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...
The Australian swimming coaches association has hit back at allegations that "questionable coach selection policies", in which appointments were made on the "vagaries of one person", have prevailed Down Under. ...
We reach 2007 in our series: Park life; Manaudou's rise and fall; snap for Hayden and Magnini; WR's for Lochte and Hoff; Jones and Lenton wow home crowd; Thorpe's troubles; Phelps "the greatest"; and Swedish sprint day ...
Why Grand Prix organisers in the States relish an entry form carrying the name Phelps; Yannick Agnel, a Frenchman to watch; Leveaux's pre-camp test; Russians sprinters warm up; Trickett warns Aussie bosses; Taiwan's grand designs...
Why the broadcast figures being touted for the Rome world swimming championships - 3.5 billion - should be taken with a large dose of salt...
Members of the UAE royal family gave assurances to Fina's director in Dubai that the world s/c show will go on in December; venue under review; Paris Open pool a world in progress; Togo benefits from LEN-UNICEF work ...
The year of the 2010 suit is well underway but the legacy of suit wars continues; Swiss head coach highlights confusion as swimmers make choices for the season ahead; p-e an issue that rumbles on...
Acting Aussie head coach Leigh Nugent is considering applying for the job proper when newly divided roles of coach and performance manager are advertised in time for appointments to be made in March...
The FINA list of approved suits carries its original January 4 date but now includes four adidas suits and six extra Jaked suits that were not included on the original list; adidas keeps the 2009 Hydrofoil name for 2010 ...
'There has been a purge of key staff and officials at Swimming Australia, which has left the administration without corporate memory or understanding of the principles that underpinned the golden era of the past two decades' - The Australian...
On eve of a training camp in South Africa, Olympic 100m free champion starts his 2010 textile race season with a 49.58sec win in Luxembourg, the time 0.74sec slower than his slowest finals effort of 2009...
Unhappy with a division of responsibilities at the top of the elite programme, Dolphins head coach Alan Thompson accepts a redundancy package; Nugent steps up as head coach, for now; top Aussie jobs to be advertised...
We reach 2006, the year sprint queens Lenton and Steffen made their move; Manaudou marched past Evans; Jones jumped a generation; Davies, Hansen, Phelps, Schipper, Peirsol and Lochte celebrated; and the Thorpedo disarmed...
Olympic 100m free champion steps up from a tick-over rate of 5km a day since September to 14km from Jan 4, and will race for the first time this weekend to lay down a marker for the textile era; Bremen crash victims remembered...
We reach 2005, the year of new heights for Hackett and Coventry, Hansen, Schoeman, Peirsol, Jones, Jedrzejczak; Phelps on a new path; the advent of Hoff and Ziegler; and $1m golden handshakes from Qatar...
Host to 2010 world s/c champs meets $500,000 FINA deadline but standby options still in the frame; FINA convention announced; Munoz sees hard times ahead after a shiny suits season in which his mantra was -'it's not the suit, it's the swimmer'...
We reach 2004, the year the Olympics returned to Greece: Thorpe; Kitajima; African relay kings; triples for Coventry, Manaudou and Jedrzejczak; Hoogie; the end of the GDR; Peirsol; Hall Jnr; the rise of Aussie women; ... and Phelps...
Hungarian swimmer Nikolett Szepesi has been served a one-year anti-doping suspension by FINA for failing to comply with rules regarding retirement, reinstatement and the need to show up for out of competition testing ...
The Italian swimming federation has paid 1.75 million euros towards writing off a 12.7m euros debt for Roma09; almost 11 million to find then; Britain plans school games in London 2012 Olympic Park; Brazilian mates join Cielo ...
On our countdown of the top 100 memories of the past decade in the race pool, we reach watershed moments for Jones, Benko, Kitajima, Peirsol, Crocker, Stockbauer, Britain, Popov, Hackett, Klochkova, Thorpe and Phelps...
