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Para-swimming champion 'shocked' by vaccine clearance wait

Tully Kearney has said she is "shocked" about having to potentially make a decision to either miss the Tokyo Paralympics or protect herself from Covid-19.

Swimming

Peaty creates history again with new world record

British swimmer Adam Peaty has set a new short course world record in the 100 metres breaststroke for the second time this month.

Olympics

Sausage dog and psychologist a lockdown lift

Ellen Keane talks to Sky Scholar mentor Gail Davis about lockdown struggles and how a sausage dog, a sport psychologist and coach are lifting spirits.

Swimming

Peaty breaks 100m breaststroke world record

Adam Peaty set a world record for the 100 metres breaststroke at the professional International Swimming League (ISL) in Budapest on Sunday.

Olympics

Olympic sports face funding cuts for 2024

A number of Great Britain's most successful Olympic sports including rowing and sailing face funding cuts for the Paris 2024 cycle.

Coronavirus in sport

Golf, tennis and gym facilities to remain closed

Boris Johnson has confirmed golf courses, tennis courts, swimming pools and gyms in England will remain closed when England goes into a second lockdown on Thursday.

Swimming

Peaty: Lockdown training could help me win gold

Olympic gold medalist Adam Peaty feels the benefits of lockdown training could inspire him to another 100m breaststroke win in Tokyo.

Sport's coronavirus crisis

PL allowed to continue during 'circuit break' lockdown

Premier League football and other elite sports will be allowed to continue during a four-week 'circuit break' lockdown which will start in England on Thursday.

Other Sports

ISL roars back - but in a Budapest bubble!

The ISL is back but it's very different in the new Covid world. GB swimmer Max Litchfield gives the lowdown from inside the Budapest bubble...

Black History Month 2020

Swimming 'still a white sport' but primed for reset

Britain has one black elite swimmer. Former world No 1 Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell says it's "still a white sport" but is hopeful change is happening.

Olympics

Olympics postponement a positive for Anderson

Sky Scholar and freestyle swimmer Freya Anderson tells Sky Sports News why the Olympics being postponed isn't necessarily a bad thing for her.

Other Sports

Soaking up Bath and dreaming of Tokyo after 'crazy' year

Wrapping up a crazy season, chilling in Crete and fired up for an Olympic season. Freya Anderson is thrilled to be swimming again after moving to Bath.

Black Lives Matter

Meet Britain's only black elite swimmer

"I have heard myths such as black people can't swim, our bones are too dense, we sink when we get into the water. It's not meant for us...."

Rainbow Laces

British Swimming launches new LGBT+ network in aquatics

Josh Rudd, the founder of Pride In Water, explains how the LGBT+ inclusion initiative is aiming to help improve mental health and medal hauls.

Coronavirus in sport

Dates revealed for gyms, pools in England to reopen

Swimming pools and gyms in England will be allowed to reopen in the coming weeks as part of the ongoing assessment of regulations to control the coronavirus pandemic.

Swimming

World Aquatics Championships postponed

The International Swimming Federation has announced next year's World Aquatics Championships have been postponed from 2021 to 2022.

Olympics

Goodhew: Peaty building bigger advantage

Duncan Goodhew hopes Adam Peaty's ingenuity will give him a head-start on his Olympic Games rivals as he continues his own fight to help the swimming community.

Rainbow Laces

'I became the lesbian role model I never had'

In Lesbian Visibility Week, swimming coach Emma Collings-Barnes describes how sport shaped her journey to self-acceptance and happiness.