News Round-Up:

Brazil: Olympic 50m free champion Cesar Cielo will race on to the 2020 Olympic Games (when he will be 33) four years after a home blast in Rio, he tells the Diario de Sao Paulo . On the immediate challenge of London 2012, his aim is to break his own Olympic record of 21.30 over 50m. For the mission, he joked, he has had a helmet made like that worn by Valentino Rossi, the Italian multiple world motorcycle champion "but the IOC won't let me wear it". Cielo retained the world 50m free title in the shadowy of controversy last summer after he was given a warning with three teammates after all four tested positive for a banned substance. A CAS hearing accepted that the substance could have entered a food supplement they had taken through contamination at source. 

Slovenia: At a meet in Kranj, joint world 100m free champion Aleksandra Herasimenia (BLR) took the 100m free, 50m back and 100m fly in times of 55.07, 28.28 and 59.56. The 100m backstroke went to Sanja Jovanovic (CRO) in 1:02.54, the 200m butterfly to Anja Klinar (SLO) in 2:10.79, with teammate Sara Isakovic on 2:16.72. Among men, Jonatan Kopelev (ISR) clocked 54.38 in the 100m backstroke ahead of teammate Guy Barnea, on 55.20; the 100m breaststroke went to Igor Borysik (UKR) in 1:01.76, the 200m to Valeriy Dymo (UKR) in 2:12.45 and the 200m medley to Dinko Jukic (AUT) in 2:00.77. 

USA: At the Gators invitational, a race-test training exercise over in Florida, 16-year-old Bolles Ryan Murphy went home with a good tale. He pipped Ryan Lochte 54.98 to 55.30 in the 100m backstroke to fall just 0.02sec shy off the American age record he set in the event at the Indy grand prix. At 16, Aaron Peirsol, on his way to joining the ranks of backstroke greats, had a best 100m of 56.55. For Lochte, the test was a training exercise that included a 1:03.87 in the 100m breaststroke and a 54.48 100m 'fly. Other races included 2:13.37 from former world champion Katie Hoff in the 200m medley, with Elizabeth Beisel on 2:16.38 as she adapts, the transition from hefty work to taper a tricky time. She also clocked a 2:01.13 200m free. There was a 3:50.49 400m free and 1:48.93. 200m free from Charlie Houchin, while Brit Stephanie Proud, heading to last-chance Olympic selection trials back home in Sheffield later this month, took the 100m back in 1:02.15. Among many swim off event (pertinent to mission) was Ariana Kukors, on 1:01.35 in the 100m 'fly. 

Portugal: At the Porto International, Hugues Duboscq (FRA) took the 100m and 200m breaststroke finals in 1:02.46 and 2:13.98 respectively.