On the cusp of competing at the first world cup event of 2010, Olympic champion tells Brazilian reporters: "The moment things are not working well is the moment to change."; he will decide in December whether to return to Auburn or stay in Brazil...
News Round-Up: sports minister MS Gill has sought to play down the bad news that has been flowing on facilities, security and health risks ahead of the Commonwealth Games; Jones heads world cup Dolphins; Thompson wed...
The 2010 FINA/Arena World Cup is about to get underway, the first in the series to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 10-12, at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Centre, where local hero and Olympic champion Cesar Cielo will grace the race...
The 'B' samples of four athletes, including two Commonwealth Games-bound swimmers and a shot putter, turned out to match the 'A' samples: methylhexaneamine positive, and a negative for the host nation of the Games in Delhi next month...
Ken Stopkotte, head coach to the Fishers Area Swimming Tigers (FAST) has been suspended from membership of the American Swimming Coaches Association; 'This individual has been proven to be both a cheat, and a liar' - John Leonard, ASCA...
News Round-up: Stephanie Rice stands tall today after her tweet faux pas - "I've learned a lot in the last couple of days. I've learned I must think before I speak ... that some things you say can mean more to others than they do to you; Indian doping deb...
News Round-Up: A homophobic tweet costs Olympic medley champion Stephanie Rice her ride with Jaguar; one of two swimmers from Tamil Nadu to have made the Comm Games in India, is assaulted; Speedo's latest FINA link...
Nick D'Arcy 'problem with a TUE asthma form' has been resolved, Swimming Australia confirms today; swimmer confirms that retrospective approval of his TUE for a banned asthma drug was given about 6 weeks ago ...
Three Indian swimmers, including two from the country's Commonwealth Games squad, were provisionally suspended on Sunday for failing dope tests...
Nick D'Arcy, favourite for the 200m butterfly crown at the Commonwealth Games in October, is reported to be embroiled in a struggle to stave off a doping ban after paperwork allowing him to take an asthma medication went missing...
At a gala banquet in Indianapolis on Friday night, the American Swimming Coaches Association honoured high achievers for their outstanding contribution to swimming. Here's a summary of what that meant to them ...
Mentor to Ryan Lochte takes top prize as ASCA gala banquet; Holtrey, Bowman, Bauerle, Marsh and Salo inducted into ASCA Hall of Fame; Ousley award for gene doc Laura Cox; Jim Wood, the first coach-president of US Swimming, wins Daland Award...
The World Swimming Coaches Association is to lodge an official complaint with the president of FINA over what it alleges to have been a 'flagrant violation' of rules by the executive director of the international federation, Cornel Marculescu...
The board of the World Swimming Coaches Association today voted to create the World Swimming Association to serve as a model of how coaches would like FINA to behave in future; US head coach wants men on deck at the top table...
"Doping and performance enhancement undermines everything we're about in sport. It diminishes athletic accomplishment and undermines the lessons that can be learned from athletic endeavour - William Bock, FINA Doping Panel ...
The umbrella body for World coaches will today vote on whether they should create a body capable of replacing FINA should the international federation's executive maintain an "undemocratic" stance on changes to the FINA Constitution...
On the 5th day of action at China's Water Sports Games in Rizhao, Sun Yang, of Zhejiang, followed up on his 400m victory with a the fastest 1,500m free in the world this year...
Japan selects 29 for action in Guangzhou, China, November 12-27, at the last major long-course international of 2010; Kitajima not among those heading for altitude camp in Kunming this month...
Scientists at universities in Tübingen and Mainz have developed a test that can provide conclusive proof of gene doping; WADA-funded research project costs US$980,000; money well spent; therapy study for advanced tumor patients to begin...
The World Swimming Coaches Association will tomorrow call on the FINA Executive to abandon what it sees as attempts to stifle debate about planned changes to the international federation's constitution next year; 10-point list...
