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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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FORUM: Over the course of the coming few Forums, SOS will take a look at some key barriers to swimming becoming a 'pro' sport, the positives in becoming so, and the drawbacks of following models that work for other sports. Part 1: Contracts
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FORUM: Where We Find The Dam Between Swimming & Pro
Over the course of the coming few Forums, SOS will take a look at some key barriers to swimming becoming a 'pro' sport, the positives in becoming so, and the drawbacks of following models that work fo...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Vortex adds: Lisa Bates takes top BSCA honour for work at the London club she helped to build into a high-performance program - 👏🐬; the list of BSCA award winners in full; Wang and Chen top the bill on day 5 at China's National Games
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The Vortex - November 2025: Lisa Bates Honoured As BSCA Coach of the Year
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November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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What has Wiffen's win in 2024 got in common with Adlington's golden double 2008, the work of their coaches Manley & Furniss, of Marshall/Peaty, McNulty/Carlin & many others? Dr. Mike Peyrebrune is among answers As BSCA honours him, a tribute & chat
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How Peyrebrune's Prowess Has Profited Those Pursuing Pioneering Performance
What has Dan Wiffen's victory at Paris 2024 got in common with Becky Adlington's golden double at Beijing 2008 & the roots of several other big results in the intervening years? Dr. Mike Peyrebrune is...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Patrick Miley (Aberdeen Uni PC) has been honoured with the British Swimming Coaches Association Para Coach of the Year Award 2025 for his outstanding work with Faye Rogers, the Paralympic Champion who added a World title & 4 silvers to her score this year
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The Vortex - November 2025: Patrick Miley Honoured With BSCA Para Coach Of Year Award
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November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Siobhan Haughey Halts China National-Team Gold Rush With 1:54.8 200 Free Victory
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The Vortex - November 2025: Siobhan Haughey Halts China National-Team Gold Rush With 1:54.8 200 Free Victory
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November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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In tribute to Coach McNulty, a few fine memories in which we urn the spotlight on the soaring Olympic season of Tokyo 2020ne on a day when the Bath head coach is honoured with the BSCA Lifetime Achievement Award
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Peer Plaudits For Dave McNulty As Coach Lifts the BSCA Lifetime Achievement Award
In tribute to Coach McNulty, a few fine memories in which we turn the spotlight on the soaring Olympic season of Tokyo 2020ne on a day when the Bath head coach is honoured with the British Swimming Co...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Dr. Mike Peyrebrune joins the BSCA honours list with a Lifetime Membership Award for his outstanding contribution to Britain and GB performance centre successes in the pool
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The Vortex - November 2025: BSCA Honours Coaches McNulty, Livingstone & Peyrebrune - Each A Contributor To Britain's 4x200 Bonanza
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November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Day 3 of the British Swimming Coaches Association's Awards week sees coach Dave McNulty - Bath - lift the Lifetime Achievement honour; and Ryan Livingstone - Manchester - recognised with an Excellence Award - all work connected to GB's soaring 4x200 success state-of-swimming.ghost.io/the-vortex-n...
The Vortex - November 2025: BSCA's Lifetime Achievement Award Goes To Coach McNulty & Coach Livingstone Honoured For Solid Hold On The 4x200 GBR Baton
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November 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Vortex Adds: Coaches Dave McNulty, Laura Bowie & Nathan Jegou Honoured With BSCA Excellence Awards
- and an Asian Record ... at 13 years, 1 month, for Yu Zidi
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The Vortex - November 2025: When Yu, 13, Took Down Asian 200IM Mark Of 2012 Olympic Champion Ye (16) After 13 Years
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November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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China's Yu Zidi, 13 years and 1 month, goes 2:07.4 for National Games 200IM title to take down 2012 Asian record of 2012 Olympic champion Ye Shiwen
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The Vortex - November 2025: When Yu, 13, Took Down Asian 200IM Mark Of 2012 Olympic Champion Ye (16) After 13 Years
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November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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A ban on biological males competing in the women's category at the Olympic Games, regardless of how an athlete identifies, is expected to be in place during the next year as first female IOC president Kirsty Coventry presses on with her fair-play pledge
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IOC Hones In On Olympic Rule Preserving Women's Category For Females Only
A ban on biological males competing in the women's category at the Olympic Games, regardless of how an athlete identifies, is expected to be in place during the next year as first female IOC president...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Vortex adds: BSCA awards week underway with honours for swim coaches Keiron Piper & Nick Thompson, respectively for their work with high achievers Filip Nowacki and William Ellard - Photo: the coaches with BSCA exec director Brian McGuinness state-of-swimming.ghost.io/the-vortex-n...
The Vortex - November 2025: Coaches Piper & Thompson Honoured By BSCA As Awards Week Gets Underway
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November 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Editorial: Given that Russia's illegal war is still in full flow, Ukrainian lives lost and infrastructure pounded to pulp on a regular basis, what are we to make of new guidelines as swimming's global regulator settles into its new home in Hungary?
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Swimming's Relaxed Rules On Russian Teams Out Of Touch With The Reality Of An Illegal War
Editorial: Given that Russia's illegal war is still in full flow, Ukrainian lives lost and infrastructure pounded to pulp on a regular basis, what are we to make of new WA guidelines in force as the g...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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The Vortex: McIntosh Joins Team arena; Dávid Betlehem's 14:27 s/c season 1500 free ranks topper; Penny Taylor Passes Away At 96; U.S. Pro Swim Format Tweaked for 2026; Walshe, Wiffen & NíRiain Lift Athlete Of Year Swim Ireland Awards; Sweeney Is Top Coach
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The Vortex - November 2025: McIntosh Joins Team Arena
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November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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In our conclusion to our 4-part seriesatb a time when the Enhanced Games is emboldened by an Olympic history that celebrates the biggest fraud in sport's history, is Kirsty Coventry a superwoman fit to lay the GDR ghost to rest? state-of-swimming.ghost.io/forum-6/
FORUM: How To Heal The Harm Of East Germany's Doping Heist
Part 4 of 4 - At a time when the Enhanced Games is delighted that the Olympic Movement and international swimming has a history booked overflowing with doping results, it's time to get the clean up do...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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FORUM - part 4 of 4 - How To Heal The Harm Of East Germany's Doping Heist - and knock an enhanced argument on the head...

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FORUM: How To Heal The Harm Of East Germany's Doping Heist
Part 4 of 4 - At a time when the Enhanced Games is delighted that the Olympic Movement and international swimming has a history booked overflowing with doping results, it's time to get the clean up do...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The Red Threads That Bind 10 Swim Clubs To Ownership Of The Biggest Heist In World Sport
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The Red Threads That Bind 10 Swim Clubs To Ownership Of The Biggest Heist In World Sport
Deeper dive: From the SOS archive and compilation of facts and stats on the biggest heist ever witnessed in world sport, the GDR's systematic doping
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November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Guest commentary by Jacob Lea: time to embrace the argument we need to have with the Enhanced Games to build a united front against a uniquely incompatible opponent vying for space in our pool
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Swimming Should Flex Its Muscles In Scrap With Doping-Friendly Foe
Commentary by Jacob Lea: time to embrace the argument we need to have with the Enhanced Games to build a united front against a uniquely incompatible opponent
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November 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The World Anti-Doping Agency’s "Operation Puncture" is hunting down whistleblowers who leaked information about suspected doping cases in China to the German public broadcaster ARD, says the doping unit behind the story
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WADA Hunting Down China-23-Go-Free Whistleblowers, Says ARD
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is seeking to expose whistleblowers who leaked information about suspected doping cases in China to the German public broadcaster ARD, says the doping unit behind t...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Thank you to Adam Peaty - AP Race- and CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) for weighing the balance of water & life with me - the SOS Weekend Essay:
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Adam Peaty & The Depth Of CALM In Pursuit Of Balance In Water & Life
The British ace completed a heartening World Cup tour last weekend in Toronto, but the times on the clock & finishing places pale on the scale of purpose when set against his other October mission, wo...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Kylie Masse & Josh Liendo To Lead Team Canada At Glasgow 2026: in keeping with a plan to keep the Commonwealth Games alive by cutting costs and improving sustainability, Canada's swim team will be just 12 deep next year (para swimmers yet to be added)
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Masse & Liendo To Lead Team Canada At Glasgow 2026
In keeping with a plan to keep the Commonwealth Games alive by keeping down costs and improving sustainability, Canada's swim team will be just 12 deep at Tollcross International next year
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October 31, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Vortex Adds: AP Race names the date; Thorpe Joins Brisbane 2032 drive; Munich residents give possible Olympic Bid thumbs up; Australia set for SWIMSAFER Week; Kamminga Joins Corbeau In Dutch Strike Force at Euro S/C; Grousset's High 5 at French Nationals
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The Vortex - October 2025: AP Race Names May Dates For 2026 London Showcase
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October 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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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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October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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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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October 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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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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October 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM