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Should Swimming Have a Longer Offseason? Taking time off is a foreign concept for swimmers. The sport is known to have no real offseason, except for a two-week break after the typical early-August championship meet.  With the coronavirus pandemic causing a months-long worldwide lockdown, swimmers go...

The European Aquatics Championships, the continental showcase event for swimming scheduled for May 11-24 in Budapest, Hungary, has been postponed. The news on a shift to tentative dates in August for the continental swimming showcase was announced by the European Swimming League (LEN) and Budapest o...

The European Swimming Championships and the continental showcase event for all aquatics sports scheduled for May 11-24 in Budapest, Hungary, is on the verge of being postponed, a senior source has told Swimming World as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to take a toll. Confirmation of th...

Florent Manaudou, the Olympic 50m freestyle champion of 2012, returns to Championship waters this week for the first time since he made his comeback to swimming in March. Manaudou will restrict his solo races at the five-day European Short-Course Championships that get underway in Glasgow, Scotland,...

Rome will stage the European Aquatics Championships for the first time in 39 years when the Foro Italico plays host from 11-21 August 2022. LEN, the European Swimming League, made the announcement on Monday after speculation that Rome or Kazan, Russia, would stage the event instead of Munich. The sw...

The European Swimming Championships have been rescheduled to May 2021. Budapest will remain the host, on May 10-23, a year after the continental showcase for aquatic sports was due to have taken place before the intervention of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. After LEN announced in March th...

The World Swimming Coaches Association (WSCA) is to create continental branches of the organisation, European mentors the first to be invited to raise regional profiles and the coach voice at a meeting in Glasgow next week. The first regional branch of the global body, to be known as ‘WSCA-E’, will ...

By Bill Bell It was some obscure English playwright whose name escapes us at present but who flourished about half a millenium ago and once penned a tome entitled "Much Ado About Nothing" that would be an appropriate appelation for this year's XXV edition of European Swimming Championships, rec...