Five years after her success on the lucrative ISL tour, European championship star Louise Hansson has still not received her prize money of almost SEK 600,000. “That would be a very secure income, but here we are five years later and I haven’t been paid,” she says. Now she has found a job alongside swimming.
SportsSwimming is testing a new format, allowing more finalists at this year's Short Course World Championships and World Cup. Ten swimmers will compete in the semifinals and finals, compared with the current eight.
SportsRussians and Belarusians are welcomed back by the International Swimming Federation. Poland says no - it will not let them into next year's European Championships. They will not be able to participate, Polish Swimming Federation President Otylia Jedrzejczak told the website sport.pl.
SportsFormer Olympic gold medalist Lars Frölander is behind the International Swimming Federation's decision to allow Russia and Belarus back into the heats.
SportsBriton Ben Proud took Olympic Games silver last year and a World Championship silver a few weeks ago. Now the 30-year-old swimmer is ready for the so-called "doping Olympic Games". I definitely do not think it undermines a clean sport, he says to BBC.
SportsSarah Sjöström and several other swimming stars will be compensated in a big dispute with the International Swimming Federation. This after a settlement in an American court.
SportsAn entire swimming world is amazed by the twelve-year-old Chinese super talent Yu Zidi. But there are dark sides to making a commitment at such a young age. It is definitely a risk, says Sarah Sjöström's coach Antonio Lutula.
SportsAfter a swimming year filled with world records, the expectations are high ahead of the World Championship in Singapore. The stars, with the Canadian prodigy Summer McIntosh at the forefront, have shone unexpectedly strongly already. But one of the biggest stars is missing – the World Championship's most individual medal winner Sarah Sjöström who is pregnant. At the same time, a 12-year-old prodigy from China joins.
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