Australian sprinter Shayna Jack is free to return to swimming after an appeal lodged by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and Sport Integrity Australia (SIA) was dismissed by the Court...

Emma McKeon arrived in Tokyo as the bridesmaid of Australian swimming with a string of medals to her name but leaves Tokyo today boasting a medals haul fit to make...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, men’s 200m backstroke – Evgeny Rylov and a 1:53.29 Olympic record made the COVID-delayed Games the first at which an American has not emerged champion of...

Cold war at the Covid Games, with Team Tchaikovsky in the red corner Vs Ryan Murphy in the blue. The trouble started when the American Rio 2016 double Olympic backstroke...

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games – Men’s 100m backstroke – The bull run is done … Evgeny Rylov, with back-up from Team Tchaikovsky mate Kliment Kolesnikov brought to an end a...

Tokyo Olympic Games – Men’s 400m freestyle final – Ayoub Ahmed Hafnaoui wrote several lines in the book of Olympic swimming history when he tore the form guide to shreds with...

Another few metres and it looked like Chase Kalisz might not have made the end of battle – but that’s the point of racing to the bitter end and by the time...

For the first time since 1996, the Olympic Games will not feature a boy and then man called Michael Phelps. The American GOAT will be entertaining home audiences as a...

When the Court of Arbitration for Sport imposed a suspension of four years and three months on Sun Yang* last month after three judicial processes that came to an end...

Cate Campbell will be the first Australian woman swimmer to carry the national flag at the Tokyo 2020One Olympic Games Opening Ceremony and she will do so alongside basketball champion...

The second anti-doping violation committed by Chinese swim controversy Sun Yang has now led to a damning ‘guilty’ verdict for a third time, the latest and last Court of Arbitration...

Sports organizations governing youth activities from soccer to swimming to gymnastics to baseball have a duty to protect athletes from sexual and other abuse, the California Supreme Court has ruled,...

International Women’s Day (IWD): a fine moment to highlight the achievements and work of women pioneers and pathfinders in swimming, including Nancy Hogshead-Makar, advocate for Safe Sport, athlete’s rights and women’s sport, founder...

International Women’s Day (IWD): a fine moment to highlight the achievements and work of women pioneers and pathfinders in swimming, including Cate Campbell, the Australia sprinter who spoke truth to power in...

The United States  House of Representatives has matched the Senate’s unanimous vote in passing (in just eight minutes) transformative Olympic reform legislation – the Empowering Olympic, Paralympic, and Amateur Athlete Act...

Twenty years ago to this day, Ian Thorpe led a celebration of extraordinary swimming and events on the opening night of finals at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. It was the Games...

Lance Larson turns 80 today in the same week in which, sixty years ago, he became the first swimmer to race inside the minute over 100m butterfly. The American, better known...

Roland Matthes, the most decorated backstroke ace in history, the G.OA.T. of the stroke, died on Friday in Wertheim, Baden-Württemberg, after a short, severe illness. He was 69. His wife...