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Fresh Claims by Olympic Silver Medallist Maddie Groves: Swimming Australia Thrust Into Limelight Again For All The Wrong Reasons While swimming in Australia is basking in the glory of a record breaking gold medal haul in Tokyo, it has again been forced into damage control following the latest explos...

It’s been a long time since Germany had a female swimmer with a legitimate opportunity to win a medal at the world championships. The country hasn’t earned an individual women’s medal in swimming at the world championships since Britta Steffen swept the sprint freestyles in 2009, but Franziska Hentk...

The Soak - Swim News In Brief Collated weekly Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com The Week of March 10-16, 2020 ...

Swimming Australia can confirm that the FINA Doping Panel have conducted a hearing regarding Madeline Groves’ alleged whereabouts breaches on Thursday night Australian time. On Friday night Australian time, the FINA Doping Panel have announced that they have cleared Madeline from the alleged third m...

Tracy Stockwell (Caulkins) To Lead Independent Female Panel To Investigate Swimming's Ongoing Issues Celebrated US Olympic champion, leading sports administrator and Swimming Australia director Tracy Stockwell (Caulkins) will head  an independent female panel to investigate the sport's ongoing issue...

With the Pan Pacs and the Para Pan Pacs swum and won it’s now time for Australia’s “NextGEN” swimmers to step up to the plate in this week’s Junior Pan Pacs in Suva, Fiji. The 30-strong team of 15 girls and 15 boys arrived into the Fijian capital this week for the four-day Junior Pan Pacs meet start...

Hungary's Katinka Hosszu and Russia's Vladimir Morozov will be leading Team Iron for the inaugural season of the International Swimming League (ISL) this fall. Dorina Szekeres is the general manager for the team that includes swimmers from Europe and Jamaica. She swam at the 2012 Olympic Games for H...

Great Britain's Adam Peaty has been very vocal about his support for the International Swim League (ISL), even with the likes of FINA, the world governing body of the sport of swimming, threatening to ban him and other athletes who decided to take part in a non-sanctioned event. But according to BBC...

Titmus, McKeown Shatter Australian Golden Drought, Return Swimming-Proud Nation to Olympic Glory The powers-that-be in Australian swimming swore that 2012 would never be repeated. Yet somehow, 2016 was arguably worse. Now, after two straight Olympics of incredible disappointment in the pool for the ...

After announcing herself as a real threat on the world backstroking stage, Australia’s Tokyo Olympic hope, Kaylee McKeown, has now thrown down the gauntlet as a real 2021 contender in individual medley. In another busy night at the Queensland State Championships, the unstoppable 19-year-old Sunshine...

Innovative Australian swim coach David Lush has today unveiled part two of his revolutionary performance and research coaching program that will take his athletes towards the 2024, 2028 and 2032 Olympics. Just 24 hours after Lush was announced as the new Director of Swimming at the Moreton Bay Colle...

Swimming Australia Awards Life Membership on Michael Bohl, Nicole Livingstone and Matthew DunnLegendary coach Michael Bohl OAM, and fellow former Australian Dolphins and accomplished administrators Nicole Livingstone OAM and Matthew Dunn OAM have all been awarded with Swimming Australia Life Members...

Liz Byrnes, Swimming World's new European Correspondent, hones in on the achievements of Adam Peaty, one of the most outstanding pioneers on the pool in swimming history, as her No1 pick in our series looking back at our favourite moments of the decade about to end. Liz's list is rich with some of t...

The heat is on for the Australian Dolphins Swim Team who have landed in Qatar and are settling in smoothly to a 10-day staging camp in Doha. As temperatures soar above 40 degrees Celsius, the swimmers are making sure their preparations and race skills are just as hot before they take to the world st...

The Australian Dolphins Swim Team united at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra this week for the Rio Protocol Camp that included a unique combination of midnight racing and enforced sleep-ins, with the Rio 2016 Olympic Games front of mind. The camp schedule saw a sleep in, followed ...

Maddie Groves Fires New Shots at Swimming Australia President Kieren Perkins Two months after she withdrew from the Australian Olympic Trials due to claims of misogyny within Swimming Australia, 2016 Olympic silver medalist Maddie Groves has fired shots at Kieren Perkins, the President of Swimming A...

Michael Bohl is one of Australia’s leading Olympic swim coaches who is priming his troops in what will be a fifth Olympic campaign describing the four-year "Big Dance" as “trying to get a predictable outcome in a very unpredictable environment.” [caption id="attachment_418548" align="alignnone" widt...

Rio Olympian Jack McLoughlin and prospective 2020 Olympians Kiah Melverton and Zac Stubblety-Cook showed they mean business in Brisbane tonight in what is shaping up as a frantic fight to make it to Tokyo next year. McLoughlin (Chandler) and Melverton (TSS Aquatics) led from the outset to record imp...

Australia became the first nation to actively prepare all of its top swimmers for the late-night racing they will endure at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with a special training camp this week. The conditions were set to mimic the radically different times of the day that they will be racing i...

Good Golly Miss Mollie As Australia’s Dolphins Shake Up Bond Relay Blitz   Mollie O’Callaghan, the 16-year-old Queensland schoolgirl who is swimming faster than Cate Campbell and Emma McKeon at the same age, has again caught the eye as Australia’s top swimmers went through their paces in a virtual R...