A Wall Street Journal investigation has revealed one of the dirtiest secrets of the Olympic swimming elite: “Everyone pees in the pool.”

The International Testing Agency (ITA) reports over 32,600 doping controls conducted this year, marking a 45% increase from the previous six months.

World Aquatics has carried out the most comprehensive pre-Olympics testing programme in its history in the wake of the doping scandal involving 23 Chinese swimmers.

With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games around the corner, Scarlett Mew Jensen and her partner Yasmin Harper will have the chance to win Team GB’s first aquatic medal of Paris 2024 on a competition this Saturday 27 July. Looking back some months ago, both achieved the same placings at the last two World Championships in the 3m springboard synchro.

One of the many logistical challenges faced by the organisers of the Paris Games was to provide a venue capable of hosting the Olympic and Paralympic swimming events in the conditions required by the regulations in terms of comfort for the athletes and capacity to accommodate large crowds.

For a fit athlete such as Australian swimmer James Magnussen, the idea of subjecting his body to the physical strain and doping allowed by the new Enhanced Games initiative is not something that worries him.

Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom will compete in the 100m freestyle at the Paris Olympics, thanks to a favourable schedule that allows the 30-year-old extra rest before her preferred 50m freestyle event.

Adam Peaty, Britain's Olympic swimming champion, is aiming for history at the Paris Games after overcoming personal challenges that once threatened his career.

Following the success of the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 academic years of the Stipendium Hungaricum Sport Scholarship Programme, World Aquatics and the Hungarian Government are pleased to announce the class of 2024/2025 scholars.

The Olympic Torch Relay returned to the Ile-de-France region to light up the jewels of the Val-d'Oise. From the Vexin nature reserve in Théméricourt to the dynamic towns of Pontoise, Cergy and Argenteuil, it continued to raise the profile of Paris 2024 less than 10 days before the Opening Ceremony.

Swim star Ariarne Titmus says she has never prepared as well for a major event and is in better shape now than when she won Olympic 200m and 400m freestyle gold in Tokyo. The Australian heads to Paris on the back of shattering the 200m world record last month and clocking the second quickest 400m of all time, behind only her own world best.

Rohan Taylor, the Australian swimming coach, admits to “enormously respecting” the powerful United States, although he believes that the Aussies have the "attacking power" to give it a go.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a symbolic swim in the River Seine on Wednesday to demonstrate its improved water quality ahead of the upcoming Olympics.

As Katie Ledecky gears up for her fourth Olympic Games, the swimming superstar is poised to defend her extraordinary legacy in the pool. The five-time Olympic gold medalist and world record holder is set to face a new generation of emerging talent eager to challenge her dominance.

Twelve years on from her stunning 800m freestyle victory at the London Olympics, Katie Ledecky is headed to Paris for her fourth straight Games aiming to extend an astonishing run of sustained excellence. The American freestyle great, whose talents were once dubbed "otherworldly" by Michael Phelps' mentor Bob Bowman, brings an even-keeled approach that doesn't hide a fierce competitive streak as she vies to add to her cache of 10 Olympic medals —seven of them gold.