Swimming News

Asian Games bronze medallist Virdhawal Khade said the delay in resumption of training would put the Indian swimmers at a huge disadvantage ahead of Tokyo Olympic Games.

Sun Yang was found guilty of refusing to give a doping sample and banned for eight years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in February.

The 2021 swimming world championships, scheduled to be held in Fukuoka, Japan have been pushed back until May 2022 following the postponement of the Olympic Games.

The trials which were originally scheduled for June 21-28 in 2020 but will now take place from June 13 to 21 next year.

Olympic champion swimmer Cameron van der Burgh said he had contracted COVID-19, offering insight into how coronavirus infection could affect 2020 Olympic hopefuls.

Sun Yang came out swinging against his eight-year drugs ban, threatening legal action of his own as he attempts to salvage his broken career.

Sun Yang, who was accused of refusing to provide blood and urine samples when drug testers visited his home in China in September 2018, vowed to appeal the ruling.

Sarah Thomas said the hardest part of her English Channel swim was dealing with the salt water, which left her throat and mouth sore

Triple Olympic champion Sun Yang was accused of smashing a blood vial with a hammer during an out-of-competition doping test last year.

After Australian swimmer Shayna Jack failed a drugs test, Chinese media accused the team of "utter hypocrisy" following anti-doping protests targeting China's Sun Yang.

Tamas Kenderesi, Olympic bronze medallist, has been banned from leaving the country while police investigate the incident at a bar in Gwangju, around 330 kilometres south of Seoul.

Michael Phelps, however, admitted that his astonishment was tinged with sadness at losing a world record which had stood since 2009.

Britain's Adam Peaty became the first male swimmer to capture three 100 metres breaststroke world titles.

Adam Peaty clocked 56.88 seconds in semis, becoming the first swimmer to break 57 seconds and eclipsing his previous mark by just over two tenths.

Sun Yang, facing fresh allegations of violating doping protocols coming into the eight-day meet, slapped the water and roared in delight.

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have appealed the findings of the FINA doping panel's report, dated January 3, that decided Sun Yang did not commit a doping violation.

At last year's Khelo India School Games, Srihari Nataraj had won six gold medals.

Prasanta Karmakar was suspended after the incident in Jaipur in 2017.