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Throwback Thursday: Mary T. Meagher and a Standard Decades Ahead of Its Time In this World Record Flashback, we examine the historic 1981 world record of Mary T. Meagher in the 200-meter butterfly. When Madame Butterfly clocked 2:05.96 at the United States National Championships, she produced a stan...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 28. CHINESE divers exhibited their prowess during the third leg of the FINA/NVC Diving World Series at the London Aquatics Centre on April 25-27, pocketing all eight titles at stake. In the men’s individual events, reigning World champion He Chong claimed the 3m springbo...

SEVILLE, Spain, - 1992 Olympic champion Dagmar Hase ended Michelle de Bruin's dream of five gold medals at the European Championships on Thursday when she beat de Bruin in the women's 400m freestyle. De Bruin, who won the 400 IM on Tuesday and the 200m freestyle on Wednesday, looked set to claim a t...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the second day of racing in the pool at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, where Barbara Krause led the latest assault on global standards with a second World record in 24 hours as the first woman to race inside 55sec over 100m freestyle. Painful truth and conseque...

By Craig Lord, Ian Hanson, Belinda Dennett and Phillip Whitten PERTH, Australia. August 7. GRANT Hackett, from Miami on the Gold Coast in Australia, shattered his own world short course record over 1,500 meters freestyle today when he hacked 9.45sec off his previous best time to become national cham...

How the Moscow Boycott Short-Circuited Olympic Dreams Today marks the 45th anniversary of the Opening Ceremony of the 1980 Olympic Games. We run this feature to demonstrate the influence of politics on sports and its athletes. ********************** On March 21, 1980, President Jimmy Carter announce...

MOSCOW, Russia, June 2. THE Russian sports minister feels his country's swimming federation is one of several sports in danger of suspension from international competition based on recent history of major doping violations. Vitaly Mutko told The Associated Press that the recent high-profile suspensi...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the 21.64 World record set by Alexander Popov over 50m freestyle. The Russian Sprint Tsar, two historic doubles and four Olympic 50-100m freestyle crowns in the treasury, set the new dash pace at nationals and trials in Moscow heading for a third Olympic Games at ...

MOSCOW, Russia, May 16. IT was a banner night for the Sizzling Siberian Vlad Morozov as he tracked down his third title of Russian Nationals with a 50-meter back Russian record. Morozov crushed his Russian record in the men's 50-meter back with a sterling time of 24.52. That swim smoked his previous...

SANTA CLARA, CA. MEMO to Irvine High School's girls' swim team: Five-consecutive CIF Southern Section Division I Championships? Not bad, but you've got a long ways to go before you're in the same league with San Jose's Bellarmine Prep boys' team. For the 20th-straight season ...

YANA WINS FOUR, SWEDES KEEP ROLLING AT EURO SHORT COURSE Lisbon, Portugal - Martina Moravcova went down in history in Lisbon Sunday as the last swimmer to win a European, or for that matter, any other international, swimming title of the 20th century, when she raced to a 1:56.28 victory in the 200m ...

CANBERRA, April 10. GENNADI TOURETSKI, 51, coach of Olympic stars Alex Popov and Michael Klim will be suspended from the Australian Institute of Sport today after police reportedly found a small quantity of illegal anabolic steroids in the famed coach's home, according to informed sources. The a...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has provisionally removed the official approved status of the National Anti-Doping Laboratory of Moscow in Russia, "with immediate effect, pending formal disciplinary action". WADA issued the following statement moments ago: Montreal, 22 January 2020 – The World A...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, May 13. TODAY, FINA released its final decision regarding Russia's Yuliya Efimova and her positive test for 7-keto-DHEA during an out-of-competition test that took place in Los Angeles. FINA elected to imposed a 16-month competition ban retroactive to Oct. 31, 2013 and conclud...

With Tokyo Games Uncertain, Steve Lundquist Recalls His 1980 Experience Early one morning in 1980, Southern Methodist University freshman swimmer Steve Lundquist walked into practice at 5 a.m., and instead of greeting swimmers, he encountered a barrage of news reporters. “I remember going to the nat...

COLORADO SPRINGS- The most prestigious swimming competition to be staged in the U.S. since the 1996 Olympic Games will be held in Indianapolis, Ind., as FINA awarded the city the 2004 Short Course World Championships, FINA Honorary Secretary Gunnar Werner announced today. The meet, which will take p...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Oct. 24. USA Swimming announced the slection of a 26-person team to compete at the Short Course World Championships in Moscow next April 3-7. Among the 26 athletes are 13 Olympic medalists from Sydney, three 2001 world champions and several members of the Goodwill Games and ...

Double gold medalist in Atlanta, in the 50- and 100-meter freestyle, Alexander Popov of Russia, was stabbed on a Moscow street Saturday by watermelon vendors. Doctors on Monday listed Popov in serious condition following an emergency operation to heal wounds that grazed his lungs and kidneys. Popov ...

From Reuters - MOSCOW, RUSSIA - Russian swimmers Vladimir Pyshnenko, Natalia Mesheryakova and Olga Kochetkova, who tested positive for steroids earlier this month, will fly to Switzerland next week to explain to FINA that they had been tricked into eating a sabotaged cake.

MOSCOW, Russia, May 14. DARIA Ustinova, just 15 years old, is quickly taking over the top backstroke spot on the Russian squad as she has been putting up strong times all week at Russian Nationals. A day after setting the World Junior Record in the women's 200-meter back during semis with a 2:09.02,...