Beginning in 2028 International Swimmers Will No Longer Be Allowed at the USOTC ...Middle East

By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam

Last week, USA Swimming CEO Kevin Ring came on the SwimSwam podcast where he revealed a few major news items. One of the things he told SwimSwam was that beginning in 2028, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) would no longer allow international athletes at their training facilities, namely the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

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This news came in response to a question asked by Editor-in-Chief Braden Keith slightly before the 40-minute mark about the number of international athletes training in the United States. A lot of the conversation surrounding American swimming recently has involved the fact that the rest of the world seems to be “catching up” to the United States, but many of the best swimmers in the world train with American coaches either in or as an extension of the NCAA system.

The two best swimmers in the world right now, Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand are international, and both train at the University of Texas with Bob Bowman, who notably trained the best swimmer of all time, Michael Phelps.

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Marchand, who is French, alone won four individual gold medals while the American men won just one. McIntosh, who swims for Canada, also trained in the United States, though she was with a club program at the time, and she won three individual golds, more than any other single female swimmer.

After the Paris Olympics, SwimSwam analyzed the data about foreign swimmers training in the United States. Of the 219 medals awarded in the pool in Paris, only 14 went to international athletes who train in the United States and they were spread out among just six athletes.

The same conversation started again in the aftermath of the 2025 World Championships, where American athletes seemed to underperform as they fought to earn their way to the top of the medal table.

Again, SwimSwam dug into the data in an even more thorough way. Six non-American men who train in the United States won individual medals in Singapore, including Marchand, and four relay swimmers meeting those criteria won medals.

The women’s side had two non-American athletes who trained in the U.S. win medals, Summer McIntosh and Anna Elendt, though McIntosh spent most of 2025 in France. Only one relay medalist met the criteria on the women’s side.

Keith asked Ring about this conversation, highlighting McIntosh and Marchand in particular. Ring did not share his own particular opinion about the situation, but he emphasized the importance of training American athletes.

He discussed the fact that American athletes who are training with the top international swimmers are getting the opportunity to race them every day, making American swimmers better as well. At Texas, this includes athletes like Regan Smith and Shaine Casas.

Ring went on to say, “The USOPC does have a policy that starting in 2028, only American athletes will swim at USOPC facilities.” The current USOPC training center website does not have any information about the policy, but it states that all requests for international guests must receive approval from each sport’s National Governing Body.

This news comes just weeks after the Texas training group, which included a number of international athletes like Hubert Kos, McIntosh, and Marchand, completed a 24-day training camp in Colorado Springs before the 2025 U.S. Open.

Many college teams also travel to Colorado Springs for training trips during the year, and the restriction on international athletes will complicate those training plans.

We reached out to the USOPC for comment, but have not received a response.

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