USA Swimming today announced five staff promotions in the Business Development Division and two hires in the National Team Division...
Pierre Lafontaine, national coach and CEO of Canadian swimming, has called on all Canadians based abroad and who may be eligible to compete for their country at the London 2012 Olympic Games to make sure they meet all conditions...
Rebecca Adlington, Britain's double Olympic champion of 2008, has for the first time spoken about retirement and what may follow as she prepares for Olympic trials in March with a positive outlook on the season ahead...
Lauren Beard on Ashley McGregor; US Winter Nationals; Julia Wilkinson talks to Richard Weinberger; Russ Ewald on Janet Evans; Craig Lord on Rebecca Adlington; Nikki Dryden on corruption; Joanne Malar on Dr. David Smith; Cecil Colwin and more...
American legend Janet Evans, one of the greatest distance swimmers of all-time and back in the swim once more as a 40-year-old mother of two, has signed an endorsement agreement with Arena in the week she made 2012 trials cut...
News Round-Up: France teams arrive home this week and head straight to competitions at Nancy and Amiens; Milan Trophy for Pizzetti, Rosolino, Cavic, Fesikov and Korotyskin; Pellegrini at altitude in Flagstaff; USA lane lines good and bad...
News Round-Up: Aussie backstroke ace Hayden Stoeckel has placed home advantage high on his Olympic plans, returning to Adelaide before Olympic trials; good efforts at Flanders Cup; Loughborough trio go well; London 2012 tickets apology...
Quadruple Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima won his first race of 2012 with a 1:58.80 effort in a short-course yards meet at Fullerton, California...
Baltimore teammates Michael Phelps and Allison Schmitt rounded off their Austin GP test with a third victory each on Sunday as Janet Evans clocked 8:49.05 over 800m free; and Cammile Adams goes 2:06.76 to get inside 2:10 200 'fly for the first time...
Rouind-Up: As Michael Phelps continued to put the long medley back at the heart of his Olympic preparation, Allison Schmitt fires another warning shot, 1:55.83 200 free at Austin GP; Targett adds dash to his 100m win in Victoria...
At Victoria Championships, Ian Thorpe clocked freestyle times of 1:51.08 (5th and inside the cut for London 2012 trials in March) over 200m and 51.05 (13th and outside the cut) over 100m; 200m time a touch outside Lochte's effort at Austin...
Olympic year is here and at the Austin GP in the US, Allison Schmitt, Michael Phelps, Rebecca Soni, Eric Shanteau, Dana Vollmer, Brits Jemma Lowe and Jazmin Carlin and Nathan Adrian put in solid efforts, Schmitt's 4:05.90 win over 400m free a pool mark...
Missy Franklin has made her mind up, it seems: she will not take the big money won and left hanging out to dry in favour of a US college swim career. Bang goes at least a quarter of a million dollars (for now)...
Ryan Harrison, the Irish swimmer who has been suspended from competition by his American College team, the University of Tennessee, has insisted that his offence is not related to sports doping...
News Round-Up: Tunisia's California-based Olympic and world short-course champion Oussama Mellouli has been voted the best sportsperson in the Maghreb in 2011; France team honoured with African embassy reception; Swiss swing into 2012...
John Trembley, the University of Tennessee swim coach, is under investigation - though local reports in the US conclude: no one's saying for what or why...
Old teammates, joint Olympic relay gold medallists and world record holders, friends, rivals and fellow comeback trailers, Ian Thorpe and Michael Klim will next week race each other for the first time in more than six years ...
In this season of post-festive sales, time for coaches and others to grab a 50% discount for attending the 2012 World Clinic in Las Vegas: Sweetenham, Vorontsov, Troy, Salo, Reese, Marsh, Durden and many more to share their wisdom...
News Round-Up: Spain's world and European s/c champion has yet to decide which of Rebecca Adlington's Olympic crowns she will target as a fourth event at London 2012; more fish in the sea for Steph Rice; Gosper's take on gambling...
The Austin Grand Prix will feature triple Olympic champion of 1988 (400m, 800m free, 400IM) Janet Evans, 40, racing at the same meet as Missy Franklin, 16 and born a year before the 1992 Olympic 800m champ retired; Phelps & Lochte's first 2012 outing...
