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Olympian Djan Madruga, now 65, is Showing That Elite Performance Has Lifelong Potential Djan Madruga (Brazil) recently closed out the World Aquatics Masters Championships in world class fashion, winning five events:   400 Freestyle - 4:53.44 (World Championship Record) 800 Freestyle - 10:05.77 (Worl...

Commentary by Steven Selthoffer adidas executives and staff warmly welcomed about 40 of the sport’s top influencers, distributors, media personnel, sport execs and sponsored teams to “Herzo” the home town of adidas AG for the global preview and launch of the much anticipated new aquatics line the AD...

Commentary by Steven V. Selthoffer It was officially posted on the Rio Olympic 2016 Internet site that swimming preliminaries and finals times for the 2016 Olympic Games have been altered drastically to new times creating a global uproar among athletes, coaches and teams once again. The change was c...

By Steven V. Selthoffer Chief European Columnist Swimming World RIO DE JANEIRO - CTN News published an AP article stating that Rio de Janeiro’s state environmental protection agency is “investigating a massive fish die-off that has left thousands of carcasses floating in waters where the sailing eve...

Column by Steven V. Selthoffer, Chief European Columnist RIO DE JANEIRO - In a recent photo tweet from a friend of Pieter van den Hoogenband, the author shows that pollution clearly remains in Rio waters. Swimming World' Steve Selthoffer has been following this issue ever since Greenpeace released t...

By Steven V. Selthoffer. Chief European Columnist Swimming World Magazine Stuttgart, GER-- The earthquakes and tremors continue to reverberate from the revelations from the ARD/WDR documentary “Secret Doping Dossier: How Russia produces its Winners,” by Hajo Seppelt. The documentary and transcripts ...

By Steven V. Selthoffer, Swimming World Magazine Chief European Columnist KOLN — The official English transcript of “Top Secret Doping: How Russia makes its Winners,” by Hajo Seppelt, WDR, the most important documentary (so far) in the history of sport, exposes the size and scope of the systematic, ...

By Steven V. Selthoffer, Swimming World Magazine Chief European Columnist Köln, GER— German broadcaster ARD has issued a press release regarding the growing doping scandal and naming Russian swimming as one of the sports involved. The press release translated states: “With a degree of clarity previo...

By Steven V. Selthoffer, Swimming World Chief European Columnist BONN — The recent Antidoping Report released from FINA stated that Sun Yang, has had a “Doping Offence” from “an in-competition test conducted by the Chinese Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) on May 17, 2014, at the Chinese National Champio...