SwimSwam Pulse: 56.2% Support Age-Based Tech Suit Ban
Votes were very split on this issue, with just 62 more votes favoring bans than opposing them.
Tyler Clary To Coach High School Swimming At Hotchkiss School
2012 Olympic champ Tyler Clary will join the coaching staff at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, he announced on his Twitter page this week.
New WADA Prohibited List In Effect, Including Arimistane
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)’s 2017 list of prohibited substances is now in effect, including the newly-banned substance Arimistane, which the Russian Swimming Federation specifically warned its athletes to stop taking.
VIDEO: Meet Simone Manuel, As Introduced By The Youth of USA Swimming
Coming off a blowup 2016 that saw her win a massive upset Olympic gold medal in the 100 free, Simone Manuel is the subject of a new USA Swimming video in which she gets to tell the story of her swimming career, with some help from her younger USA Swimming teammates.
Ledecky, Lochte Drug Tested 3 Times Each by USADA in 2016 Q4
The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) publishes a list of all athletes drug tested in each quarter of each year. The numbers for the fourth quarter of 2016 have been published, with multi-time Olympians Katie Ledecky and Ryan Lochte each leading the way with three tests.
2017 Arena Pro Swim Series To Include US Nationals – For Double Points
The 2017 Arena Pro Swim Series gets its late start next week, with annual tour kicking off from Austin, Texas on Friday, January 13. But in 2017, there’s a new addition to the points hunt: the series will conclude with U.S. Summer Nationals, which will be worth double points.
Michigan Wins 23 of 24 Events En Route To Orange Bowl Classic Titles
The Michigan Wolverine men and women combined to win 23 of 24 events Tuesday at the Orange Bowl Classic in Key Largo Florida. The Wolverines topped 5 other women’s programs and 3 other men’s teams to win both team titles.
The Top 20 Most-Commented SwimSwam Stories of 2016, Excluding Recaps
Earlier this week, we tallied up the most-commented SwimSwam stories of the year 2016. That list is typically very heavy on live meet recaps, which function as much as a live chatroom as they do a comment section. So to filter out that effect, we’ve also compiled a list of the top non-recap stories to amass the most comments in the year 2016.
Edgewood Jumps 25 Spots in 1st WISCA Rank of 2017
The boys of Madison Edgewood jumped 25 spots to #2 in the first Wisconsin high school swimming rankings of the new year. That’s in Division 2, where Monona Grove still leads, and Madison Memorial remains atop the Division 1 rankings.
The Top 16 Swimming Stories of 2016
The New Year is upon us! So we at SwimSwam are wrapping up our 2016 Swammy Awards with a look back at the 16 biggest stories of the year 2016.
The Top 20 Most-Read SwimSwam Stories of 2016
The year 2016 was dominated by the Rio Olympic Games and a host of stories surrounding them – qualifying meets, doping suspensions and athlete scandals in Rio. We’ve counted down the 16 most important overarching stories of the year, but what individual single-post stories gained the most traction in readership?
The Top 20 Most-Commented SwimSwam Stories of 2016
SwimSwam published well over 11,000 stories in the year 2016. Some skated by without comment from readers, but some spurred…
New FINA Bylaws Take Effect Jan. 1
With the coming of the new year comes the installation of FINA’s updated bylaws, as decided by the swimming federation earlier this year.
2016 Swammy Awards: Male Paralympic Swimmer of the Year
Belarus’s Ihar Boki swam his way to the highest gold medal total of any Paralympic swimmer in Rio this summer, earning 6 gold medals.
2016 Swammy Awards: Female Paralympic Swimmer of the Year
Ukraine’s Yelyzaveta Mereshko led all female swimmers in Rio with 5 total Paralympic medals. 4 were gold for Mereshko, all individual. Her only non-gold medal was a bronze from Ukraine’s mixed 4×50 free relay.