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Race Of the Century: When Two Stalwarts and a Rising Star Clashed For History (Video) The 200 freestyle had enough substance at the 2004 Olympics, thanks to a repeat clash between the Netherlands’ Pieter van den Hoogenband and Australia’s Ian Thorpe. But when Michael Phelps entered the fray, too, th...

Under-the-Radar Athletes Looking to Make A Splash at International Team Trials; Shackell Siblings Lurking This past month, hundreds of swimmers competed in either the TYR Pro Swim Series at Mission Viejo or the Indy Spring Cup in Indianapolis. For many athletes, these competitions were used as one l...

Unique Territory: How David Popovici Has Made Going Sub-48 A Routine Affair Remember when clocking a sub-48 performance in the 100-meter freestyle was a monumental feat? Ok, the feat is still considered a visit into special territory…except for David Popovici. For the 18-year-old Romanian, something...

Races Without Favorites: Ben Proud Defending World Title, Caeleb Dressel Possibly Returning in 50 Freestyle Less than two months out from the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, several individual races already have clearly-established favorites, but plenty of others lack an obvious choice for go...

A group of swimming champions will take on their biggest challenge yet - the English Channel. A five-person team will embark on a 33,000-meter journey through the world's busiest shipping lane. Ross McWhirter, Jordan J. Dunn, Harrison Haines, Jack Blyzinskyj and Dan Wallace will journey from England...

Nearly twenty-three years. It’s hard to believe that much time has passed since a 15-year-old Michael Phelps introduced himself to the world in 2000, first at the United States Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, and then at the Olympic Games in Sydney. His outings in the 200-meter butterfly lifted the ...

Races Without Favorites: Olympic Champions Schoenmaker, Jacoby Set for Return to Crowded Breaststroke Events Less than two months out from the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, several individual races already have clearly-established favorites, but plenty of others lack an obvious choice for g...

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The Next Great Barrier: Kristof Milak and His Assault on 1:50 in the 200 Butterfly The date was April 7, 1979. The city was Potsdam. The competition was a clash between the Soviet Union and East Germany, European powers of the era. The swimmer was Sergey Koplyakov, a 20-year-old Olympian representin...

Races Without Favorites: With Peaty Uncertain, Men’s 100 Breaststroke Wide Open Less than two months out from the next edition of the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, several individual races already have clearly-established favorites. Think about the women’s distance races, where Katie Ledeck...

Olympian Marilyn Chua Calls Out “Toxic and Negative” Culture in Malaysia Swimming Malaysian Olympian Marilyn Chua this week alleged that the nation’s swimming program suffers from a “toxic and negative” culture after its performance at the Southeast Asian Games. Chua made her statements to The Star ...

Fukuoka Five: The Athletes Who Could Pull Global Three-Peats (2021-23) at the World Champs For multiple reasons, defending No. 1 status in a specific event is a daunting task. Not only is it difficult to maintain peak form from year to year, athletes need to dodge injury and manage enhanced pressure...

The World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup took place over the weekend in Golfo Aranci with Kristof Rasovsky and Leonie Beck claiming the men's and women's 10km titles. Olympic silver medallist Rasovsky won in 1:47:17.6 over Italy’s Domenico Acerenza (1:47:20.1) and Germany’s Oliver Klemet (1:...

When the Backstroke Went Rogue: How David Berkoff and Underwater Power Changed the Event Call it a game of hide and seek, an approach that left the coaches and officials on the deck guessing as much as the spectators who occupied the venue’s seats. When would they surface? Who would come up first? W...

Top Talent Ready to Race at Mare Nostrum Stop in Barcelona; Kristof Milak Among Headliners The second stop of the annual Mare Nostrum Tour will take place on Wednesday and Thursday in Barcelona, with several new athletes set to see action. The first stop, held in Canet, featured several impressive p...

Kaylee McKeown, Summer McIntosh Have Strengthened Loaded 200 IM Field For World Champs For the first time in 13 years, an American was world champion in the women's 200 individual medley. And it was not close — Alex Walsh produced a dominating effort in the final, leaving Australian runnerup Kaylee ...

Jonathan Tan’s Olympic A Cut in 50 Free Highlights SEA Games Jonathan Tan supplied the highlight of the Southeast Asian Games this week, qualifying for the Paris Olympics in the men’s 50 freestyle. Tan went 21.91 in prelims on May 7, the second day of six at the regional multi-sport competition host...

Jamie Yeung never gave up on her dream of making it to the Olympics. It was a dream many swimmers share. But for years, Yeung was so close, only to have that dream dashed. Yeung never gave up and after graduating from the University of Michigan, kept that dream alive in her native Hong Kong and qual...

With 14 months until the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad begin, NBCUniversal announced today that the NBC broadcast network and streaming service Peacock will be the company’s primary platforms for its coverage of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, scheduled for July 26-Aug. 11, 2024. Every day, NBC will pr...

Chinese Nationals Times Foreshadow Elite International Performance If Chinese swimmers can repeat their performances from last week’s national championships when they race internationally in July at the World Championships, the country will finish with its finest international performance since at l...