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Double Olympic champion James Guy has described as "horrendous" Swim England's prediction that almost 2,000 pools in England could be lost forever by the end of the decade. The governing body made its grim forecast in its newly-published A Decade of Decline: The Future of Swimming Pools in England r...

When Inky Made Her Mark: The Anniversary of Inge de Bruijn And Her Sydney Star Turn From the August Issue of Swimming World The 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney are widely remembered for the home-nation success of Australia, which was spearheaded by teenage sensation Ian Thorpe. But the Games Down Under...

No Tokyo, No Problem: The Non-Olympians Turning Heads in ISL Season 3 Every season of the International Swimming League has carried a notable first. The inaugural campaign in 2019 was an experiment in every aspect. The 2020 season brought expansion and a bubble amid a global pandemic. The question t...

Sarah Sjostrom Receives Olympic Resilience Award After Comeback to Win Silver (From September’s Swimming World Magazine) Despite fracturing her elbow in February and undergoing surgery to have screws and a metal plate inserted, Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom was not only able to compete five months later a...

Australian Chloe McCardel Chases Record 44th English Channel Crossing Australian marathon swimmer Chloe McCardel will pursue a world record 44th crossing of the English Channel over the next month. McCardel has made the 34-kilometer crossing of the Channel on 41 occasions. That is more than any man ...

From Olympics to ISL, British Star Duncan Scott Has Been Consistently Excellent Somehow, Duncan Scott is still underrated. The 24-year-old from Alloa, Scotland, made his first Olympic final at age 19 and then spent the next five years entrenching himself as an individual medal contender on the globa...

Four Surprise Standouts from Four Matches in 2021 ISL Season From a team perspective, there’s nothing new on the International Swimming League block. The teams that finished 1-2 in the 2020 Grand Final have won each of their first two matches. The teams that finished at the bottom of the 2020 standi...

Five-time Paralympic champion and British Para-Swimming legend Ellie Simmonds has announced her retirement from competition following Tokyo 2020. Simmonds has become a household name in British sport during a glittering 15-year career, which included four Paralympic Games and a quintet of titles on ...

ISL Match 3: Sarah Sjostrom, Siobhan Haughey Lead Energy Romp It started Friday, in ISL Match 3 in Naples, with Energy Standard trotting out Sarah Sjostrom and Siobhan Haughey and daring the other three teams in the meet to do something about it. It would end, less than two hours later, with Sjostro...

ISL Match 3, Day 1: Sarah Sjostrom's ISL Record Puts Energy Standard in Charge The powers of Europe area assembled and ready to joust in ISL Match 3. The London Roar, which finished third in the 2020 ISL Final, is in the water for the first time in ISL Season 3, making its debut along with Team Iron...

Olympic swimming medalists Florent Manaudou and Pernille Blume are engaged. The couple announced their engagement on social media on Wednesday. "I would say August gets a 10/10 🥰 My love and I both getting medals at the Olympics and then THIS!!!" Blume wrote on Instagram. View this post on Inst...

The Black Swimming Association (BSA) is launching a ground-breaking research programme, which could dispel some of the myths surrounding ethnically-diverse communities and water safety. According to Sport England, 95% of black adults and 80% of black children do not swim, while an estimated 532,000 ...

Marc-Antoine Olivier, Anna Olasz Win FINA/CNSG Marathon Swim Series Stop in North Macedonia France’s Marc-Antoine Olivier and Hungary’s Anna Olasz won the latest installment of the FINA/CNSG Marathon World Swim Series 2021 in Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia on Saturday. Saturday’s race was the second in...

French swimmers Oceane Cassignol, Axel Reymond Win at UltraMarathon in North Macedonia French swimmers Oceane Cassignol and Axel Reymond won the women’s and men’s races, respectively, in the first meet of the FINA UltraMarathon Swim Series on Saturday. The 25-kilometer course was situated in Lake Oh...

European governing body LEN has announced Fluidra as its official partner for temporary swimming pools and equipment. The partnership will run for four years from 2021-2025 with the Spanish company which was founded in 1969. According to its website, Fluidra "is the global leader in the pool and wel...

British Swimming chairman Maurice Watkins CBE has died aged 79. Watkins was appointed to his role in December 2012 and oversaw the development of an era of aquatics sport in Britain during which the swimming, para-swimming and diving teams have progressed greatly on the international stage. At the T...

Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty is swapping the pool for the dancefloor after it was announced he would be starring in the BBC's 'Strictly Come Dancing' show. Peaty became the first Briton to defend an Olympic swimming title when he added gold in Tokyo to the one he claimed at Rio 2016...

Two-Time German Olympian Franziska Hentke Announces Retirement Franziska Hentke, who qualified for the Olympics twice and won a silver at the 2017 World Championships, has announced her retirement at the age of 32. The German swimmer made the Rio and Tokyo Olympics in her specialty, the 200 butterfl...

Switzerland’s Noe Ponti Emerges as One of Tokyo Olympics’ Rising Stars In the butterfly and mid-distance freestyle events at the Tokyo Olympics Games, one name seemed to be ubiquitous. Every time you looked up at the board, there it was: Noe Ponti. It’s a name that the Atlantic Coast Conference migh...

Olympics: How Federico Burdisso and Italy Became One of the Games’ Top Swimming Stories There should’ve been no secret entering the Tokyo Olympics about the Italian swimming delegation. Just two months prior to the open of competition in Tokyo, the Italians won the team competition at the European C...