Freya Colbert and Abbie Wood roared home in low 1:56s, inside the Paris 2024 Olympic cut for the 200m freestyle, at the helm of a first-four-home that also booked a berth at the Games for the 4x200m relay. The race […]
Keanna MacInnes and Laura Stephens claimed the first two British tickets to the Paris Olympics in a tight 2:07 tussle in the 200m butterfly at the London Aquatics Centre as six days of British Championships and trials got underway. Stephens, […]
There was something of the spirit of a Hobbit with a ring about Adam Peaty this lunchtime in London as the double Olympic 100m breaststroke champion, clean-shaven, ‘tash gone and looking more youthful than he has at any time since […]
British Swimming will hold an emergency meeting in London this afternoon to decide whether to cancel the Olympic trials due to get underway at the capital’s 2012 Olympic pool after an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis. The source of the gastrointestinal disease […]
In 2019, Bob Bowman sat in his commander-in-chief chair at Arizona State University (ASU) and spoke enthusiastically for about 20 minutes in answer to my simple question: what’s the mission? Almost five years on, mission accomplished. And here is how […]
An independent report into Swim England culture has recommended a major overhaul of failing governance after a high percentage of members taking part in a mass listening exercise expressed a lack of trust in the aquatics regulator. Following on the […]
The International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has given a significant boost to hopes of justice, recognition and reconciliation for all athletes impacted by the GDR doping era when the Cold War spilled into sport. The news was broken in […]
Ten of Britain’s world-class swimming mentors have been named by British Swimming to coach at the Paris 2024 Games three years after Britain’s most successful Games in the pool at Tokyo2020ne. Bill Furniss is head coach to the pool team […]
Dan Wiffen and Max Litchfield backed up on their successes at the World Championships last week with more solid efforts at the British University Championships (BUCs) in Sheffield, Wiffen on 7:43.03 in the 800m freestyle and Litchfield on 4:13.58 in […]
Dan Wiffen, the Loughborough-based Irish ace, swam down from his double-world-title triumphs over 800 and 1500m freestyle in Doha last week with a 14:42.05 victory at the British University Championships in Ponds Forge, Sheffield this evening. Coached by Andi Manley, […]
When reading the runes for Paris 2024, it would be best to largely discount the World Championships that ended in Doha last Sunday with none of the 35 Olympic events untouched by mass absenteeism or abstention from peak performance among […]
Daniel Wiffen, of Ireland, arrived in Doha for the anomalous World Championships of avoidable circumstance already a podium prospect for the Paris Olympic Games and today he leaves Qatar a double-distance global long-course champion in a club with Grant Hackett, […]
Sarah Sjostrom claimed a sixth straight 50m butterfly world title in Doha this evening, the Swedish Dash Queen’s 24.63 the second fastest of all her six efforts since 2015. And then she dropped a quasi repeat feat of the stellar […]
Marrit Steenbergen and Tes Schouten slapped a double Dutch gauntlet down on the podium contenders list for the Paris 2024 Olympics with debut World titles on day 6 in Doha this evening before Hugo Gonzalez, on backstroke for Spain, Dong […]
Claire Curzan of the United States made it double solo gold on day 5 at the anomalous Doha World titles in a session that delivered maiden world titles for Pan Zhanle, of China, Laura Stephens of Great Britain and Finlay […]
Daniel Wiffen, Siobhan Haughey, Tomoru Honda and Sam Williamson delivered a flow of debut world titles on day 4 at the oddball World Championships in Doha. Ireland’s Wiffen, in the 800m free, and Hong Kong’s Haughey, in the 200m free, […]
Simona Quadarella, of Italy, Tang Qiantiang, of China, and Hwang Sunwoo of Korea produced World-title victories this evening in Doha on day 3 at the oddest World Championships in history in times that speak of their Paris podium contention come […]
Kate Douglass produced the swim of day 2 at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha for victory in the 200m medley, while USA teammate Nic Fink, Germany’s Angelina Kohler and Portugal’s Diogo Ribeiro also celebrated victories, the latter two a […]
