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Rikako Ikee Books Spot At Olympic Trials; Plays Down Hopes For Making Tokyo 2020 Team Rikako Ikee, the six-time 2018 Asian Games champion, booked her spot at April's Olympic qualification meet after dipping inside the required standard at the Kosuke Kitatjima Cup. The 20-year-old made public she had...

Thomas Bach Addresses Tokyo Games Cancellation Rumors (Video) Six months shy of the start of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, there has been considerable speculation as to whether the Games will be held, or if they will be canceled for a second time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent reports cited an a...

The Japanese government, IOC and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) have insisted the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead after a report in The Times quoted a senior official saying the Games would be cancelled. Speculation has been mounting for weeks now that the Olympics, which had ...

Australian, US Olympic Committees Refute Olympic Cancellation Report Conflicting reports have surfaced over the status of the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo scheduled for this summer, after they were delayed a full year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Times of London on Thursday produced a report, ci...

FINA Publishes List of International-Level Officials Through 2024 FINA, the governing body of swimming, announced its list of international-level officials for January 2021 through December 2024. The list includes 482 officials from 126 federations. These officials will be eligible for international...

The Indian and South African Swimming Federations today signed a milestone partnership agreement to further jointly develop swimming and water polo in their countries, Swimming South Africa announced. The agreement will see South African and Indian teams participate in competitions against each othe...

IOC president Thomas Bach has full conviction in the Olympics taking place in Tokyo from July and insists there is no "plan B" leaving cancellation or going ahead as planned the only options. Speculation has mounted in recent weeks that the Games are under threat following the rise in coronavirus ca...

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...

If Swimming Added New Events to the Olympic Lineup, What Could They Be? The women's 1500 freestyle, men's 800 free and the mixed medley relays will make their Olympic debuts this summer in Tokyo at the Olympic Games, bringing the total number of events in the pool to 35. The last time an event was a...

The closer we get to the 2021 Olympic Opening Ceremonies, the more up in the air the Tokyo Games seem as the waves of the COVID-19 pandemic continue. Tokyo and other parts of Japan are under an emergency order because of a rise in cases with about 4,500 deaths attributed to COVID-19, leading to incr...

Champion's Mojo Podcast: Siobhan Haughey Benefits From Positive Mindset A world-record holder and multiple event national-record holder for Hong Kong, Siobhan Haughey joins the Champion's Mojo Podcast to talk with Kelly and Maria about how she combines discipline and positivity to improve resiliency...

Ranking the Best Men’s Swimmers in the World From 1-25 Looking ahead to yet another Olympic year and putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, Swimming World decided to compile a list of the 25 best swimmers in the world leading into 2021. There was a lot of fast swimming in the first three months of 202...

Ranking the Best Women's Swimmers in the World From 1-25 Looking ahead to yet another Olympic year and putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, Swimming World decided to compile a list of the 25 best swimmers in the world leading into 2021. There was a lot of fast swimming in the first three months of 2...

Mark Chay, who swam for Singapore at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, is one of nine new Nominated Members of Parliament (NMP) in his home country. Chay swam in the 100 and 200 freestyle at the 2000 Games and the 2004 Games. His international career began at the 1997 Southeast Asian Games and covered fiv...

The Swiss Court that overturned Chinese swimmer Sun Yang’s eight-year doping ban cited potential anti-Chinese bias by an arbitrator in its decision, according to a press release Friday. The Swiss Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgericht) in December overturned Sun’s eight-year ban for doping, which had ...

The Court of Arbitration for Sport accused Russia of engaging in "a cover up of the cover up" while also justifying its decision to reduce the country's ban from major sporting events from four years to two. The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) had appealed the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) dec...

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 ...

The Swimming World 10-Best Performances of the 2000s...So Far A tradition at Swimming World is the annual compilation of the 10-best performances of the past year. But with the COVID-19 pandemic limiting the number of competitions that were held in 2020, putting together that list for the past 12 mo...

In a survey conducted by Japanese media, more than 80% of people in Japan believe the Tokyo Olympics should be canceled or postponed. According to The Associated Press, the polls were conducted by the Japanese news agency Kyodo and TBS — the Tokyo Broadcasting System. After being postponed originall...

Barrier Breakers: Women Who Have Elevated the Sport By Gigi Picard Swimming World College Intern It is easy to look back on the year 2020 in sports and feel a measure of disappointment: seasons were cut short, championships were canceled, stands stood empty, athletes were quarantined. It all felt a ...