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...
Tempting to label 2011 the Year of the Comeback, but the past 12 months actually belonged to Ryan Lochte, Sun Yang, Michael Phelps, Missy Franklin, James Magnussen, Federica Pellegrini, Rebeccas Soni and Adlington, Therese Alshammar and the like...
Lane lines from 2011 - a trawl through the aquatic headlines of the past year: January and February...
Lane lines from 2011 - a trawl through the aquatic headlines of the past year: March and April...
Lane lines from 2011 - a trawl through the aquatic headlines of the past year: May and June ...
Lane lines from 2011 - a trawl through the aquatic headlines of the past year: July and August...
Lane lines from 2011 - a trawl through the aquatic headlines of the past year: September and October...
Lane lines from 2011 - a trawl through the aquatic headlines of the past year: November and December ...
Dennis Cotterell, former mentor to Grant Hackett, is not often found giving away his thoughts on what is to come but today he is cited as having set Sun yang a new world-record target and as saying Thorpey won't make the London 2012 cut...
International federations act in the wake of charges that allege sexual misconduct by Flavio Bomio, the Swiss coach ...
Dirk Lange, who leaves his post as senior coach to the German national team at the end of the year has established a new consultancy through which he will dispense advice on elite training...
