Swimming

A former Roanoke College women’s swimmer is lambasting Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat nominee for governor of Virginia, over her comments about keeping males out of female sports.

Officials have claimed that subscriptions to a swimming pool in the Swiss municipality of Porrentruy have increased significantly after authorities imposed a ban on foreigners.

Several drowning incidents occurred over the holiday weekend in inland lakes, ponds, pools, and Lake Michigan, casting a tragic pall over Fourth of July celebrations.

Swimming in the Seine had been illegal since 1923, with a few exceptions, due to pollution and risks posed by river navigation.

TX AG Ken Paxton has announced an investigation into U.S. Master’s Swimming for allowing a transgender athlete to compete against women. 

A man who identifies as a woman has won five gold medals in a women’s swimming championship in an event in Texas last weekend.

Olympic swimmer Gary Hall Jr. lost his home and his Olympic medals in the wildfires tearing through the Los Angeles area.

Three German swimmers became ill after competing in the open water races in the Seine River at the Paris Olympics.

CrossFit athlete Lazar Dukic drowned Thursday during a competition in Fort Worth, Texas, only 100 yards from the finish line of a swimming event, reports say.

The China Anti-Doping Agency issued a statement on Thursday demanding the world force American athletes to take more tests for banned substances, an apparent respond to growing condemning of the Chinese Olympics team for allowing athletes who tested positive for banned substances compete in Paris.

History’s most decorated Olympian, swimmer Michael Phelps, told reporters competitive sports should have a “one and done” rule for athletes who test positive for banned substances – anyone testing positive should “never be allowed to come back.”

The Chinese state-run propaganda magazine Global Times accused international athletes and staff at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Monday of “racial determinism” for expressing concern in public regarding the fact that Chinese athletes who tested positive for banned substances were allowed to compete.

An Olympic swimmer from Paraguay was kicked out of the Olympic Village in Paris over the weekend for alleged “inappropriate behavior.”

Belgium said it would withdraw from the mixed relay triathlon at the Olympics after one of its competitors who swam in the Seine River fell ill.

An Australian swimmer who has won gold and silver thus far is slamming the “ridiculous,” woke, eco-friendly Olympic village schemes as not conducive to high-performance athletics, and it may have cost her a record finish.

A broadcaster for Eurosport was removed from covering the Paris 2024 Olympics after he made a seemingly sexist comment about the Australian women’s swimming team. Bob Ballard was heard making a comment about knowing “what women are like,” adding that

U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Brinegar has been handed a four-year ban for blood doping.

Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions during the Paris Olympics.

Lia Thomas, the infamous transgender swimmer who won so many NCAA women’s swimming titles in 2022, is barred from the 2024 Olympics.

Trans athlete Cece Telfer competing in a women’s event is “simply cheating” former Great Britain Olympic medal winner Sharron Davies declared Monday.

Owen Lloyd won the ACC championship 1650-yard freestyle ACC title on Saturday, but his celebration only lasted minutes.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko was jeered by some of the crowd after finishing second in the women’s 400-meter medley on the closing day of the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar on Sunday.

A man is accused of stripping off his clothes and then jumping into the Bass Pro Shops aquarium in Leeds, Alabama, on Thursday.

A Chicago-area community is grieving the loss of a high school freshman who tragically died Sunday after he suffered a stroke during swim practice.

A 50-year-old male-born transgender swimmer has caused outrage after being allowed to compete in a teen girls’ swimming competition.

Swimmer Meghan Cortez-Fields, a man living as a woman, broke several records after switching from the men’s team over to the women’s team.

A group of female college swimmers in Virginia won their battle to prevent a male-born “transgender woman” from joining their team.

Riley Gaines delivered another cutting blow in the ongoing feud with former ESPN sports anchor Keith Olbermann.

Keith Olbermann has sparked controversy over his personal attack on former NCAA swimming champion Riley Gaines.

A cause of death for former U.S. swimming champion Jamie Cail, who died in Feb., has finally be determined.

Paris Olympics organizers canceled a swimming test event Saturday in the Seine River because of new concerns about water quality.

Former Olympic swimmer Helen Smart, who represented Britain during the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia, has died at the age of 43.

Citizens are in awe of a group of lifeguards in Flagler Beach, Florida, who performed an incredible rescue August 5.

Australian swimming champion Cate Campbell said she is glad she won’t have to hear the U.S. national anthem after the Aussies beat the U.S.

Ex-UPenn swimmer Paula Scanlan spoke out against the school’s decision to allow the male-born Lia Thomas to use the women’s locker rooms.

Even the heat wave passing over Europe isn’t enough to keep the popular public baths open, as authorities react to a rising tide of violence, allegedly by migrant men.