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James Magnussen Discusses Participation in Controversial Enhanced Games on Social Kick Podcast At one time, James Magnussen was the premier 100-meter freestyle in the world. The Australian was the world champion in the event at the 2011 and 2013 editions of the World Championships, with a silver med...

For complete coverage of the Arena Grand Prix in Austin, including interviews, recaps and links to live results and stream, check out our event coverage page. AUSTIN, Texas, January 17. WITH 40 Olympics medals owned by finalists tonight at the Arena Grand Prix stop in Austin, there was no doubt that...

Imagine competing in swimming at an elite level and having an entirely legal advantage that could help you smash a world record. Thanks to the new Australian sports technology lab eo, there’s no need to daydream. With a combined 70-years experience in their respective industries, former SKINS boss J...

PERTH, Australia, January 31. THE Australian sprint crew had too much for the rest of the teams to handle on day one of the Aquatic Super Series in Perth this afternoon, leaving the Aussies in the combined team scoring lead. While Japan had some of the top individual swims with Daiya Seto and Kosuke...

This week saw no shortage of fast swimming, the stars converging at the 2018 Sette Colli Trophy in Rome and Australians gearing up for the Pan Pac Championship Trials Down Under. Read about all the fast swimming at those meets and the other biggest stories of the week in the week that was! The Week ...

IOC Withdraws Doping Case Against Australia's Brenton Rickard Who Is Left Holding A $50,000 Bill To Clear Name Nightmare doping charges that emerged some eight years after the London Olympics against Australian triple Olympic swimming medalist Brenton Rickard have today been withdrawn by the Interna...

Remembering Frank Gailey, the Australian Who Won Four Medals for the U.S. at the 1904 Olympics Frank Gailey holds a special place in the annals of Australian and US Olympic swimming rivalry as the only Australian to swim for an American team and win four medals in St. Louis in 1904 – before the cen....

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 28. THE Aussies kept piling it on at the Commonwealth Games with another impressive preliminary session here in Glasgow. LIVE RESULTS Women's 800 freestyle swimoff In a swimoff for the second alternate position in tonight's finals, Emma Robinson of New Zealand took down Scotl...

By Eric Bugby, Swimming World Contributor “Numbers never lie.” It’s a sports idiom. Like all sayings, they become overused, cliché, and eventually “miss the mark.” But this one “goes the distance.” Sorry. But numbers are important enough for ESPN to create a show outlining how they can shape the fut...

SAO PAULO, Brazil, April 26. THE sprinters put on a spectacular show during the final day of the Maria Lenk Trophy meet in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Denmark’s Jeanette Ottesen Gray raced her way to a meet record with a time of 53.78 to win the women’s 100-meter free. That performance moved her from 11th in...

Special thanks to ArenaUSA for proudly sponsoring our coverage of the Arena Grand Prix circuit. For all of our coverage and more, please visit our event coverage page AUSTIN, Texas, January 18. CALIFORNIA's Nathan Adrian torched a field that included a total of five Olympic medalists in the men's 10...

The Difference Between David Popovici and Other Sprint Greats? All On Back Half Over the summer, Romanian teenager David Popovici broke a record so many sprint greats fell just short of. Cesar Cielo was the standard-bearer in the 100 freestyle for 13 years, and in the period of time after polyuretha...

Already in the Club, Can Caeleb Dressel Lead Assault on Sub-47s for 100 Freestyle? By Daniel Zeng, Swimming World Intern Year after year, new training methods and the continuous will to improve allow swimmers’ times to drop, seemingly without end. Once a barrier is broken, we immediately begin to en...

The Week That Was, Sponsored by Suitmate The Week That Was featured auctioning off Lochte's Olympic medals, reflecting on World Championship performances, announcing the CSCAA Names Scholar All-American Teams and more. The Week That Was #1: Six Ryan Lochte Olympic Medals Hit Auction Block [caption i...

By Jeff Commings, Swimming World Senior Writer Fifteen years ago today, one of the most intense races in the history of Olympic swimming took place in the Sydney Aquatic Center in Australia to end the first finals session of the 2000 Olympic swim meet. With about 18,000 screaming Australians in atte...

BRISBANE, Australia, April 3. THE third night of action at the Australian Nationals and Commonwealth Games Trials featured a pair of Australian All-Comers records falling by the wayside once Christian Sprenger and Emily Seebohm churned to victory in their respective events. FINALS St. Pete's Grant I...

Photo courtest Bestswimming PHOENIX, Arizona, September 30. WE saw a lot of great performances in the final days of the Asian Games in South Korea last week, but nothing topped the amazing swim by China’s Ning Zetao to win the men’s 100 free. YouTube Measures Views Only For Episodes Watched On YouTu...

Photo Courtesy: Griffin Scott GREENSBORO – It’s widely known that Nathan Adrian trained like a distance swimmer during his younger days growing up in Washington state, but since arriving at the University of California-Berkeley the concentration has been on the 50 and 100 freestyles. Judging by his ...

Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr BELCONNEN - Less than 24 hours after world champion swimmer James Magnussen made public his intentions to train with two coaches previously untested at the elite level, Swimming Australia has come out with a statement condemning the decision. "Swimming Australia has announ...

BRISBANE, Australia, April 4. A big upset followed by an Australian record being smashed were some of the highlights tonight at the Australian Nationals and Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. FINALS Nunawading's Belinda Hocking, the top-ranked swimmer in the world with a 2:06.40 from the NSW State Cham...