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On This Date: Michael Phelps vs. Milorad Cavic: A Half-Stroke To History at Beijing Games With just a few strokes remaining in the 100-meter butterfly duel between Michael Phelps and Milorad Cavic at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Phelps’ pursuit of eight gold medals looked over. Cavic had a vis...

Mark Spitz, the man who held the record for most individual Olympic gold medals at a single competition before Michael Phelps in 2008, has called into question Phelps' record during a press tour in China. Speaking to Express Sports UK during a press tour that is part of the Laureus World Sports Awar...

Anytime an Olympic Games nears, discussion of Michael Phelps and his legendary status is part of the equation. He is, after all, the barometer for Olympic excellence. So, Swimming World is running this piece from the archive that identifies the greatest performances from Phelps' career. Phelps' long...

Of the three new Olympic swimming events added to the program in 2017, none will draw more attention at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics than the women’s 1500 free, largely because of the woman who won the race at three straight World Championships, including by almost 15 seconds in 2015 and then more than 1...

Role of Technology in Swimming: The Good and Bad By Josie Wise, Swimming World Intern Touchpads, meet management software, heart rate monitoring, underwater cameras... all are technological advancements that have been brought to swimming. As with anything in the world, swimming has not remained a st...

Milorad Cavic Still Claims He Won 2008 Olympic Gold in 100 Fly Over Michael Phelps Olympic silver medalist Milorad Cavic hopped on the Inside With Brett Hawke podcast to talk about his career, where he was a part of perhaps the most famous non-relay swim at the Olympic Games when he famously got bea...

What Bob Bowman Said to Michael Phelps Ahead of 2008 Olympic Final in 100 Fly As we count down the days to the end of the Olympic Games this summer in Tokyo, there are ample opportunities to relive some of the greatest moments in Olympic lore. It could be Fanny Durack becoming the first female champ...

Noè Ponti Looks Ahead To "A Great Battle In Paris" Amid A Golden Age Of 100 Fly Swimming A line at the top of the biography section on Noè Ponti’s website states that it’s updated “once a year, during the month of August.” It details the Swiss athlete’s achievements from his first race as a six-year...

Which Swimming World High School Swimmers of the Year Became Olympians? (From August 2020 Swimming World Magazine) From 1993-96, Swimming World recognized only one athlete each year as the nation’s top high school swimmer. It wasn’t until 1997 that the magazine decided to attach its name to the awar...

Twelve-Year Anniversary of Michael Phelps' Magic Touch in 100 Butterfly (Video) Today marks the 12th anniversary of Michael Phelps' come-from-behind triumph over Serbia's Milorad Cavic in the 100-meter butterfly at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. With a half-stroke at the finish, Phelps defeated ...

Three weeks ago, when David Orr and other swimming stakeholders in the state of Washington launched a petition to reopen swimming pools, they faced a long road. According to Gov. Jay Inslee’s original “Safe Start Washington” plan, pools wouldn’t have opened until Phase 3. But that changed Wednesday....

The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) announced today that legendary Sports Illustrated photographer Heinz Kluetmeier will become one of seventeen (17) honorees to enter the International Swimming Hall of Fame as the Class of 2017. Kluetmeier is the fourth individual to be named for ceremo...

By David Rieder Few athletes can channel motivation the way Michael Phelps can. Many have tried using trash talk to get into Phelps' head over the years, most notably Milorad Cavic prior to going head-to-head with Phelps in the 100 fly at both the 2008 Olympics and 2009 World Championships. Both tim...

The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) announced that America’s Ian Crocker will be officially recognized during the 2018 Induction Weekend after not being able to attend last year due to Hurricane Harvey. Last year, Crocker joined 17 others as honorees who entered the International Swimmin...

After 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps spoke at a U.S. Congressional Subcommittee meeting this week in favor of increased U.S. support for anti-doping programs, one of his fiercest rivals had some questions about Phelps' motivation. Milorad Cavic, the California-born Serbian national who...

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 12. AS part of our 11-day series highlighting the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association’s release of the 2013-14 All-America lists, Swimming World will also be looking at the history of each event that is part of the high school schedule. Today, we're looking at th...

Belgrade Announced As Hosts Of European Aquatics Championships In June 2024 The European Aquatics Championships will take place in Belgrade, Serbia, from 10-23 June 2024, just weeks before the Olympics get under way in Paris. The announcement by European Aquatics that the 14-day meet will take place...

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 11. AS part of our 11-day series highlighting the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association’s release of the 2013-14 All-America lists, Swimming World will also be looking at the history of each event that is part of the high school schedule. Today, we're looking at th...

The highlight of this week was undoubtedly the swimming competition of the 2017 FINA World Championships, which saw Team USA lead the medal table with 18 golds and 38 total medals and several world records fall throughout the competition. Take a look below to see the recap of that event and the rest...

Milorad Cavic Opens Up About Beijing Showdown With Michael Phelps in Feature in The Ringer An excellent takeout feature by John Gonzalez was posted on The Ringer this morning, the piece catching up with Milorad Cavic 12 years after his narrow defeat to Michael Phelps in the final of the 100-meter bu...