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Don Talbot has called on his nation's swimmers and coaches to rediscover "unity" in pursuit of regaining the world No2 spot lost to China at London 2012; he tells Michael Cowley that sometimes the head coach needs to be "a bastard"...
Olympic champions Yannick Agnel, Camille Muffat and Florent Manaudou lead large French squads for the World and European short-course championships; Agnel swamped by marriage proposals from girls - and guys...
News Round-Up: Schubert sued by assistant coach claiming wrongful dismissal after allegations of abuse by a third coach; China uni games draw to a close; peeping tom who peeked on Chinese in UK banned; Ramsamy leads African swimming ...
After short-course nationals came to a close in Perth, Australia announced a team of 19, for the FINA World Short-Course Championships, to be staged in Istanbul, Turkey, in December; financial and team culture issues key to London 2012 inquiry...
Phelps may have been the most decorated athlete at London 2012 across all sport, his tally delivering the crown of undisputed greatest Olympian of all-time - but USA Swimming gave its top swimmer award to Missy Franklin ...
Japan's Akihiro Yamaguchi has set his sights on matching four-times Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima after breaking the 200 metres world record in 2:07.01 today ...
Shiny suits were banned on January 1, 2010 but the times set in them survive and mask progress being made. Last night in London the first women's world record fell since the ban took effect....
Organisers of the FINA World Championships in Barcelona next summer today opened the process through which volunteers can register for duty - 3,000 places up for grabs...
A independent-panel review of the Australia's swimming performance at the London 2012 Olympic Games will be led by former federal sports minister Warwick Smith...
News Round-Up: Alan Thompson urges change but says all not doom and gloom Down Under; Sun Yang back racing with three golds so far at China Uni Games in Tianjin as he and 4x200m quartet go inside what was China record until 2009...
Ben Titley, coach at Loughborough University to three medals hopes who just missed their mark in the pool at London 2012, is to leave Britain for a new role as head of the National Swim Center Ontario in Toronto...
Due to adverse weather and sea conditions, LEN and organisers of the European Open Water Swimming Championships in Piombino have today postponed the 5km "Team Event"; race scheduled for tomorrow at 10am...
SwimNews Statement: Nick Thierry, the founder and proprietor of SwimNews, is currently recovering from serious illness and is unable to man the editorial desk. During his absence we will continue to honour his excellent work...
Russia claimed the first gold of the at the 2012 European Open Water Swimming Championships in Piombino, Italy, as Kirill Abrosimov claimed the 10km crown; Italy's Martina Grimaldi takes women's crown...
Tabitha Baumann, 17 and the offspring of Canadian medley great Alex Baumann, claimed the New Zealand 1500m short-course freestyle crown at the Auckland winter championships last week in 16:09.14 - and must now make a choice...
Members of Australia's Olympic men's 4x100m freestyle team today stand accused of engaging in pranks that damaged their efforts at the London Games and contributed to undermining morale; Rickard calls for wholesale change...
Bob Bowman, mentor to the greatest Olympian, Michael Phelps, will be joining Britain's London 2012 Performance Debrief panel, the national federation has announced...
It looked like the end of the road for La Fed after three Games, London the weakest but the Italian is not done yet: she will take a sabbatical from 400m racing, focus on 200m - and have just the one coach on the way to 2016 ...
Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a swimming robot modelled on Olympians; watch out Bay Watch - while the other application, technique training, is one that may have the water whisperer screaming...
Olympic 100m butterfly champion and sub 56-sec pioneer Dana Vollmer today features in an Australia documentary "On Bicheno Beach" alongside The Water Whisperer Milt Nelms and his wife, living legend Shane Gould....
