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By Proteeti Sinha, Swimming World College Intern. As swimmers, water is our haven. As humans, water makes up over half of our body composition. As living creatures, water is absolutely necessary to life as we know it. An integral part of our daily lives, water is often taken for granted until it is ...

PORTO, Portugal, June 8. TWO meet records fell and Barbora Zavadova picked up her third and fourth wins of the meet to close out the second and final night of finals at the 31st International Meeting of Porto in Portugal. Taki M’Rabet of SF Olympique kicked off the final session with a win in the me...

Olympian Virdhawal Khade Announces “Last Event in India” at National Games Olympic swimmer Virdhawal Khade has this week called the National Games in India his “last competitive event … in India,” pointing to the end of the career of one of India’s most notable swimmers. Khade stopped short of using...

Indian swimmer Likith Prema took to YouTube on Wednesday to accuse the Uzbekistan Swimming Federation with tampering with times at the recent Uzbekistan Open, a FINA-sanctioned qualifier for the Tokyo Olympics, in order to achieve Olympic cuts for its swimmers. Evidence obtained by Swimming World fr...

After ‘Very Heartbreaking’ Experience, Likith Prema Speaks Up About Timing Manipulation Likith Prema’s swimming career has generally occurred far from the spotlight. The Indian swimmer started when he was four. A native of Bangalore, he trains alone, at different pools around the metropolis whenever...

Times from the Uzbekistan Open, which included several Olympic A cuts attained under controversial circumstances, have been annulled by FINA, according to a report out of India. Allegations of time tampering were levied by Indian swimmer Likith Prema, one of a large contingent of Indian swimmers at ...

While India left the 2018 Asian Games with eight national records and ten final appearances, there was a bigger story for the country at the Games. Entry times for Indian swimmers were either not sent or not received, meaning their athletes were placed in the slowest heats of their events. In an art...

Thursday’s Google Doodle honored Arati Saha, on what would’ve been the Indian Channel swimmer’s 80th birthday. Saha was a trailblazer in the pool, born in Kolkata in 1940. She learned to swim under the guidance of Indian Olympian Sachin Nag, winning medals in national competition against adults at a...

Sajan Prakash, Srihari Nataraj Notch India’s First Olympic A Cuts The wait for India’s first Olympic swimming A cut took decades. The wait for the second lasted mere hours. Sajan Prakash made history Saturday by attaining the FINA A standard in the men’s 200 butterfly at the Sette Colli Trophy in Ro...

PHOENIX, Arizona, February 4. THE February issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download to Total Access Subscribers! On page 8 of the February Swimming World Magazine, Publisher Brent Rutemiller shares some of the comments from around the world expressing support of the Open Letter...

By Stephen Wilson LAUSANNE, Switzerland. May 18. IN a move certain to open the organization to charges of nepotism, outgoing IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has nominated his son for membership on the Olympic committee. Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr. was one of seven candidates proposed yesterday f...

BERKELEY, California, May 19. THERE's a reason why Missy Franklin is only swimming two years in college at the University of California, and SportsPro Magazine just detailed some of it by ranking Franklin a loft eighth in its Most Marketable Athletes of 2014 rankings. This isn't just a most marketab...

"The IOC would have appeared to have not been transparent had we not answered the phones during the first five months," Mr. Servan-Schreiber says. "Hill & Knowlton are giving us high-level advice in America and helping us with IOC member testimony in Congress. I don't think we would have gone throug...

By Phillip Whitten Sept. 11. Another day that will live in Infamy. As the news of the despicable and cowardly terrorist attacks today spread around the world, phone calls and e-mail letters of support came pouring in from our swimming friends from almost every corner of the globe: from Australia, Eu...

PHOENIX, Sept. 13. The following editorial, "America: The Good Neighbor," was was given in a 1973 editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. Both Tom Dolan and Bobby Patten sent it to us and, in this terrible moment in our nation's history, we wanted ...

Aleksey Tarasenko attained an Olympic A cut in the 100 free at the Uzbekistan Swimming Championships this week. Tarasenko went 48.55 on Day 1 of the multi-day meet Thursday to win the event by more than three seconds. It was just .02 under the Olympic A cut in the event. Uzbekistan already has an A ...

Asian Age-Group Swimming Championships China and Japan are the leading nations among 26 countries heading for the Asian Age-Group Swimming Championships from Tuesday in Bengaluru (Karnataka), India. More than 1,000 swimmers will compete, Kazakhstan sporting the largest contingent, its multi-sport te...

By Phillip Whitten HONOLULU, October 31. COMPETITION begins this morning on Waikiki Beach for the first FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships. Some 164 competitors representing 34 nations are expected to compete in the clear blue waters of Waikiki in three official open water events: the 5K (...

DURBAN, South Africa, April 7. OLYMPIC champion Chad Le Clos faced a challenge from a couple USA-based swimmers tonight at the South African long course nationals as spots on the Commonwealth Games team were on the line in Durban. Women 200 free final The night started with Karin Prinsloo earning th...

PORTO, Portugal, June 7. BARBORA Zavadova of the Czech Republic won the women’s 400 IM and 200 breast, setting a new meet record in the IM, during the first night of finals at the 31st International Meeting of Porto in Portugal tonight. Zavadova got the meet started in record-breaking fashion with a...