On the way to the Tokyo Olympics, 23 China swimmers tested positive for the same banned substance responsible for Sun Yang‘s first offence but were let off and cleared to race in Tokyo because world governing bodies agreed with an […]

They’ve spent the week competing for headlines but Kaylee McKeown and Mollie O’Callaghan deserved several curtain calls apiece as the Australian Open Championships drew to a close today on the Gold Coast. O’Callaghan was first to wrap up, with a […]

Ariarne Titmus, Olympic champion, tolerated close company until the 100m mark of the 400m freestyle at the Australian Open Championships on the Gold Coast before pressing on to a 3mins 59.13sec victory, Lani Pallister the only rival close to her […]

Kaylee McKeown pinned her towering versatility and consistent speed to the mast with a thumping 4:28.22 Australian record in the 400m medley on day 2 at the Open on the Gold Coast, her time taking down a second Stephanie Rice […]

Kaylee McKeown‘s challenge to America’s prevailing medley might gets ever more serious: in 2:06.99 at the Australian Open Championships on the Gold Coast today, she took down the 2009 national record set in a shiny suit by 2008 double medley […]

Tom Dean, Matt Richards and Duncan Scott, Olympic 4x200m freestyle champions for Britain in Tokyo, have joined a chorus of calls from athletes asking their federations to step up and match the money-for-medals $50,000 gold-medal prize being offered by World […]

Olympic champions of Tokyo 2020ne Adam Peaty,  Tom Dean, Duncan Scott, James Guy, Matt Richards, Anna Hopkin, Kathleen Dawson and Freya Anderson will lead a 33-strong team across pool and marathon swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Team in full at the foot of this […]

World Aquatics will not match the move of Sebastian Coe and World Athletics to break with 128 years of Olympic tradition by becoming the first sport to award winning athletes prize money at the Paris 2024 Olympics this summer. Swimming […]

Heavy rain could wash dangerous levels of pollution into the River Seine and flush the open water marathon down the plughole altogether at the Paris 2024 Olympics this August, according to the head of the organising committee for the Games. […]

Battling 1:44s from Matt Richards and Duncan Scott and 1:45s from Tom Dean and James Guy over 200m freestyle solved the impossible sum of two solo slots between four Olympic champions, three World champions and a European champion, the joy […]

Ben Proud punched a 21.25 ticket to Paris and a shot at the biggest prizes in his sport with a majestic blast that posted his third-swiftest dash to the mast at the London Aquatics Centre. Proud, based for a while […]

Abbie Wood said that seeing her family up in the stands at the London Aquatics Centre was “just so weird; they never see me when I actually swim well.” Well, they have now. In 2:08.91, Wood entered the sub-2:09 club […]

The Duncan Scott and Tom Dean show is a privilege to watch and witness, the skills, the speed, the flow, the fight and the 200m medley tickets to the Paris Olympics all thrilling, of course, but as much as that […]

Honey Osrin and Katie Shanahan raced inside the qualification time in the 200m backstroke and Joe Litchfield produced a shock victory in the 100m butterfly to grab the right to a medley relay berth at the Paris Olympics on Day […]

Matt Richards gold, Duncan Scott scorching home from fifth at the turn to silver and Tom Dean confined to bronze by 0.02 after speeding from seventh at the turn, his and sprint relay prospects buoyant on a podium split by […]

Max Litchfield wrote a rare line in swimming’s chronicle today when he followed up a pair of fourth places in the 400m medley at the past two Olympics with a ticket to a third Games in a British record no […]

Dan Jervis, on 14:47.94 (David Davies British standard now 20 years old and going strong), will race the 1500m freestyle at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and may well be joined by Toby Robinson, whose big 14:54.75 lifetime best fell […]

Olympic champion Kathleen Dawson, Oliver Morgan and Jonathan Marshall added more fire and ambition to Britain’s Medley Relay hopes at Paris 2024 a day after Adam Peaty‘s 57.94 breaststroke blast, all three 100m backstroke speedsters inside the Olympic target time […]