became first-time parents when son George-Anderson was born last month...

A study by a Stanford postdoctoral fellow published last week finds that Olympic swimmers are more than a third of a second faster, on average, in the evening than in the morning. The study is titled, “Gold, silver or bronze: circadian variation strongly affects performance in Olympic athletes.” It ...

Sarah Sjostrom was dominant, Caeleb Dressel found himself in unfamiliar waters and Lilly King went 19 for 19 as the International Swimming League (ISL) season made a fast and furious start in Budapest. Benedetta Pilato set a world junior record of 28.97 in the 50m breaststroke and so too a national ...