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World Aquatics to Test 10-Lane System and Wildcard Bids for World Short Course Championships World Aquatics, the global governing body for aquatic sports, has announced it will test a pair of new concepts connected to the 2026 World Short Course Championships in Beijing. The first trial will be the ...

Britain's Matt Richards Fires Back at IOC President Comments About Payment Days after Kirsty Coventry, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), commented that she doesn't "believe in paying athletes," Olympians continue to fire back against the sentiment. In a post on his LinkedIn...

Passages: Rob Schumacher, Longtime Arizona and Olympic Photographer, Age 62 One of the top sports photographers in the United States passed away recently. Rob Schumacher, who worked for the Arizona Republic and the USA TODAY network of papers, died on Sunday, May 17 at age 62. The cause of death was...

Ryan Erisman Makes Statement With World-Class Distance Times in London One year ago, Ryan Erisman clobbered his best times at U.S. Nationals to nearly put himself on the World Championships team. In the 400 freestyle final, the teenager sat in fifth place throughout before charging down the stretch,...

Tarnished Gold: How the Success of Kristin Otto Was Smoke and Mirrors With the Enhanced Games recently concluded, it revealing nothing of what a true athlete can achieve, we visit the vault to explore the story of East Germany's Kristin Otto, whose success arrived under dark clouds. When Kristin Ott...

Siobhan Haughey Sets Mare Nostrum Record En-Route To Golden Double In Canet Results Day 1 report Siobhan Haughey set a Mare Nostrum 200 free record en-route to a golden double on day two of the Canet stop of the series. First up for the four-time Olympic medallist was the 50 free which she took in 2...

Texas A&M Director of Swimming & Diving Blaire Anderson has added 2020 Olympian and two-time Aggie Heart Award winner Munzy Kabbara to her staff as External Relations & Recruiting Assistant. In this role, Kabbara, who finished his standout collegiate swimming career earlier this year, supports exte....

How Maryland’s Rip Current Sports Caught the Attention of iHeart Media Maryland-based Rip Current Sports and its founder, Jose-Luis Gallagher, were recently featured on iHeart Media’s Maryland Business Spotlight. Gallagher’s interview was also highlighted by Reach for the Wall, a nonprofit swimming ...

POLL: Who is the Biggest Omission from Team USA for This Summer's Pan Pacific Championships? The United States' selection procedures for this summer's Pan Pacific Championships hinged on several meets from last year, an approach that has been used by USA Swimming in the past. The competitions that c...

Marrit Steenbergen Scares World Record in 100 Freestyle at Canet Stop of Mare Nostrum Series Just two days after Anna Moesch set an American record in the 100-meter freestyle to become the No. 2 performer in history, the Netherlands' Marrit Steenbergen joined the 51-second club by blasting a mark of...

Mikayla Tan Could Soon Become Breaststroke Force for Singapore A pair of victories at this weekend's Pro Swim Series in Sacramento, Calif., represented the most significant career accomplishments thus far for Mikayla Tan. The San Ramon Valley swimmer topped the 200 breaststroke Friday in 2:26.35, ca...

How the Enhanced Games Tried - and Failed - to Make Swimming Spectacle It's no secret that swimming is a once-every-four-years event for most people. For all the joys of a competitive championship meet, the leaders who bear the responsibility of running swim meets have understood that obtaining larg...

Texas Lands 2027 Verbal From Hungarian Olympian Vivien Jackl NEW COMMIT: The University of Texas has scored a big verbal commitment for the 2027-28 season and beyond from Budapest, Hungary native Vivien Jackl. A versatile swimmer who especially excels in distance freestyle and IM, Jackl competed at ...

Oliver Dawson Breaks Two Canadian Records at AP Race London; Provides Relay Hope For the first time since 2012, a long-course Canadian national record in a breaststroke event has been broken. Eighteen-year-old Oliver Dawson put on a record-breaking display at the 2026 AP Race London International sw...

Quintin McCarty Uses Mare Nostrum Series to Rise Up Sprint Ranks Heading into the opening leg of this year's Mare Nostrum Series, Quintin McCarty ranked 17th all-time among American athletes in the 50-meter freestyle. A time of 21.79 served as McCarty's best in the event, delivered at last summer's ...

Gui Caribe to Lead Brazil Pan Pacs Roster Tennessee sprinter Gui Caribe will lead Brazil’s 11-strong roster at the Pan Pacific Championships this summer. Caribe was among the group that qualified via the Maria Lenk Trophy in Rio last week. Caribe went 23.01 in the 50 fly, denying 46-year-old Nichola...

Alabama, NC State Join College Swimming League Alabama and NC State are the latest schools to announce their participation in the inaugural season of the College Swimming League. Both teams made the announcements on social media this week Sunday and Monday. The schools join Virginia, Georgia, Auburn...

IOC President Kirsty Coventry: ‘I Don’t Believe in Paying Athletes’ In a visit to Oceania, new International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry has reasserted that she doesn’t believe in directly paying athletes on the Olympic stage. Coventry, an Olympic gold medalist swimmer from Zimbabwe ...

Americans Alex Bowen, Drew Holland Retire from International Water Polo American Olympic water polo players Alex Bowen and Drew Holland announced their international retirements on Tuesday. Both Stanford grads, they were part of the Paris Olympic team that won a bronze medal for the U.S. men’s first...

Olympic Gold Medalist Summer McIntosh Signs with Octagon Three-time Olympic gold medalist Summer McIntosh signed a full representation agreement with Octagon, the parties announced on Tuesday. McIntosh, 19, joins the international agency off four medals in the Paris Olympics in 2024, including gold ...