SwimSwam Pulse: 64% More Intrigued By Women’s 100 Back Showdown Than Men’s 100 Fly
The women’s 100 back in Budapest will feature the three fastest swimmers in history and the only ones who have broken 58 seconds.
SwimSwam Pulse: 37.7% Think We’ll See A 1:43 200 Free In 2022
While the majority think it won’t happen, there’s a sizeable number of fans optimistic we’ll see a swimmer break 1:44 in the 200 free this year.
SwimSwam Pulse: 77% Think Commonwealth Games Will Be Faster Than Euros In 2022
Emma McKeon is among the Australian swimmers who have opted out of the World Championships to gear their focus towards the Commonwealth Games.
SwimSwam Pulse: 44% Think 200 Breast Has Biggest Disparity From SCY To LCM
Readers believe that the breaststroke is the 200 event that changes the most from short course yards to long course meters.
SwimSwam Pulse: 42% Predict Kamminga Will Benefit Most From Worlds Absences
Arno Kamminga is now the big favorite for gold in the men’s 100 breaststroke at the World Championships after Adam Peaty dropped out with a broken foot.
SwimSwam Pulse: 41% Pick Weinstein’s 200 FR As Top Women’s Surprise of Trials
Weinstein became the fastest 15-year-old in U.S. history en route to locking down an individual spot at the World Championships in the women’s 200 freestyle.
The Game Changers: How Will the NCAAs Top 5 Transfers Impact Their New Teams?
Michigan’s Maggie MacNeil isn’t the only big-name women’s NCAA transfer this off-season, but she’s the one due to have the biggest impact.
Is NIL Really Threatening Olympic Sports Like Swimming?
At last week’s annual Pac-12 spring meetings, Arizona athletic director Dave Heeke warned of the existential threat that NIL poses to sports like swimming.
Maxime Rooney Retires as the 3rd-Best American Ever in This Category
Maxime Rooney never got over the hump for an open-age U.S. international team, but he did have one of the fastest single-meets that swimming has ever seen.
7 Things My Swim Mom Did For Me When Nobody Else Could
Swim moms are special people. They give selflessly to us and our careers and our lives. Here are 7 ways my swim mom helped me survive childhood.
SwimSwam Pulse: 58% Believe Women’s 200 Fly World Record Will Stand Longest
China’s Liu Zige set the seemingly unreachable world record of 2:01.81 in the women’s 200 butterfly back in 2009.
Which Aquatic Athletes Will Be in the 2022 USOPC Hall of Fame Class?
Michael Phelps with his 28 Olympic medals is a sure-fire first ballot Hall-of-Famer. But which of the other 6 aquatic nominees might join him?
My 10 Favorite Swims from the 2022 US International Team Trials
The Magic Man had a Magic Moment last week with the only World Record of the 2022 US International Team Trials in Greensboro.
SwimSwam Pulse: Women’s 100 Back, 100 Breast Are Deepest Events In The U.S.
Readers believe the women’s 100 back and 100 breast would be the most likely events the U.S. could sweep at Worlds, but maybe now it’s the 200 breast?
After Dust Settles at US Trials, Australia Is Still the Women’s 4×100 Favorites
A personal best by Torri Huske led a slew of positive stories for the U.S. in the women’s 100 free final, but none of it seems like enough.
