BRISBANE, Australia, April 5. AUSTRALIAN swim coach Scott Volkers pleaded not guilty today to charges of child sexual abuse involving two former swimmers. Volkers was arrested last month and charged

MOSCOW, April 5. AILING Australian Grant Hackett, still recovering from a nasty virus that knocked him out of the 200m free on Wednesday, led all qualifiers in the 400 free

By Craig Lord MOSCOW, April 4. ON a night when Sweden's Emma Igelstrom took 50m breaststroke racing below 30 seconds for the first time among women to set the only

SAN DIEGO, April 3. TO the surprise of precisely no one, the University of California's Natalie Coughlin was named the top woman college swimmer for the 2001-2002 school year by

MOSCOW, April 4. ALL of the favorites advanced into their respective semifinals or finals during prelim swims this morning at the Short Course Woreld Swimming Championships in Moscow, but there

By Hideki Mochizuki and Takahisa Ide TOKYO, April 3. JAPANESE Olympian Tomoko Hagiwara stroked to her third Japanese national record in as many days at the Japanese National Short Course

By Craig Lord MOSCOW, April 3. FINA'S thirst for world records on the first day of the World Short Course Championships in Moscow's Olympiisky pool, was quenched by China's new

MOSCOW, April 3. AMERICA'S Klete Keller, still exhausted from last weekend's NCAA Championships in Athens, Georgia, and his flight to the Russian capital, found the strength to win the first

By Hideki Mochizuki and Takahisa Ide TOKYO, April 2. A world record and four additional Japanese national records highlighted the second day of competition of the Japanese National Short Course

By Hideki Moziuchi TOKYO, April 2. JAPAN'S Sachiko Yamada, 19, broke the world record for the women's short course 800 meters freestyle today, clocking 8:14.35 on the second day of