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Olympic open water champion Sharon van Rouwendaal is moving her base to Magdeburg, Germany, where she will train alongside world champion Florian Wellbrock under German national coach Bernd Berkhahn. It brings to an end a seven-year association with Philippe Lucas at Montpellier, France, during whi...

When She Beat the Boys: Celebrating Anniversary of Gertrude Ederle's Historic English Channel Crossing Today leaves us six years shy of the centenary of Getrude Ederle's pioneering swim across the English Channel as the first woman to conquer the most famous stretch of open water in the world, court...

The Olympic rings installation on a barge in Tokyo Bay has been temporarily removed for maintenance with plans to return in December ahead of the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Games. The structure - which stands 15.3m tall and 32.6m wide - was installed seven months ago in the Odaiba Marine Park, where the...

A decision by the Japanese Swimming Federation to restrict the number of swimmers allowed at any meet to between 32 and 40 competitors may hasten the race-comeback plans of sprint ace Rikako Ikee, who returned to the pool in March for the first time since she was diagnosed with leukemia last year. A...

The end of the autonomy of Olympic governance is nigh: the United States Senate unanimously passed transformative Olympic reform legislation late on Tuesday, granting Congress the power to dissolve the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Board of Directors. The powers extend to de...

Last week, Swimming World Editors Craig Lord and John Lohn put together an event-by-event League of Olympic Swim Legends in which we considered the impact of the likes of Shane Gould, Krisztina Egerszegi, Katie Ledecky, Janet Evans, Dawn Fraser, Mary T. Meagher, Tracy Caulkins and many other pio...

Last week, Swimming World Editors Craig Lord and John Lohn put together an event-by-event League of Olympic Swim Legends in which the likes of Michael Phelps excelled, to the surprise of no-one (we hope). The rest of the SW team, Liz Byrnes, Ian Hanson, Matt de George and Andy Ross, aided b...

Around half of all Japanese sports federations want the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games organisers to make a firm decide this year: go ahead with the Olympics as planned in July next year or cancel the event altogether. In a Kyodo News survey, 35 national sports fe...

Five-time Olympian Ken Terauchi, already qualified for a sixth Games for Japan at the Tokyo 202One Olympic Games next summer, is being treated in hospital after testing positive for the novel coronavirus. He is the only member of the Japanese Olympic team known to have been infected with the coronav...

The Memories of Moscow 1980 and League of Olympic Swim Legends features Swimming World has run over the past two weeks highlight many a glorious moment in the elite pool, while taking account of the backdrop that is the focus of Dr Grigory Rodchenkov in his explosive memoir on the Russian doping...

For European junior champion Matt Richards, 2020 has been a year of change. He has had to accept, move on and reset after his potential Olympic debut was postponed just three months after the swimmer turned 17. That was followed by the gradual acceptance that he needed to change his training base fr...

British Swimming have launched Pride in Water - a new network to support LGBT+ athletes, coaches, officials, support staff and all involved in aquatic sports. The network will seek to give everyone within aquatics the opportunity to provide safe and inclusive environments for like-minded me...

Tokyo Vision: Florian Wellbrock Seeks To Wrestle 1500 Free Crown From Gregorio Paltrinieri Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in ...

Tokyo Vision: Caeleb Dressel Looking to Cap Games with 50 Free Gold Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a competition lull and ...

Tokyo Vision: All Down To The Touch as Sarah Sjostrom leads 50 Freestyle Field Into Wall Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a ...

What would have unfolded had Tokyo 2020 gone ahead as planned this week – and where would it all have fit in the thread of Olympic swim legends and pioneers like Kieren Perkins, Grant Hackett and Vladimir Salnikov? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have unfolde...

What would have unfolded had Tokyo 2020 gone ahead as planned this week – and where would it all have fit in the thread of Olympic swim legends and pioneers like Inge De Bruijn, Britta Steffen and Ranomi Kromowidjojo? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have unfo...

What would have unfolded had Tokyo 2020 gone ahead as planned this week – and where would it all have fit in the thread of Olympic swim legends and pioneers like Alex Popov, Gary Hall Jr, Anthony Ervin, Matt Biondi and Tom Jager? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games wou...

Tokyo Vision: Katie Ledecky Chasing History and Three-Peat In 800 Freestyle Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a competition l...

Tokyo Vision: Regan Smith Aiming to Overwhelm Field in Women's 200 Backstroke Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a competition...