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American Mark Spitz and Australian Dawn Fraser were named the greatest male and female swimmers, respectively, of the twentieth century by Swimming World Magazine, the sport's magazine of record. The results of a selection by an international panel of experts, are published in the December issue of ...

Each day through October 26, Swimming World will take you back 50 years to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and will re-tell the stories of those Games through archived meet recaps via the Swimming World Vault. Read More on the 1968 Olympics Mark Spitz’s first gold medal Micki King hits board in 3m sp...

By Phillip Whitten TUCSON, Jan. 31. FOR more than 28 years, swimmer Rick DeMont has been seeking vindication. In 1972, DeMont, then 16, was unceremoniously stripped of an Olympic gold medal after testing positive for a banned substance in his asthma medication. Now, U.S. Olympic Committee officials ...

By Andy Ross. On April 1, 2007, Michael Phelps won his seventh gold medal of the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne, Australia in the 400 IM. A little over ten years later, Phelps is unanimously known as the greatest swimmer of all time. Almost everyone involved in the swimming community remember...

SYDNEY, Australia - Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympics, criticized the International Olympic Committee for failing to introduce tests for all banned drugs because of pressure from countries such as China. Spitz, who was speaking at a ceremony to name a street in his honor at ...

DAKAR, Senegal. Feb. 6. THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE reiterated its long-held position today, refusing to offer special recognition to Rick DeMont, the former American swimmer who was stripped of his gold medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, after he tested positive for ephedrine, which was ...

By Phillip Whitten TWO weeks after Holland’s Inge De Bruijn streaked to four barrier-breaking world swimming records in three days at the Speedo Grand Prix in Sheffield, England, the waters of world swimming are still churning with controversy over whether the flying Dutchwoman achieved her marks le...