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The turbulent times of Sun Yang, the controversial Chinese swimmer who in 2012 became his country's first male Olympic swimming champion but ran into trouble with doping authorities, are to make the Silver Screen in a film charting tainted gold. Sun was hit with a three-month backdated suspension, o...

By J.P. Mortenson, Swimming World College Intern. If you want to improve as a swimmer, you’re going to have to learn how to make the connection between your body and mind. Plenty of swimmers just go into the water and do what the coaches tell them to do. However, the best swimmers are the ones who s...

Katerine Savard, the Canadian butterfly ace, has transferred her skills to the silver screen with a debut acting role in a film named an official Cannes 2020 selection this week. The 27-year-old from Pont-Rouge, Quebec, last raced from Canada last year, when she claimed silver and bronze medals at t...

SOUTH BEND, Indiana, February 28. NOTRE Dame head coach Brian Barnes has certainly had a full media slate this past week after Emma Reaney popped a 2:04.34 in the women's 200-yard breaststroke at ACCs to set an American record, but Barnes made sure to take time out to chat with Swimming World to hel...

Dr. Jane Katz, Master's Swimming champion, lost her father earlier this year and reminisces about him and his influence on her life in "A Final Father's Day Card to Dad."  Being the first born has its pros and cons. One pro: I was daddy’s little girl. Or so I thought. Apparently, my two younger sist...

By Kate Santilena, Swimming World College Intern. As adamant swimming advocates and with today’s social media craze, we are always searching for those perfect photos that show off our unique sport of swimming at its finest. However, unless we know a thing or two about cameras, we are not too sure ex...

Ed Accura, the man behind A Film Called Blacks Can't Swim and co-founder of the Black Swimming Association in Britain, puts his film, with a sub-line of   "My Journey, My Story", on general release next Friday, June 26. The film is a timely reminder of the cultural barriers to swimming that endanger...

PHOENIX, Arizona, January 15. THE Oscar nominations will be announced in about 10 hours in Los Angeles. Though many in the movie business say they don’t care about it, claim they don’t wake up for the 5:30 a.m. Pacific time announcement or simply don’t expect to be named, I know they all regard tomo...