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Olympic Silver Medallist Ben Proud Signs Up For Enhanced Games Olympic silver medalist Ben Proud will compete in the inaugural Enhanced Games next May as he retires from traditional competition to move into an event that allows athletes to take performance-enhancing drugs. The announcement comes wee...

MANCHESTER, England. April 14. THREE British national records and a Commonwealth mark were broken on the fifth day of the British National Championships in Manchester. The meet also is serving as the selection meet for this summer's World Championships in Japan. James Gibson set th Commonwealth/...

World Championships: Ben Proud On "Perfect" Paris, Living In London & Finding A Balance Ben Proud sits in his apartment, a few minutes’ walk from the London Aquatics Centre which hosted the 2012 Games and is now the Olympic silver medallist’s training base. The 30-year-old moved to Stratford, east L...

European Championships: Ben Proud Writes Unique Line In History After Winning 50 Free Gold Ben Proud made history as he added European 50 free gold to his world and Commonwealth titles in Rome. The Briton became the first swimmer to win the world, Commonwealth and European golds in one season, Proud...

SHEFFIELD, England, Jan. 17. BRITISH sprint star Mark Foster smashed the world record in the 50 meter (short course) butterfly at the FINA World Cup meet in Sheffield today with a brilliant performance of 22.87 seconds. His split at the 25-meter mark was 10.33 seconds. The time eclipsed the 23.19 ma...

World-Renowned Coach James Gibson Visits Inside with Brett Hawke Podcast Although we are nearing the end of 2022, the Inside with Brett Hawke Podcast is not easing to the finish. Rather, Hawke continues to churn out premier content, including a recent hour-plus interview with superstar coach James G...

Energy Standard GM Jean-Francois Salessy Exits 'Fake Movie,' Resigns In Angry Letter Energy Standard's Jean-Francois Salessy announced via an open letter to Konstantin Grigorishin that he is stepping down as the ISL team’s general manager. The letter was sent Sunday afternoon, in which Salessy recou...

Former world 50m butterfly champion Ben Proud will diversify after Tokyo 2021 to become “an ISL swimmer” while also extending his career to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Proud was part of the Energy Standard squad that won the inaugural International Swimming League with victory in the grand fin...

The International Swimming League was the creation of Konstantin Grigorishin. The boss, founder and funder of the will be delighted was not in Las Vegas to see his vision unfold at the first Final Match in League history. Visa issues meant that the power player of Ukraine's power sector was unable t...

By Craig Lord ANTWERP, Belgium, Dec 14. THE first sub 50-second 100 meter fly swim is in sight! Asked how much pain he felt, Thomas Rupprath, of Germany, found the strength to smile and murmur "too much" after he had clocked a world record of 50.26 seconds to beat the man who had held the standard a...

European Championships: A Unique Line In History Beckons For Ben Proud Devastation is an overused word in sport but it's one that sums up Ben Proud following the 50m freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics. European Champs Entry Lists The Briton finished joint fifth in the Japanese capital, 0.15secs off the...

The start date of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games having been reset to July 23, 2021, this week marks the first for goals and plans reset. At the pointy end of business, no surprise to find a note pinned to coach James Gibson's Energy Standard Elite Team planner: ‘new training cycle begins’. It will be...

200m Queen Federica Pellegrini Excited For Naples Launch Of ISL  It was hard to tell who was more excited on the eve of the first-ever European round of the inaugural International Swimming League (ISL) this weekend: Federica Pellegrini or the City of Naples celebrating swimming royalty and the new ...

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, April 12. BACKSTROKER Sarah Price set her second Comonwealth-British record in the 100 in as many tries here today during the third day of the British Nationals-World Championship Trials. The 21-year-old dorsal specialist raced to a 1:01.32 clocking to gain a spot on the team th...

Konstantin Grigorishin, the International Swimming League founder and funder, talks to Swimming World about the sport's unique chance to move into the League of professional sports on Solidarity Swim Camp. "Now is the chance for them all to come together, train together, compete together in a friend...

Ben Proud: Anthony Ervin And His Life-Changing Journey In The "Huge, Huge" Waves Of Hawaii Ben Proud sits in his room at the Gloria training base in Turkey, reflecting on the “life-changing” time spent in Hawaii with Elliot Ptasnik and Olympic champions Anthony Ervin and Aaron Peirsol. The 50 free s...

Versatile Mary-Sophie Harvey Paying Dividends for Energy Standard It didn’t take long for the coaches of Energy Standard to trust Mary-Sophie Harvey. Then 20 years old, the Canadian wasn’t the highest profile founding member of Energy Standard in 2019 for the inaugural season of the International Sw...

International Swimming Coach Of 2019: Mel Marshall There's the 56.88, of course. No getting round it. Project 56. Nailed by Adam Peaty with a stroke-transcending sledgehammer. Certainly a moment to celebrate not only the swimmer and the swim but the coach, too. Mel Marshall, twitter handle massiveme...

By Martin Petty MANCHESTER, England, April 15. JAMES GIBSON sensationally resurrected his international swimming career on an Easter weekend that saw him break the Commonwealth 50m breaststroke record a staggering three times in as many races. The 21-year-old politics student from Loughborough Unive...

Sarah Sjostrom & Michael Andrew Embracing Challenges of Budapest Bubble as ISL Season Kicks Off Friday The action from the International Swimming League's Budapest bubble gets underway Friday 4 p.m. local time (10 a.m. New York). The LA Current, Cali Condors, New York Breakers and defending champs E...