“The 37-year-old was taking part in Vertical Blue 09 in Dean’s Blue Hole, Long Island in the Bahamas, which is 203 metres deep.
Campbell, 37, managed to reclaim her world title by holding her breath for three minutes and 36 seconds, while diving to 96 metres and returning safely to the surface.”

(Via British freediver Sara [...]

“FINA should have kept much closer watch over it all. Better surveillance and foresight would have avoided plenty of unnecessary controversy and angst in 2008, which should have been nothing other than a historic Olympic year highlighted by Phelps trumping Mark Spitz with his eight gold medals in Beijing.

How the waters got muddied by swimsuit technology [...]

“SYDNEY: Sweden’s Therese Alshammar broke her own 50m butterfly world record at the Australian swimming titles yesterday but was later disqualified by Swimming Australia for wearing two swimsuits.

World champion Alshammar set a time of 25.44 seconds in the morning qualifying heats to take 0.02 of a second off the record 25.46 she set at [...]

So interesting news – what happens to all the records achieved last year if this goes ahead? This Swimnews article says it’s all about to change again – next year. Does it mean FINA allowed the whole of last year’s competitive calendar to be a complete waste of time, the Chinese will be happy [...]

Now why would they dispute the stories? – defeats me!

“FINA, the world governing body of swimming, have convened a summit meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, today to debate the issue of high-tech swimsuits with manufacturers, scientists, coaches and swimmers following calls to ban them on the grounds that they offer extra buoyancy and therefore amount to [...]