Swimming
SwimmingIOC Closes 12 Commissions, Keeps 19: The Water World Aquatics Now Swims In2026-10-23In February, the International Olympic Committee suspended every...
SwimmingFull Prize Money in a Truncated Season: A Governance Lesson from European Open Water Swimming2026-10-22There is a small detail in European Aquatics' press release that a fast reade...
SwimmingWhen the Swimming Lane Loses Its Data: A Pipeline Failure and a Lesson in Data Discipline2026-10-21One morning in mid-August, I opened my tracking sheet for the national swimmi...
SwimmingMcEvoy Stumbles on Astana Ice: What a Five-Continent Start List Really Says About the Swimming World Cup2026-10-20On the ice in Astana, Cameron McEvoy failed. He said so himself to a local...
SwimmingArizona “Zona” Smith Commits to Florida: The Short-Course Speed Profile and the Long-Course Gap of a Class of 2028 Sprinter2026-10-18In March 2026, at the Cary Sectionals, Arizona Smith touched the wall in the ...
IOC Closes 12 Commissions, Keeps 19: The Water World Aquatics Now Swims InIn February, the International Olympic Committee suspended every...
Full Prize Money in a Truncated Season: A Governance Lesson from European Open Water SwimmingThere is a small detail in European Aquatics' press release that a fast reade...
Mikayla Tan's 0.06 Seconds: Stanford Gains a Third Top-10 Recruit, Not Yet an International TicketThe scoreboard at Winter Juniors West, in December 2026, stopped at 2:06.74 i...
When a Promise Is Erased: Lessons from Angelina Lista's Flip and the Limits of Trust in NCAA RecruitingThere was a stretch in 2026 when I sat in front of a screen, rewinding 98...
When the Swimming Lane Loses Its Data: A Pipeline Failure and a Lesson in Data DisciplineOne morning in mid-August, I opened my tracking sheet for the national swimmi...
McEvoy Stumbles on Astana Ice: What a Five-Continent Start List Really Says About the Swimming World CupOn the ice in Astana, Cameron McEvoy failed. He said so himself to a local...
Arizona “Zona” Smith Commits to Florida: The Short-Course Speed Profile and the Long-Course Gap of a Class of 2028 SprinterIn March 2026, at the Cary Sectionals, Arizona Smith touched the wall in the ...
2026 Swimming World Cup: The Top Earner Broke No World RecordAstana, final stop, final night. A 25-metre pool. Marrit Steenbergen touches...
Astana and the Broken Crowns: When World Swimming Learns to Rewrite Its Own RulesThe water breaking at the Astana pool did not sound like Kazan. There was no...
2026 UVA SCM Pro Elite: Decoding the Seed Map of a Short-Course Tune-Up Before the ChampionshipAmong the eleven events on the opening session of the 2026 UVA SCM Pro Elite,...
Vietnamese Swimming: The Real Gap Lies in the Final 50 MetresIn Jakarta, in August 2026, Nguyễn Huy Hoàng touched the wall in the...
Deep Analysis: Grace Higdon's Commitment to William & MaryThis article is a transactional recruiting bulletin, a staple of SwimSwam's...
The Daily Workout Series and the Knowledge Infrastructure Feeding American Women's SwimmingOn a January morning in Los Angeles, I reopened SwimSwam and met the familiar...
2:00.12: Shin Ohashi Erases His Own World Junior Record in SagaIn lane 4, Shin Ohashi touched the wall and the scoreboard flashed 2:00.12. N...
Duke 2031 Recruiting Profile: When a Swimming Scholarship Is Not Decided by 23 SecondsSofia Oliveira has announced her verbal commitment to Duke University, and th...
The COVID Laboratory and the Lesson from Risdon's Railway: When Data Feels PainIn 2026, in Kazan, I sat in the press room of a World Cup group stage match,...
When Data Stays Silent: Lessons From an Empty AnalysisThere is a moment in sports commentary that taught me the most, and it did no...
World Swimming After Paris 2026: A Power Map Being RewrittenAt the men's 100m freestyle final at the Paris 2026 Olympics, Pan Zhanle...
Beneath the Still Water: The Power Map of World Swimming and Vietnam's Unclaimed PlaceWater in a 50-metre pool at five in the morning has a smell of its own —...
56.18 Seconds and a 1.07-Second Gap: What Marrit Steenbergen's Number Is HidingThe electronic board in the 25-metre short-course pool flashed the number...
