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South Korea's Australia-based Park Tae-Hwan and 10 Aussie Olympic teamsters, including champions Leisel Jones and Stephanie Rice will join Canadian Brent Hayden and 9 other Canadian teamsters at the Mel Zajac Jr meet May 25-27...
"You need to be the ruthless one - you need to get in and you need to do it and if that means swimming through jellyfish and swimming past dead animals and things ... everyone has their 'Jaws moment' - Keri-Anne Payne, world 10km champion...
The latest edition of SwimNews Magazine is now available: the changing face of NCAAs; the life and times of Sarah Sjostrom, James Magnussen and Jessica Hardy; Julia Wilkinson's Olympic diary, where goggles came from - and more...
News Round-Up: Germany's top team and Federica Pellegrini (ITA) are among those who will race at Europeans but there'll be no Yannick Agnel and Camille Muffat (FRA) ; Poland's London 2012 squad takes shape; US fights the fat...
Germany's Olympic trials ended with Martin Grodzki, of Berlin-Reinickendorf, adding the 1500m freestyle, 15:10.47, to his schedule at London 2012; no FINA A cut in the women's 800m freestyle; 13 men, 5 women make solo cuts...
One count remains as an Olympic target for the greatest Olympian: the tally of 18 medals overall belongs to Larisa Latynina - now 78 and of late to be found giving a USA Vs USSR gymnastics medal to Phelps in New York The Cold War no longer part of th...
Ryan Lochte, gear-change with a 1:57.63 meet record in the 200m medley on the last day of action at the Charlotte Grand Prix changed gear with a 1:57.63 victory at the Charlotte GP, the time 3rd best in the world, in 2012, taper yet a dream...
As several more added their name to the German London 2012 team on day 4 of trials in Berlin, Britta Steffen set up the defence of her second Olympic crown with a 24.92 victory in the 50m freestyle...
Olympic champion Rebecca Soni extended her lead at the helm of the world rankings with a 2:22.22 victory over 200m breaststroke at the Charlotte Grand Prix, a meet marked by strength at a time of training...
On the third day of Germany's Olympic trials in Berlin, Jan-Philip Glania set a national mark of 1:55.87 (prev best 1:58) in the 200m back; Markus Deibler cracks 1:58 in 200 IM and Jenny Mensing takes down 200 back standard twice in a day ...
Allison Schmitt, Dana Vollmer, Rebecca Soni and Jessica Hardy all went to bed winners after the second day of the Charlotte UltraSwim Grand Prix - and so did Charlotte native Ricky Berens, ahead of Phelps, Lochte et al in the 200 free...
Paul Biedermann clocked 1:46.70 over 200m freestyle at Germany's Olympic trials in Berlin but Marco Koch stole the show with his first sub-2:10 textile effort ahead of Christian Vom Lehn in the 200m breast; Silke Lippok on team too...
Queensland, Australia, will host the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 25 years after the event was last held there...
Chloe Sutton (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Chad LaTourette (Mission Viejo, Calif.) took the distance events on the opening night if action at the Charlotte UltraSwim Grand Prix at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center in Charlotte, N.C...
Yannick Lebherz, of Potsdam, became the first swimmer at Germany's Olympic trials to qualify for London 2012 with a 4:14.90 victory in the 400m medley in Berlin this evening as several age records fall; Britta Steffen on 53.65, relay opener...
Eight Japanese Olympic swimmers will go ahead with altitude training for London 2012 as planned, despite the death of Norwegian world champion Alexander Dale Oen at a camp in Flagstaff, Arizona, last week...
May 9 and Vinicius Rocha Barbosa Waked (BRA) is back in the race pool just two days after anti-doping rules designed to deter cheats allowed him to return in the wake of going down as a cheat not once before but twice...
News Round-Up: As German Olympic trials begin in Berlin, Franziska Van Almsick calls on her nation to teach every primary school child to swim; Pursley for Alabama; Zevina takes four wins in Ukraine; London completes its test phase...
After Olympic Trials in Montreal, the 31 swimmers selected to race for Canada at the Olympic Games in London will warm-up on a race tour that takes in the US Grand Prix series and the Mare Nostrum meets in Europe...
Britain's Gemma Spofforth, world record holder and 2009 100m back champion, is headed for a home Olympics. Whatever unfolds, her mere presence in the pool is, in truth, a triumph for the swimmers and those who have supported her...
