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World Cup, Tokyo, day 1: Daiya Seto shaves fraction off 400IM world cup record in 4:00.02; Katinka Hosszu adds a further three wins - 200m, 800m free, 200IM, to take her World Cup Victory tally to 33 ...
News Round-Up: Aussie 'fly ace Jessicah Schipper and husband Brett Gillan are expecting a baby next April after an Olympic frolic; Portugal sends eight to Chartres; Tarrés takes her case to court after her reign in Spain came to an explosive end...
Legendary US swimming coach Peter Daland likes to say, “Competitive swimming is preparation for life” - guest writer Chuck Warner, in New Jersey, looks at how living through Hurricane Sandy shows us qualities we’d like to see in athletes...
"I definitely feel very tired but I am trying to keep going" - Katinka Hosszu in Beijing after the 32nd win in 50 races on World Cup tour, with Tokyo and Singapore to come this week ahead of a US$100,000 reward...
the man who took down Michael Phelps in the Olympic 200m butterfly final, Chad le Clos (RSA) has been voted sports star of the year at the South African Sports Awards; Carli goes 4:05 in Genoa; North Baltimore in mourning ...
Olympic 200m breaststroke silver medallist, Michael Jamieson, Britain's most successful aquatic athlete at London 2012, has been reunited with his Olympic kit after he left it on a train; Elizabeth Simmonds arrives in Bath...
The review into Britain's home Olympics has been delayed by a month (better that than getting it wrong) but the report is set to suggest radical change; if Bowman is on the panel, then other US coaches have some views in GB too...
Former World 50m breaststroke Champion James Gibson has been appointed Interim Sprint Coach at Loughborough University; and will head sprint programme at London Olympic pool if funding can be secured from 2014...
The Olympic 100m butterfly bronze medallist and 2010 comeback swimmer of the year, Geoff Huegill retired from swimming for the second time today - and offered to help Australia's next wave to step up...
Its never over until its over but Laure Manaudou, the 2004 Olympic and 2007 double world champion who quit after Beijing 2008 and came back in time for London 2012, is on the verve of calling it a day for the last time...
Both the 2019 and 2012 World Championships look set to be staged in Asia, with China, Japan and Korea the nations that have expressed an interesting in hosting the FINA long-course showcase event of five Olympic disciplines...
Disgraced coach Cecil Russell has had his prior lifetime ban from sport reduced to three years starting September 10, 2012 by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES); he is denied in bid to end ban; strict compliance rules in place...
Keri-Anne Payne, the double marathon world champion who fell a hand shy of the podium at London 2012 four years after silver at Beijing 2008, has left her base at Stockport Metro to follow new husband David Carry in a move to Edinburgh...
Rick Curl, banned for life by USA Swimming last month, surrendered to police yesterday to face a charge of child abuse after allegations that he had an ongoing sexual relationship with a young swimmer in the 1980s...
News Round-Up: Cesar Cielo will not defend his 50m and 100m freestyle world s/c titles in December, as he tries out new strength training; Manaudou(s) and Co take to their blocks at a meet in Compiègne...
Guest writer and American coach Chuck Warner recently talked to peers at the ASCA clinic; of the 48 coaches in the room, none recognised the name George Haines. Read on and find out what you might learn from a legend...
News Round-Up: French prize for the judge in charge when Peirsol got DQ'd in 2004 and when Bernard's X-Glide 100m free 'WR' stood before FINA said 'no'; mourning coaches Nesbit and Rossini; role for Ryan; move for Foster; prize for Wallace...
USA Swimming Foundation grants reach $2.5m mark; that translates to 44,000 free swim lessons for children and saved lives; the investment feeds more talent into the world's dominant aquatic force in the elite pool...
Former head China coach Zhao Ge is among candidates for the Hong Kong head coach job after Chan Yiu-hoi retires early next year; a team coach at a time when China was swamped in doping scandals, he led his nation's team from 2000-05...
In the wake of the Armstrong scandal, Dick Pound, ex-president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA): I think every sport is at risk. They use different drugs in different sports: track and field, swimming ..." ...
