Lethal Leisel is ready for battle: tells mum 'you're not going to Delhi'; puts London 2012 firmly on the map; notes that a return to textile is not going backwards as far as she is concerned...
Local show boasts greatest Olympian of all-time and hints at another fine aspect of the sport of swimming; Frame in the frame once more - 1991 world champ makes comeback; Jukic will not defend Euro crown...
Seven Waves That Washed Through: In our countdown of memories from the past decade, we look at some of the big themes and moves that shaped the sport ...
Coach Dave Durden describes the 6ft 6in sprint ace as having "kinesthetic awareness"; Cielo may leave long-term coach, Brazil speculates; Guehrer strips off; action in Italy; Madrid spends big bucks on youth project...
The world's top two women marathon swimmers grace our latest In the Arena: How Rivals Square Up feature. Larisa Ilchenko (RUS) goes 20km a day; Keri-Anne Payne endured 18x800m off 10 mins. Not for the faint-hearted...
In our countdown of memories from the past decade, we consider the coaches who have helped shape the sport of swimming....
Suit Wars: TYR antitrust case looks set to peter out after tentative rulings in favour of Speedo, USA Swimming and Mark Schubert...
Stephanie Rice has become the first Olympic champion to send Commonwealth Games a warning over security arrangements in Delhi. Today she tells the Australian media: I won't risk my life for Games gold...
In Nice, Alain Bernard, Olympic 100m free champion, showed that he was still feeling the effects of a three-week altitude training camp in Pretoria, South Africa: he clocked 50.20 over 100m free...
In our countdown of the past decade, we reach No 7 and consider 10 of the biggest movers and shakers in the world of swimming...
On the clock, the Japan s/c Open was a far cry from events a year ago, when 26 Japanese records fell at the two-day meet - but some were ready to buck the trend of slower times at the start of the new textile era ...
At Nice, Olympic champion clocks 22.74 in the 50m free; Cesar Cielo to make top-flight race return at Austin GP next month; Erika Villaécija takes on 5km challenge in Spain...
The Olympic champion is back in France to race over 50m and 100m today and Sunday in the wake of a training camp in Pretoria with coach Denis Auguin, who says this will be "a test of whether he can train 70km a week without exploding"...
The dominant woman backstroke sprinter of the past decade returns to competition at Austin next month - and to an event somewhat changed since last she graced the race pool...
In approving the return of 3.2 million euros of state money to a national sports budget that had previously been cut, the Italian Senate, noted that the funds "are not (to be) used to plug the holes in the World Swimming Championships"...
Melissa Belote Ripley, double backstroke champion and medley relay champion for the US at the 1972 Olympic Games, has launched an appeal for the return of her three medals after a theft at her home ...
'At greater speeds resistance has a greater effect, so suit characteristics which reduce resistance or drag will be more advantageous at faster speeds' - Commonwealth 100m free champion in 1978, lawyer and swim coach ...
Duel Day 2: great racing and a plus for both nations - but no doubting the winners of the first GBR - GER duel for 37 years; Tancock brings hosts home to victory with a 48.6 split in the 4x100m relay...
German ace has shed 1.5kg over winter but "during the race, I thought I have to lose more because you really feel everything with your body ... you even feel the parts of the body that are fine and [those] which are not"...
To Sweetenham she had "the mongrel factor"; to McAllister she has the drive of a pitbull, a quality that has him more excited than he's been at any time since the great Janet Evans; Jazmin Carlin is a Brit force to watch...
