

Such sentiments are pegged to excellent niche-universal knowledge that, in general, swimming has not been able to capitalise on, despite know-how specific to health and safety having been accrued over a century and more off lived, learned experience. The impact of the virus on a sport that takes place in a treated element – in simplistic terms ‘chlorinated’ water (there’s Ozone, UV, Saltwater and Direct Hydroxyl Injection, too) runs deep – and in those depths understandable frustration holds hands with anguish, exasperation, resentment, disappointment and even anger.

(disclaimer: yes, some of this material constitutes a ‘long read’) Low Risk / High Impact

No4 – The Swim League, The Wrangle & The Womenfolk.No3 – Sun Yang & The Sequel With WADA … But Will Any Puppet Masters Be Called To Account?.No2 – Part 2 – 10 Issues Ripe For Scrutiny Of An Independent Swimming Integrity Unit.No2 – Part 1 – The Independent Integrity Unit & Magna Carta Missing From Swimming.
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Our No1 spillover story speaks to all the themes on our list of top five topics significant to the development of swimming and how that is affected by well-compensated volunteer governors and regulators falling shy of professional standards and what should be their priority aquatics-oversight role: the best interests of athletes and those who work with and support them. Swimming has been frozen out of its element by the coronavirus pandemic for a number of reasons, including those that forced all sports, all of us, in private, educational and business spheres, to adapt, cope and even change professional and personal pathways.
