Sunday September 16, 2007
Coming up for air
She's already a three-time Olympic gold medallist, but Jodie Henry
is working hard to be at her best in Beijing, writes Elka Graham.
Friday August 31, 2007
Thorpe cleared of doping
Drugs agency clears Olympic champion Ian Thorpe over abnormal test result.
Tuesday August 28, 2007
Hackett gets a bit of the mongrel back after slump
GRANT Hackett's form and confidence have returned and he believed his disastrous world championships campaign in Melbourne earlier this year has made him a mentally stronger swimmer.
Sunday August 26, 2007
Lenton left in the wake of our new speedster
Cate Campbell is described by her coach as a work in progress.
Well, the plot has just thickened because suddenly, aged 15, she's
become the fourth fastest women's 50m freestyler in history.
Saturday August 25, 2007
Hackett gets back the fear factor
WHAT will be the defining moment of Grant Hackett's career?
Campbell victory shakes up old order
THE rumblings that have been shaking Australia's established female
ranks reached earthquake proportions on Friday night when
15-year-old Cate Campbell outsprinted world champion Libby Lenton
to win the 50 metres freestyle final in a national record time.
Friday August 24, 2007
Campbell sets cracking pace
Schoolgirl Cate Campbell throws down the gauntlet to Libby Lenton in the 50m freestyle at the Japan Open.
Victorious Hackett's gets his mojo back
Grant Hackett's dream of an Olympics three-peat in the 1500 metres
freestyle is back on track after he beats world champion at the
Japan Open.
Thursday August 23, 2007
Hackett beats world champion
Hackett's Olympic three-peat is back on track after beating world champ.
Lenton's victory leaves rivals sick
LIBBY Lenton last night defied a preparation hampered by illness to
win the 100m freestyle at the Japan Open in a world-class 53.58
seconds.
A new Holland stars in the pool
GHENT, Belgium: The daughter of former world record holder Steve Holland has shown that distance swimming runs in the family by collecting the 800 metres freestyle title at the world championships for athletes with intellectual disabilities in Belgium.
Wednesday August 22, 2007
Barratt takes Wickham mark after 30 years
TRACEY Wickham had wanted her 400 metres freestyle record to last 30 years but was gracious last night on learning that it had fallen to a fellow Australian after 29.
Barratt breaks Wickham record after 30 years
CHIBA, Japan: Brisbane teenager Bronte Barratt last night broke the oldest record in Australian swimming, wiping the last entry of Tracey Wickham's name from the record books, when she won the 400 metres freestyle at the Japan Open last night.
Monday August 20, 2007
Hackett can do hat-trick: Perkins
Grant Hackett knows he is swimming against the tide of history in
his quest for three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the 1500m.
Friday August 17, 2007
Thorpe tables records to prove he's no drug cheat
IAN Thorpe, perhaps Australia's greatest Olympian, has provided the
country's drug testing agency with medical evidence in an attempt
to clear his name of doping.
Thursday August 16, 2007
Thorpe provides ASADA with evidence
Ian Thorpe, Australia's greatest Olympian, has provided the country's drug testing agency with medical evidence in an attempt to clear his name of doping.
Sunday August 12, 2007
Schipper stings like a bee
Butterfly queen Jessicah Schipper might appear sweet and gentle,
but she has the killer instinct of a white pointer. That's why she
is our best chance of winning a gold medal in 2008, two-time
Olympian Elka Graham writes.
Friday August 10, 2007
Swimming coach pleads not guilty to sex offences
Leading Australian swimming coach Mark Thompson has pleaded not guilty to charges of committing sex offences against a teenage boy.
Thursday August 9, 2007
Hackett's Beijing chances written off
Distance king Grant Hackett has effectively been rated only an
outside chance of claiming his third straight Olympic title in the
1500m in Beijing next year.
Wednesday August 8, 2007
Manaudou to be coached by her brother: report
French Olympic and world champion Laure Manaudou is to be coached by her brother, sports daily L'Equipe reported today.
Monday August 6, 2007
Monk laps it up for Games chance
SO MANY times has swimmer Kenrick Monk scrambled from his bed at
precisely 4.20am to go to training that he says he no longer needs
an alarm clock. "By now the brain seems to know when the body has
to get up and go."
Saturday August 4, 2007
Monk third as Phelps continues to star
Michael Phelps nabs two more titles at the US Swimming Championships, coming within a whisker of the 100m backstroke world record.
Sunday July 29, 2007
Time to embrace the new champ
I WAS just about to take the first sip of my morning coffee while
reading the paper at my favourite cafe when I saw an article that
made my stomach churn.
Forget the records, a win will do: Hackett
GRANT Hackett isn't focused on breaking his 1500-metre freestyle world record at the 2008 Olympics.
Thursday July 26, 2007
Perkins gives blessing to Hackett's 10km bid
Former champion Kieren Perkins reckons two-time 1500m Olympic gold
medallist Grant Hackett will have the fitness to back up his pool
swims with an assault on the 10-kilometre open-water title at the
Beijing Olympics next year.
Thorpe denies drugs claim
Ian Thorpe addresses drug Aallegations at a press conference in Melbourne.
