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The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. The College of William & Mary became the sixth Division I school this off-season to cut swimming and diving which will be effective at the conclusion of the 2021 school year. The Tribe won six straight CAA conference titles on the men's side while the women l...

Bob Bowman: “We’re very comfortable now with ‘I don’t know.’ ”  Even with the Olympic Games being pushed back to 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, health officials in Japan have expressed uncertainty that the virus will be contained by then. “To be honest with you, I don’t think the Olympics...

Before the Olympics were postponed in late March, Dylan Carter had less than two days to decide what to do. The government of his native Trinidad & Tobago announced that it would be closing its borders to international flights at midnight on March 22 to stem the tide of coronavirus transmission, lea...

Jeremy Bagshaw’s preparation for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics will take him abroad … to the University of Limerick in Ireland, where he begins medical school this month. Bagshaw, 28, attended the University of California Berkeley, competing until 2014 and completing his degree in 2015. The native of Vict...

American Swimmers Told of Chinese Doping Violations at Tokyo Olympics Three years ago at the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese swimmers captured six medals, including gold medals by Zhang Yufei in the 200 butterfly and gold in the women's 800 freestyle relay, with Zhang swimming the third leg, later that even...

Alabama swimming head coach Coley Stickels has resigned his position to focus on preparing athletes for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the school announced Monday. Margo Geer will replace Stickels after the 2021 Olympic Games, for which the 28-year-old Geer hopes to qualify. Assistant coach Ozzie Quevedo ...

Canadian swimmer Mackenzie Padington announced her retirement from swimming at age 21 Friday, citing challenges to her physical and mental health. Padington made the announcement on Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mackenzie...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. The coronavirus pandemic is continuing to cause the rest of the world to be quarantined in their homes so there has not been a lot of news lately. The Russia Sports Minister wants the doping ban on his country lifted so sports can come together when the Olymp...

Margo Geer, a longtime stalwart of U.S. National Teams who was vying to make her first Olympic team in Tokyo, declared her retirement Tuesday. Geer announced her retirement via Instagram as a letter, “to the sport I love.” View this post on Instagram ...

More than most of his peers, Brandonn Almeida was hoping 2020 would bring stability. In what had become an all-too-familiar theme, the Brazilian changed coaches last fall, culminating a stretch of 18 months where he changed coaches four times. That stretch included a season at the University of Sout...

Swimming Canada on Wednesday released the preliminary lists of 30 swimmers for possible invitations to next April’s Canadian Olympic Trials in Toronto. The lists released Wednesday rank the top 30 Canadian swimmers in each Olympic event, as of Dec. 18. This is the basis for Canadian Olympic Trials i...

Lauren Hew, Izaak Bastian Trace Path to Caribbean Stardom via Florida State Lauren Hew has represented the Cayman Islands at international meets since she was 14 years old. Through two Commonwealth Games and five World Championships (three long-course), she’s gotten used to being one of the few memb...

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes’ Council announced Tuesday that it will “launch a consultation exercise” within its community over athlete protests. The effort is aimed at getting feedback from members, “on ways athletes could express their views on key subjects at the Paralymp...

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) Monday released its 2019 Impact Report, formerly its annual report, detailing the organization’s financials. The report was accompanied by a letter from USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland and a sport-specific breakdown of expenditures, the Sport Bene...

Tokyo Vision: Youthful Contenders, Veteran Medalists All Chasing Caeleb Dressel Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a competiti...