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Lance Larson turns 80 today in the same week in which, sixty years ago, he became the first swimmer to race inside the minute over 100m butterfly. The American, better known for the first place at the Olympic Games that resulted in the faster swimmer being handed the silver medal over 100m freestyle...

Aleksandr Kabanov, who struck Olympic gold in 1972 and 1980 as a player for the Soviet Union men’s water polo team and a pair of bronze medals as coach—in 1988 as an assistant with the USSR in the Seoul Olympics, then as head coach for Russia in the 2004 Athens Games—passed away Wednesday at the age...

Today, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) publishes its Five-Year Strategic Plan, which lays the foundation for WADA’s strategic activity for 2020-2024 as the Agency is ‘Leading Anti-Doping in a New Era’. The Strategic Plan was agreed by WADA’s Executive Committee (ExCo) when they met virtually on ...

Sports minister Nigel Huddleston says the Government is committed to reopening leisure facilities in England "as early as possible in July" after several Members of Parliament raised the issue with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Swimming pools had expected to be able to...

Swim England chief executive Jane Nickerson is optimistic that good progress is being made after Government and public health officials were shown how facilities can operate safely with a tour of four pools. The delegation, led by Deputy Chief Medical Officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, and public h...

Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty has been forced to cancel his 2020 AP Race Clinics due to the confines and constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic. He left open the possibility of a few clinics still being possible late this year. Peaty, who spoke to Swimming World of late about the mini-...

Rikako Ikee, the Japanese swimming ace who has her sights set on the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris after recovering from leukemia, is to feature in a one-year Tokyo Olympic countdown event, according to a source speaking to Kyodo News in Japan. The 19-year-old is expected to address Olympic athletes i...

The Tokyo metropolitan government today reported 67 new coronavirus infections, the highest number of daily cases at the heart of Olympic City Tokyo 2020 since a state of emergency for the capital was lifted more than a month ago, according to city officials cited by local media. The rise comes came...

London 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Andrey Grechin is set to return to the pool, according to Russian news agency TASS. Grechin swam the lead-off as the Russian 4x100 free quartet came third at the Aquatics Centre behind gold medallists France - led home by Yannick Agnel in 46.74 - and a United Sta...

With almost five months having passed since the conclusion of the Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympic Games, information detailing the financial results and legacies of the event have been published. The competition was held in the Swiss city, which is home to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from...

Some of the best humour relies on timing and flying closest to the truth. In that sense, coach Mel Marshall hit the jackpot when Adam Peaty asked if he could have a chat on training camp in Australia back in January and she replied: "You've not gone and got someone pregnant have you?" "No!," said Pe...

Michael Phelps, retired, a husband and a father, turns 35 years old today. In conjunction with the birthday of The G.O.A.T., Swimming World revisits a piece from the spring in which Phelps' longtime coach, Bob Bowman, selected the 20-greatest performances of his protege's career. *******************...

Olympic athletes, active and retired, have been asked by the International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission to provide feedback on Olympic Charter Rule 50 with a view to assessing what types of protests might be allowed at the Games, where and when. Australian Olympians and those aspiring to...

The human mind can be pretty weird sometimes. As people, we go through waves of highs and lows in life, and our mind is in control of it.  Of course, certain events and situations will trigger it to get out of rhythm. However, our mind is in command of how we react to everything. So it doesn't reall...

Commentary - 2020s Vision: Athlete A - a review of the Netflix documentary of the Indianapolis Star Investigation in sexual abuse in USA Gymnastics that rocked Olympic sport to its core. A must watch for any with children in sport; and all governors and guardians of sport. Our 2020s Vision series ta...

Scotland's elite swimmers can get back in the water after SportScotland issued new guidelines on Monday. While training has resumed in England and Wales, the likes of University of Stirling-based Duncan Scott, Ross Murdoch and Aimee Willmott have had to look on until today's announcement. [caption i...

After Stellar 2019, Marcelo Chierighini Content to Wait, Improve for Tokyo Games On paper, the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics could not have come at a worse time for Marcelo Chierighini, you might think. The Brazilian sprinter will turn 30 in January. He’s coming off the biggest win of his caree...

The turbulent times of Sun Yang, the controversial Chinese swimmer who in 2012 became his country's first male Olympic swimming champion but ran into trouble with doping authorities, are to make the Silver Screen in a film charting tainted gold. Sun was hit with a three-month backdated suspension, o...

Australian athletes will take their views on Olympic Rule 50 and the right of peaceful protest to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after a period of "listening" and consultation over "a complex issue with passionate arguments on both sides", swim sprint ace Cate Campbell has told Swimming W...

A group of American athletes, led by 1968 Olympian John Carlos, Saturday published a letter to the International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee urging the abolition of IOC Charter Rule 50. The letter was sent on behalf of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee Athletes’ ...