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

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.

Radical transgender activist Schuyler Bailar claimed this week that Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’ “long torso” giving him an advantage

A group of Wis. high school girls have sent a letter to their school district upset by a policy allowing a transgender to shower with them.

Former NCAA women’s swimming star Riley Gaines was reportedly “ambushed” and “hit by a man wearing a dress” at San Francisco State University on Thursday after giving a speech about saving women’s sports during a Turning Point USA and Leadership Institute event on the campus.

A second body was found at approximately 1:00 a.m. Thursday during a search for twin boys who vanished over the weekend in the water at pier in Galveston, Texas.

A New Jersey high school swimmer was reportedly disqualified due to the American flag on his swimming cap being too big for regulation, according to the boy’s father. 

Democrat U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman’s wife, Gisele, recently lamented about the supposed racism that pervades swimming in America.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that a woman cannot be born with a penis “without being a man” during a trip to Rwanda, but warned that people must be “very, very sensitive” when discussing such issues.

A man swimming off the coast of California was severely injured Wednesday after being attacked by a shark, but thankfully, others heard his cries for help.

Two doctors have told the New York Times that transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has a “biological advantage” over her opponents. 

A pro-female athletes organization announced that women in Britain are dropping out of recreational sports because of transgender competitors.

CWFA charges the University of Pennsylvania is violating Title IX by allowing male athletes to compete against female athletes.

“We think everyone should play sports fairly,” a women’s sports group that is working to preserve biology-based eligibility told the New York Post on Saturday, and stressed the movement is not specifically aimed at Lia Thomas, the transgender male collegiate swimmer currently competing as a woman, but is actually “pro-women.”

Lia Thomas, a biological man living and competing in collegiate athletics as a woman, was ignored by his female competitors after a fifth-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle final on Friday. 

University of Virginia swimmer Emma Weyant won second place in the women’s 500-yard freestyle championships, losing to a man, Lia Thomas. Many viewers took to social media to congratulate Weyant for actually winning first place.

Penn transgender swimmer Lia Thomas beat out a silver medal Olympian to win the 500 freestyle national championship.

Two transgender swimmers blew away the competition Wednesday at the Ivy League Women’s Swimming Championships.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has announced it allow transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to use new rules extending the time trans athletes had to demonstrate lowered testosterone levels. 

Several of the women on the UPenn women’s swim team reportedly mulled a boycott of the season’s final meet

Madagascar Police Minister Gen. Serge Gellé told reporters on Tuesday he swam for 12 consecutive hours in the Indian Ocean from Monday night through Tuesday morning until he reached a shore near Madagascar’s Mahambo town after he survived a helicopter crash that left him stranded in the sea, Sky News reported Thursday.

A University of Pennsylvania swimmer who competed as a man for three years is now dominating the women’s categories.

A Super Bowl commercial featured swimmer Jessica Long, a 13-time paralympic gold medalist, and her incredible life story Sunday. Long was adopted from a Siberian orphanage, and was born without fibulas, ankles and heels.

A family in Humble, Texas, saved a dog earlier this month after they saw it swimming aimlessly in Lake Houston.

A Dutch Olympic swimmer has given new meaning to the idea of adapting and overcoming.

Chinese multiple Olympic and world swimming champion Sun Yang has been banned from the sport for eight years for breaking anti-doping rules after a vial of his blood was smashed with a hammer.

A coach of a Wisconsin swimming school has been accused of hiding a video camera in the employee locker rooms.