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Egyptian Olympic swimmer Farida Osman is grateful to be back in her home county, where she is on a two-week quarantine after traveling from the United States. Osman, who trains at Virginia Tech under Sergio Lopez Miro at Pinnacle Racing, was among 275 Egyptian nationals brought back to the country l...

Konstantin Grigorishin, the International Swimming League founder and funder, talks to Swimming World about the sport's unique chance to move into the League of professional sports on Solidarity Swim Camp. "Now is the chance for them all to come together, train together, compete together in a fr...

Triple Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu has given her backing to the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, being moved back a year to 2022. The competition was due to be held from 16 July to 1 August 2021 but the rescheduling of the Olympic Games to 23 July-8 August because of the coronavirus (COVID...

Roland Schoeman, the US-based South African sprinter who has five more weeks of a 12-month anti-doping suspension to serve, spent $16,000 in an attempt to discover the source of a low level of the banned substance GW501516 that showed up in a May 2019 control. Now 39, Schoeman's "honest, integrity a...

When the Olympics were postponed for an entire year, it left a lot of swimmers wondering if they could afford to keep their dreams alive. ISL swimmer Amy Bilquist was one of them. The reigning U.S. champion in the 100-meter backstroke, Bilquist is a full year removed from college at Cal and was look...

Triple Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu believes the lifeline thrown by the International Swimming League will be of great benefit to lesser-known swimmers whose financial status would otherwise be precarious going into 2021. The ISL on Friday announced an $11million package for the 320 swimmers on t...

Georgia Davies – world, European and Commonwealth medallist and Energy Standard athlete – has welcomed the International Swimming League’s financial package for swimmers as good news amid the relentless darkness of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The ISL unveiled on Friday morning an $11million...

FINA, the international federation, is under pressure from its major stakeholders, swimmers and coaches, to embrace a major overhaul of the sport of swimming. Proposals seen by Swimming World include: handing the northern winter season over to the International Swimming League (ISL) in a new Pro-Spo...

The start date of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games having been reset to July 23, 2021, this week marks the first for goals and plans reset. At the pointy end of business, no surprise to find a note pinned to coach James Gibson's Energy Standard Elite Team planner: ‘new training cycle begins’. It will be...

The European Junior Swimming Championships, scheduled for 8-12 July in Aberdeen, Scotland, have been postponed in news that will come as little surprise in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. So too have the European Junior Diving Championships - slated for the Royal Commonwealth Pool, ...

The McCullagh International concluded in Bangor, Northern Ireland, little more than five weeks ago but in reality a lifetime has elapsed since then with the world thrown into chaos with the march of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The four-day event at the Bangor Aurora Aquatic and Leisure Comp...

The prospect of the 2021 World Championships being moved back a year to 2022 appears to be a step closer with world governing body FINA being forced to act following the rescheduling of Tokyo 2020. The IOC announced on Monday the Olympic Games would take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, a year l...

Boglarka Kapas, who won bronze in the 800m freestyle at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, has announced she has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). The Hungarian, who also won gold in the 200m butterfly at last year's World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, revealed the news on s...

Tokyo 2020 will take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, the International Olympic Committee have announced. The Olympic Games were scheduled to start on 24 July 2020 but the relentless march of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic meant they were postponed last week for the first time in their hist...

Ironically it was a judge who overrode the time-keepers to deny Sydney boy John Davies of an Olympic bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 1948 Games in London. Davies first won a NSW swimming championship in 1946 at the old Manly Baths – destroyed by the storms of 1974 – and was discovered a...

Tokyo 2020 will take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, reports are claiming. The Olympic Games had been scheduled to run from 24 July to 9 August this year but the relentless spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic led to them being postponed by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC ...

Olympic Perspective from the Past for the Present generation coming to terms with a shift from Tokyo 2020 to 2021 that offers hope not finality This weekend, Swimming World is trawling back in history to find some of the stories of the past that contribute to our series in search of perspec...

Four-time Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima – the only man in history to have won back-to-back breaststroke titles – believes athletes must prepare for every eventuality and overcome every hurdle in the light of the postponement of Tokyo 2020. Speaking exclusively to Swimming World, Kitajima looked b...

With much of the sporting world shut down due to the coronavirus outbreak, Swimming World continues to reach out to those areas struggling against what the World Health Organization (WHO) has now labeled a pandemic. In the past week, Spain has seen a spike in Covid-19 infections, with Wednesday's co...

Australian Olympic legend Grant Hackett says Tokyo 2021 will be just the inspiration the world will need in 12 months time after the IOC confirmed the Games of the XXXII Olympiad would be postponed till next year. The two-time 1500m freestyle gold medallist from 2000 and 2004, produced two of the mo...