EDITORIAL: The Enhanced Games, A Drug Company Throwing A Pool Party And Calling It Sport
It takes a particular kind of audacity to build a pharmaceutical funnel, stick a scoreboard on it, and call it the future of human achievement.
Slipstream Review: Turn Your Backyard Pool Into A Swim Lane
Backyard pools are built for floating. They are not built for real swimming. That is the problem Slipstream solves with enviable success.
SwimSwam Pulse: McEvoy, Pallister Voted Most Intriguing Storylines Heading Into Aussie Trials
After a dominant performance at the 2025 Aussie Trials, many are wondering what Lani Pallister will do this year after a full year training with Dean Boxall.
Swimming Cannot Keep Pretending Tradition Pays the Bills — Why CageRace Deserves all our Support
There are no lanes. Drafting off another swimmer is allowed; holding or aggressive contact draws a time penalty, or a disqualification.
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What Does the NCAA’s Age-Based Eligibility Model Mean for Olympic Sports?
What happens to the elite swimmer who delays enrollment for LA28 Trials preparation? How do programs built around international pipelines adapt?
The Enhanced Games Didn’t Really Teach Us Anything About the Troubled Economics of Olympic Sports
Miller cleared half-a-million in prize money at the Enhanced Games. That’s a life-changing amount of money. But is it a sport-changing amount?
3-Time Olympian Elli Overton Reframes Success In TEDx Talk
“Defining Success After Three Olympics and No Medals,” Overton examines what that label means when it does not come with the one thing…
SwimSwam Pulse: 46.2% Think Will Modglin Is Top U.S. 100 Backstroker In 2027, 20% Back Ryan Murphy
Modglin, who just turned 22, was the fastest American last year in the LCM 100 back (52.54) and reset the American Record in SCY this past fall (43.26).
SwimSwam Pulse: 69.5% Think Gretchen Walsh Lowers Sjostrom’s 50 Fly World Record This Year
Walsh has been rewriting the record books in the sprint butterfly events in SCM, SCY and the LCM 100 fly, but the long course 50 mark still eludes her.
SwimSwam Pulse: 81.9% Think Leon Marchand Takes Down 400 IM World Record This Summer
The vast majority of readers believe Marchand will take down the world record this summer, with 37.5% predicting him to go 4:01.
Thank You, Charlie
From FFT founder David Arluck: Swimming is more than fast times. It is friendship, mentorship, and a lifelong love for the sport.
SwimSwam Pulse: 71.3% Think U.S. Men Have Better Shot At 4×100 Free Relay WR Than Brits In 4×200
Led by Jack Alexy and Patrick Sammon, the American men have a legitimate chance at breaking the 18-year-old world record in the 4×100 free relay this summer.
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