Editorial – Ian Thorpe and journalism let themselves down badly this week in a short, lazy and bewildering interview that appeared in various places, including The Guardian online. The Australian Associated Press file delivered the news that the swim legend […]
Paolo Barelli, the former vice-president of FINA, ex-head of the European Swimming League (LEN) and current president of the Italian Swimming Federation (FIN), has been suspended for two years by the global regulator for aquatics after a ruling by the […]
Katie Ledecky has made short-course swimming a rarity during her illustrious career. With each passing 25m World record set in women’s distance freestyle, her absence always felt more ‘when’ than ‘if. When was sent into the pantheon in 7mins 57.42sec […]
Adam Peaty has described the demon of fourth place at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last summer as the “poison in my veins” fuelling a relentless pursuit of a pioneering third gold at the Paris Olympic Games in 2024. American […]
A decade after her international breakthrough at the start of a stellar career as one off there all-time swimming greats, Katie Ledecky added a different kind of first to her pantheon at the World Cup in Toronto: with 15 World […]
Li Bingjie stunned the world of swimming this week with a 3:51.30 Word short-course record in the 400m freestyle at Chinese nationals, a day before two others, Summer McIntosh and Katie Ledecky, went stroke-for-stroke into the 3:52s at the FINA […]
On this day, as each October 2 each year since his passing in 2012, we remember Nick Thierry. Today marks the tenth anniversary of his death. The Father of World Rankings and publisher of Swim Magazine, later SwimNews, has been much missed […]
Swimming Canada has confirmed that 15-year-old world champion Summer McIntosh has withdrawn from the 200m butterfly at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where six days of racing gets underway on Friday. Our Commonwealth Vortex will soak up the snippets and […]
The University of Birmingham has a fine team of world-leading experts in sports performance and psychological wellbeing lined up to talk to media during the Commonwealth Games in Britain’s second-largest city, where six days of racing get underway from Friday. […]
Today is World Drowning Prevention Day, a good moment to noted that drowning is one of the leading causes of death globally for children and young people aged 1-24 years: every year, an estimated 236,000 people drown. In early coverage […]
In The Vortex – Ariarne Titmus heads into the Commonwealth Games in pioneering form, plus: Isaac Cooper says wellbeing issues, not banned substances, behind return home before start of commonwealth Games over ‘misuse of medication’ First Irish Summer Nationals in […]
“My health began to deteriorate drastically – my strength, my athleticism – was being taken away from me and I couldn’t do anything to stop it!” – Michael Klim Michael Klim, who claimed medals for Australia in the pool at […]
Four-times Olympic medallist Duncan Scott will not race for Great Britain in 2022, having missed the World Championships as a result of a Covid infection last month and now having opted out of the European Championships in Rome next month […]
The Vortex is SOS’ weekly digest and soak of swimming news, views and links to big events. Craig Lord is currently on writing retreat and taking break from usual coverage in 2022, barring focus on the European Championships in Rome […]
Mary-Sophie Harvey, the Canadian medley ace, says she was drugged on the final night at the World Championships in Budapest last month, leaving her with a concussion and rib sprain after an episode in which there was a “four-to-six-hour window […]
Editorial & Essay On Reform – Let’s exchange the experience, sings Kate Bush in her Deal with God that’s Running Up That Hill to the top of music charts the world over almost four decades after she first poked the […]
FINA is being called on to drop what has been described as a plan to force national federations to send elite teams to a World Championships in Doha at the start of Olympic years in January 2024 against their wishes. […]
Great Britain was forced to reset its summer 2022 competition plans as a result of Budapest World Championships being “parachuted in” on a “crammed” calendar, Bill Furniss, head coach, acknowledged as the FINA showcase draws to a close in Hungary. […]
