Day 1, Sydney: Blair Evans got past five Olympic team members to win tight 200m free final in 1:57.38; Hurley retains 400m crown in close race; Rive sizzles on 2:10.07 in 200 medley after booking relay berth; D'Arcy makes Dolphins return...
Former Swiss head coach says hard work beckons in the wake of nationals that saw no national records and only two qualifiers for Budapest 2010 Europeans; Munoz on buoyancy; Duboscq satisfied with handling of new suits...
National youth coach takes top job; David Crocker moves from basketball role in New Zealand and sports admin in Australia to performance role at SAL; Thompson may play a role; Nugent keen to engage Sweetenham and Lawrence...
A useful reference point for how times in the 2010 long-course season in 'textile' suits compare with what went before shiny suits: a list the world records as at January 31, 2008, then an all-time top 10 range comparison...
Just as it was back in 2008 at the start of swimming's ill-fated experiment with shiny suits, Australia is the first nation to test itself under new race conditions set for the season ahead; Commonwealth trials get underway tomorrow...
Brits want 35 medals at Commonwealth Games - two fewer than in 2006; research project shows impact of inspiratory muscle training in swimming up to 200m ...
No 1. The Swimming Symphony of Phelps & Bowman: each bar is fascinating in itself but the work is best recalled as a whole movement, a work of art and a story of sporting brilliance second to none...
Meagen Nay has told the AAP that she is "a stronger person and probably a bit hungrier in the pool" after her brother died in a car crash last July; she almost quit but will race at Aussie trials next week...
The next chapter unfolds: the 14-times Olympic gold medal winner showed how he's not resting on his laurels by breaking his own American record of 1:39.65 over 200-yard butterfly at Maryland State titles ...
Sydney 2000, Act One, Scene One: what unfolded in the first evening of finals was telling not only for the moment but set the tone and pace for the 7 fabulous days that followed and the decade as a whole...
The Fifth Stroke - Dolphin, the most significant group development in the gain in pure swimming speed during the past decade ...
Olympic champ clocks 1:58.13 over 200m free in Berlin, Magnini on 49.32; Subirats and Gilot pip Bousquet, winner of 50 free, at Montpellier; Stanford takes 29th straight Pac-10 title...
Olympic 200m champion falls 0.5sec shy of Ryan Lochte's US 200y record for best time; Bowman says: 'For him to be just a five-tenths off the record is a big step forward for us' ...
Olympic champ sets strong 200m breaststroke marker for 2010; Cielo, Weber-Gale and Grevers in tight 100m free tussle; Vollmer takes two wins as Austin GP concludes ...
The Olympic and world breaststroke champion talks to SwimNews about her transition to and rise with her coach in California; about cutting back to one session a day; and about that blast in Beijing...
The Austin Grand Prix witnessed some swift efforts on day two, with Matt Grevers clocking 53.05 in the 100m backstroke and Rebecca Soni, off one session of training a day this season, a 1:06.43 in the 100m breaststroke....
The Monte Carlo round of the Mare Nostrum Tour on June 5-6 boasts a fine line-up, including Jones, Rice, Bernard, Kitajima, Mellouli, Soni, Coughlin and Peirsol, while China, Germany, Hungary and Russia will send "national teams"...
In a morning 16-lapper, Olympic 200m free champ gets 2010 racing underway with metronomic 8:31.07 effort, then goes 4:05.57 in afternoon 400m free to take helm of warly 2010 world ranks...
First Kenyan to make Olympic and world swim finals joins coach Andrea Di Nino's squad of world-class 'fly swimmers, Milorad Cavic, Evgeny Korotyshkin and Peter Mankoc ...
The Olympic 200m free champ gets her 2010 race campaign underway in Berlin today at a meet that will see her race 100, 200, 400 and 800m; Alberto is doubtless looking down with a stopwatch in his hand, says Italian ace...
