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Olympic Relay Analysis: Dressel's Return Plus Young Sprint Stars Make American Men 400 Free Relay Favorites The United States has a complicated recent history with the men's 400 freestyle relay. The Americans had never lost the event in the Olympics before the start of the 21st century, but in four ...

Olympic Relay Analysis: Australian Women Favored For Fourth Straight 400 Free Relay Gold The last time Australia was not victorious in the women's 400 freestyle relay at a major international competition was 2017, when the United States won a tight World Championships final at a meet when Cate Campb...

Olympic Relay Analysis: Great Britain Favored in Men's 800 Free, Americans in Pursuit The United States had never missed an Olympic relay podium until 2021, when the men's 800 freestyle relay group faded out of contention and ended up fourth. But since then, a young group of 200 freestylers have bui...

Aussie Swimming legend Cate Campbell Officially Calls Time On a Stellar Career In The Pool Cate Campbell, four-time Olympian and the Australian Swim Team’s flagbearer for over a decade, has today officially retired from the sport she began when taught to swim by her mother in a lake in Malawi in So....

Olympic Relay Analysis: U.S. Women Facing Huge Deficit in 800 Freestyle Relay At last year's World Championships, the United States women took the lead over Australia with one leg remaining in the 800 freestyle relay. But the standings at that point were a mirage: the Americans had put all of their ...

European Championships, Day 3 Finals: David Popovici Fires Off 46.88 100 Free; Third-Fastest Performance All-Time David Popovici went 46.88 in the 100 free with the third-fastest time in history and one only he and Pan Zhanle have bettered. The Romanian split 22.79/24.09 to retain his European title...

European Championships: Apostolos Papastamos Blasts Top-10 Time to Win 400 IM Apostolos Papastamos started off the first finals session of the 2024 European Championships with a top-10 time in the world this year to earn gold. The Greek swimmer went 4:10.83 to win by nearly a second. That’s the nint...

Ian Thorpe Declares Australia's 41-Strong Swim Team for Paris As The Country's Best Ever Four-time Olympians Cameron McEvoy and Bronte Campbell will spearhead a 41-strong swimming team announced tonight after a record breaking and emotion charged Trials meet concluded tonight at the Brisbane Aquatic...

AUSTRALIAN TRIALS, Day 6, Heats: Shayna The Jack of Hearts Now The Trump Card In Tonight’s 50m Freestyle Finale with Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell Shayna Jack (St Peters Western, QLD) is primed to become the next swimmer to break the 24 seconds barrier in tonight’s red hot 50m freestyle final on t.....

Para Legends With Berets And Baguettes Headline 30-strong Australian Swim Team For Paris Paralympic Games Australia will send a 30 strong team of  swimmers to this year’s Paralympic Games in Paris with a blend of some of the most exciting, experienced and successful swimmers to ever feature on an .....

Qin Haiyang, Wang Shun, Yang Junxuan Tested Positive for Clenbuterol Prior to 2021 Positives In April, news emerged that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for banned substance trimetazidine months prior to the Tokyo Olympics, but their test results were never publicly disclosed and the athlete...

Yuliya Efimova Among Eight Swimmers Granted Neutral Individual Athlete Status, Clears Way To Paris 2024 Yuliya Efimova and Ilya Shymanovich are among eight swimmers from Russia and Belarus who have been granted status as neutral individual athletes, clearing the way to compete at Paris 2024. The det...

AUSTRALIAN TRIALS, Day 5, Finals: Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack 1-2 In Helter-Skelter 100m Freestyle Final After a dramatic and emotional day, St Peters Western training partners Mollie O’Callaghan and Shayna Jack have tonight won Australia’s two coveted spots in the blue ribband 100m freestyle i....

Australian Trials: How Kyle Chalmers Overcame Crippling Back Spasms To Qualify For A Third Olympic Campaign In Paris Aussie freestyle sprint king Kyle Chalmers has revealed how a crippling back injury almost derailed his Paris Olympic campaign after qualifying for a third Olympic Games in Brisbane ....

Australian Trials, Night 4 Finals: Kaylee McKeown Nudges 200 Back WR; Kyle Chalmers Wins 100 Free; Olympic Redemption For Lizzy Dekkers The world’s premier women’s backstroker Kaylee McKeown has tonight given her own world record a huge nudge swimming the second fastest time in history – just 0.16 o...

AUSTRALIAN TRIALS, Day 4, Heats: Kyle Chalmers In 48.39 Leads Next Gen Contenders Into 100m Freestyle Final Australian sprint king, Kyle Chalmers leads a field of Paris contenders into tonight’s 100m freestyle final in Brisbane, a next gen group he hopes to spearhead into the Olympic arena in six w....

Australian Trials, Day 3 Finals: Record Fourth Olympics for Cam McEvoy Who Is Joined By Games Rookie Ben Armbruster World champion sprinter Cameron McEvoy took just 21.35 seconds to seal a place in Australian swimming history – becoming the first male swimmer to qualify for four Olympic teams in Par...

BREAKING: Ariarne Titmus (1:52.23) Wins World Record Breaking Duel With Mollie O’Callaghan In Epic 200m Freestyle Battle Royal  Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O’Callaghan have lifted the roof off the Brisbane Aquatic Centre tonight in a world record race for the ages with Titmus setting a new global mar....

AUSTRALIAN TRIALS, Day 3, Cam McEvoy The Top Qualifier For The 50m Freestyle Final In A Sizzling 21.43; Joined by Isaac Cooper And Kyle Chalmers Australia’s 2023 world champion Cam McEvoy has sizzled in this morning’s 50m freestyle heats, clocking 21.43 - a top five time in the world this year - as....