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Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk today apologised for posting online a photo of themselves posing with guns at a store in the US. The pair had not intended to cause offence, they noted on arrival back in Australia. It had all been "a bit of fun"...
In an open letter, ASCA, the body representing American coaches, has condemned an article in the Wall St Journal that called college athletes "The Enemy", the target overseas students, as shameful and grotesque...
After a world textile best of 1:54.66 in the 200m free yesterday, Camille Muffat, of Nice and France, scorched a 4:02.97 victory in the 400m at the Canet International; this year she has swim 4:01, 4:02. 4:03 and 4:04...
The last morning of heats at the Canet round of the Mare Nostrum Tour in France saw Yannick Agnel on 49.53 in the 100 free and Nice teammate Camille Muffat, after a 1:54.66 textile best in the 200m free, on 4:11.66 in 400m heats...
The "two bad boys of Australian swimming" as media Down Under described Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk today, are in hot water again after being forced to remove online photos of them posing with guns while on tour in the US...
News Round-Up: James Magnussen laughed as he posed for a last snap in Sydney and told reporters that he was going into lockdown, playing his cards close to his chest (on 47.10...); the courage of Paolo Bossini; Un-American NCAA...
On the first day of finals in Canet, Camille Muffat established a world textile record of 1:54.66 in the 200m freestyle and boasts three of the best five efforts so far this year; Yannick Agnel on 1:45.24 has the best three among men...
Coach Fabrice Pellerin gave Yannick Agnel twin 1:48 200m targets on the opening morn of racing at the Canet meetr: on 1:48.83 half-way through the 400m, he then went 1:47.99 in 200m heats; Bousquet DQ spoils the party...
Today marks the 65th birthday of a butterfly legend from a country that has produced a fine shoal of women swimmers - but just the one Ada Kok, a woman who set more 'fly world marks than any other in swimming history...
June has long been a month of fine tuning for those aspiring to be the very best there ever was in the race pool. This month brings US trials in Omaha. A good moment to recall pioneering warm-ups on the way to thrill and spill...
A Portuguese teenager is handed a warning after a Terbutaline positive: was a drug discouraged by US doctors, unapproved by the FDA and used to delay labour in pregnant women used to help a swimmer to breathe?...
News Round-Up: Olympic 50m free champ eyes 2020 and his 21.30 Games record at London even though the IOC won't let him wear Valentino Rossi's helmet; Herasimenia warms up at Kranj; Murphy, 16, pips Lochte; Duboscq double in Porto...
Alice Tait (nee Mills), the Aussie sprinter who had her own Olympic medal-winning career after carrying Inge De Bruijn's clothes basket off the deck as a young girl volunteer at Sydney 2000, has retired; tribute from her federation...
"If I put something into anything I'm all in ... whether it is swimming, rugby, school. I loved school, I thought it was brilliant, ... I loved everything about it. I used to love going early morning training" - Liam Tancock, a man in love with life ...
The FINA cuts for the 2013 World Championships scheduled to be held in Barcelona were released today...
What with coach Bob Bowman walking around with Dvorak's stirring 7th in his musical mind this season, the final notes of a sporting movement like no other appear to be falling nicely into place, a 1:54.79 over 200 'fly in Austin in the mix ...
Takeshi Matsuda (JPN) continued to register standout times over 200m butterfly, his 1:54.57 in the Santa Clara 200 'fly granting him the four best performances in the world this year; Leverenz pips Rice in 200IM...
Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington (GBR) clocked 4:09 to lead the way in 400m free heats before she tweeted "I'm knackered!" and pulled out of the final, leaving Melanie Costa to end the meet on a high for Spain with a dominant 4:06.83...
Wisdom survived the USOC challenge to the IOC's Osaka Rule that bans athletes convicted of serious doping offences from competing in the next Olympic Games: WADA will reintroduce the measure by placing it in a revamped Code...
At the Longhorn Aquatics Elite Invitational in Austin, we got a glimpse behind the scenes at the US Olympic trials in Omaha at the end of the month battle when Allison Schmitt laid down a 1:55.04 victory over 1:57.91 for Missy Franklin...
