Josh

Men's junior team qualifies for the Junior World Cup after a 3-3(4-2) win over US in the semifinals of the Junior Pan American Cup! Into the gold medal match for the third straight edition.

Legal 7.07 jump and season opener from Lex brown at the tom jones memorial.

SkiMo legend  Arno Lietha announced his retirement.

Van Mathias posted a 58.18 100m breaststroke time at the Bergen Swim Festival. Now the #5 performer all time.

Men's junior team qualifies for the Junior World Cup after a 3-3(4-2) win over US in the semifinals of the Junior Pan American Cup! Into the gold medal match for the third straight edition.

John O'Reilly with a PB of 1:46.87 in the men's 800n at the Wake Forest Invitational.

It's more a double edged sword for me. I'm happy that Turkey's strategy of naturalizing athletes to win medals isn't working, but at the same time Ofili and the Jamaican field athletes did it because they weren't being treated right by their federations. Now they have to go back to the same federations that fucked them over to compete in LA. 
 
I'd much rather this have happened than it gone through, however 

I'd really like to understand what's the mentality behind these shameless purchases from Turkey and other neighbouring countries.
Do they feel any pride when they win? Does it bring any profit in terms of 'soft power' to win by doing this when everyone else in the world thinks you're cheating?

I thought it would be difficult to be worse than Qatar, but  is trying hard.
 
 

Bronze for Zineddine Chebli in men’s -59kg at the Junior World Championships!

Bronze for Zineddine Chebli in men’s -59kg at the Junior World Championships!

Bronze for Zineddine Chebli in men’s -59kg at the Junior World Championships!

Silvana Tirinzoni, Silver medal in Cortina 2026 and 4 time World Champion in curling

Viktor Axelsen (badminton) 
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXI8CAgDY_z/?igsh=NXBwenV1c3FmM3Z6
 
I’ve actually net Viggo in person during an exhibition match close to me and he’s the nicest guy ever, wishing him the best in his retirement. It almost didn’t happen actually, after the match was over he took pictures but they ended up wrapping it up before I had a chance to get mine, but then I spoke up about how it was my birthday and he turned back, said happy birthday, and I ended up getting a picture with him and chatting with him for a few minutes. 

Viktor Axelsen (badminton) 
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXI8CAgDY_z/?igsh=NXBwenV1c3FmM3Z6
 
I’ve actually net Viggo in person during an exhibition match close to me and he’s the nicest guy ever, wishing him the best in his retirement. It almost didn’t happen actually, after the match was over he took pictures but they ended up wrapping it up before I had a chance to get mine, but then I spoke up about how it was my birthday and he turned back, said happy birthday, and I ended up getting a picture with him and chatting with him for a few minutes. 

Viktor Axelsen (badminton) 
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXI8CAgDY_z/?igsh=NXBwenV1c3FmM3Z6
 
I’ve actually net Viggo in person during an exhibition match close to me and he’s the nicest guy ever, wishing him the best in his retirement. It almost didn’t happen actually, after the match was over he took pictures but they ended up wrapping it up before I had a chance to get mine, but then I spoke up about how it was my birthday and he turned back, said happy birthday, and I ended up getting a picture with him and chatting with him for a few minutes. 

Viktor Axelsen (badminton) 
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXI8CAgDY_z/?igsh=NXBwenV1c3FmM3Z6
 
I’ve actually net Viggo in person during an exhibition match close to me and he’s the nicest guy ever, wishing him the best in his retirement. It almost didn’t happen actually, after the match was over he took pictures but they ended up wrapping it up before I had a chance to get mine, but then I spoke up about how it was my birthday and he turned back, said happy birthday, and I ended up getting a picture with him and chatting with him for a few minutes. 

WA decided to limit buying athletes to 10 in the Olympic cycle per buyer country (and only 1 male & 1 female from the same defecting country).

Benjamin Tessier with a huge 513.10 in the men's 10 individual at the Canada Cup in Windsor! He won gold and beat out Olympic bronze medalist Noah Williams. 
 
Margo Erlam and Mia Valle were 3-4 in the women's 3m behind two Chinese athletes.
 
 

Silver for Humana-Parades/Wilkerson at the Saquarema Elite 16

Silver for Humana-Parades/Wilkerson at the Saquarema Elite 16

last session in  Stockholm
 
many good-but-not-so-great times, earlier Tonight in Sweden, but a couple of performances stood up among the others
 
women's 100m Free:  Siobhan Haughey, 52.79
men's 800m Free:  Johannes Liebmann, 7.37.94, new European Record (13-sec improvement from last year's Junior Worlds   )
 
 
more clockings around Europe:
 
in , John Shortt swam 53.17 over the men's 100m Back and 1.55.70 over the 200m Back, meanwhile Daniel Wiffen only got 14.51 over the 1500m Free and 7.58 over the 800m Free
 
in , Noè Ponti went below the 23-sec mark in the men's 50m Fly (22.96)
 
 
from Tuesday,  Spring Nationals in Riccione, our key event to qualify for the Europeans in  Paris next Summer
here, all the key notes you need to know about the selection criteria:
https://swimswam.com/2026-italian-lc-swimming-championships-the-gateway-to-paris-2026/
 
 
 

Results from the Pan Am Championships
 
Canada swept the women's singles podium with Li-Zhang-Hoang-Chan
 
Lai won the men's singles title, Nguyen won bronze. Yang went out in the quarterfinals 
 
Dent/Lai won bronze in women's doubles, there were only four teams competing
 
Lee/Lindeman made the final, but got demolished by the US 21-13, 21-8 
 
Both mixed doubles teams went out in the quarterfinals 
 
After this unfortunately I don't see us qualifying in any of the doubles events for LA 2028, although given how the last few years have gone it was always going to be tough.