What a fortnight for Gregorio Paltrinieri, what a World Championships for Europe’s top distance swimmers, the Italian joined bay Florian Wellbrock, Mykhailo Romanchuk, Domenico Acerenza and others making open water a roaring success story for the old continent in Budapest. […]
Dutch marathon ace and 2016 Olympic champion Sharon van Rouwendaal claimed gold, for her first World 10km title, on Lupa Lake in Budapest today. Van Rouwendaal, 28, was disappointed in a 10th-place finish over 5km last Monday, but today the […]
Italy’s 2016 Olympic 1500m freestyle champion Gregorio Paltrinieri wore the scars and experience of many a bruising 30-length battle with pride on the way to the third World title of his career in 14:32.80, a Championship and European record. One […]
Ukraine distance-freestyle ace Mykhailo Romanchuk urged sports organisations around the world to stick to their ban on Russians because he had been “ready to go and kill” his former friend Evgeny Rylov, the double Olympic backstroke champion, after seeing photographs […]
International Rugby League (IRL) has become the first sport to follow FINA’s lead in barring transgender athletes from women’s competition if they have experienced any part of male puberty in their development years – and World Athletics has indicated that […]
Australian Olympic flagbearer and sprinter supreme Cate Campbell followed American fellow Olympic champion Summer Sanders at the lecture to address FINA Congress as the last speaker before an historic vote to attempt to persuade delegates from around the world that […]
Transgender swimmers will be barred from competing in elite races for women if they have gone through any part of male puberty following a vote by the sport’s world governing body FINA. The policy, which comes into effect Monday June […]
Women and Men Against Child Abuse (WMACA) Athletes division has accused Swimming South Africa of lying to the country’s Parliament in a formal six-page complaint against the swimming body to the Portfolio Committee on Sport, Arts and Culture. The move […]
Russian Olympic 100 and 200m backstroke champion Evgeny Rylov has been suspended for nine months by FINA after attending a rally in support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the pro-war Z symbol stitched on his sports kit. When images of Rylov’s appearance at […]
Rūta Meilutytė, the Olympic 100m breaststroke champion of 2012, has swum across a lake near the Russian Embassy in Lithuania* that was turned red with dye to represent the blood of the Ukrainian people murdered by the invading troops of […]
The double Olympic backstroke champion Evgeny Rylov is facing sanction after he appeared on stage at Vladimir Putin’s propaganda rally in Moscow on Friday with the pro-war “Z” symbol on his jacket. The Times reports today that the 25-year-old may […]
Evgeny Rylov, the double Olympic backstroke champion, has been stripped of his kit contract with Speedo after appearing at Vladimir Putin’s war rally against Ukraine with a nationalist Z on his jacket at a Moscow stadium last Friday. A source […]
SOS Weekend Essay – The flag of rights in hand, Nancy Hogshead-Makar sails the good ship Pygmalion as she tears metaphorical pages from the 11,995 lines and 15 books that make up Ovid‘s narrative poem Metamorphoses and nails them to […]
In Atlanta today, trans athlete Lia Thomas will race for the University of Pennsylvania in the 500 yards freestyle as the fastest entry at the U.S. college showcase NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships. In this first of a two-part feature […]
International Women’s Day Essay – IWD2022 – offers not only a chance to celebrate women but to speak up (see VIDEO of UPenn swimmer doing just that) in support of women and raising awareness and bringing change on the challenges […]
Editorial: A 200 freestyle in which Lia Thomas crushed female opponents with a last 50 faster than the first 50 last night became the yardstick by which we can measure the essence of injustice and concentration of poison being poured […]
FINA vice-president Zhou Jihong, Olympic platform champion for China in 1984, has been forced to apologise after a complaint that she verbally abused officials at the Tokyo 2020ne Olympic Games while serving in her capacity as FINA Bureau liaison to […]
Sunday Essay – On July 10, 2019, Dr Emma Hilton, a prize-winning development biologist and research associate specialising in Cellular & Developmental Systems and well as Evolution, Systems and Genomics at the University of Manchester, was introduced to the audience […]
