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Three days of competition have elapsed at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and talk of doping and lack of leadership by the IOC is on everyone's tongues. It all came to a boil tonight. USA's Lilly King, at age 19, found her voice and spoke up in a tense pressroom interview while sitting next to Russia's Y...

By David Rieder The ready room camera zeroed in on four men in blue jackets huddled together. The world will never know what words Caeleb Dressel, Michael Phelps, Ryan Held and Nathan Adrian exchanged right there, but very quickly this fact became clear: that foursome was on a mission. The U.S. coac...

USA Swimming Monday announced that Katie Meili and Kathy Fish have been elected to the organization’s Board of Directors at its first virtual convention. Fish is an at-large director on the 15-member board. Meili is an athlete representative, replacing Davis Tarwater in that role. Both will serve fo...

By David Rieder. When it comes to the women’s breaststroke events this summer at the World Championships in Budapest, Yulia Efimova will be front and center. She has even earned the status of “favorite” in the 200 breast after she became the first woman to break 2:20 in the event this year at the Ba...

Photo Courtesy: Griffin Scott GREENSBORO - Two days after winning the 200 IM on the strength of a strong breaststroke leg, SwimMAC Carolina's Katie Meili showed off her freestyle powers with a 48.18 to win the 100 free at the USA Swimming short course nationals. Formerly a standout at Columbia Unive...

BOLZANO - Marco Orsi had a strong day, moving to fifth in the world in the 50 free, as the highlight swim of day two at the Bolzano International Swim Meet. Orsi took down the men's 50-meter free title in 21.23.  That swim jumped him to fifth in the world rankings.  Steffen Deibler, who posted a 21....

The lineups for the women's and men's 400 medley relays in this afternoon's prelims session at the Rio Olympics have been released, and the American squads feature two athletes who have already won individual medals in the 100 meters of their respective stroke at this meet. Lilly King won gold in th...

Lilly King, the Killer Instinct Competitor and the Goofball (From April’s Swimming World Magazine) Five years after her public introduction to the world at the Rio Olympics, little has changed about Lilly King. She will still speak her mind, she will still tell you how she really feels, and she’s st...

A year shy of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, 2016 Olympic bronze medalist Katie Meili announced her retirement on social media on Monday, walking away from the sport at 28. Meili won the bronze medal in the 100 breaststroke at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and also swam on the prelims relay of the...

Rebecca Soni and Caroline Burckle Making a Difference Through RISE Athletes Mentorship Program Rebecca Soni remembers standing on the Olympic medal podium in London and freaking out. She had just successfully defended her Olympic gold medal in the 200 breaststroke, and in that race, she became the f...

By Devin Javens, Swimming World College Intern.  The coach-athlete relationship is crucial and can affect the performance of a swimmer. To be a great coach, you must be able to establish a great relationship with all of your athletes. This is much more easily said than done. It's easy to assume that...

By Payton Titus, Swimming World College Intern. Who is Denny Gulia-Janovski, and what makes him so exceptional? Gulia-Janovski's list of accolades includes the following: two Junior National Championship titles, two years as a USA Pan American Team Member, USA Diving Junior National Squad Member, an...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Mission Viejo's Katie McLaughlin completed a successful meet at the King Marlin Elite Pro-Am with two more victories. McLaughlin set a lifetime best with a top time of 1:57.60 to win the women's 200-yard back.  That clipped the 1:57.76 she clocked at the Minneapolis stop of the Arena...

Coverage of the 2015 Pan American Games is sponsored by Triton Wear. Visit Swimming World’s event landing page for results and more! USA's Katie Meili had just too much in the tank as she overtook Jamaica's Alia Atkinson down the stretch for the women's 100-meter breaststroke gold at the Pan America...

A day after winning two golds at the 2015 FINA World Cup Moscow, Katinka Hosszu scaled back her second day of swimming with just three finals set up for tonight. Hosszu qualified to swim in the 100 back (1:02.08), 400 free (4:12.11) and 100 free (55.18) with the latter two being the top seeds headin...

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David Marsh is the Head Coach of Team Elite Aquatics, located in San Diego, California. Marsh was the 2016 Head U.S. Olympic Women's Swim Coach in Rio, leading Team USA to the most medals in USA Swimming's already storied history. [caption id="attachment_147048" align="aligncenter" width="835"] Phot...

By David Rieder. From the moment television cameras caught Lilly King wagging her finger at a shot of Yulia Efimova during the Olympic Games, the rivalry between the two has been on. King, after qualifying ahead of Efimova for the women’s 100 breast final in Rio, told the world why she didn’t think ...

By David Rieder. When the women’s and men’s 100 backstroke finals went off at the Olympic Aquatic Center late Monday night, the competitors representing United States had some lengthy history to live up to—they had won five straight Olympic golds in the men’s race and three on the women’s side. Only...

By Kennedy Cutler, Swimming World College Intern With just over two weeks left until the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, there's someone who's been having quite a run in the swimming-sphere in the last year and a half. Katie Meili, who finished second at the United States Olympic Team Trials in the women...