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The story of Dr. Gary O'Toole, his courage, the courage he encouraged, the woeful failings of sports authorities and indeed the legal system to deliver justice to victims and survivors of sexual abuse in swimming is a tortured tale layered with issues that demand inquiry anew and changes to the law,...

Ryan Lochte has put Rio 2016 behind him as he looks to qualify for his fifth Olympics in Tokyo a year from now. The six-time Olympic champion admits he has had several "bumps in the road" over the past four years and described the postponement of Tokyo 2020 as a "minor bump". The 35-year-old generat...

Amaury Leveaux announced on Monday that he had missed a drugs test in Mulhouse, France. The Frenchman has his sights set on Tokyo 2021 - when he will be 35 - after returning to the pool in 2018. Leveaux, who won his first Olympics medals at Beijing 2008 when he took silvers in the 50 free and 4x100 ...

British swimmers were among Olympians used as "guinea pigs" to test an experimental substance "in a secret UK Sport project costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money" on the way to the London 2012 Olympic Games, according to an investigation by The Mail on Sunday. The allegations on a ...

UK Sport and Sport England are to immediately undertake the first joint review of the Code for Sports Governance. The announcement coincides with a newspaper investigation that calls in question a secret research project organised by UK Sport in 2012. UK Sport's governance review will focus on three...

Sunday Essay/commentary:  It is no easy task to entice many of you to read more than 5,000 words on a massive downside of the Olympic Games this day of relative rest but I  recommend, nonetheless, to all who prepare for a the showcase of an autonomous Movement, to all who look forward, as we do, to ...

Swim Ireland and Swim Ulster have written to the Northern Ireland Executive to urge them to reconsider the delay in opening swimming pools and rethink the stated resumption date of 7 August. The two organisations have acted on behalf of clubs following the news that leisure centres can reopen on 17 ...

Gregorio Paltrinieri - who became the first Italian to claim Olympic 1500m gold at Rio 2016 - insists the pool remains a priority and that he will challenge on all fronts at Tokyo 2020 as he credited the break enforced by coronavirus with renewing his motivation. Paltrinieri announced in May that he...

As a swimmer, Jonty Skinner went down in history as the man who crushed the swimming speed that crushed the rest:  20 days after after American Jim Montgomery clocked a then stunning 49.99sec over 100m freestyle for Olympic gold at Montreal 1976, Skinner, locked out of the race by the apartheid...

Outdoor swimming pools can reopen from Saturday 11 July in England with indoor pools able to open their doors again from Monday 11 July, the Government has announced. The announcement - which many felt was long overdue - was made by Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and S...

Duncan Scott has been named male athlete of the year in the Scottish Student Sports Awards 2020 after a memorable year in and out of the pool. The 23-year-old is based at the University of Stirling, a little over 25 miles north-east of Glasgow, where he is coached by Steven Tigg. The 2019/20 season ...

The Associated Press reported on Thursday that China will not play host to any international sports competitions through the end of the year, except for events connected to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and its neighboring city of Zhangjiakou. The decision was made to neutralize the possibilit...

The Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee will issue Tokyo 2020 ticket refunds to people unable to attend the Games due to their one-year postponement, according to sources speaking to Kyodo News today. To date, about 4.48 million tickets for the Olympics and some almost 1 million ticket...

Tokyo 2020 is committed to a simplified Paralympic Games that reflects "the new global economic, societal and public health contexts" in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The principles, positioning and roadmap for the 2020 Paralympics were released by Tokyo 2020 on Wednesday after having been r...

Commentary from Jim Gamble, swimmer and then coach at the Pittsburgh Panthers, on his experience of growing up in swimming as "the only one", in other words, the only black kid on the blocks - and why he says "I have no idea what my life would be like if it wasn't for swimming." Coach Mark Rau...

More than most of his peers, Brandonn Almeida was hoping 2020 would bring stability. In what had become an all-too-familiar theme, the Brazilian changed coaches last fall, culminating a stretch of 18 months where he changed coaches four times. That stretch included a season at the University of Sout...

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President, Witold Bańka, is aiming to keep athletes involved with anti-doping policies and is looking at ways to become more athlete-centered. His plan includes the hopes of engaging and empowering athletes to contribute to anti-doping policies as well as a pathway to...

2020s Vision - Athlete Sustainability and Lessons From Sweden  That Speak Louder After COVID-19 Lockdown There was a sobering moment at the World Aquatics Development Conference in Lund back in January when Ulrika Sandmark, performance head coach of Swedish swimming, put a slide up on the board...

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes’ Council announced Tuesday that it will “launch a consultation exercise” within its community over athlete protests. The effort is aimed at getting feedback from members, “on ways athletes could express their views on key subjects at the Paralymp...

At 6 feet 5 inches, Andrei Belofastov is a giant of a man—and a bridge between the Soviet Union’s glorious water polo past and the bright future of what is now a Russian-only endeavor. A member of the Unified Team that took bronze in the 1992 Barcelona Games, Belofastov spoke recently with Swimming ...