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Sun Yang Verdict: WADA Vs Sun Yang & FINA at the Court of Arbitration for Sport Sun Yang 's swimming career is over. In a damning judgment, a panel of three senior judges at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) handed the Chinese Olympic champion an eight-year ban. The penalty is not backdated a...

Picture this. Mack Horton, a spring in his step, bounds into Adelaide’s SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre tomorrow morning, surrounded by his Dolphins team mates. Many who have stood with Mack during one of the most tumultuous periods in world sport – supporting his stance for clean sport – proud of the...

Duncan Scott, who refused to share a podium with Sun Yang at last year's World Championships, has reacted to the eight-year ban handed to the Chinese on Friday by welcoming the decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. [caption id="attachment_382437" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Time to sa...

Sun Yang, the Chinese swimmer banned for eight years in a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) decision handed down today, responded by saying that he will "definitely" appeal to the Swiss Federal Court. "This is unfair. I firmly believe in my innocence," Sun told Xinhua. "I will definitely appeal t...

Adam Peaty has welcomed the news of Sun Yang's eight-year ban after the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced their verdict. The Olympic 100m breaststroke champion told Swimming World: "Very good. For anyone that’s been banned once, potentially it’s a mistake. The odds are yeah – you could have t...

Jon Rudd, vice-president of the World Swimming Coaches Association (WSCA), says "the sport has been rescued" after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) handed an eight-year ban to Sun Yang. The ban, which is not backdated and starts today, effectively ends the controversial career of the Chinese...

FINA has Postponed the Women's Water Polo Olympic Games Qualification Tournament scheduled for Trieste in Italy from March 8-15 as a result of the coronavirus emergency. The event is the latest of many sports events around the world to be either postponed or cancelled altogether. The tournament has ...

It is touted as swimming’s blue ribband event and the men’s 100m freestyle at the Olympic Games is again developing into a good old fashioned duel in the pool between Australia and the USA. And 2020 in Tokyo with Australia’s Kyle Chalmers and the USA’s Caeleb Dressel is shaping up to be one for the ...

With the massive debate raging in Australia over the future of Olympic sports funding and a multi-million dollar Federal Government “sports rorts” scandal still raging– another of Sydney’s swimming icons – Carss Park Pool - is about to be washed down the drain. But not without a fight from its favou...

Research conducted at the University of Arizona more than 12 years ago has raised questions about whether the new coronavirus COVID-19 strain behind a global health emergency could be transferrable through water in the way that stomach 'flu and other more common viruses are. In Germany, a 47-year-ol...

The decision in the Sun Yang and FINA Vs World Anti-Doping Agency tribunal hearing will be announced tomorrow, February 28, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has just revealed. The short statement in full Lausanne, 27 February 2020 - The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will announce the decis...

Filippo Magnini, the 2005 and 2007 World 100m freestyle champion from Italy, has been given a clean bill of health by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. A four-year ban imposed by the Italian National Anti-Doping Agency has been dropped. Magnini became embroiled in his case via action taken agains...

One of swimming’s sharpest minds, Queensland CEO Kevin Hasemann, believes the sport in Australia is at a crossroads. [caption id="attachment_419030" align="aligncenter" width="650"] ON THE ROPES: Queensland's long-serving CEO has overseen two decades for dominance. Photo Courtesy: Courier Mail.[/cap...

Some of the top swimmers in the world are speaking about the concerns of the coronavirus and its affect on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. After all, Olympic athletes train for four years for this stage, and that could be taken away if the coronavirus is still a deadly factor around the world. Mor...

For the last decade or so, if you thought of Brazilian men’s swimming, the image of a sprinter came to mind. Whether setting world records, winning Olympic or Worlds gold, usually in freestyle, sprinters like Bruno Fratus and Cesar Cielo have long been the face of Brazilian swimming. When Caio Pumpu...

Gaby Jimenez Peon was where she wanted to be in the final weekend of her college career, but it was far from the circumstances she had envisioned. Jimenez was on deck with her University of Houston teammates at their home pool, vying for a fourth straight American Athletic Conference title. She gree...

The leadership of FINA, the international swimming federation, sought to protect China's Sun Yang from being banned from the sport in a doping case by backing efforts to have lead counsel for the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) removed from the case, according to a Swiss Supreme Court document. A ve...

Australia’s only individual world swimming champion, Ariarne Titmus, believes it will take a world record to win the 400m freestyle at this year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. The world’s greatest ever freestyler and five-time Olympic gold medallist Katie Ledecky (USA) holds the current world record at 3...

Late May is the deadline by which the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo 2020 Games organisers will have to make a decision on whether to proceed, postpone or cancel as a result of the threat posed by the coronavirus now spreading around the globe. That's the view of Dick Pound, the former Co...

Australia’s 200m breaststrokers Matt Wilson and Zac Stubblety-Cook are searching for gold in Tokyo this year in what is developing into one of the real showdowns of the 2020 Olympic men’s swimming program. Many keen judges believe the 200m breaststroke could well come down to host country Japan v Au...