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Birmingham 2022 venue Sandwell Aquatics Centre on schedule for community refit

  • Birmingham 2022

The purpose-built Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games aquatics centre at Sandwell is on schedule to re-open as a community venue in August.

The pool which hosted Olympic swimming champions such as Britain’s Adam Peaty and Tom Dean, South Africa

been allowed a look around the building while the work continues and said it was now "more than just a swimming


Total of 90,000 youngsters benefitted from Los Angeles 2028 youth scheme

  • Los Angeles 2028

Around 90,000 children across Los Angeles enjoyed opportunities to play sport at minimal cost in 2022 thanks to a scheme established as part of the preparations for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

the 2022-23 school year, PlayLA has expanded its programming to include adaptive sports such as Para swimming



Paralympics Australia to host come-and-try events between February and May

  • Paralympics

Paralympics Australia is to hold its Multi-Sport Days until May, an initiative that looks to get disabled members of the public to try new sports in a bid to improve Para development.

come-and-try events was canoeist Susan Seipel, who has two Paralympic medals.Seipel previously tried swimming

Australian Capital Territory.Participants can try archery, badminton, boccia, canoeing, cycling, taekwondo, swimming



Paris 2024 water polo pool renovation to affect French diving team training

  • Paris 2024

Renovation of the Maurice-Thorez swimming pool in the commune of Montreuil is affecting members of the

no other diving boards at 10 metres in Ile-de-France," he national technical director of the French Swimming

has been brought forward to March.The local community have to travel to the Murs-à-Pêches pool for swimming

 Red Star Club of Montreuil are the local swimming team, with 1,500 members affected by the move


Singapore replaces Kazan as host of 2025 World Aquatics Championships

  • Aquatics

Singapore has been awarded the hosting rights for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, replacing Russian city Kazan which is hoping to secure the event in 2029.

Kazan was named as host of the 2025 edition in 2019, but the event that features swimming, water polo

, diving, artistic swimming, open water swimming and high diving competitions has now been moved to Singapore.The

decision comes after Kazan lost the rights to stage last year's World Swimming (25m) Championships,

events, including holding World Cups in five of the six aquatics sports and the World Aquatics Junior Swimming

Australia's five-time Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe has also praised the decision, claiming Singapore


Seven-time Olympic champion Romashina retires from artistic swimming

  • Artistic Swimming

Seven-time Olympic artistic swimming champion Svetlana Romashina has called time on her glittering career

has also claimed 21 world titles, 13 European crowns and two Summer Universiade golds.The artistic swimming

Tatiana Pokrovskaya, head coach of Russia’s artistic swimming team, paid tribute to Romashina who is


UN Special Rapporteur accused of using Soviet propaganda technique to defend Russian return to sport

  • Paris 2024

The UN Special Rapporteur Alexandra Xanthaki has been accused of "whataboutism" after claiming that athletes from Russia and Belarus should not be banned from competing at next year's Olympic Games in Paris because the United States were allowed to take part at Athens 2004.

I don’t remember people trying to ban Michael Phelps from swimming."

I don’t remember people trying to ban Michael Phelps from swimming— UN Special Rapporteur Cultural Rights


Political neutrality and how to enforce it has dogged the Olympic Movement since First World War

  • The Big Read

A few days ago, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued a challenge to Thomas Bach when he invited the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President to visit the embattled eastern city of Bakhmut where fierce fighting has been going on for several months now. 

international sporting organisations had agreed to take their events in Italy.These included the 1927 European Swimming



British Virgin Islands Olympic Committee to receive $400,000 swimming pool after Hurricane Irma destruction

  • PASO

British Virgin Islands Olympic Committee (BVIOC) with a 25 metre international competition standard swimming

Panam Sports and World Aquatics identified installation of swimming pools as an urgent need for the region

The BVI has already made its mark in swimming with the likes of Olympian Elinah Phillip and this, along

scheme for other National Olympic Committees in the Caribbean.In addition to competition training, the swimming

pool will be used for teaching basic survival skills through swimming lessons offered at all levels.The

British Virgin Islands Swimming Federation is due to resume its coaching and competitive training programmes


Exclusive: Fukuoka 2023 organisers praised for "stamina" by Nowicki after COVID-19 delays

  • Aquatics

After two COVID-19-enforced delays, Fukuoka is finally scheduled to host the World Aquatics Championships for the second time later this year, and World Aquatics executive director Brent Nowicki has praised organisers for their "stamina".

Championships last year.The schedule for the World Championships in Fukuoka was revealed last month, with swimming

return to its usual slot in the second week, following on from diving and artistic swimming.Open water swimming

be the first World Championships staged by World Aquatics since its rebrand from the International Swimming