Hong Kong: At the East Asia Games, China and Japan each won four gold medals in the pool today on the opening day of swimming.  Liu Zige (CHN) claimed the 200m 'fly in 2:04.65, almost 3sec outside her world-record pace. Li Zhesi (CHN) won the 100m free in 54.24. Ryo Tateishi (JPN) claimed the 100 breaststroke in 1:00.06; Yosuke Mori clocked 1:58.82 to win the 200m medley; the 4x200m men won the freestyle relay and Tomoyo Fukuda claimed a fourth gold for Japan in the 200m backstroke.

Australia: Terry Buck, the former Olympic swimmer and coach who died in a tractor accident in 2005, is at the centre of a sex-abuse allegations scandal. Reporter Adam Walters at The Courier-Mail reports that an Olympic swim medallist and three other of Buck's alleged victims, all male, were ready to testify against the coach but an investigation was "mysteriously" dropped. Swimming Australia says it knew nothing of any original investigation, closed in 2001, but is willing to cooperate in any new investigation that may now unfold. The pre-2001 investigation was closed after a police report stated: "There is insufficient evidence to charge at this time in relation to the allegations made. The deciding matters in this case were the state of evidence. That is the age of the evidence, inconsistencies in the evidence and the failure of other victims to come forward. All of these matters were beyond control of the victims." Now some alleged victims have told the media Down Under that they are willing to come forward. The case is being referred to as a "cover-up" in the Australian media.

"Swimming Australia will not be involved in any cover-up, in any way shape or form, of any incident," said Kevin Neil, head of Swimming Australia. 

The federation, he said, would also participate in any police investigations that may result from allegations levelled at Buck.

 "If the police decide to open that investigation, we will cooperate as appropriately as we can, as we would with any investigation," said Neil. 

Police began investigating abuse allegations in 1998, and were handed a list of 29 other alleged victims. 

Strike Force Solano spent five months investigating the allegations after the Sydney Olympic Games before the case was dropped.