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by Irvin Muchnick   On Wednesday we reported the new public petition, coordinated by Women’s Sports Foundation senior director of advocacy Nancy Hogshead-Makar, seeking to get […]

by Irvin Muchnick   The semi-captive swimming industry news site SwimSwam.com recently published – then, at the behest of USA Swimming, almost immediately withdrew – a story about […]

by Irvin Muchnick   Scott Leightman has replaced Karen Linhart as USA Swimming’s director of communications and public relations. In response to a query from Concussion […]

by Irvin Muchnick   We’ve written extensively about USA Swimming’s captive reinsurance subsidiary, the United States Sports Insurance Company, domiciled in sunny Barbados. Offshore reinsurance is […]

by Irvin Muchnick and Tim Joyce   In a campaign organized by the Women’s Sports Foundation at the request of many survivors of sexual abuse by […]

Following is the full text of the petition to the International Swimming Hall of Fame calling on it to rescind the induction of Chuck Wielgus, which […]

For those of you who missed it, yesterday’s Women’s Sports Foundation petition to the International Swimming Hall of Fame board of directors, calling for hall to […]

by Irvin Muchnick and Tim Joyce   For the last 24 hours we’ve been reporting on the petition, signed by legendary open-water swimmer Diana Nyad and […]