The Pacific Dolphin Swim Association is proud to announce the new branding of its competition team name and image. As of November 15, 2011 the official name of the team is the “Vancouver Dolphins” and the acronym will be “VAND”. This replaces UB...
Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Marleen Veldhuis, Femke Heemskerk and Inge Dekker - all in the same 100m free race for the first time since 2009. Make a date: Dutch Open Nationals December 2-4, Olympic qualifier with 130 foreign hopefuls in Eindhoven...
Colin Moynihan, BOA Chairman, today called for stronger global anti-doping policies and practices, and a fundamental review of the progress of the World Anti-Doping Association in light of concerns over weakness; read his important speech...
News Round-Up: Hugues Duboscq, Fabien Gilot, Grégory Mallet, Florent Manaudou and Camille Lacourt are among the big names at the 11th Arena Sprint at Rouen, complete with lights, music, and smoke on the water; How to win the new Speedo ...
Looking back - World Uni Games, young talent at the World Junior Champs, the Pan Am Games, the World Cup and the life of Geoff Grylls; looking ahead - Bowman on Phelps's swansong, Fran Crippen's legacy; Malar on clubs; Wilkinson on Olympic trials...
The Euro crisis and debt problems of Italy has stretched to the world of swimming: Sicily can no longer host the world short-course championships at Catania in 2014 because budgets will not stretch to it...
Loughborough University retained its British University Short-Course Championship title in Sheffield at the weekend, the three-day meet producing eight university records and one new Irish standard...
Comment: The World Cup is done for another year but will swimming ever have its own golden league, a series of meets capable of making supertroupers turn to the sport away from the big championship moments?...
As swimmers, coaches, programmes and even nations seek a new pathway for competition and debate continues about the best direction for the world cup, a Pro Swim League is about to be baptised in the United States...
Michael Phelps completed a golden run at the opening leg of the US Grand Prix with a class-apart 1:57.58 victory in the 200m medley, the time the 4th best in the world this year, the 20th best of his career and best ever at this time of the year...
Chad Le Clos (RSA) and Therese Alshammar (SWE) were crowned Arena World Cup champions (both winners members of Team Arena) and celebrated a $100,000 pay day each as the Tokyo round of the series brought the seven-meet circuit to a close ...
World Cup trailblazer Chad Le Clos will race two more finals tonight before savouring the $100,000 prize as best man of the seven-meet series, while Therese Alshammar (SWE) will complete her campaign with a last butterfly dash...
In 1:56.12 Michael Phelps dominated his signature 200 'fly event at the Minneapolis Grand Prix and then returned to the fray for a second gold, a 53.71 in the 100m backstroke; Missy Franklin on 59.69 in the 100m backstroke...
News Round-Up: the Gold Coast has won the rights to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games after the vote came down in its favour and against Sri Lanka; budget to exceed Aus$1bn; Cameron VD Burgh, Chad Le Clos & Graham Hill win RSA awards...
Chad Le Clos will go home to South Africa $100,000 to the good come Monday but Takeshi Matsuda will stay home with a smile on his face after setting the swiftest time ever by a man in a textile suit in Tokyo - the first sub 1:50 effort - 1:49.50...
Chad Le Clos set up three more podium challenges - 100 free, a final clash with the might of Japan in the 200 'fly, and 100IM, at the final round of the Arena World Cup in Tokyo, where tomorrow he will collect a cheque for $100,000...
Olympic champion wins two at US GP opener in times he has never seen before in November over 200m free and 100 'fly - 1:46 and 52; Allison Schmitt cracks out a 1:55 200 free ahead of Missy Franklin's 1:57 ...
Just 0.05sec split Nikita Lobintsev and Sergey Fesikov by the end of a tight 100m freestyle battle on the last day at Russian short-course nationals in Volgograd, Lobintsev taking the title in 46.98, Fesikov silver and Evgeny Lagunov the bronze in 47.37 ...
Veteran and experienced US coaches are serving as mentors to the next generation of folk on the deck in a new National Team program run by USA Swimming; 19 coaches paid by USA Swimming in funding reward for achievement...
A civil lawsuit has been filed in an American court against USA Swimming by the family of an Indiana teen who say officials should have done more to protect the girl from sexual assault...
