Former Olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew MBE is encouraging people across the UK to take part in Swimathon 2024 to have fun, improve their fitness and raise money for charity partners Marie Curie and Cancer Research UK.

Swimming is rated as one of the most popular sports to participate in by a quarter of UK adults (25%)

and almost half (47%) of under 16s, with almost three in four (72%) believing that swimming is a sport

Some 45% of UK parents/guardians agree that swimming has brought them closer together as a family, while

I’ll see you there Swimming Fam!

Swimming is great for both physical and mental wellbeing, and participants will also be raising vital

The International Fair Play Committee (CIFP) has expressed its full support for the joint statement issued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) condemning the possible introduction of the so-called ‘Enhanced Games’.

Former Australian swimming champion James Magnussen, who retired in 2018, is the first big name to take

The board of the Dominican Olympic Committee has resumed work on the delegation to the Olympic Games in the Dominican Republic. This follows the reversal of the resignation of some of its members last January.

reinstated, but the COD refused to reinstate José Manuel Ramos (Equestrian Federation), Radhamés Tavárez (Swimming

Two years after Great Britain's great performance in Aveiro, Portugal, South African student-athletes dominated the medal table with three gold medals at the FISU World University Cross Country Championships held in Muscat, Oman, over the weekend.

The World Aquatics Championships - Doha 2024 drew to a close after two weeks of exhilarating competition as athletes hailed the record-breaking event, which was held in Qatar for the first time.

 Katie Shortman, who won silver for Great Britain in the artistic swimming competition, said: "We

Organising Committee, Jassim bin Rashid Al Buainain, and Director General, Khaleel Al Jaber before the final swimming

The Asian giant topped the medals table at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar, after 17 days of competition in a tournament that awarded many Olympic tickets for Paris 2024. The United States finished second and Australia third.

More than 2,600 athletes from 204 countries, including the Refugee Swimming World Team, competed in six

showed dominance in events such as diving and high diving, as well as a significant growth in artistic swimming

nine days of competition and also secured places for Paris 2024.China also made its mark in artistic swimming

Sharon van Rouwendaal, Rio 2016 Olympic gold medallist, won a double gold in the 10km and 5km open water swimming

Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko, who won the silver medal in the 400 freestyle final at the World Swimming

Israeli Anastasia Gorbenko Israeli’s first ever medal (silver) in swimming at the World Championships

The Australian Government, through PacificAus Sports, will work with the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) to support more than 250 athletes from 13 Pacific nations to prepare for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The supported athletes will compete in 15 sports, including athletics, swimming, boxing, weightlifting

The organisation of the Olympic Games continues to face challenges as the French capital prepares to host the Games from 26 July 2024. As well as the well-known security concerns, there is also the issue of the poor quality of the water in the Seine.

and delegations sailing through the centre of Paris on special barges, but also for the open water swimming

The marathon swimming competition between the Pont Alexandre III and the Pont Alma was cancelled because

In addition to the cancellation of the swimming marathon, there were also problems with the triathlon

whether the original plan, albeit very risky, will ultimately succeed or whether the largest Olympic swimming

Husain Al-Musallam, president of World Aquatics, may have awarded a multi-million dollar contract to a company owned by his wife and children. Kuwait's sports authority has referred the case over to the public prosecutor. This comes after the facts that Insidethegames revealed last week.

Swimming presidents such as Moustapha Larfaoui (Algeria) and Maglione held ex-officio membership of the

World Para Ice Hockey has announced that Bangkok will host this year's World Para Ice Hockey Championships C-Pool from 25-30 November with Finland, Thailand and four other teams to be determined.

Para Athletics, World Para Ice Hockey, World Para Powerlifting, World Para Shooting and World Para Swimming

His Excellency (HE) Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani today met with World Aquatics Refugee Team athletes Mohamad Eyad Masoud and Alaa Maso and World Aquatics Championships - Doha 2024 Ambassador and former refugee athlete Yusra Mardini at the Qatar Olympic Committee.

 Mardini retired from competitive swimming following her participation in the Tokyo 2020 in the

Doha 2024 ambassadors have been visiting schools across Qatar to inspire the next generation, as the first-ever World Aquatics Championships to be held in the Middle East aims to create a legacy of participation in aquatics in the region.

On 12 February, former Olympic swimming medallists Anthony Ervin (USA) and Ranomi Kromowidjojo (Netherlands

to Doha College, where she met Nada Mohamed Wafa, the first Qatari woman to compete in the Olympic swimming

 Spanish artistic swimming Olympic medallists Ona Carbonell and Nada Mohamed Wafa also participated

together more than 2,600 of the world's best athletes from 201 countries to compete in six aquatic sports: swimming

, diving, high diving, water polo, artistic swimming and open water swimming.

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has accepted the review of the demolition and reconstruction project for The Gabba, and all signs point to a much more cost effective and sustainable redevelopment for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games.

in place, with the redevelopment of the Gabba and a government-funded A$2.5 billion (€1.51 billion) swimming

Beijing will host the 2029 World Aquatics Championships, becoming the second Chinese city to do so after Shanghai in 2011. As previously announced, Singapore and Budapest will host the 2025 and 2027 editions respectively.

China also organised the 2018 World Aquatics Short Course Swimming Championships (25m) in Hangzhou.

2,500 world-class athletes from over 200 countries and regions to compete in the six aquatic sports of swimming

, diving, water polo, artistic swimming, open water swimming and high diving," said a statement from

history of welcoming the best athletes to our country," said Zhou Jihong, President of the Chinese Swimming