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Before Emre Sakci goes out to compete for Team Iron in the ISL at the Duna Arena, the Turkish swimmer writes Izmir in big, black letters across his heart. Following his race - and regardless of the outcome - he turns, sits on the lane rope and makes the heart gesture with his hands in tribute to the...

No Tokyo, No Problem: The Non-Olympians Turning Heads in ISL Season 3 Every season of the International Swimming League has carried a notable first. The inaugural campaign in 2019 was an experiment in every aspect. The 2020 season brought expansion and a bubble amid a global pandemic. The question t...

International Swimming League Solidarity Program to pay swimmers first regular wage in their sport: 320 athletes to receive $1500 a month $11m set aside for wages, bonuses and prize money All 10 ISL teams, swimmers, coaches and support staff invited - at ISL expense - to 5-week solidarity camp in O...

Matt Biondi, Olympic legend of Seoul 1988, has been appointed Director of what was referred to as a type of athletes' union but will be known as the International Swimmers' Alliance by world-class swimmers determined to make the coming year one of 2020 vision on rights and the voice they feel they h...

Boglarka Kapas, who won bronze in the 800m freestyle at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, has announced she has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). The Hungarian, who also won gold in the 200m butterfly at last year's World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, revealed the news on s...

By Sarah Noll, Swimming World Magazine College Intern. Tennis great Serena Williams once said, "... a champion is not defined by their wins but how they can recover when they fall." Jamaican Olympian Alia Atkinson embodies the spirit of this message. Since our interview with her back in 2014, Atkins...

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World Intern. With the FINA Short Course Swimming World Championships occurring right now, there has been a lot of buzz about the growing rivalry between FINA and the newly-created International Swimming League. Some star swimmers, such as Chad le Clos and Adam Peaty, hav...

International Swimming League founder Konstantin Grigorishin said in an interview with the Washington Post this week that he is committed to expanding the league following next summer's Tokyo Olympic Games, despite the financial struggles within the first year. The ISL has received plenty of media c...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. Some major news came out of the International Swimming League this past week as the league announced a media rights agreement with CBS Sports ahead of this season. The second season of the ISL will primarily take place in Budapest in October as the athletes w...

ISL Vegas Final: Who will take the first ever ISL championship? It is finally here. The first ever International Swimming League (ISL) Vegas championship will be this weekend in Las Vegas, Nevada. It sort of feels like the end of a season cycle with all of the swimmers in the International Swimming ...

After a brief rest period, the International Swimming League will pick back up this weekend in College Park, Maryland as the four American-based teams (Cali Condors, Los Angeles Current, DC Trident, and New York Breakers) vie for spots in the final match set to take place in December in Las Vegas. T...

Making history is something Swedish swimmer Sarah Sjostrom does well, and she’s doing it again this weekend. Not only has Sjostrom been pushing for the International Swimming League (ISL) to happen for a while now, she was the first individual event winner in league history. Though she got her hand ...

Flash! Kira Toussaint Takes Down World Record in 50 Backstroke Heading into the semifinals of the International Swimming League season, one of the world records on alert was the women's 50-meter backstroke. Indeed, that global standard went down on Saturday at the Duna Arena in Budapest, as the Lond...

Entering Second ISL Match, Kosuke Kitajima Impressed by Tokyo Frog Kings When the idea of a Japanese team in the International Swimming League arose last year, Kosuke Kitajima’s task was clear. In conversations with ISL founder Konstantin Grigorishin, both men knew that for the ISL to live up to tru...

NCAA Champion Maddy Banic Returns to Tennessee as Volunteer Assistant NCAA champion Maddy Banic has returned to the University of Tennessee as a volunteer assistant coach for the 2022-23 season, the school announced Thursday. The native of Virginia was a standout in Knoxville from 2015-19. She finis...

Lithuania's Danas Rapsys, who notably touched first in the 200 free final at the World Championships this summer before being disqualified for flinching at the start, announced this week he will not be participating in the first season of the International Swimming League. Rapsys was originally sign...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. The first season of the International Swimming League came to a close over the weekend with Energy Standard taking the team title, Sarah Sjostrom winning the season MVP, and Daiya Seto and Caeleb Dressel breaking individual world records. The league also anno...

It had already been an astonishing session when the last race of day one of the ISL final got under way at the Duna Arena - and Kliment Kolesnikov was about to write his own entry into the history books. The Russian had given a hint of what was to come when he split 45.25 on the second leg as Energy...

Three-time European short-course champion Arno Kamminga has called on FINA to use the technology they have at their disposal and “expose the cheats” who use illegal dolphin kicks during breaststroke. The Netherlands athlete was on the sort of form that indicated an exciting 2020 ahead when he went t...

Beryl Gastaldello has always swam a bit under the radar. After the 2020 International Swimming League (ISL) season, that is no longer the case. The LA Current swimmer produced a speed explosion the entire season, breaking multiple French records, to push the Current into the ISL Grand Final. Gastald...