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Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas seeks arbitration from CAS

  • Swimming

Lia Thomas v World Aquatics is the 10,000th case registered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) since it was established in 1984 to resolve sports disputes through arbitration. Its headquartered are in Lausanne, and it has tribunals in New York City, Sydney and Lausanne. Temporary ones are established in the current Olympic host cities.

fair competition is a legitimate sporting objective and that some regulation of transgender women in swimming


European Aquatics Championships 2026 in Paris

  • Swimming

The French Swimming Federation (FFN) and its public partners have been selected to host the prestigious

It will host diving, water polo and artistic swimming.

In 2026, it will continue to be a central venue for the pool programme, diving and artistic swimming.


Mack Horton stuns world with retirement ahead of Paris 2024

  • Swimming

Mack Horton, an Olympic gold medallist, has unexpectedly announced his retirement from competitive swimming

, who won a gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, has announced his retirement from competitive swimming

Championships, and the Commonwealth Games.Horton, competing at the Australian trials for the 2023 World Swimming

I just hope that Australia feels that I have made them proud," Horton said in a statement from Swimming

Horton is the new president of Swimming Australia and will move from the Gold Coast to Melbourne in the


Paris 2024: key concerns with six months to go

  • Paris 2024

Political bickering, persistent grumbling about ticket prices and disruption to daily life are souring the mood ahead of Paris 2024. Several recent announcements have led to a surge in negative publicity for the sporting mega-event, which will kick off in six months and attract a television audience of billions.

2024 organisers remain confident that sights such as beach volleyball in front of the Eiffel Tower, swimming


Egyptian Olympic Committee officially sacks Hisham Hatab

  • Paris 2024

The Egyptian Olympic Committee has officially dismissed Hisham Hatab as president of the committee during an extraordinary general assembly.

 Yasser Idris, President of the Egyptian Olympic Committee and President of the Egyptian Swimming


Only three of the 70 Paris 2024 venues delayed

  • Paris 2024

construction of part of the Athletes' Village, the renovation of the Grand Palais monument and the Colombes swimming

It will also be the venue for the open water swimming and triathlon events, once the water has been cleaned

Poor water quality meant that three swimming trials had to be cancelled last July and August.


Hellenic Olympic Committee honours athletes for 2023

  • Olympics

At a ceremony held at the Athens Concert Hall, 72 athletes were honoured for their successes at the World and European Championships, as well as those who qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

-Swimming: Christian Golomeev, Apostolos Christou, Stergios Bilas, Apostolos Siskos, Anna Ntountounaki

-Artistic swimming: Sofia Malkogeorgou and Evangelia Platanioti.-Men’s national water polo team.


Philippines focuses on World Aquatics Championships... and Paris 2024

  • Olympics

The Philippines are looking to increase the number of athletes competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics, and the upcoming World Aquatics Championships in Doha from 2-18 February will provide an important opportunity.

approved by World Aquatics on 6 June 2023, securing one of the two mandatory spots for the Philippine swimming


Russia rejects to be neutral at World Aquatics Championships

  • Aquatics

With the registration period for the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar from 2-18 February 2024 now closed, the Russian athletes have decided not to take part, despite the option to do so as neutrals.

2024The 21st edition of the World Aquatics Championships will feature competition in six aquatic sports: swimming

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


Shooting: Para athlete Abdulla Alblooshi banned for doping

  • Shooting News

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has suspended shooting Para athlete Saeed Mohammed Abdulla Alblooshi for two years for committing an anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) in violation of the IPC Anti-Doping Code (IPC Code).

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


The Bahamas' clear goal: Paris 2024

  • News

Romell Knowles, president of the Bahamas Olympic Committee, is excited about the Bahamas' efforts in the run-up to the Olympic Games, which begin in Paris on 26 July. Basketball, with the real possibility of becoming the first Bahamian team in Olympic history, is the great hope for the Caribbean islands near the United States.

basketball, the Bahamas hope to qualify athletes to compete in traditional sports such as athletics, swimming


Hungary's Pál Schmitt receives Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Fencing

Hungary's double Olympic champion and honorary member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Pál Schmitt, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Hungarian Sports Journalists' Association at The Athlete of the Year 2023 Gala in Budapest this week. The trophy was presented to Pál Schmitt by Madame President Katalin Novák, Hungary's Head of State, and Zsolt Gyulay, President of the Hungarian Olympic Committee and a double Olympic champion himself.

Olympic swimming champion Dániel Gyurta's eight-year term on the Athletes' Commission runs until Paris


Paris mayor promises to swim in Seine before Games

  • Paris 2024

Olympic Organising Committee, with authorities rushing to clean up the riverbed for the open water swimming

competition and the swimming leg of the triathlon.

But poor water quality forced the cancellation of three test swimming events in July and August last

highlight what she sees as a key part of the city's Olympic legacy: the creation of three open-air swimming

 Swimming in the Seine, which had already been practised under the Ancien Régime, had been banned

But for the Olympic Games, swimming will be reunited with the Seine: the triathlon and open water swimming

Before the cancellation of the two triathlon events, Para and Mixed, it was the open water swimming events


Swimming at Paris 2024 will not change venue

  • Paris 2024

In the face of growing rumours on social media about a change of venue for the aquatic events, the organisers have firmly denied this and confirmed that the event will go ahead as originally planned.

 "At no time was it planned to hold the swimming competition in this CAO.

In any case, it was never planned to hold swimming competitions at the CAO.

events, diving, and the preliminary stages of water polo, while the swimming events will be held at

The rugby arena will be converted into an Olympic swimming pool.

 The exciting Olympic swimming events at Paris 2024 will take place from 27 July to 4 August.


84% of Paris 2024 Olympics construction finished

  • Paris 2024

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are set to begin on 26 July. With less than 200 days to go before the Games begin, organisers are working flat out to complete venues that are behind schedule.

pool, the training centre for synchronised swimming, but these are only a few weeks old and do not appear

the Stade de France and the only new building built exclusively for the Games to host synchronised swimming

The rest of the swimming events will be held at the Defence Arena to the north-west, an impressive indoor

venue owned by the local rugby team, which is being extensively renovated to include a swimming pool.It

In two days' time, the place where the American star's fans will look like a swimming stadium.