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S.O.S. - The State of Swimming: swimmers, coaches, parents, the sport - and how governance affects them all - by Craig Lord - and guests - https://state-of-swimming.ghost.io/
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 5h
SOS Forum - GDR, Part 3 of 4: Kane & Whether Olympic Leaders Are Able To Park IOC "Do- As-I-Say-Not-As-I-Do" Culture. "No East German athlete failed an Olympic doping test". Yes they did. In large numbers at an "Olympic" lab ... Time For Truth at the IOC
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FORUM: Kane & Whether Olympic Leaders Are Able To Park IOC "Do- As-I-Say-Not-As-I-Do" Culture
We ended part 2 last week quoting an Olympic legal eagle: "No East German athlete failed an Olympic doping test ...". In fact, they did, in large numbers in tests conducted at an IOC-accredited labora...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 1d
High 5 Of World Records close 2025 s/c Cup: 7:54.00 - 800Fr Lani Pallister (AUS); 1:57.33 - 200Bk Kaylee McKeown (AUS); 48.16 - 100Bk Hubert Kós (HUN); 1:59.52; 200Br, Caspar Corbeau (NED) - 1st sub 2min; 49.93 100Fr, Kate Douglass (USA) - 1st sub 50sec
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2025 Cup Tour Ends With High-Five Rush Of World Records
Pioneering global standards fall to Australians Lani Pallister and Kaylee McKeown, Hungarian Hubert Kós, Dutchman Caspar Corbeau, and American Kate Douglass, with Kós and Douglass crowned King and Que...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 1d
How The Cup Banked A 54.5k Pay Day For Ilya Kharun & Ripened A Maple Rivalry With Josh Liendo - Swimming Canada's take
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How The Cup Banked A 54.5k Pay Day For Kharun & Ripened A Maple Rivalry With Liendo
Swimming Canada's take on Ilya Kharun's World Cup tour campaign speaks to what it means to the athlete and where swimming finds itself on the evolutionary stream as a sport that demands highly profes...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 2d
Mollie O'Callaghan 1:49.36 WR: “If you  set your mind to it, you can achieve it. [with hard work & a great support team behind you, anything’s possible" - cites coach Dean Boxall & "everyone who’s done a little nitty gritty for me to perform on this day”
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O'Callaghan Doubles Down On WR For 200 Free Triple Crown
1:49.36 WR. “If you  set your mind to it, you can achieve it. And if you put the hard work in it and have a great support team behind you, anything’s possible," says Aussie ace, citing her physio, coa...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 2d
Ilya Kharun Joins Triple Crown Crew (with O'Callaghan, Walsh, Douglas, Casas and Corbeau) & Josh Liendo Rips 45.3 100 Free To Thrill The Torontonian Throng
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Kharun Joins Triple Crown Crew & Liendo Rips 45.3 100 Free To Thrill The Torontonian Throng
"I’ve been tired from all the races. (In the last 25 metres) I was thinking just get my hand on the wall. I wanted to win, and I got it done.  The crowd really pushes us and I’m just happy to be here....
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 3d
ICYMI, lest we forget... 15 years gone by, not an anniversary, says Fran Crippen's mother Pat: “I hate that word. Anniversary to me is a happy thing ,,, this is not a happy moment. I see it as the ... marking of Fran’s death.”
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Lest We Forget – Fran Crippen & His Mother’s Song Of Sorrow & Salvation in The ‘Reservoir Of Joy’
In memory of Fran Crippen (April 17, 1984 – October 23, 2010) - 'In meditation not long ago and they talked about how you have to have a reservoir of joy to draw on when the sad moments settle in. Bel...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 3d
World Cup marks for Dolphins Lani Pallister, Kaylee McKeown and Dutch ace Caspar Corbeau, who rattled the 100br WR, with Adam Peaty chasing for 2nd on his fastest day on tour
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The Vortex - October 2025: Cup Marks For McKeown, Pallister & Corbeau
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 3d
Hubert Kós Cracks Mitch Larkin's 2015 World 200 Back mark in 1:45.12 as the first Hungarian ever to hold the standard and the second man from his country ever to hold any global backstroke standard.
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Kós Cracks Larkin's 2015 World 200 Back Mark in 1:45.12
The first Hungarian man to hold a world backstroke record was Andras Baronyi, over 100m in 1911. Hubert Kos is the second. At the World Cup in Toronto today, as Hungary commemorates the 1956 Revolutio...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 3d
Josh Liendo Becomes 1st Black Swimmer Ever & 2nd Canadian Since Gery in 1990 To Claim S/C 100 'Fly World Record - as 11th Canadian man ever to hold a swim WR
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Liendo 1st Black Swimmer & 2nd Canadian Since Gery in 1990 To Claim S/C 100 ' Fly World Record
At the home and last round of the 2025 World Cup in Toronto, Josh Liendo goes 10.26sec, 22.28 at half-way & is still 0.2 shy of Swiss ace Noe Ponti's WR pace at the last turn. He then nails a 12.86 ho...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 4d
Trans-swimmer Hannah Caldas, who is biologically male, has accepted a five-year suspension from World Aquatics after refusing to submit to a sex test under international rules
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The Vortex - October 2025: Caldas Banned For 5-Years For Failing To Submit To Sex Test
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 6d
Cases pending this session ... "A Supreme Court ruling in these cases could finally bring long-awaited clarity and legal protection for women’s athletic opportunities." - ICONS
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U.S. Supreme Court To Hear 2 Landmark Women’s Sports Cases On What 'Sex' Means
"A Supreme Court ruling in these cases could finally bring long-awaited clarity and legal protection for women’s athletic opportunities." - ICONS, at the forefront of campaigning for women's sport to ...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 6d
Liu's 2:01 Shiny Suit WR In 200 'Fly Turns 16 Today ... Masking 3 Global Marks Summer McIntosh Might Have Had
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Liu's 2:01 Shiny Suit WR In 200 'Fly Turns 16 Today, Masking 3 Global Marks McIntosh Might Have Had
There are many forms of manipulation in sport, including some allowed for a short time. Shiny suits continue to mask genuine progress in the pool, with pioneering efforts among achievements masked ...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 7d
World Cup: Kate Douglass sprints through the fastest 25, 50 and 75 splits on way to pioneering 50.19WR in 100 free; and Hubert Kos sets 48.78 World Cup mark in 100 back
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The Vortex - October 2025: Douglass Downs 2017 World & Cup Marks Of Campbell & Sjöström With 50.19 In 100 Free
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 7d
Last day at World Cup round 2 delivers sensational 1:57.87 t-1:57.91 200 back duel, Kaylee McKeown (AUS) & Regan Smith (USA) both under old WR; + Commonwealth-mark 15:13 from Lani Pallister (AUS) in the 1500 free, the Dolphin up from No6 to No2 all-time
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Kaylee Puts Midas Back In McKeown With 1:57.87 WR, Smith 0.04sec Shy in 200 Back Thriller
Last day at the Westmont World Cup on the edge of Chicago delivers a sensational duel in the 200m back, Kaylee McKeown & Regan Smith both under the old WR; and a Commonwealth record of 15:13 from Lan...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 8d
Mollie O'Callaghan clocks 1:49.77 in 200 free at Westmont World Cup. "I knew I was capable of doing that swim. It was just if. And a lot of times, it might not work out ... It’s nice to do short-course, it’s a big change from l/c. It’s a different beast"
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Mollie O'Callaghan Pioneers Spitzean-Pace Sub-1:50 In S/C World Cup 200 Free
Dolphin ace and Olympic champion clocks 1:49.77 in 200m free at the World Cup in Westmont and says: "I knew I was capable of doing that swim. It was just if. And a lot of times, it might not work out ...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 8d
Regan Smith despots 10k in her bank by matching her 54.20 World s/c 100m backstroke record at the World Cup in Westmont on a day of 2 WRs and 4 Cup marks
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The Vortex - October 2025: Regan Smith Snaps Her Own 100 Back WR To Put 10K in The Bank
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 9d
SOS FORUM: Will Kirsty Coventry Break The Mould Of IOC Malaise On The Biggest Scam In Sports History?
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FORUM: Will Kirsty Coventry Break The Mould Of IOC Malaise On The Biggest Scam In Sports History?
No IOC president has ever found the courage & integrity to reach for reconciliation & recognition for those caught up in the GDR doping fraud. Can a woman reach for what the men who went before her fa...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 9d
Midas-Touch McKeown Strikes Again + Cup Marks For Pallister, Smith, Walsh & Douglass
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The Vortex - October 2025: Midas-Touch McKeown Strikes Again + Cup Marks For Pallister, Smith, Walsh & Douglass
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 10d
“I wouldn’t say we've set a plan in which this is a stepping stone ... we're looking to LA2028. If I start to put the after-burners on before I reach the stratosphere ... burn out." - Adam Peaty on balancing the best of both worlds
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Peaty's Perspective: Finding Balance In A Best-Of-Both Worlds, After-Burners On Hold
“I wouldn’t say we've set a plan in which this is a stepping stone ... we're looking to LA2028. If I start to put the after-burners on before I reach the stratosphere, we're going to burn out. We’ll d...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 10d
American 'fly and free sprint ace Gretchen Walsh takes on the 50m back today at the Westmont round of the World Cup as closest on the clock to Aussie queen of the discipline, pioneer quadruple Olympic backstroke champion Kaylee McKeown
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The Vortex - October 2025: Walsh Limbers Up For Back Battle With McKeown
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 11d
Olympian Eric Wunderlich will join the fund-raising shoal at the Inaugural Swim Across America Daytona 1-Mile Charity Swim on December 7 almost 30 years into his passion for raising money and awareness for cancer research, prevention and treatment
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Wunderlich & Other 'Swim Across America' Wonders Up For Daytona Debut To Fight Cancer
Olympian and five-times Worlds medallist will join the fund-raising shoal at the Inaugural Swim Across America - Daytona Open Water 1-Mile Charity Swim on December 7 almost 30 years into his passion f...
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 11d
"You’ve just turned 25 & the time feels right to step away from swimming. The pursuit was unrelenting... You walk away knowing every stone was turned, no regrets. You are fulfilled, content & happy" Ariarne Titmus in a touching note to her 7-year-old self
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Ariarne Titmus Finds Life Beyond The Black Line "Just a Little Bit More Important to Me"
Olympic 400m Free Champion and first Australian woman to retain an Olympic crown in the pool since Dawn Fraser in 1964 announces her retirement from swimming with immediate effect
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 11d
Australian 400m free Olympic champ and 200m Word record holder Ariarne Titmus hangs up her goggles saying: I've ... realised some things in my life that have always been important to me are just a little bit more important to me now than swimming"
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Ariarne Titmus Finds Life Beyond The Black Line "Just a Little Bit More Important to Me"
Olympic 400m Free Champion and first Australian woman to retain an Olympic crown in the pool since Dawn Fraser in 1964 announces her retirement from swimming with immediate effect
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 14d
McKeown & Pallister deliver day 3 top-points wins. World Cup Leader board > round 1: Women - Gretchen Walsh — 59.1 pts; Kate Douglass — 58.9 pts; Kaylee McKeown — 56.8 pts; Men - Hubert Kós — 58.4 pts; Caspar Corbeau — 55.8 pts; Carson Foster — 55.4 pts
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The Vortex - October 2025: Aussie McKeown & Pallister Top Day 3 World Cup Points Bill - 1 Round Down, 2 To Go
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The State of Swimming @stateofswimming.bsky.social · 15d
Gretchen Walsh's pioneering 50 'fly marked the first sub-11 opening 25m (10.95), to a World record 23.72, & a 0.22sec progress overall at a pace that delivered victory by 0.92sec; other speedy wins came from O'Callaghan, Casas, Douglass and Smith
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The Vortex - October 2025: Walsh Whistles To Her 7th World S/C Mark With 23.72 50 'Fly
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