Read more3Olympic Perspective: The Heights Of Hveger Never Seen & Other Careers Lost To War28 March 2020Olympic 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 perspective for....
Read moreOlympic Athletes Survey Aimed At Answering IOC On What Forms Of Protest The Games Should Allow30 June 2020Olympic athletes, active and retired, have been asked by the International Olympic Committee's Athletes' Commission to provide feedback on Olympic Charter Rule 50 with a view to assessing what types of protests might be allowed at the Games, where and when. Australian Olympians and those aspiring to...
Read more93Olympic Bosses Warn Athletes That They Face A Ban If They Take The Knee In Peaceful Protest Over Injustice10 June 2020The International Olympics Committee (IOC) is sticking to its threat to ban athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in 2021 for taking a knee in peaceful solidarity with anti-racism movements. IOC bosses confirmed that their guidelines haven't changed despite international law that defends the righ...
Read more1Preparing for the New Year: 4 Things Swimmers Can Do to Make the Most of 202231 December 2021Preparing for the New Year: 4 Things Swimmers Can Do to Make the Most of 2022 With 2021 drawing to a close, many athletes must begin to think about the New Year. What do they hope to accomplish in the next 12 months? What goals can they create to help them stay on track? How can they make this year ...
Read moreOne Year Out From Olympic 400 Free Final: Ariarne Titmus Says She's Yet To Beat Katie Ledecky Fair & Square27 July 2020Australian ace Ariarne Titmus still has one key goal that the world's best women distance freestylers all have: to get a hand to the wall ahead of Katie Ledecky, the American who has carved out living-legend status since claiming Olympic gold over 800m freestyle eight years ago at the London 2012 Ol...
Read moreJapanese Sports Feds Want IOC & Tokyo 2020 Bosses To Make 'Stop/Go' Call This Year04 August 2020Around half of all Japanese sports federations want the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games organisers to make a firm decide this year: go ahead with the Olympics as planned in July next year or cancel the event altogether. In a Kyodo News survey, 35 national sports fe...
Read moreWorld Swimming Championships (25m) Shunted To December 2021; FINA 'Stand-Alone' Congress In Qatar, June 202121 May 2020The short-course World Swimming Championships has been moved a year ahead to December 2021, FINA, the international federation, announced this morning in Lausanne, its base in Switzerland. The decision to postpone the December 2020 event to the same place at a different time, namely December 13-18, ...
Read moreSwimming Australia Financial Future Sways From "Pretty Optimistic To 'This is Armageddon", Says Boss07 June 2020The financial modelling of Swimming Australia on the way to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in 2021 is swinging "from pretty optimistic to ‘this is Armageddon’," according to the organisation's chief executive Leigh Russell. In common with many swim federations around the world, Swimming Australia is f...
Read moreAmaury Leveaux Encore - French Blocks Tremble In Anticipation Of Trials, Tribulations & Triumphs Anew (Videos)11 June 2020Last September, French sprint ace Amaury Leveaux was finally getting back to fighting-fit shape after a steady comeback that began in 2018. A five-year break from the pool, a time during which he penned a controversial book and became a father, meant that he had a lot of work to do if he was to have...
Read moreAdam Peaty Announces Cancellation Of 2020 AP Race Clinics Due To COVID-19 Constraints01 July 2020Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty has been forced to cancel his 2020 AP Race Clinics due to the confines and constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic. He left open the possibility of a few clinics still being possible late this year. Peaty, who spoke to Swimming World of late about the mini-...
Read more3Japanese Infectious Diseases Specialist "Very Pessimistic" Tokyo 2021 Olympics Can Go Ahead19 April 2020A Japanese specialist in infectious diseases has said he is “very pessimistic” about the likelihood of the Tokyo Olympics going ahead next year, unless the Games are "held in a different way, such as with no spectators or in limited numbers.” Speaking to journalists in an online briefing on Monday, ...
Read more39Dean Boxall Urges Australia To Get Olympic Swimmers Like Ariarne Titmus Back In Pool By May21 April 2020Dean Boxall, coach to World 400m freestyle champion Ariarne Titmus and 2015 double World backstroke champion Mitch Larkin, has voiced what elite programs across the world are planning for: a return to the pool for excellence programs working in controlled environments long before public and leisure ...
Read moreTwo-Thirds Of Tokyo 2020 Sponsors 'Unsure Whether To Continue To Back Postponed Olympic Games'12 June 2020Two-thirds of corporate Tokyo 2020 sponsors are undecided on whether to continue supporting the Olympic Games after the event was shunted ahead a year to July 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new survey. In a poll carried out by Japanese public broadcaster NHK, 65 per cent of the s...
Read moreIOC Boxed Into Corner Over Coronavirus Cases As Tokyo Reshuffle Shakes Swimming's Cherry Tree26 March 2020The International Olympic Committee has been accused of putting athletes’ health in jeopardy after two Turkish boxers and their head coach tested positive for coronavirus after returning home from an Olympic boxing tournament in London last week. In an exclusive report, The Guardian newspaper quotes...
Read moreTokyo 2020 Olympic Games Preparations For 2021 Continue Against Backdrop Of Concern & Hope01 July 2020The Tokyo metropolitan government today reported 67 new coronavirus infections, the highest number of daily cases at the heart of Olympic City Tokyo 2020 since a state of emergency for the capital was lifted more than a month ago, according to city officials cited by local media. The rise comes came...
Read moreEuropean Short-Course Championships Shifted Back A Month After FINA Moves World Championships To 202121 May 2020The 2021 European Short-Course Championships have been moved back a month to November 2-7 after an announcement earlier in the day from FINA, the international federation, that it has shunted its World Short-Course Championships ahead a year to December 2021 due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic....
Read moreLaurie Lawrence Takes A Jab At Jacco: Aussie Olympic Tough Cuts Would Have Left Armstrong & Sieben At Home03 July 2020Laurie Lawrence has never been shy about letting the world of swimming know how he's feeling, as we came to learn from watching him slap a reporter across the chops several times in the heat of the moment after his Australia charge Duncan Armstrong caused upset with gold in the 200m freestyle at the...
Read more5French Swimming Boss & Pharmacist On The Frontline of Coronavirus War Denounces IOC & Tokyo 2020 Inaction As "Indecent & Shocking"18 March 2020Gilles Sezionale is a man in the know on swimming and the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The head of the French Swimming Federation (FFN), a pharmacist by profession and currently working on the front line of the global health emergency, has harnessed his knowledge and status in both worlds to tel...
Read more2Tokyo 2020 Olympic Marathon Swimming Course For 2021 To Be Moved Due To Low-Tide Forecast14 July 2020The 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 international feder....
Read moreSwim Ireland Season Plan for 2020-2021 Maps A First-Draft Road To Revival Post COVID-1928 May 2020The Swim Ireland Awards Night, provisionally down for late September in Derry, a national squad training camp in Tenerife and a tentative return to regional racing scheduled for October mark the start of the 2020-21 Irish calendar in a first-draft of a Swim Ireland Season Plan out of the COVID-19 pa...