With just a few weeks until action kicks off at the London Aquatic Centre, Aquatics GB have confirmed that all entries for the British Championships were accepted and released the first draft of the programme, with a few swims of note included.

Aquatics GB has confirmed their funding lists for 2025 with 57 swimmers allocated spots across the two tiers of support. This announcement has come later than usual, perhaps reflecting the change in head coach to Steven Tigg late in 2024 and the need to give him time to get across the programmes, but his influence is hard to discern, with the selections carrying a great deal of consistency with previous years at the top level, and no greater turnover at the lower tier.

After announcing their rebrand from British Swimming to Aquatics GB there was another piece of news that snuck out at the same time as preparations continue for this year’s Olympic trials at the London Aquatic Centre, as Tom Dean revealed on his podcast that the competition would stay there for the next 5 years.