Chloe Sutton takes US Grand Prix lead with fourth win at Missouri meet, over 1,500m; Nick Thoman signs for TYR...
In our countdown and analysis of the past decade, today we consider the fate of nations in the race pool - the top 10 in the league of Olympic excellence and which of the leading nations stepped up and which slipped back ...
There will be no re-race with Fran Halsall as Olympic and world sprint champ withdraws from duel at end of troubled winter...
The best 20 swimmers of the decade, with points attached: we start the countdown in our top 10 with a difference in our series on the decade past...
2007 world champion Brent Hayden edged up to the helm of the early 2010 100m free rankings with a 49.43 at the Missouri GP; Magnini gets underway with a s/c 49 flat in Viterbo; double for Orsi in San Marino ...
Elizabeth Simmonds became the first leading swimmer to prove that what she did in a shiny suit she can do better in textile: at British uni champs, teenager sets the 2010 pace with a 2:06.90, 0.31sec inside her shiny best ...
A day after a 59.25 blast in the 100m backstroke at NSW champs, Aussie ace sets second-best textile 200m medley by an Australian ahead of the fastest ever in textile and shiny stuff, Olympic champ Steph Rice...
A sub 2min win in the 200 medley at Missouri was followed up by a 2:11 win over Kosuke Kitajima in the 00m breaststroke, the prospects strong for Shanteau to join the sub-2:10 textile club this season...
Australian clocks 59.25 in 100m back at NSW champs, her effort faster than the time at which the world record stood on the eve of the shiny suits era...
Italian says he could hardly wait for January 1, 2010, his coach says he has never been more determined; D'Arcy's seeks early visa; Kitajima and Hayden among Missouri winners ...
Ian Thorpe has declared to the Aussie media that he wishes to lead a "happy and simple life" after his personal finances took a hit in the global financial crisis...
Barry Prime, director of swimming at Singapore Swimming Club, is seeking a world-class coach to help to build his programme...
As the Winter Olympic Games get underway, FINA experts are leading the way down lines of investigation aimed at catching out not only athletes who cheat but those who help them to do so across all sports...
The 2004 Olympic bronze medallist has revealed his own fight with cancer - and talked of the inspiration received in a letter from Lance Armstrong - and says he now aims to raise money for and awareness of the condition...
Lethal Leisel has taken off where she left in textile - at the helm of the world rankings (early days yet, of course) on 1:05.85...
Russian rockets take top two jobs at their nation's swim federation; Roma2009 organisers pin hopes on an article that may help them to cover an 8m euro debt; at 21, Adlington opens pool named in her honour; St Petersburg results ...
And so to 2008-09: it began with Coventry taking down Egerszegi's 200 back mark; we had Dale Oen's first for Norway; telling moments in Manchester; doubles for Adlington and Steffen; Phelps's pieces of eight no matter of luck; the 2009 footnote...
From swim teachers who guided Olympic medal winners to the current national team, Canadian swim folk are doing their bit at the winter Games in Vancouver...
Germany's top stroke force is ranged against Britain for the duel in Swansea on February 20-12...
One of Europe's top swim nations has appointed an Aussie as its head coach; Kaio Almeida signs for the Brazilian club for which his granddad once played football...
