Paris has announced the dates for the 2026 European Championships: 31 July to 16 August, with pool racing to take place from August 9 to 16, with open water swimming back in the Seine two years after the Olympic showdown, from August 4-8.

For those beyond the realm of a goal to get there in the water or in an official role on deck, here's where you can look for tickets:

A reminder of Paris the last swimming time out - The Olympic Games:

Léon, Léon, Léon ... Marchand, World Male Swimmer Of 2024 After Soaring Golden-Rules Success at Home Olympics

SOS Awards 2024: there’s just one choice for the top man in the pool, king of a home Paris 2024 Olympics, not only for his epic victories in the 200/400IM, 200 ’fly & 200 breast but the rafters-rattling atmosphere they stirred in a hearty French crowd that took its hero and swimming to heart

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

Summer McIntosh: World Female Swimmer Of 2024 Graces Pantheon Of The All-Time Most Versatile

SOS Awards 2024: our review of the year gone by begins with the top woman in water, Summer McIntosh, the Canadian teen who still in her junior years accomplished what no female swimmer before ever had, with both Olympic medley titles, 200 butterfly gold and silver in the 400m freestyle

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord

Men’s Coaching Campaign Of 2024: Bowman, Castel, Magyarovits & Teams For Marchand, Kós & Co

Five golds between two men in Paris and the first NCAA Championship title for the Sun Devils - Bob Bowman & Team, the only choice for Top Men’s Coaching Campaign of 2024. Trophies, Cups and Shields For Those Who Came Closest

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Summer Sizzler Lands Brent Arckey & Team The SOS Women’s Coaching Campaign Trophy

Brent Arckey, Vern Gambetta and team top our SOS women’s coaching awards for their work with Summer McIntosh; recognition also for Michael Bohl, Dean Boxall, Anthony Nesty, Antonio Lutula, Bernd Berkhahn, Todd de Sorbo, Tyler Fenwick, Greg Meehan & Rocco Meiring

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Team Berkhahn Bags International Squad Trophy With 2 Titles From 5 Solo-Podium Swimmers & 3 Nations

Germany head coach Bernd Berkhahn steered five swimmers from three nations to the Olympic podium - 2 gold in the mix - at the Paris Games. No other coach had five separate charges make the podium in solo events

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Paris Perseverance Queens: The Midas Touch Of Ledecky, Sjöström & Van Rouwendaal

SOS Awards 2024: a celebration of the women who excelled in Paris at least two Olympic cycles after they first made the top of the podium, American great Katie Ledecky leading the way as founder member of the female Quad Club with every 800m freestyle title since 2012

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The 38th edition of the European Championships will unfold in Paris 100 years after they were first held, for men only, in Budapest in 1926. A year later, women were granted access to the continental showcase, held in Bologna.

The Paris date avoid a clash with the Commonwealth Games, due to be held in Glasgow, scheduled for July 23 to August 2. Britain top home-nation swimmers will leave for Paris straight after Glasgow is done.

In Other News Today:

Gibney Finally Arrested In U.S. - Wanted In Ireland On More Than 50 Historical Sex-Abuse Charges

A criminal investigation began in 2020 and in 2023, Ireland’s Director for Public Prosecutions (DPP) recommended that Gibney be charged with more than 50 alleged offences. Irish police have now been working with Florida police authorities for around six months

State Of Swimming +Craig Lord