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Track and Field athletes today launched The Athletics Association (TAA), an independent body that will provide international representation for athletes of the kind that The Swimmers’ Alliance, led by Olympic legend Matt Biondi, is aiming to provide for swimmers. On its fledgling website, TAA - sub-...

FINA, the international swimming and aquatics federation, is among Olympic sports bodies that have received a loan from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to help tide it over  the "unprecedented challenge" of the COVID-19 pandemic and "financial hardship due to the cancellation of sports eve...

The 2022 Youth Olympic Games, which were scheduled to be held in Dakar, Senegal, have been postponed to 2026, as mutually agreed upon by IOC President Thomas Bach and Senegal President Macky Sall. With the coronavirus affecting the entire world and subsequently pushing the summer Olympics in Tokyo b...

Competitive pool swimmer. Entrepeneur. Marathon Swimmer. Marine conservationist. Ice swimmer. Mermaid. World-record holder. Merle Liivand is all of these things and more despite not yet turning 30. Now you can add potential cover girl but one whose ambitions lie more in preserving the oceans than sa...

The Olympic Marathon swimming course for the Tokyo 2020 Games is to be shifted following the decision to push the dates of the world's biggest multi-sports event forward by a year to July 2021 due to the Coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers of the Tokyo Games and FINA, the internation...

The story of Dr. Gary O'Toole, his courage, the courage he encouraged, the woeful failings of sports authorities and indeed the legal system to deliver justice to victims and survivors of sexual abuse in swimming is a tortured tale layered with issues that demand inquiry anew and changes to the law,...

Ryan Lochte has put Rio 2016 behind him as he looks to qualify for his fifth Olympics in Tokyo a year from now. The six-time Olympic champion admits he has had several "bumps in the road" over the past four years and described the postponement of Tokyo 2020 as a "minor bump". The 35-year-old generat...

Amaury Leveaux announced on Monday that he had missed a drugs test in Mulhouse, France. The Frenchman has his sights set on Tokyo 2021 - when he will be 35 - after returning to the pool in 2018. Leveaux, who won his first Olympics medals at Beijing 2008 when he took silvers in the 50 free and 4x100 ...

British swimmers were among Olympians used as "guinea pigs" to test an experimental substance "in a secret UK Sport project costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money" on the way to the London 2012 Olympic Games, according to an investigation by The Mail on Sunday. The allegations on a ...

UK Sport and Sport England are to immediately undertake the first joint review of the Code for Sports Governance. The announcement coincides with a newspaper investigation that calls in question a secret research project organised by UK Sport in 2012. UK Sport's governance review will focus on three...

Sunday Essay/commentary:  It is no easy task to entice many of you to read more than 5,000 words on a massive downside of the Olympic Games this day of relative rest but I  recommend, nonetheless, to all who prepare for a the showcase of an autonomous Movement, to all who look forward, as we do, to ...

Swim Ireland and Swim Ulster have written to the Northern Ireland Executive to urge them to reconsider the delay in opening swimming pools and rethink the stated resumption date of 7 August. The two organisations have acted on behalf of clubs following the news that leisure centres can reopen on 17 ...

Gregorio Paltrinieri - who became the first Italian to claim Olympic 1500m gold at Rio 2016 - insists the pool remains a priority and that he will challenge on all fronts at Tokyo 2020 as he credited the break enforced by coronavirus with renewing his motivation. Paltrinieri announced in May that he...

As a swimmer, Jonty Skinner went down in history as the man who crushed the swimming speed that crushed the rest:  20 days after after American Jim Montgomery clocked a then stunning 49.99sec over 100m freestyle for Olympic gold at Montreal 1976, Skinner, locked out of the race by the apartheid...

Outdoor swimming pools can reopen from Saturday 11 July in England with indoor pools able to open their doors again from Monday 11 July, the Government has announced. The announcement - which many felt was long overdue - was made by Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and S...

Duncan Scott has been named male athlete of the year in the Scottish Student Sports Awards 2020 after a memorable year in and out of the pool. The 23-year-old is based at the University of Stirling, a little over 25 miles north-east of Glasgow, where he is coached by Steven Tigg. The 2019/20 season ...

The Associated Press reported on Thursday that China will not play host to any international sports competitions through the end of the year, except for events connected to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and its neighboring city of Zhangjiakou. The decision was made to neutralize the possibilit...

The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee will issue Tokyo 2020 ticket refunds to people unable to attend the Games due to their one-year postponement, according to sources speaking to Kyodo News today. To date, about 4.48 million tickets for the Olympics and some almost 1 million ticket...

Tokyo 2020 is committed to a simplified Paralympic Games that reflects "the new global economic, societal and public health contexts" in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The principles, positioning and roadmap for the 2020 Paralympics were released by Tokyo 2020 on Wednesday after having been r...

Commentary from Jim Gamble, swimmer and then coach at the Pittsburgh Panthers, on his experience of growing up in swimming as "the only one", in other words, the only black kid on the blocks - and why he says "I have no idea what my life would be like if it wasn't for swimming." Coach Mark Rau...