The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) today joined World Aquatics and World Athletics in the club of Olympic sports that rule any athletes who experienced male puberty out of the women’s category. The UCI, the global regulator for competitive cycling, issued […]
Today is the day Unfair Play, by Sharron Davies with this author, arrives in bookstores, print and digital. We’re both proud of the intense work we put it but most of all the truths and messages the book conveys: males […]
Paula Scanlan, a former teammate of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, has spoken out about the intimidation female athletes and students faced by officials at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan told Daily Wire‘s Matt Walsh that the university told female athletes […]
Global Athlete and a Coalition Against Abuse representing “more than 1,000 athletes from over 14 sports”, have called on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to launch a national inquiry into maltreatment and abuse in sport. In an Open letter, Global […]
Cate Campbell has entrusted her final swimming campaign to a fellow Olympian as she strives to become the first Australian swimmer to compete at five Olympic Games, in Paris next year, writes a correspondent from the final round of the […]
Summer McIntosh, 16, sang a song of swimming greatness at home in Toronto this evening: the first Canadian to hold the World 400m freestyle record, she is now the 400m medley global standard, too, after a phenomenal 4:25.87 blast at […]
The World Athletics Council has voted to follow World Aquatics and bar all biological males past the point of puberty from the women’s category. There is also minor provision for inclusion of DSD athletes in female racing but the new […]
Editorial – Plaudits started to roll in for Amelia Strickler the moment the British shot put ace chucked a couple of heavy balls at World Athletics governors she wished had grown a pair before making discrimination against women their “preferred […]
A county court has ordered British Swimming to pay out £6,000 for Masters swimming to comply with a legal settlement signed in the wake of the London 2016 European Masters Championships. In a judgment delivered at Nottingham County Court on 14 December 2022, Deputy Judge […]
Australia is just nine years away from hosting the Olympic Games for the third time in history and there’s no time to waste: now is the moment for leaders to put their money where their Brisbane 2032 campaign is and […]
The U.S. District Court in San Francisco has drawn a line in the ISL Vs FINA anti-trust dispute by ruling in favour of the regulator now known as World Aquatics, in part reflecting the fact that circumstances have moved on […]
The new International Consortium on Female Sport – ICFS – was launched globally today as the “preeminent international lobby group to advocate for the preservation of the female sport category worldwide”. This comes at a time when more international governing sports […]
World Aquatics has averted a potential boycott of the 2024 World Championships in Qatar by listening to athletes and coaches asking for bosses to ditch an obligation for teams to attend the global showcase with their best squads at the […]
The following is a statement from World Aquatics: 22 December 2022; LAUSANNE – The International Olympic Committee has given its approval for World Aquatics to allow men to participate in the Artistic Swimming competitions at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (Artistic […]
World Aquatics is the new name of FINA, the global regulator for swimming, diving, synchro and water polo announced today as the latest step on the road to reform. Name changes are a good way to mark a new start […]
Editorial – The week ahead will kick the four-letter word FINA overboard to where it belongs at the bottom of the sea with a bygone, misogynist culture; honorary positions that tow the baggage of failed governance, wilful harm, awards for […]
The working group tasked with shaping a new Open category in aquatics sport after a widely praised June decision of FINA to ring-fence the women’s category in aquatics sports for female athletes only, has asked for more time to work […]
Key swimming stakeholders in Australia have called for an urgent and independent review of governance in a bombshell letter to Swimming Australia boss Eugenie Buckley and the board of the regulator Down Under. Swimming Australia (SA) confirmed receipt of the […]
