By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
Earlier this week, we revealed the most-read SwimSwam articles of 2023 – the stories that got you clicking.
Below is the list of the most-commented articles of 2023 – the stories that got you talking.
As usual, the list is dominated by live recaps, including the World Championships. People were much-more engaged in 2023, as people emerged from the fatigue of a chaotic 2022 post-COVID scramble. The first live recap of the 2023 World Championships received 1,744 comments, which is more than double day 1 of the 2022 meet.
In fact, all but Day 2 of the 2023 World Championships got more comments than last year’s top comment-receiving article.
The most-commented on non-recap article of the year was Cate Campbell‘s cross-Pacific barbs at the Americans. The revival of the Australian-US rivalry was one of the hottest topics in swimming this year and the hottest topic in the SwimSwam comments (repeatedly). Campbell’s controversial interview, interestingly, was only the 150th most-read article, in spite of being the 16th most-commented on article.
Other highly-discussed news topics included Claire Curzan‘s transfer from Stanford to Virginia (which accounted for the #38 and #41 items on this list), Michael Andrew missing the World Championship team, and World Record swims from Kaylee McKeown, Summer McIntosh, and Evgeniia Chikunova.
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