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British investigative reporter Andrew Jennings has been perhaps the most dogged critic of the Olympic movement under the 21-year reign of outgoing IOC President, Juan Antonio Samaranch. His books, Lords of the Rings (1992) and The New Lords of the Rings (1996) outlined the corruption within the Olym...

July 16, ATLANTIC CITY. SPAIN'S David Meca-Medina, seeking vindication after his win in Atlantic City last year was overturned by FINA for a drug violation, left no doubt that he is King of the Boardwalk, when he won the men's division of the 37-kilometer (22.5-mile) Atlantic City Marathon i...

World Aquatics Announces Fall World Cup 2025 Tour in North America World Aquatics on Tuesday announced a three-spot World Cup 2025 tour in North America. The series will stop in Carmel, Indiana, on Oct. 10-12; Westmont, Ill. on Oct. 17-19; and Toronto Oct. 23-25 for meets in short-course meters. Ind...

LEXINGTON, Ky. The University of Kentucky swimming team signed three recruits during the fall signing period, UK Coach Gary Conelly announced Wednesday. Joanna Chetcoti-McLean, Breannan Moore and Jamie Saxe will all join the womens team in August 2002. Chetcoti-McLean is a sprinter out of Toronto, ...

TORONTO, December 2. CAROL ANNE LETHEREN, an IOC member and chief executive officer of the Canadian Olympic Association, died Friday in Toronto. She was 58. Letheren collapsed Wednesday night while speaking at an awards banquet for alumni of the Schulich School of Business in Toronto, part of York U...

Five international recruits have signed with the Florida State Seminoles. The Seminoles signed 11 swimmers in total. Swimming World looked into the Florida State recruiting class. Manuella Ribas Andrade Andrade is from Curitiba, Brazil and currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida. She specializes ...

CLEARWATER, April 19. THE Fourth Annual Tampa Bay Marathon Swim will be held on Saturday, April 21, in celebration of Earth Day. The 24 mile competition starts at 8:30am from Ben T. Davis Beach on the Courtney Campbell Causeway, and ends at the Sunshine Skyway at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort (800...

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AUG. 13. ALESSIO Boggiatto was in a quandry. The Italian medley specialist, who struck gold in the 400 IM at last month's World Championships in Fukuoka for his first major international title, so loved his precious bauble he decided he needed a matching medal. But where to get it? The next Worl...

Canada’s top Para-swimming athletes will be in action at home just one week following the postponement of the World Para Swimming Championships due to the devastating earthquake that occurred outside Mexico City. Paralympic heroes Benoît Huot, Aurelie Rivard, Katarina Roxon will lead a list of the n...

Swimming Canada is adding yet another internationally renowned coach to its stable of High Performance leaders. Martyn Wilby has accepted the new role of senior coach. This leadership position will work in a team environment to support High Performance Director John Atkinson in the areas of technica...

TORONTO, Ontario, February 20. THE University of British Columbia Thunderbirds lead the way after Day 1 of the 2014 Speedo CIS swimming championships at the University of Toronto’s Varsity Pool. The defending champion Thunderbirds women hold a commanding lead with 254 points, 126 points ahead of the...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, April 9. THE United States will send 45 athletes (27 women, 18 men) to the 2014 Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships, U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, announced today. Athletes were selected for the meet, Aug. 6-10 in Pasadena, Calif...

This week would be Para Swimming Championship host Mexico City was rocked with a devastating earthquake, forcing the IPC to postpone the event for the first time in it's history. Read about the IPC's decision and all of the biggest stories of the week in The Week That Was. https://youtu.be/Y0V3zn1MZ...

YOUNG HARRIS, Georgia, June 5. EIGHT swimmers represent their schools on the recently released list of student-athletes on the 2014 Capital One Academic All-America College Division men's and women's at-large teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Four of the swimmer...

TORONTO, Canada, January 20. THE University of Toronto Varsity Blues swimming program is pleased to announce that Kylie Masse has signed a letter of intent and committed to swim for the Varsity Blues in the fall of 2014. A native of Windsor, Masse was the top ranked swimmer in her graduating class b...

Canada’s top Para-swimming athletes will play host to the Canadian Open, October 2-4, at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre. The competition has been created following the International Paralympic Committee’s decision to postpone the World Para Swimming Championships, which were originally scheduled t...

MONTREAL, June 4. CANADIAN supestar Curtis Myden led the way on the final three days of competition of the Canadian Olympic Trials in Montreal. Leading from start to finish, Myden clocked 2:01.20 for the men's 200 meters individual medley on Friday--the world's second fastest time this year....

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Friday, December 27, 2019, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Where should the next ISL team be based out of? We created this poll question before we found out that Tokyo (Japan) and Toronto (Canada) were going ...

PHOENIX, Sept. 13. The following editorial, "America: The Good Neighbor," was was given in a 1973 editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. Both Tom Dolan and Bobby Patten sent it to us and, in this terrible moment in our nation's history, we wanted ...