Swim England’s toxic culture must go – it is time for sport to prioritise joy

A report into ‘cultures of fear’ within swimming has found that the sport is still seen as a space where abuse of athletes is acceptable if it results in medals.

Swim England sorry after independent report hits out at ‘toxic’ culture in clubs

Swim England has apologised after a landmark report criticised the ‘toxic’ culture in some clubs

Israeli swimmer Gorbenko booed at world championships as GB’s Colbert wins gold

Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko was jeered by some of the crowd after finishing second in the women’s 400m medley in Qatar on Sunday

Summer McIntosh ends Katie Ledecky’s 13-year win streak in 800m freestyle

Summer McIntosh defeated Katie Ledecky in the 800m freestyle at an event in Orlando on Thursday, ending the American star’s 13-year unbeaten streak

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas taking legal action against World Aquatics

The US swimmer Lia Thomas is taking legal action in a bid to compete again in elite female sport

Steve Genter is selling his Olympic medals. But their real value is how he won them

Second fiddle to Mark Spitz and swimming with a collapsed lung, the American’s Munich story eclipses the medals’ worth

Synchronized swimming prepares for its newest addition: men

The sport now known as artistic swimming has always been a female-only sport at the Olympics. That will change at Paris 2024

Swimming Queensland expresses concerns about control of sport in Australia

Swimming Queensland has cited concerns over centralisation of control were behind its lone dissenting vote against a change to Swimming Australia’s constitution

Swimming World Cup category for transgender athletes cancelled after no entries received

World Aquatics’ plans to debut a new open category for transgender athletes at this week’s swimming World Cup in Berlin have been cancelled after no entries were received

Australian sport could look to philanthropy as athletes report financial stress

Australia risks losing elite athletes before the 2032 Brisbane Olympics unless philanthropy can help fill a funding shortfall, according to one nonprofit

Swimming Australia looks to appease World Aquatics after threat of expulsion

Swimming Australia’s president says the country’s standing in the sport is ‘in jeopardy’ without changes to its governance

Dean Boxall: the obsessive, eccentric and world-beating Australian swim coach

With a squad boasting record-holders Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O’Callaghan the trainer is being hailed as a masterful mentor

Titmus breaks world record to reign over Ledecky and McIntosh in swimming’s ‘Race of the Century’

Australia’s Ariarne Titmus broke the 400m freestyle world record as she surged to victory over an elite field at the swimming world championships

Now more than ever, cis female athletes must show solidarity with trans athletes

Anti-trans activists want us to believe that transgender female athletes pose the gravest danger to cis girls’ and women’s bodies, success and scholarships. They couldn’t be more wrong