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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 perspective for....

Olympic 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...

The 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...

Preparing 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 ...

Australian 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...

Around 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...

The 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, ...

The 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...

Last 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...

Olympic 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-...

A 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, ...

Dean 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 ...

Two-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...

The 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...

The 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...

The 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....

Laurie 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...

Gilles 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...

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 international feder....

The 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...