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Australia is eyeing the US college system as it tries to find ways of fighting back to the world No2 spot at Olympic and world-championship level; fed seeks director to provide knowledge for ceo and wants coaches under contract to AUS...
News Round-Up: Frenchman Fred Vergnoux, coach at CN Sabadell and the man who guided Mireia Belmonte to two Olympic silvers, is Spain's coach of the year; Steffen moves to Halle to be with Biedermann; HK confident of raising $12m to stage s/c meet...
British coach Jon Rudd, has received two top honours in Lithuania for coaching 15-year-old star Ruta Meilutyte to the Olympic 100m breaststroke title in London; he receives Cross of the Knight of the Order of Merits and Olympic Gold Star...
News Round-Up: Yannick Agnel and Camille Muffat, raced at the weekend for the first time since their phenomenal show at the London 2012 Olympic Games; Ian Thorpe suffered depression and drank to drown his sorrows, he reveals...
Another sizzling day on world cup tour for Katinka Hosszu (HUN) resulted in three more victories and a silver a touch behind teammate Zsuzsanna Jakabos as the Stockholm round of the series came to a close; Hungarian in the money...
World Cup, round 3, Stockholm, day 1: Katinka Hosszu (HUN) continued her winning ways after a golden run at the first two rounds of the cup; after victory in the 800m freestyle, she added triumph in the 200m freestyle, then the 200m medley...
Barclay Nettlefold, a Melbourne businessman, was elected as President of Swimming Australia Ltd today; Nicole Livingstone joins the board...
Comment: The damning USADA report into Lance Armstrong and the USPS cycling team built to further his cycling career is not only significant to the future of the world of wheels but to the culture of all sport and those who run the show...
Lance Armstrong's United States Postal Service (USPS) Pro Cycling team "ran the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen", a USADA report says; many a swimmer will need to revisit official bios...
It is a week now since family and friends of Nick Thierry gathered in Toronto to say farewell to the founder, editor and publisher of SwimNews and bastion of swimming statistics for the past 40 years; we will honour him by continuing the work he started...
British Swimming, in the midst of a review into underperformance at the London 2012 Games and facing a cut to official funding over the coming four years, has withdrawn support for Britain's only aquatics awards ceremony ...
Obituary: No sadder note has SwimNews ever sounded. Nick Thierry, the founder and publisher of SwimNews, keeper of the world rankings and bastion of swimming statistics, passed away early this morning in Toronto ...
The first round of the World Cup Series gets underway in Dubai tomorrow, when 130 swimmers from 32 nations take to the water; Series, paying 1.2m in prizes, will end in Singapore next month...
The 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships will be staged in Herning, west of Aarhus in Denmark...
The Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra will welcome 30 swimmers this Sunday at the outset of a six-day Talent Identification camp led by High Performance Youth Coach Vince Raleigh; camp has no age limit, 24-year-old in the mix...
Ryan Lochte has spent several weeks capitalising on the five medals he won at London 2012 with appearances galore on talk shows and among the gliterati of the showbiz world ... now, he's heading back to the source of his fame - the pool...
Sabadell has thrown double Olympic silver medallist Mireia Belmonte out of the club less than a year before Barcelona hosts true world championships; schism follows row over "rudeness" and "arrogance" at a celebration for London 2012 athletes...
Olympic champion and world record holder Sun Yang clocked 14:50.30 to take the Chinese national 1500m freestyle title in Huangshan, Anhui Province, for a third gold of the meet...
Confidentiality will be assured to any who wish to give evidence to the independent review into Australia's performance in the pool at London 2012...
The former head coach of Spanish Synchro stands accused by 15 former team members of verbal abuse; allegations and complaints put to federation "years ago" were ignored, say athletes...
