Unfair Play Out Today – Why Males Don’t Belong in Female Sport
Today is the day Unfair Play, by Sharron Davies with this author, arrives in bookstores, print and digital. We’re both proud of the intense work we put it but most...
Penn’s Paula Scanlan Reveals Shocking Treatment Of Females In Saga Of Will/Lia Thomas Transition
Paula Scanlan, a former teammate of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, has spoken out about the intimidation female athletes and students faced by officials at the University of Pennsylvania. Scanlan told...
“More than 1000 athletes from over 14 sports have called for a national inquiry into toxic culture of abuse” – Trudeau, Where Are You?
Global Athlete and a Coalition Against Abuse representing “more than 1,000 athletes from over 14 sports”, have called on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to launch a national inquiry into...
Cate Campbell Teams Up With Coach Maxine Seear To Make History At Paris 2024 As 1st Aussie Swimmer To Make Five Olympics
Cate Campbell has entrusted her final swimming campaign to a fellow Olympian as she strives to become the first Australian swimmer to compete at five Olympic Games, in Paris next...
Summer Sings A Song Of Swimming Greatness With 4:25.87 World 400m Medley Mark
Summer McIntosh, 16, sang a song of swimming greatness at home in Toronto this evening: the first Canadian to hold the World 400m freestyle record, she is now the 400m...
World Athletics Bars Males From Female Category (Restricted Access For DSDs)
The World Athletics Council has voted to follow World Aquatics and bar all biological males past the point of puberty from the women’s category. There is also minor provision for...
The Class Action World Athletics Should Fear As Storm Amelia Joins The Weather Girls To Stop It Raining Men In Women’s Sport
Editorial – Plaudits started to roll in for Amelia Strickler the moment the British shot put ace chucked a couple of heavy balls at World Athletics governors she wished had...
Court Orders British Swimming To Pay Out So Masters Settlement Is Honoured
A county court has ordered British Swimming to pay out £6,000 for Masters swimming to comply with a legal settlement signed in the wake of the London 2016 European Masters Championships. In...
Pay Bohl, Boxall & Raleigh Top Dollar If You Want Dolphins To Leap Like Its Melbourne 1956 At Brisbane 2032, Sweetenham Urges
Australia is just nine years away from hosting the Olympic Games for the third time in history and there’s no time to waste: now is the moment for leaders to...
U.S. Court Draws A Line Under ISL Vs FINA Antitrust Case With Judgement In Favour Of Regulator’s Right Of Approval
The U.S. District Court in San Francisco has drawn a line in the ISL Vs FINA anti-trust dispute by ruling in favour of the regulator now known as World Aquatics,...
ICFS Launched As Global Fighting Force In Face Of Threats & Discrimination Against Women in Sport
The new International Consortium on Female Sport – ICFS – was launched globally today as the “preeminent international lobby group to advocate for the preservation of the female sport category worldwide”....
World Aquatics Hears Athlete & Coach Voices To Lift Doha Relays Lock For Paris Olympics
World Aquatics has averted a potential boycott of the 2024 World Championships in Qatar by listening to athletes and coaches asking for bosses to ditch an obligation for teams to...
Men To Take Plunge In Olympic Artistic Swimming At Paris 2024 Alongside Women In Team Event
The following is a statement from World Aquatics: 22 December 2022; LAUSANNE – The International Olympic Committee has given its approval for World Aquatics to allow men to participate in the...
World Aquatics Leaps From The Blocks As Reform Replaces FINA After 114 Years
World Aquatics is the new name of FINA, the global regulator for swimming, diving, synchro and water polo announced today as the latest step on the road to reform. Name...
A 40% Female Quota, New Name & Hoisting Honoraries Overboard Highlight The Good News On A FINA Reform Voyage In Its Infancy
Editorial – The week ahead will kick the four-letter word FINA overboard to where it belongs at the bottom of the sea with a bygone, misogynist culture; honorary positions that...
Working Group Given More Time To Shape A New Open Category As FINA Confirms Women For Females Only
The working group tasked with shaping a new Open category in aquatics sport after a widely praised June decision of FINA to ring-fence the women’s category in aquatics sports for...
Swimming Australia Board Sent Bombshell Letter Calling For Urgent Governance Review Of Boss Buckley & Her Board
Key swimming stakeholders in Australia have called for an urgent and independent review of governance in a bombshell letter to Swimming Australia boss Eugenie Buckley and the board of the...
Why Ian Thorpe Needs To Go Back To Dolphin School On Fair Play & Women’s Sport
Editorial – Ian Thorpe and journalism let themselves down badly this week in a short, lazy and bewildering interview that appeared in various places, including The Guardian online. The Australian...