Thursday November 15, 2007
Lenton likes home advantage
STEPHAN Widmer was criticised by some in the sport last year for his unorthodox preparation of his most famous charge, Libby Lenton.
Monday November 12, 2007
Record win for Eamon Sullivan in Moscow
Eamon Sullivan has continued on his fast-track toward the Beijing Olympics as he lowered his Australian short course 50 metre freestyle record in his victory at the FINA World Cup event in Moscow.
Wednesday November 7, 2007
FINA drops Thorpe doping case
Swimming's global governing body has finished its pursuit of Ian
Thorpe over his unusual doping test results.
Sunday November 4, 2007
Lenton off the pace but on track for Beijing
Australian golden girl Libby Lenton says she is a more mature and better conditioned athlete than ever before, even if her FINA World Cup times are below her previous results.
Wednesday October 24, 2007
Graham refuses to budge
A BESIEGED Elka Graham has spoken to the Australian Sports
Anti-Doping Authority but is still unwilling to provide
information, even in a confidential manner, about the swimmer who
allegedly offered her performance-enhancing drugs on the eve of the
Athens Olympics.
Wednesday October 17, 2007
Hackett's 10km Olympic hopes face early test
Grant Hackett's bid to win the gruelling 10km open water event at next year's Beijing Olympics faces an early test on Sunday at the Victorian championships.
Sydney bids for World Championships
LAUSANNE - Seven cities, including Sydney, are bidding to host the world short-course swimming championships in 2012, world governing body FINA said today.
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.
Thorpe denies drugs claim
Ian Thorpe addresses drug Aallegations at a press conference in Melbourne.
