On Monday, Nicholas Santos of Brazil defied age to win the men’s 50m butterfly. Santos, 41, was competing against swimmers more than 10 years younger than him, but nevertheless managed to win the race, only 0.12 seconds shy of the championship record he set three years ago. “I have my own company. I have to […]
The Olympics Youth Games champion and World Championship silver medalist, Australia’s Kaylee McKeown has broken the world record in 100m backstroke just 10 months after the death of her father. The 19-year-old Queensland born set the world benchmark at Australia’s Olympic trials in Adelaide on Sunday night. She later confessed that the death of her […]
Double Olympic medallist Duncan Scott was impressive on the first of four days of the trials as he went under the British record with a time of 1:55.90 in the 200m individual medley. Scott now hold British record in three events; in addition to 200m and 100m freestyle. Olympic 100m breaststroke champion Adam Peaty sent an ominous […]
The 100m and 200m breaststrokes Commowealth Champion and World Championship silver medalist, South Africa Tatjana Shoenmaker has climbed into new swimming hight as she showed off her tantalizing form of late at the SA Aquatics Championship on Wednesday. Tatjana breathing new form broke the African record in 50m breaststroke in the heat by finished in […]
Great excitement rent the air in Chinese Swimming Team as the National day championship produces a world record and several Asian and national record. Since the outbreak, the Chinese team has conducted three intra-team championship in March, May and July, with all producing impressive performance. But the National day’s event brought out outstanding results, […]
The five-time Olympic Japanese diver, Terauchi Ken has tested positive to covid-19, making him the first Japanese Tokyo Olympics bound athletes to be covid-19 positive. According to Miki House, Terauchi’s sponsoring company, after training at a club in Osaka on July 24, he had close contact with an acquaintance who was infected with the virus. […]
According to the schedule of the Tokyo Olympic swimming competition, the Chinese held a mini Olympics Swimming Competition with al heats held in the evening and the finals to be held in the morning. All the athletes are members of the national team and Shandong and other provincial teams. The competition to last three days. The […]
One of Australia’s youngest swimmers to win an Olympic gold medal Kyle Chalmers has put himself forward as a potential doping whistle blower after his claim of wide spread of doping in swimming. Olympic swimming champion Chalmers claimed that he cannot trust half of his opponents as “a lot of doping”occurs in the swimming. The […]
The 23 times American Olympics Swimming Champion, Michael Phelps who has confessed in the past about his struggle with depression; has again admitted on Monday that covid-19 induced lockdown is taking a big toll on his mental health. “The pandemic has been a challenge I never expected,” he told ESPN in article published on Monday. “All […]
The eleven time World Champion and thrice Olympics Champion, Sun Yang has claimed that correct testing procedures were not adhered to and believed the drug tester was not fully accredited to take the blood. That was his submission as he made a last-ditch attempt for eligibility at the Tokyo Olympics by lodging an appeal against […]
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has announced that next year’s World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka will now take place in 2022. New dates of between May 13 and 29 have been set for the flagship event in the Japanese city, after action was originally scheduled for July 16 to August 1 in 2021. FINA had […]
Ban for 8 years Given 2 years probation Cannot attend any gymnastics competition except her daughter’s competition Coach Maggie Haney, the former coach of Olympic team gold medalist Laurie Hernandez has been given 8 years suspension by USA Gymnastics. Haney was suspended by USA Gymnastics in February amid allegations of emotional and verbal abuse of […]
Controversial Sun Yang, the 11-time swimming World Champion and thrice Olympics Champion who is serving the eight years ban for tampering with his blood sample by breaking it with hammer; is in the news again. The three-time Olympic champion was reportedly called up to the Chinese national squad for a three-month training camp in Zhejiang, […]
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