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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...

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...

Over the coming three days, the Swimming World writing team will bring you its collated thoughts on the first season of the International Swimming League. The exercise takes a look at what we perceive as pros, cons (Pro et contra - for and against) and solutions that we recommend the League takes in...

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...

Off European Training Base, Ian Finnerty Seeking World Record in ISL Action By Madison Hoehn, Swimming World Intern  Ian Finnerty, current American record holder in the 100-meter breaststroke (SCM), has his eye on smashing major records during this 2020 ISL Season. An Indiana University alumni and I...

Energy Standard and Team Iron have confirmed their full rosters for the upcoming International Swimming League second season in Budapest. Energy Standard won the title in the inaugural season of the ISL with victory at the grand finale in Las Vegas, thanks to Florent Manaudou's progress through 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...

Over the coming three days, the Swimming World writing team will bring you its collated thoughts on the first season of the International Swimming League, after a first Final Match packed with thrills, spills and nail-biting finishes that showcased swimming as a sport of entertainment and potential ...

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...

Three-time Olympic Champion Katinka Hosszu Announces Pregnancy Three-time Rio 2016 Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu has announced she will become a mother in a post to social media. Fellow Hungarians Kristof Milak and Zsuzsanna Jakabos are joined by the likes of Gregorio Paltrinieri, Ranomi Kromowidj...

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...

Photo Courtesy: Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre TORONTO, Canada, October 10. Canada’s largest city finally has a world-class pool that will be home to everything from international championships to development programs for the next generation of aquatic athletes. Swimming Canada’s High Performance Cent...

Great Britain's Olympic swim team will be led by renowned coach Bill Furniss next year, British Swimming announced today. Furniss will have six assistant coaches working with him in Rio de Janeiro, all of whom are likely to have some of their personal swimmers on the trip as well. Furniss is largely...

South Africa's Chad Le Clos won two silver medals at the Olympics in Rio, in the 200 free and 100 fly, but he missed out on the podium in the event where he was the defending gold medalist, the 200 fly, as Michael Phelps re-claimed that gold medal. Now, Le Clos tells IOL Sport in South Africa that t...

By Craig Lord ANTWERP, BELGIUM, Dec 13. EMMA Igelstrom, of Sweden, made swimming history on the first day of the European short-course championships when she equaled the world record over 50 metres breaststroke, in 30.56sec, to join China's Xue Luo and Wei Li. The Swede's effort made this th...

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 Olympic 50 free champion Florent Manaudou will train solely in Marseille as he prepares for Tokyo 2020 under the guidance of Julien Jacquier. The Frenchman had been dividing his time between Marseille and the Energy Standard training base in Belek, Turkey where he was coached by James Gibson....

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...

Georgia Davies – world, European and Commonwealth medallist and Energy Standard athlete – has welcomed the International Swimming League’s financial package for swimmers as good news amid the relentless darkness of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The ISL unveiled on Friday morning an $11million...