
Nay and Jones on form at Queensland titles; and where Tessa Wallace, 16 and on a 2:26.03 over 200 breast in textile is a name for the future Down Under, Ashley Callus, 30, aims for best-yet once more in 2010 kit ...
The European swim league is switching base, from Rome to the home of current LEN President Nory Krutchen after 15 years in Italy...
In 2:00.67 Daniel Gyurta nabs world 200 breast s/c record at Euro champs to travel at about the speed of Spitz on 'fly; Pellegrini's 1:51.17 200 free; Vyatchanin and Donets share 100 back WR at 48.97; shint suit tally at 245...
Italian swims inside world rec pace to 150m in heats of 200m free and ends .5sec shy of a mark that looks vulnerable as the last session looms for shiny suits racing at a continental event; Hoogie's 200m free standard gone...
Chuck Wielgus, head of USA Swimming, is in line to take the top job at the American Olympic committee; NCAA plans two sets of records...
Istanbul: In 55.05, Diane Bui Duyet cracks 100 'fly; mark; Sanja Jovanovic gets 50 back mark; Mankoc and Vyatchanin join parade; shiny suit WR tally at 241; but Laure Manaudou's sizzling textile 3:56.09 CR from 2006 stands firm ...
In Istanbul on the penultimate day in history of shiny suit racing at the Euro s/c champs, Fesikov and Ottesen get the edge on time; DQ puts Moeller Pedersen, Euro rec holder, out of 100m breast...
Double world medley champ recovering from knee injury; USA will not replace him at the duel next Friday and Saturday against a European select of Brits, Germans and Italians...
The Hungarian triple Olympic silver medallist of 2008 in textile, gained almost all of his advantage over his 2007 effort on 'fly - 1.35sec - to win Euro s/c crown; 151 European records have now fallen in 2009...
Good piece by John Lohn, a voice for honesty and integrity; silly season is about to sink into the murky depths of inflated times just as talent, work, determination and dedication rise to the surface of the lake once more...
Reporters Michael Cowley and Nicole Jeffery shed further light on two entirely separate matters rocking Australian swimming...
The 145th European record of the year got the sliding and gliding champs underway in Istanbul this morning. Stanislav Donets (RUS) shaves 0.6sec off his own shiny suit standard at 22.80 in 50m back heats ...
The world s/c championships lto be switched out of UAE because of financial crisis, says Austrian official - not so, says FINA director...
Hungarian whacks out 236th world mark of the shiny suits era with a 2:04.62 win in the 200m medley at Euro s/c champs in Istanbul, the last continental winter showcase to allow non-textiles and bodysuits...
Superfish, his mind for detail and his boyhood ambitions fascinate Amy Shipley at the Washington Post; some more results from East Asian Games...
Hungarian Olympic medallist and world champion clocks 56.89 for first Euro record at continent's last shiny suit championships, and 141st Euro mark of the year; Russian world best in 4x50 medley makes it 142...
Tour organisers are now taking entries and booking places on the tour plane between the meets next June...
Over to you Mr Starter for one last Euro champs blast of the bodysuits that are about to be banned for the good of swimming...
Swimming Australia has launched an independent inquiry into an anonymous allegation of inappropriate behaviour directed at the national head coach through a newspaper; odd circumstances at a time of torment ...
Sullivan, Trickett and Lauterstein lead Aussie calls for line to be drawn under 2008-09 world records so that the baggage of the poly era can be confined to history and the sport can move on ...