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By Craig Lord When Yves Fortier, presiding judge at the international sports court, suggested with a smile that Michelle Smith de Bruin might wish to sue her own lawyer, he summed up the two most critical errors in the defence of Ireland's greatest Olympian. Rare is the occasion where the accused br...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, May 20. THE U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and USA Swimming today announced a revolutionary partnership designed to inspire young swimmers, their parents and coaches to foster health, character and integrity, in a fun and engaging way, through a collaboration between the TrueSpo...

LOS ANGELES, California, January 30. SIX-time Olympic medalist Rebecca Soni today announced her retirement from professional swimming and the launch of her new lifestyle company and blog, The Atlas Ventures, aimed to encourage people of all ages to challenge themselves and explore opportunities outs...

WILMINGTON, North Carolina, March 13. EXPRESSING a desire to spend more time with his wife, children, and three grandsons, longtime coach Dave Allen, the founding father and architect of UNCW’s swimming and diving program, is heading for dry land. Allen announced his retirement on Thursday after coa...

By Don Gambril (The following tribute to coach Yutaka Terao, who took his life on Monday, was written for SWIMINFO by his close friend, coach Don Gambril.) I have know Yutaka since 1969. He spent two entire years with me from 1970-'72. He drove all the way to Boston from Long Beach in an old ...

March 25. TWO more candidates have joined the race for the most powerful job in world sport: Belgian Jacques Rogge and Korean Kim Un-Young. Rogge, a former Olympic yachtsman will end months of speculation when he puts his name forward for the July vote for the presidency of the International Olympic...

KENT, Washington, April 22. MARK Prothero, a longtime fixture in the Pacific Northwest swimming community as an athlete, coach and meet announcer, passed away Saturday at 57 years old after a battle with lung cancer. Prothero, who was not a smoker, had survived a previous bout of lung cancer many ye...

PHOENIX, Arizona, February 10. AN American record and two national high school records fell. A world record holder made his return to competition and another world record holder prepares for her theatrical debut. Let's get our countdown of the top five swimming headlines of the week started with Mi...

LOS ANGELES, California, January 30. THE swimming world has been wondering whether all of the women's breaststroke world records in 2013 would entice Rebecca Soni out of what turned into a semi-retirement following the 2012 London Olympics, but those hopes can be put aside as Soni has officially ann...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 3. The USA Deaf Swimming organization today announced that San Antonio Texas has been selected to host its top international meet - the 2015 World Deaf Swimming Championships slated for August 17-22, 2015. San Antonio’s Northside Integrated School District's George Block Aqu...

PORTLAND, Oregon, April 9. ARENA North America, one of the world’s leading brands in aquatic sports, is proud to announce a partnership with three-time gold medalist and NBC's "Voice of Swimming," Rowdy Gaines. The well-known athlete and television commentator will serve as an ambassador for the bra...

AUBURN, Alabama, April 1. THE generosity of the Auburn swimming and diving team was rewarded today with special recognition by the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America for raising $25,000 during a fundraising intrasquad meet last fall. During the team’s Orange-Blue meet last November, the teams...

By Sarah Lloyd, Swimming World College Intern Ah, holiday training. If you're a college swimmer, this phrase immediately conjures up visions of you and you're teammates frolicking about on a white sand beach, splashing around in clear, tropical waters with brief breaks in this lounging to crank out ...

The Australian Swimming community today rallied around Olympic hopeful and dual Commonwealth Games gold medalist Lori Munz after the 21-year-old was involved in an horrific car crash yesterday morning. It was the third serious auto accident involving a swimmer in the past three days. Last Saturday, ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 9. OLYMPIC champion Peter Vanderkaay joins today's edition of The Morning Swim Show to talk about his involvement with a new program designed to teach swimmers the importance of fair play. Note: YouTube Measures Views Only For Episodes Watched On YouTube.com Vanderkaay, a four...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, May 7. GEORGIA swimmer Shannon Vreeland has been chosen as the 2013-14 Southeastern Conference H. Boyd McWhorter Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year, according to an announcement by the league office. Golfer Cory Whitsett of Alabama was named the Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year....

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 17. ONE of the greatest swimmers in the history of Brazil, Thiago Pereira, is the latest athlete to join Speedo as a global ambassador. The international gold medalist, who will compete exclusively in Speedo until 2016, has enjoyed success around the world and has repre...

BOULDER, Colorado, February 7. A little less than a year after traveling to the Caribbean Sea to film the documentary “The Current,” Paralympian Mallory Weggemann and Olympian Missy Franklin will have the opportunity to see themselves on the big screen at the February 16 world premiere at the Boulde...

How Much Do You Know About Black Swimmers? Test Your Knowledge. -- February 20, 2002 PHOENIX, Feb. 24. ON Feb. 20, swiminfo posted a quiz in honor of Black History Month: "How Much Do You Know About Black Swimmers? Test Your Knowledge." The quiz, largely created by the International Swimming Hall of...

PORTLAND, Oregon, April 17. AS part of its continuing commitment to growing the sport of swimming in the USA, Arena will offer local children and fans in the Mesa area an up-close opportunity to celebrate the famed athletes participating in the Arena Grand Prix at Mesa next week. The youth-event, "A...