Olympic open water bronze medallist Cassandra Patten (GBR), the first woman to swim in medal races in both the marathon and the pool (800m freestyle) has retired due to an ongoing shoulder injury...
Liu Jing, a member of China's bronze-medal winning 4x200m freestyle quartet at the world championships in Shanghai in July, was issued an anti-doping warning by her federation after a positive test that dated back to April. ...
Dutch sprinter Ranomi Kromowidjojo returns to the scene of her world titles in Dubai last year as the 2011 Arena World Cup gets underway this weekend...
News Round-Up: Champion sprinter Cesar Cielo (BRA) has arrived with the rest of the Brazil squad in the Mexican city of San Luís Potosi, at 1,900m above sea level in readiness for Pan-Am action; Singapore's suit woes; Huegill takes aim ...
News Round-Up: Germany's Thomas Lurz was crowned overall champion of the Marathon World Cup series; Canadian world cup squad; Hadid wins architecture prize; Miley set for Majorca; more on Monk; Dubai ready for world cup; Deibler's sprint starter...
Valuable insight into why Kenrick Monk invented a hit-and-run driver after he fell off his skateboard is provided by former Aussie international and Olympic medallist Nicole Livingstone today...
Swimming New Zealand's crisis has sunk further into the mire with the resignation of former international Helen Norfolk from a high-performance governance committee that was created to solve the sport's problems...
Libby Trickett, Olympic 100m butterfly champion, was scheduled to make her international competitive comeback at the Singapore round of the Arena World Cup in November but the entries for the Stockholm round mid-October boast her name ...
Kenrick Monk, the Australian swimmer who broke his elbow in an accident this week, faces serious challenges ahead after he changed his statement to the police to confirm that he was not involved in a hit-and-run incident...
Germany is fielding a strong team for the Arena World Cup series this month and next, with the European 200m free champion set to race all three European rounds and the national team, of Germany to feature at home in Berlin...
News Round-Up: on this day 78 years ago, Hideko Maehata became the first Japanese woman to set a world swim record - her efforts did much to empower women in Japan; questions of blood, honor and shame; Pan Am protests...
Pieter Van den Hoogenband, one of the all-time greats of world swimming and three-times Olympic champion for The Netherlands has issued a 10-point plan of action with which FINA could start to make the sport fit for the 21st Century...
"After all these years, it's like a woman who tells you 'I want to stay with you but I also want a lover' … It's not easy" - the French Olympic breaststroke medallist, describing a shift in his relationship with coach Christos Paparrodopoulos...
The Olympic plans of Kenrick Monk have been blown off course by a hit and run driver who knocked the Australian off his bike, breaking his elbow in two places, as he cycled to training in Brisbane yesterday. Was there malice-aforethought? ...
2011 was "OK ... but for me, OK isn't good enough. I know what I have to do. It's going to take a lot of hard work, and it's something I'm ready for" - Michael Phelps, six weeks into training that surpasses anything he has done since 2007 ...
Federica Pellegrini has refused to return calls and has not spoken to coach Philippe Lucas since the last day of her racing schedule at the world championships in Shanghai; thoughts on Potec, Manaudou, Leveaux and more in French mag interview...
NADA, the Austrian anti-doping agency, met swimmer Dinko Jukic for eight hours today but could still not reach a conclusion over the burning question: to punish or not to punish, after the medley and 'fly man refused to submit for testing earlier in the y...
The outstanding performance of the China nationals that ended in Rizhao yesterday was undoubtedly Sun Yang's 3:40.29 Asian record; Rizhao podiums in full...
At Chinese nationals in Rizhao, 1500m world champion and record holder Sun Yang claimed the 200m freestyle in 1:45.53, just half a second outside his Chinese record ...
Ian Thorpe and Libby Trickett will make their competitive return for Australia as expected at the Singapore round of the Arena world cup on November 4 as part of a 26-strong team of Dolphins...
