Erika Fairweather, of New Zealand, and Kim Woomin, of Korea, claimed the first two global titles, both in the 400m freestyle, at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha on day one of action. The 4x100m freestyle finals were topped by […]
Great Britain swimmers approach the start of eight days of racing at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha this Sunday with a plethora of purposes and missions pertinent to them and their Paris 2024 ambitions but one of their goals […]
Canadian World medley and butterfly champion Summer McIntosh sent shockwaves across world swimming when she broke Katie Ledecky’s international-career-long, 13-year unbroken winning streak over 800m freestyle in a Commonwealth record of 8:11.39. Ledecky clocked 8:17.12 to finish second to the […]
Editorial – James Magnussen, the World 100m freestyle champion of 2011 and 2013, with Olympic silver in between, retired a while back but when he heard there’s a billionaire out there backing what the former Aussie sprinter calls a “freak […]
When tennis legend Martina Navratilova this week tweeted her disdain of a beyond-“really ignorant” Forbes feature suggesting Lia Thomas‘ male body was “not the problem”, Nancy Hogshead-Makar, advocate for civil rights, women’s rights and the rights of athletes to work […]
Rob Woodhouse, the Australian Olympic swimming medallist of the 1980s, uncle of Tokyo 2020ne Queen of the Pool Emma McKeon, and a UK-based agent to a galaxy of sports stars at TLA in recent years, has been appointed Chief Executive […]
Lia Thomas, the first ever transgender swimmer to claim a women’s NCAA American college title in 2022, has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to overturn a World Aquatics decision to reserve the women’s category for athletes who […]
Editorial. The Portuguese Swimming Federation – FPN – “is not a monarchy and can never be an anarchy”, a senior member of the general assembly, has told fellow delegates in an appeal to remove president António Silva’s hand from the […]
Mack Horton, the Australian 400m freestyle Olympic champion, has retired from competitive swimming. Among his many achievements, Horton will go down as the Antidopean answer to Braveheart who defeated Sun Yang* at Rio 2016 two years after the Chinese controversy […]
Members the General Assembly of the Portuguese Swimming Federation (FPN) have been warned by a delegate calling for the “silent” executive to resign en masse that they and the entire regulator face extinction if they fail to follow a Government […]
António José Silva, the president of European Aquatics, is to be dismissed as head of the Portuguese Swimming Federation (FPN) after a five-month Government inquiry sparked by a whistleblower concluded that his behaviour was incompatible with leadership of a national […]
Fair Play for Women has issued a comprehensive report that highlights widespread harm in 35 sports caused by policies that allow transwomen – males who identify as women – to compete in female sport in the name of ‘inclusion’. The […]
There is no need for an ethics inquiry into António Silva, the Portuguese president of European Aquatics, an emergency meeting concluded, according to an official statement from the continental regulator for swimming. Business as usual? Perhaps not this time. “We […]
Antonio Silva has called an emergency meeting of the European Aquatics Bureau at 7pm CET today in an attempt to answer allegations contained in a complaint against him sent to the continental body as well as World Aquatics with a […]
Australia’s women and Britain’s men produced the SOS relay storms of the year in 2023, while swimmers from both those nations feature in the concluding set of achievers highlighted for their outstanding contributions in the latest season of excellence and […]
SOS departs from the standard model this year to grant the overall Coach of the Year to a collective: Australia, a nation that emerged from the 2023 World Championships ahead of the United States on the swimming medals table for […]
Olympic champion Florian Wellbrock and teammate Leonie Beck ruled the open-water waves with 10km marathon and 5km doubles apiece at the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka last July. They are the SOS Open Water swimmers of 2023. In the marathon, […]
The SOS Courage Cup for 2023 goes to Sharron Davies, the first swimmer unaided by male steroids to stop the clock in the 1980 Olympic 400m medley final and athlete-voice campaigner for truth, justice and reconciliation for female athletes in […]
