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  • Athletes and anti-doping groups have reacted with outrage after a four-year ban on Russia for state-sponsored doping offences was halved – and its athletes were told they could compete at next year’s Olympics and the 2022 World Cup wearing red shirts with the word Russia on them.

    The British Olympic gold medal cyclist Callum Skinner said the ruling, by the court of arbitration for sport, meant “the biggest doping scandal in history had gone unpunished”.

    The ruling was also greeted with astonishment by the US anti-doping agency head, Travis Tygart, who called it a “weak, watered-down outcome” for “robbing sport and clean athletes”. Tygart said: “To once again escape a meaningful consequence proportional to the crimes, much less a real ban, is a catastrophic blow to clean athletes, the integrity of sport, and the rule of law.”

    Under the ruling, official Russia teams will still be barred from next summer’s Olympics in Tokyo, as well as the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar as a punishment for covering up a massive state-sponsored doping programme. Russia will also be unable to host world championship events for two years and its anthem and flag will be banned too.

    Russian athletes will be able to compete as neutrals in international competition – either as individuals and in national teams – so long as they are not banned for doping offences. They will also be allowed to wear red kits with the word Russia on it, providing “neutral athlete” appears as well. In effect this meant, said Skinner, that “Russia hasn’t been banned, they’ve been rebranded as Neutral Athletes from Russia”.

    Read The Guardian

  • For the final Propulsion Swimming Podcast of 2020 we are talking with German Superstar Marco Koch!!! Marco is a former world champion and world record holder in the 200m Breaststroke!

    Marco talks through with us all the tips he would give Breaststrokers out there, from not perfecting one stroke but finding a nice variety that works for you on any given day, to how to find your race pace!

    He discusses his ISL experience; missing out on the 200m SC WR, those controversial dolphin kicks, and swimming through a groin injury. We also look forward to Tokyo 2021 and how he’s in a much better place thanks to the year delay.

    This is the podcast you really don’t want to miss!!

  • A high school teenager from Hinsdale, with dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer, is dead.

    Kendall Pickering, 15, and her father Robert, 59, died in a car crash in North Carolina.

    They were visiting colleges when their car went off the road and hit a tree Tuesday night on Interstate 85 near Kannapolis, North Carolina.

    Kendall Pickering swam on the varsity swim team at Hinsdale Central and broke school records.

    See CBS Chicago

  • SWIMVICE | Pro Analysis Series – 200 Meter Breaststroke 2012 London Olympics Rebecca Soni // This video is dedicated to analyzing Rebecca Soni’s breaststroke technique in her 2012 London Olympic’s 200 meter breaststroke event.

  • Meet Ben. He is a 5-year-old boy who experienced an infection at 18 months leaving him with a spinal cord injury. His first pool visit was full of tears. His mother’s goal was for him to learn to swim and become as independent as possible with the physical limitations of a spinal cord injury. Due to his infection, he has no functional use of his legs but has almost full use of his arms to push his wheelchair. Aside from his physical impairments, Ben is a typical 5-year-old boy with a strong ability to learn. He LOVES to be a daredevil and the pool provides the perfect space for him to move!

  • Jamesville-DeWitt high school boys swimming starts practices with Coronavirus precautions.

  • A puffin chick has graduated to the next level of swimming lessons and must learn to float before it can join the main puffin habitat.

  • She competed in the Seoul Olympics in 1988, and more than thirty years later, French swimmer Claire Supiot is training to take part in next year’s Paralympics. Despite discovering she had the neuropathy Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease in 2008, 52-year-old Claire isn’t letting her disability get in the way of her dreams.

  • Cody Simpson is an Australian musician, artist, and swimmer. Over the past 5 months, he has been training with Brett at a country club pool outside Los Angeles. Last weekend, Cody qualified for Australian Olympic Trials in the 100 LCM Butterfly posting a time of 54.91.