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Sports scientists call on Australian sports bodies to amend transgender policies

  • News

Three sports science professors have called on nine Australian sporting bodies to change their policies regarding the participation of transgender athletes.

transgender women from competing in female competitions.The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and Swimming

Australia last month threatened legal action after an activist group used pictures of three Olympic swimming



Retiring Cole included in Australia's Para swimming squad for Birmingham 2022

  • Birmingham 2022

first Commonwealth Games title at Birmingham 2022, having been named in Australia's 27-strong Para swimming

I don’t really like swimming fast, I like swimming long and slow, but I’m going to have to learn how

third gold at the Games at Tokyo 2020 in the men's 4x100m freestyle 34 points relay.Swimming and Para swimming

Schluter, Oscar Stubbs, Jacob Templeton and Harrison Vig complete the line-up.Australia's able-bodied swimming

squad is due to be announced after the Australian Swimming Championships from May 18 to 22.The 54 swimming

and Para swimming events at Birmingham 2022 are scheduled for July 29 to August 3 at the new Sandwell



Exclusive: Russia and Belarus to face vote on IPC membership in November

  • Paralympics

Russia and Belarus could lose their International Paralympic Committee (IPC) membership over the ongoing war in Ukraine as an Extraordinary General Assembly (EGM) looks set to be called to decide their fate and potentially oblige members to follow the Olympic Truce.

ImagesRussian and Belarusian swimmers will be banned from participating at next month’s World Para Swimming


Berlin, Toronto and Indianapolis to host 2022 FINA Swimming World Cup events

  • Swimming

Berlin, Toronto and Indianapolis have been confirmed as hosts for International Swimming Federation (

FINA) Swimming World Cup stages in 2022.

staging World Cup events.Berlin has held 17 World Cup legs since 2000.Toronto will stage its first FINA Swimming

I’m really looking forward to kicking off the FINA Swimming World Cup in Berlin and then continuing the

FINA said the Swimming World Cup season fits on the calendar between the FINA World Championships in

Budapest, which will be held from June 18 to July 3, and the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)

in December.All three legs for the series will be qualifiers for the 16th FINA World Swimming Championships


Shooting Australia organises working group in bid to add sport to Victoria 2026

  • Victoria 2026

Shooting Australia has announced that it has created a dedicated Commonwealth Games working group to ensure the sport is included on the programme at Victoria 2026.

available towards the end of May.The sports that are guaranteed a place at the competition are T20 cricket, swimming

pandemic.Under the agreed roadmap at the CGF General Assembly in October of last year, athletics and swimming


Australia to run virtual final leg of FINA Artistic Swimming World Series

  • Artistic Swimming

The final leg of the International Swimming Federation's Artistic Swimming World Series is due to be

Artistic Swimming Australia is organising the online event which is being staged two weeks before the

response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.All performances must be filmed and submitted to Artistic Swimming

period, pre-selected by each federation before the performances are judged by officials.The Artistic Swimming


New Zealand Chef de Mission welcomes changes to Commonwealth Games hosting rules

  • Commonwealth Games

Nigel Avery, New Zealand's Chef de Mission for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, has welcomed the changes which could make it easier for the country to host the event again.

allow future hosts to organise sports across several cities or even countries, while athletics and swimming

To be able to say 'look you've only got to support two sports as a mandate, athletics and swimming' and



Duncan Mackay: Uncovering a piece of Olympic history by the English seaside

  • Inside the Blogs

I am currently in Blackpool, an old-style English seaside resort on the Irish Sea coast, for a few days spring break.

gold medal at Paris 1924 in the 200 metres breaststroke, making her Britain's first women's individual swimming

Her entry into the world of swimming came in an unusual way when her school headmistress Mrs Phillips

sent a note to her father warning that she was "the biggest dunce in the school and swimming might brighten

 So, aged 10, Morton became a member of the Blackpool Amateur Swimming Club, where a hidden talent

paid off and Morton was one of 13 swimmers selected for Paris 1924 who would contest the five female swimming


World Obstacle happy to collaborate with UIPM over new fifth discipline

  • Modern Pentathlon

World Obstacle President Ian Adamson has welcomed the International Modern Pentathlon Union's (UIPM) decision to select obstacle racing for testing as part of its efforts to retain its Olympic status.

and pentathlon communities worldwide".The obstacle discipline is set to be tested alongside fencing, swimming