At half-way in the 200m medley on day 7 at U.S. Trials, Shaine Casas was almost a second inside the best pace of the best two 200m medley men the world has ever seen and while Carson Foster ran him […]

Organisers of the U.S. Olympic Trials that have been underway in a stadium in Indianapolis this past week, have boasted of the biggest ever crowd for a swimming competition but the standard has belonged to London’s White City since 1908, […]

Ryan Murphy will arrive in Paris with a tradition to restore after adding the 200m backstroke to his 100m target for a third successive Games on day 6 at U.S. Trials for the Paris Olympics. There were fine wins for […]

Florent Manaudou and Maxime Grousset thundered to home-Olympic team tickets in the 50m freestyle at French Elite Championships in Chartres this evening, their duel in heats and the final practically a snap: respective 21.52 and 21.66 this morning, 21.54 and […]

There’s nothing like the ultimate and merciless test of U.S. Trials to show how extraordinary Katie Ledecky is, back for more as a golden favourite at her fourth Olympics a league ahead in the 1500m in a day 5 finals […]

Léon Marchand spoke of “feeling good, both physically and mentally and generally” on the eve of French Elite Championships in Chartres and showed it today with a 1:54.08 in the 200m butterfly followed by a 2:08.95 in the 200m breaststroke […]

Regan Smith has shown her hand: 57.13, a world record in the 100m backstroke on Day 4 at U.S. Trials that leapfrogs the 57.33 of Aussie backstroke queen Kaylee McKeown and gives the Dolphin the wave she was hoping to […]

Bobby Finke confirmed the defence of the first of his Olympic crowns with a 7:44.22 win in the 800m freestyle, drawing young Luke Whitlock, 18, with him to a Games debut on day 4 at U.S. Trials for Paris. On […]

Maxime Grousset, left, set a French textile-suit standard of 47.33 to dominate the 100m freestyle final at French Elite Championships in Chartres this evening, the time inside his previous best of 47.42 from his bronze-medal effort at World titles in […]

The British Swimming Coaches Association has commissioned independent research from Nottingham Trent University (NTU) into the “Health & Well-Being of Swimming Coaches in Britain” at a time when the profession they represent has felt under attack from governance models that […]

The 100m backstroke battles headlined day 3 action at U.S. Trials as Ryan Murphy set the global pace for Olympic season with a 52.22 ticket to a third Olympic Games and Regan Smith set an American record of 57.45 in […]

Katie Ledecky in 1:55.22 and Luke Hobson in 1:44.89 atop the 200m freestyle finals and Lilly King‘s 1:05.43 win in the 100m breaststroke joined the backstroke bonanza on day 3 at U.S. Trials in the vault of American relay prospects […]

World champion and record holder Léon Marchand checked into his first target event for his home-Olympics with a 4:10.62 shy-of-taper victory in the 400m medley at French Elite Championships in Chartres this evening. Not the stuff of his outer-orbit 4:02.50 […]

Gretchen Walsh practiced the art of equilibrium in the American selection cauldron to make her first Olympic Team USA with a scorching 55.31 victory in the 100m butterfly on day 2 at U.S. Trials, the courage of a 25.20 jaw-dropping, […]

Clichy’s Maxime Grousset and ace sprinter Florent Manaudou both clocked 22.87 in the non-Olympic 50m butterfly today on the opening day at French Elite Championships in Chartres – but they didn’t actually race each other. Manaudou stopped the clock at […]

Gretchen Walsh clocked 55.18 to shatter the World 100m butterfly World record and book a ticket to lane 4 for her first Paris 2024 target event at on Day 1 at U.S Olympic Trials. The standard had stood at 55.48 […]

The Australian Olympic Committee named a star-studded team of 44 Dolphins for the 2024 Paris Olympics at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre tonight. After six days of world-class performances at the Australian Swimming Trials, the Dolphins boast a might female strike force once […]

The 50-to-1500 last-session sandwich at Australian trials stretched from a 23.99 win for Shayna Jack* in a 50m freestyle that is likely to have marked the dash swansongs of Olympic champion Emma McKeown and former World champion Cate Campbell, to […]