Caeleb Dressel has not been a contender in world-class waters since he added five golds to his Olympic medal haul in Tokyo, two of them in solo sprint events, after two relay victories at his Rio 2016 Games debut but […]
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 […]
