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Podium Protestors Horton & Scott, Matsumoto, Detti Gain If Sun loses and WADA wins; and the possible consequences, too, if Sun's argument prevails  Mack Horton bumped up to World champion and Gabriele Detti to silver over 400m freestyle, Katsuhiro Matsumoto celebrated in Japan as his nation's first ...

Gabriele Detti, the Olympic double bronze medallist for Italy at the Rio 2016 Games, just punched a ticket to the European Short-Course Championships in Glasgow next month with a 3:40.47 victory over 400m freestyle at the 43rd Mussi Lombardi Femiano Trophy in Massarosa, Lucca. Detti emerged from hi...

International Swimming League founder Konstantin Grigorishin said in an interview with the Washington Post this week that he is committed to expanding the league following next summer's Tokyo Olympic Games, despite the financial struggles within the first year. The ISL has received plenty of media c...

WADA Press For Tampering Ban The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) took a hammer to "Sun Yang's Playbook" and the "grammar gymnastics" of the FINA Doping Panel when it summed up its challenge at the Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing in Montreux today. Sun Yang, said WADA counsel Rich Young, had b...

Hammer Hearing - Sun Yang Vs WADA At CAS, Montreux, November 15 Sketch It started with Sun Yang's testimony being lost in poor translation and ended with a farcical cameo of just the kind of emotion and strong will to get his own way that what may well have led the Chinese swimmer to put his "entire...

Sun Yang Vs WADA - Montreux, November 15, 2019 From the shores of Lake Geneva We've been at the Montreux Palace Hotel all day for the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case of Sun Yang Vs WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency. The hearing is now over after early evening summaries and rebuttals came...

Japanese swimmer Takeharu Fujimori, 25, was handed a four-month suspension by the Japan Anti-Doping Agency (JADA) for testing positive for Osterin, a banned drug that has muscle strengthening effects. Fujimori failed the test at a domestic competition in May. Fujimori had initially been suspended fi...

After a brief rest period, the International Swimming League will pick back up this weekend in College Park, Maryland as the four American-based teams (Cali Condors, Los Angeles Current, DC Trident, and New York Breakers) vie for spots in the final match set to take place in December in Las Vegas. T...

Ahead of a debut in front of its home crowd at the American Derby at the University of Maryland, DC Trident announced today the addition of two Texas collegiate standouts to its roster — Remedy Rule from the University of Texas, and Claire Rasmus from Texas A&M. “I’m so excited to add these two fier...

Sun Yang Faces WADA The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will argue that a penalty of between two and eight years be handed down to Chinese Olympic champion Sun Yang at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Friday. WADA is challenging a FINA Doping Panel decision to issue a caution to Sun over...

Tim Hinchey, the CEO of USA Swimming, could face a vote of no confidence from the the federation's ruling Board if he cannot explain an apparent gap in his knowledge of the organisation’s anti-abuse training. As we report that news, we take a look back at the historic backdrop of abuse cases and the...

Tatjana Schoenmaker lifted the South African Sportswoman of Year and the South African Sports Star of the Year honours at the 2019 SA Sports Awards in Johannesburg. There was also a Minister’s Excellence Award for Bloemfontein’s Zane Waddell in recognition of his World 50m backstroke title. Swimming...

The Australian Olympic Committee has today opened its doors to negotiate with its National broadcaster the ABC just 24 hours after news broke that there would be “radio silence” form the Olympic Games for the first time since 1952. While ABC Programming director Judith Whelan has declared its budget...

ABC Olympic Radio Silence Video may have killed the radio star, as the song goes, but live broadcasts for the ear have been a part of Olympic Games coverage in Australia since it hosted the biggest multi-sports event in history in Melbourne back in 1956. If a decision by Australian ABC to pull the p...

In his first Remembrance Day tribute in Canberra today, Australian Governor-General David Hurley AC DSC, has paid tribute to legendary Olympic swimming gold medallist Cecil Healy – who remains the only Australian Olympic gold medallist to lose his life in the line of duty. And sadly a man whose extr...

George Breen, a four-time Olympic medalist between the 1956 Games in Melbourne and the 1960 Games in Rome, died on Nov. 9 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 84. Breen is considered one of the finest distance freestylers in the history of United States Swimming and was inducted into the Interna...

Russian Short-Course Championships came to a close in Kazan today with a hint of the potential of 15-year-old Eugenia Chikunova, who took the 200m breaststroke in 2:18.59 ahead of a rival nine years her senior, Maria Temnikova, on 2:19.73. Chikonova had entered the race with a best of 2:26.17 from a...

Adam Peaty and his mentor Mel Marshall topped the billboard as swimmer and coach of the year at the 2019 British Swimming Awards at the Athena in Leicester. The honour for Marshall extends beyond her work with Peaty: she also steered Luke Greenbank to bronze in the 200m backstroke and as a member of...

Sun Yang Vs WADA On Friday this week, the Court of Arbitration will consider the arguments of Sun Yang and the World Anti-Doping Agency in WADA's challenge to a FINA Doping Panel decision to impose no penalty but issue the Chinese swimmer with a caution over an acrimonious and now controversial out-...

Cate Campbell and Vladimir Morozov lifted the top prizes of $150,000 each today as queen and king of a 2019 FINA Cup series speedy up top but struggling just below the surface to justify the use of the word 'World' in its title. Campbell, the first Australian to lift the $150,000 prize on Cup tour, ...