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By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey - The records started to fall on the first day of the 24th European Swimming Championships in Istanbul, the Dutch men's 4x100m freestyle relay setting a European record of 3:16.27 and both women's finals producing championship records that replaced the best that the GD...

Turkey Issues Arrest Warrant for Six-Time Olympian Derya Buyukuncu A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Derya Buyukuncu, the six-time Olympian from Turkey, for social media posts allegedly insulting Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Buyukuncu is the subject of one of eight warrants issu...

In an ordinary world, Monday 11 May 2020 would have marked the start of the European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, with Sarah Sjostrom making those late preparations, confident in the knowledge accrued during her 12 years at the top. Olympic and world champions would have gathered at the Duna ...

NEWPORT BEACH, CA. THE Sea Kings are still kings of the pool! Coach John Vargas' Corona del Mar High Sea Kings, defending CIF champs, edged La Jolla The Bishop's, 8-6, last week in the finals of the South Coast boys' water polo tourney at Newport Harbor High. Vargas, who will take over t...

Emre Sakci headed home to Izmir from the ISL with words of praise ringing in his ears after he claimed his place at the top table of breaststrokers alongside Adam Peaty and Cameron van der Burgh. The Turkish swimmer left Budapest as the second-fastest man in history over 50m breaststroke in a short-...

HOW SWEDE IT IS! KAMMERLING FLYS TO WORLD RECORD! By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey - Anna-Karin Kammerling, an 18-year-old student from Sundsvall in Sweden, set the first world record of the 24th European championships in Istanbul, Turkey, to win the inaugural 50m butterfly title in 26.29, 0.1 better ...

POPOV DETHRONED!!! By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey - Alexander Popov, the Russian Rocket, was defeated in the 100m freestyle for the first time in eight years at a major international championship - by a medical student from Maastricht that commentators are referring to as the Flying Dutchman. Little...

Turkish Olympians Batur Unlu, Deniz Ertan Lead Georgia Tech Wins over Emory Georgia Tech’s Turkish connection paid dividends in its opener, with Batur Unlu and Deniz Ertan winning two individual events each in dispatching Emory on Saturday. The Georgia Tech women won by a score of 178-63. The men pr...

The world junior championships showed us some promising talent in the pool, but none as spectacular as Turkey’s Viktoria Guynep Gunes. The 17-year-old vaulted herself from future star to gold medal hopeful in next year’s Olympic Games with four gold medals and a history-making swim in the 200 breast...

Four-time Olympic medallist Chad le Clos had just 36 hours to leave his training base in Gloria, Turkey, and now doubts Tokyo 2020 will go ahead as the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues its deathly march. Le Clos, who won 200m butterfly gold at London 2012 when he touched out Michael Phelps at the Aq...

Ben Proud and Anna Hopkin had weeks of being on dry land and training in unfamiliar surroundings without the water in which they live and breathe. Both are sprinters – Proud the 2017 world 50 fly champion and 50 free bronze medallist and Hopkin on an upward trajectory following a move to the Arkansa...

TUNIS, TUNISIA, Sept. 6. RECORDS fell faster than you can say "Thorpedo" on the third and fourth days of competition at the 15th Mediterranean Games here. Celebrating the Games' 50th year -- they began rather modestly in Alexandria, Egypt a half-century ago -- the competition in general, and swi...

Before Emre Sakci goes out to compete for Team Iron in the ISL at the Duna Arena, the Turkish swimmer writes Izmir in big, black letters across his heart. Following his race - and regardless of the outcome - he turns, sits on the lane rope and makes the heart gesture with his hands in tribute to the...

The start date of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games having been reset to July 23, 2021, this week marks the first for goals and plans reset. At the pointy end of business, no surprise to find a note pinned to coach James Gibson's Energy Standard Elite Team planner: ‘new training cycle begins’. It will be...

The Cranberry Sauce Dilemma: How Many Calories Are in My Thanksgiving Dishes? Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching, bringing with it the promise of meticulous cooking and ample food for the dinner table. Though swimmers are often characterized as enthusiastic eaters, they pose little competition to t...

WILMINGTON, North Carolina, March 13. EXPRESSING a desire to spend more time with his wife, children, and three grandsons, longtime coach Dave Allen, the founding father and architect of UNCW’s swimming and diving program, is heading for dry land. Allen announced his retirement on Thursday after coa...

By Seren Jones, Swimming World College Intern “When we got back to Dubai, Chris sat me and my mum down and said that if I listened to him and did everything he said, I would make the 2012 London Olympic Games. So from then on, I began training properly.” Velimir Stjepanovic has had his eyes on the p...

Emel Ersan coaches a goup of orphaned teenagers in the South of Turkey every summer. Some of these kids are burned and deformed from accidents and fires and the recent earthquake, and swimming to them is the little bit of rainbow they desperately need in their young lives. If anyone can donate swimm...

The International Olympic Committee has been accused of putting athletes’ health in jeopardy after two Turkish boxers and their head coach tested positive for coronavirus after returning home from an Olympic boxing tournament in London last week. In an exclusive report, The Guardian newspaper quotes...

By Josh Jeffrey In what is setting up to be a very fast summer for European swimmers, Anna Karin Kammerling broke Inge De Bruijn's 50m butterfly world best at the Swedish National Championships, held July 1st through the 4th in Halmstad. The teenager blazed to a 26.39 finish, erasing the new record ...