Pierre Lafontaine, CEO and Performance Head to Canada, is to concentrate solely to CEO responsibilities after London 2012; nation to launch search for new head of performance in Vision 2020 plan...
After cracking out the world's best 50m freestyle time this season, a 21.19 at the start of the 4x50m free relay yesterday, Sergey Fesikov confirmed his speed with a sizzling 21.09 victory in the solo dash at Russian short-course nationals in Volgograd...
The Midas Touch did not desert Chad Le Clos on the last day of the penultimate round of the 2011 Arena World Cup in Beijing: three out of three once more left the South African within a stroke of a $100,000 pay day; Blair Evans - 3:58 400m free...
Hao Jun is 16. His best long-course 1500m free is a 15:18.75 effort from July of his 15th year among us, in 2010. He had no short-course entry until his home round of the Arena World Cup in Beijing today. Now, he boasts a best of 14:40.15...
At 6.04pm Beijing time, Chad Le Clos (RSA) will race the first of three more finals on his show-stopper Arena World Cup Tour. Less than an hour later, he will be done, the $100,000 prize all but in the bank with only the Tokyo curtain-closer to go...
At Russian short-course nationals that began in Volgograd today, Sergey Fesikov swam the first leg of a 4x50m freestyle relay in 21.19sec, the world season best for 2011-12...
Chad Le Clos (RSA), world cup trailblazer of 2011, won three more today at the Beijing round of the six-event series - and lost the 100m free to Kyle Richardson (AUS) by 0.01sec; Chinese swimmers make some big leaps in home waters...
Arena World Cup leader Chad Le Clos made three more finals as the Beijing round of the series got underway and will race four finals this evening; Ian Thorpe misses cut in 100IM and first comeback 100 free, on 50.21 for 15th...
Aquatic sports at London 2012 will be among the hottest tickets in town next July - a fact reflected in the fondness for events at the Aquatics Centre among the home nation's political classes with their noses a touch too close to the trough...
Gennadi Touretski and Leigh Nugent have backed Ian Thorpe as a fighting force in the making with enough time to get ready for a worthy crack at the Australian team for London 2012 come trials in March next year...
The unstoppable Chad Le Clos (RSA) continued to cut a blazing trail through Arena World Cup waters with three more sizzling victories that took him ever closer to the $100,000 prize he looks sure to win when the cup concludes in Tokyo next weekend...
Ian Thorpe's comeback world cup is done, a 54.09 effort over 100m butterfly leaving the Australian in 11th place in heats in Singapore this morning; Jason Dunford leads way and Chad Le Clos targets another three finals...
Hungarians Jozsef Szabo, 1988 Olympic champion, and Laszlo Kiss, mentor to Krisztina Egerszegi and many others, are among those to be inducted in the International Hall of Fame next year ...
World Cup leader Chad Le Clos (RSA) claimed another triple on his tub-thumping tour of the arena-sponsored series with victories over 400m medley, 200m butterfly and 100m medley; brace for Alshammar; first finals for Thorpe and Trickett...
In 6th place in heats on 56.74 over 100m medley at the world cup in Singapore, the Australian will race the final alongside Markus Rogan (AUT), Chad Le Clos (RSA) and Pinzon Omar, a Colombian with a tale to tell his grandchildren...
The USA has no intention of allowing its pride to be dented: no fewer than 21 Olympians are among the 36-strong squad selected for battle against a European visitors team for the the 2011 short-course Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool...
On the eve of his competitive comeback, Ian Thorpe has revealed that he swings between feeling like "the best swimmer in the world" one day to "hopeless" the next; "it is not going to be extraordinary and it's not going to be horrible", he says...
Comment: FINA is said to be considering adding mixed relays to world-championship rosters - but on a serious note it needs to consider the issue of best practice among developing nations in the face of allegations of abuse of universality funds...
Olympic champion Natalie Coughlin wins two at Genoa meet in Italy, in 52.80 over 100m freestyle and a world season best of 56.47 over 100m backstroke; Yannick Agnel and Camille Muffat leave behind a bizarre moment in Berlin...
America's top guns Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps meet at the Minneapolis Grand Prix on November 11-13, the event at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center that marks the first round of seven in the USA Swimming Grand Prix Series...
