The World Athletics Council has today barred transgender athletes from women's competition, altered DSD athlete regulations, reinstated the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF) following seven years of suspension - and retained the ban on  Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials.

The World Athletic position on this matter now corresponds broadly with that taken up by the world swimming

Rugby.World Aquatics voted last June to make trans women athletes ineligible to compete in elite women’s swimming

Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) President Paulo Wanderley and COB director of communications Paulo Conde have visited the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) headquarters in Lausanne to finalise preparations for the ANOC World Beach Games in Bali and discuss logistics for hotels and training camps at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

the Brazilians won gold in beach soccer, beach tennis, beach handball, beach wrestling and open water swimming

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) celebrated the legacy forum for Brisbane 2032 with the message "sport lies at the heart of the Games and can be one of the great legacies" with 500 people in attendance.

freestyle ©Getty Images"We are meant to move," said O'Neill, who is also a two-time Olympic champion in swimming

Michael Phelps and Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry are among those to be inducted into the International Swimming

being talked about as a prospective future candidate for the IOC Presidency.The seven-time Olympic swimming

five-time world-record holder, and since 2018 has been serving as Zimbabwe's Sports Minister.During his swimming

2016 Games with the last of his 23 Olympic golds, is among the latest inductees into the International Swimming

M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment has extended its deal with the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC), as its official creative agency for a further three years.

haul placed Australia in sixth on the medals table.The nation’s best performance came in the sport of swimming

swimmers impressed on home water as world records were set across all four days of the 2023 Citi Para Swimming

storms to MC Women's 200m Medley Gold with a huge 991 points🔥 pic.twitter.com/vIUevHx1Ro— British Swimming

Men's 100m Backstroke with a huge 9⃣9⃣0⃣ points🤩#Sheffield2023 pic.twitter.com/2cIjHr9MJo— British Swimming

My goal coming in to this was to get qualifying times, and to make sure that I’m swimming faster in the

Women's 100m Butterfly with a phenomenal effort🔥#Sheffield2023 pic.twitter.com/EZdNhKY76U— British Swimming

100m butterfly, setting a new world record of 1:06.04 in the latter event.The next round of the Para Swimming

The International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM) have released a brochure named "Get Started with the new Modern Pentathlon" as athletes prepare for the journey towards the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.

the UIPM 2023 Pentathlon U17 World Championships in Alexandria from July 12 to 16, alongside fencing, swimming

Japan topped the medal table at the 2023 World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup in Markham, Canada

Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Cortina d'Ampezzo to voice their opposition to a project to build a new sliding centre for the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

irresponsible".Organisers of the protest said: "There is no money for the renovation of the cinema, the swimming

In Dublin this weekend, Ireland, World Rugby’s number one ranked team, are on the threshold of a Grand Slam for only the fourth time in their history. 

design," officials decided.The sporting programme was to include athletics, golf, handball, hurling, swimming

competing for Ireland.Her international career later ended after a suspension from the International Swimming

Swimming Australia chief executive Eugénie Buckley has revealed the body is looking for a new aquatics

Currently, swimming events at Brisbane 2032 are set to take place in a "drop-in pool" at the planned

the Government.However, Buckley argues that the temporary venue would not leave behind a legacy for swimming

The current plan for swimming events at Brisbane 2032 is for them to take place in a temporary venue

," Buckley said.She also stated that Swimming Australia is also working on upgrading its headquarters

Australia wanted to make that the home of swimming for all of Australia," he said to ABC.

USA Swimming say that a relay incentive programme for competitors at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and

freestyle relays, the women’s and men’s 4x200m freestyle relays and the mixed 4x100m medley relay.If USA Swimming

third in the medal tally, they will receive $150,000 (£123,000/€140,000) to split among themselves.USA Swimming

ultimate goal of extraordinary relay success," said Lindsay Mintenko, the managing director of USA Swimming

While many might see swimming as an individual sport, we at USA Swimming know that a team focus is the

To earn automatic qualification for the relays at the Olympics, USA Swimming will have to finish in the

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has paid tribute to double Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Sue Masham of Ilton, who has died aged 87, describing her as a "champion, campaigner and ambassador for disability rights".

Representing Britain, Masham won gold in Para swimming at the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome and gold

pmLx59Ed7W— Spinal Research (@SpinalResearch) March 14, 2023At the 1960 Rome Paralympics, Masham won swimming

Paralympics.At Tokyo 1964, her gold in Para table tennis women’s doubles B was accompanied by Para swimming

French President Emmanuel Macron has insisted that the Olympics in Paris will be "an exceptional event for the entire world" in a rallying cry on social media as Paris 2024 marked 500 days to the Opening Ceremony.

In Australia, children were invited to take part in a swimming relay at the Telopea Park School in Canberra

champion Alia Atkinson and Patrick Groters, who is a Pan American Junior Games record-holder, held free swimming

This will transfer to the pool with the assistance of incredible swimming stars from the Caribbean."

tourists at the beach.Jamaican-born Alia Atkinson attended the programme in order to help children learn swimming