The inaugural Gulf Youth Games Emirates 2024 wrapped up on Tuesday following an exhilarating two-week period of competitions.

During the concluding day of competitions at the Gulf Youth Games, the UAE's swimming contingent secured

In a letter to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Team USA Athletes’ Commission demands a “truly independent” investigation on the handling of the Chinese swimmers scandal, while the UNI Global Union-based association underlines the agency’s “systemic failures, need for  reform”.

A joint statement between the USA Swimming Athletes’ Advisory Council and the Team USA Athletes’ Commission

Graham, Head of World Players.The World Players Association is part of UNI Global Union.As for the USA Swimming

Hydrologists have seen significant signs of improvement in the river's health. With the arrival of the Olympics, the dream of many Parisians to swim in their river could finally come true. Paris will join Zurich and Munich in enjoying urban beaches.

It was former French president Jacques Chirac who first proposed the idea of swimming in the Seine in

It's been a century since swimming was banned and the dreams of Parisians were shattered.

Swimming and Triathlon officials were looking for a plan B if the water tests weren't met.

It was a species he had never expected to find in the Seine.The swimming and triathlon events of Paris

I love swimming like this." The Olympics could change Paris forever.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published a fact sheet outlining the procedures it undertook to reach the decision that the 23 Chinese swimmers, who had tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) in early 2021, would not face suspensions.

the China Anti-Doping Agency (CHINADA) collected 60 urine samples of Chinese swimmers at a national swimming

range).The swimmers were from different regions of China, with different coaches and from different swimming

were tested and none tested positive for TMZ.Between January and June 2021 there were no international swimming

Emirati athletes continued their impressive showing at the inaugural Gulf Youth Games UAE 2024, adding 37 medals on day 12 - a new single-day record since the tournament began on 16 April and ends on 2 May. The total tally now stands at 231 medals, including 73 gold, 86 silver and 72 bronze.

 Qatar shone on the opening day of the swimming competition at the Mohammed Bin Zayed Sports City

Abdullah Al Wahaibi, of UAE Swimming Federation, commended the competitive spirit displayed, highlighted

After winning a record-breaking 37 medals on Day 12 of the inaugural Gulf Youth Games, hosts United Arab Emirates (UAE) have now taken their tally to 231 including 73 golds. Saudi Arabia are next with 93 medals with Kuwait in third on 89.

Sunday saw UAE secure 18 medals in karate, 10 in swimming, four in judo, three in archery and two in

 The World Anti-Doping Agency wants a separate prosecutor to investigate the case of the 23 swimmers who failed doping tests and will send a "compliance audit team" to China to evaluate its anti-doping program. USADA considers the action insufficient and calls for another independent investigation.

decision.WADA invites independent prosecutor to review its handling of Chinese contamination case in swimming

Sport Integrity Australia has sought to reassure Australian athletes of the agency's commitment to ensuring the global anti-doping system is thorough, fair and transparent following this week's revelations in the controversial case of 23 Chinese swimmers.

pledge comes in the wake of media comment and speculation surrounding the issue of contamination in swimming

The 2024 FISU World University Championships Finswimming will take place in Pereira, Colombia, on 26 and 27 April. Find out more about this extremely elegant sport that takes place on the surface and underwater.

 Then there is Apnea Finswimming (AP), which involves swimming underwater in a pool using a mask

FISUFinally, Immersion Finswimming (BF) is the use of a mask, monofin and underwater breathing apparatus in a swimming

Over the next two days, 113 athletes from 16 countries will compete in the outdoor Olympic swimming pool

Ready to dive into the world of fin swimming?

The Seine will play a starring role at Paris 2024, but now all the eyes are focused on its waters. Pollution and dirt, the uncertainty surrounding the opening ceremony on barges on the river and the possibility of events being cancelled are all major concerns with just three months to go.

for the Games, as part of a process that will culminate in the grand celebrations on the Seine, the swimming

All will be operational in the coming weeks, giving organisers peace of mind.The open-water swimming

trials were cancelled because the water was too dirty, as were the swimming legs on two of the four

Last August's open-water swimming was cancelled after heavy rains - the worst in nearly six decades,

They won't run the risk of us swimming and someone catching something," added Olivier.

The much-anticipated opening of the Gulf Youth Games UAE 2024, held at the prestigious Dubai Opera, was met with enthusiasm and forward-looking energy, earning praise and admiration from all participating teams.

Swimming will be held at various venues in Abu Dhabi from 27 April to 1 May.His Excellency Jassim Al

the Abu Dhabi Golf and Billiards Club, will see more medals, especially in individual sports such as swimming

French President Emmanuel Macron, who has repeatedly promised to take an Olympic swim in the Seine, said the river was on the way to becoming “clean”, according to Agence France-Presse.

She declared that ensuring the two rivers are fit for swimming was "one of the challenges of the century

legacy.”The plant on the Marne, designed to clean water, would handle "the equivalent of an Olympic swimming

Austerlitz on the eastern fringe of central Paris has been designed to hold the equivalent of 20 Olympic swimming

since 1970 and in the Seine since 1923.Paris mayor is confident that water quality will allow Olympic swimming

river's water quality will be up to Olympic standards by this summer and that she too will prove it by swimming

On Tuesday, the US Anti-Doping Agency issued a call for significant reforms within the World Anti-Doping Agency and urged for an impartial investigation into instances of Chinese swimmers testing positive before the Tokyo Olympics.

would allow a successful prosecution of these cases," WADA said Tuesday.Statement Regarding the Chinese Swimming

Anti-Doping Agency has faced fierce backlash over its handling of positive test results from China's swimming

revelations so far might seem a bit murky, but some basic facts are indisputable: nearly half of China’s swimming

questions remain regarding China's most recent doping scandal, but one fact is as clear as Olympic swimming

Again citing "no credible evidence of wrongdoing” in the handling of the positive tests of 23 swimmers from China before Tokyo 2021, World Anti-Doping Agency president Witold Banka referenced the case of Sun Yang, currently serving a four-year ban, and reprimanded “politically motivated” USADA.

Montreal, WADA addressedwhat it deemed “the environmental contamination case” of nearly half the Chinese Swimming