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'We’re the Recruits Living This Nightmare'; How House vs. NCAA Reshaped College Recruiting A Firsthand Look at How House vs. NCAA is Changing Recruiting Away From D-I Programs The New College Recruiting Reality: House vs. NCAA and the Future of Olympic Sports Op-Ed: This article is an op-ed. The vie...

Eric the Eel: A Unique Tale of Hope and Struggle ... And Lifeguards on Alert The Olympic Games in Paris concluded, Swimming World takes a look back at the tale of Eric Moussambani, dubbed "Eric the Eel." The swimmer from Equatorial Guinea barely made it through his 100-meter freestyle at the 2000 Ga...

There is no denying that Federica Pellegrini is the greatest 200 freestyler in history. What makes her illustrious career so special is her approach to swimming: she’s simply doing what she loves. This article appeared in the April 2020 issue of Swimming World Magazine. It was written before the cor...

Has sport at the Olympic level lost its essence and morphed into an athlete becoming the symbol of a sport vs the participant in sport?   When that line is crossed, lessons no longer have meaning, and the athlete now represents more than her or himself.  As a symbol, the athlete now represents agent...

The Hidden Cost of House vs. NCAA: Is America’s Olympic Engine at Risk? Part I in a Three Part Series Op-Ed: This article is an op-ed. The views expressed are solely those of the authors, Grayson Bloes and Atlas Metin, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine or its staff....

Is the NCAA Olympic Pipeline Collapsing After House v. NCAA?: What’s at Stake for Olympic Sports as College Athletics Restructures Part II in a three-part op-ed series Op-Ed: This article is an op-ed. The views expressed are solely those of the authors, Grayson Bloes and Atlas Metin, and do not nece...

Pernille Blume, the Olympic 50m freestyle champion, leads a list of 41 top swimmers in Denmark who have been given permission to return to training in controlled conditions at performance centres after the Danish Swimming Union complained that its athletes were being held back from returning to regu...

By Tucker Rivera, Swimming World College Intern.  Every quadrennial, our beloved aquatic sport earns its eight-day moment in the spotlight. That’s right: every four years, swimming is the most popular sport in the world—if only briefly. While no official rankings have ever been released about which ...

Only 17 Swimmers Entered in Women's 200 Butterfly for Tokyo Olympics As we approach the start of the fourth day of preliminaries at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, we arrive to the event that has only 17 swimmers entered - the women's 200 butterfly. The event will be swum in three rounds: Prelims, semif...

How does one define This moment in time? Resilient? Naïve? Persistent? Make Believe? The Torch is lit, The athletes are fit, The world is watching, There is no stopping. Life is celebrated, Lives are devastated- The Humanity of it all! One point on earth gathers us all; To witness what is best in ou...

When a Tie Was Not a Tie; How .002 Decided Olympic Gold and Changed the Sport On Aug. 30, 1972, Sweden's Gunnar Larsson and the United States' Tim McKee touched the wall in identical times of 4:31.98 in the 400-meter individual medley at the Olympic Games in Munich. However, the rules of the day req...

Olympics: Tatjana Schoenmaker Scares 200 Breast World Record Again, Swims 2:19.33 in Semifinals After South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker set an Olympic record in the 100 breast prelims and ended up winning silver in the event, it was evident that she would be extremely difficult to beat for gold in ...

European Men’s Olympic Preview: Kristof Milak Heads to Tokyo as Established Star The first time the name Kristof Milak captured the world’s attention was in July 2017, when he won the European Junior Championships in the 200 butterfly in 1:53.73. But a few weeks later, Milak would not represent Hung...

Katie Ledecky and Her Unbeatable Mystique Pushing Toward Tokyo Katie Ledecky is not “back.” That would imply she was ever anything but history’s most dominant freestyler and the world’s best female swimmer, which is simply not the case. But at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mission Viejo, fans have saw ...

Olympic swimmer Chad le Clos and women's hockey goalkeeper Phumelela Mband will jointly carry the South African flag for the opening ceremony in Tokyo. Le Clos is South Africa's most decorated Olympian, winning a gold medal and three silver medals, competing both at the London Games in 2012 and 2016...

At age 20, Simona Quadarella was already one of the world's best distance freestyle swimmers, collecting a bronze medal in the 1500 at the 2017 World Championships. In 2018, she swept all three distance events at the European Championships. And 2019 was expected to be another good year for her — but...

Kliment Kolesnikov Surges Toward Stardom at European Championships An observer following this week’s European Championships in Budapest who was mostly unfamiliar with elite-level swimming would probably assume that Kliment Kolesnikov is the best swimmer in the world, or at least a candidate for that...

USRPT: How This 'Unconventional' Training Works Every athlete trains differently, and no one training regimen is the same for every athlete. This fact is especially true in the world of swimming. Over the course of the swimming's history, training has evolved through advancements in technology and a...

How a Facebook Message and a Sister’s Deference Crafted the First Cape Verde Olympic Swim Team (At this week's World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, siblings Latroya Pina, Jayla Pina and Troy Pina are all swimming together for Cape Verde, including in the same mixed medley relay on Wednesd...

Tokyo Storylines, European Women: Federica Pellegrini, Sarah Sjostrom, Katinka Hosszu And More La Divina. La Fede. The Lioness of Verona. Seventeen years after winning 200 free silver on her Olympic debut at Athens 2004, Federica Pellegrini  will take to the blocks for her final international meet o...