Liaoning, the province that has just been fined 100,000 Yuan as the governing body in charge of China's latest doping scandal in swimming, is to host the Chinese National Games in September...
Britain has lost one of the key men in line to take on the role of performance director after the departure in November of Michael Scott. John Atkinson heads to Ottawa as Pierre Lafontaine prepares to move on...
News Round-Up: Rebecca Adlington set to retire; Manaudou pregnant and moving on; AUS coach Shannon Rollason off to Denmark; Armstrong accuses everyone as Rasmussen confesses; Phelps, the player; Fraser & Rice on celebrity trail...
Big day on doping: a Spanish doctor stands accused but has his 'private data' protected; more woe from China in swimming; and WADA is "dismayed" by UCI's "deceit" over Armstrong inquiry panel and truth and reconciliation ...
Swimming New Zealand has hired Bill Sweetenham in a temporary role as high performance coach as the nation looks for a permanent leader on the deck; his arrival coincides with that of Luis Villanueva, the director Sweetenham worked with in Spain...
Following our reports and pressure from USA Swimming, FINA today imposed a teo-year ban on Li Zhesi, the Chinese teenager who at 16 last March 31 tested positive for EPO; coach Wang also banned for 2 years; Liaoning punished ...
News Round-Up: world champion Fabio Scozzoli (ITA) tests himself on freestyle, 'fly and backstroke in local meets; Karen Crouse on Dagny Knutson; and the latest race tests for Katinka Hosszu and Daniel Gyurta ...
Lionel Horter, the Mulhouse coach who served head of France's senior coaching group from 2009, has been appointed Technical Director for the French Swimming Federation (FFN); he succeeds the late Christian Donze ...
Swimming is among sports named at heart of WADA's efforts to crack open an international sports doping ring; Eufemiano Fuentes in focus; Spain under pressure; UCI disbands commission in favour of truth and reconciliation ...
News Round-Up: Missy Franklin may add the 50m freestyle and 200m medley to her repertoire, coach and mentor Todd Schmitz, of the Colorado Stars, tells a Denver paper; Thorpe may have tilt at Commonwealth spot...
Laure Manaudou, the first woman swimmer to win Olympic gold in the pool when she claimed the 400m freestyle title in 2004, will announce her second and final retirement from the race pool on French television this Wednesday, says AFP...
The United States Aquatic Sports federation is to ask for FINA clarification on the status of a positive EPO test (A and B) returned by Li Zhesi, a 16-year-old member of the China swim team until the eve of Olympic trials last year...
The men's 100m freestyle final in the concluding session of the Golden Lanes Circuit in Nice produced an an Italian line-up, led by Luca Dotto, on 49.40; teammate Alice Mizzau takes women's 100m; Camille Muffat wins 400m in 4:10 ...
at the second round of the French Golden lanes circuit in Nice...
Olympic 200m freestyle champion Yannick Agnel, of France, claimed a 15:16.86 victory over 1500m amid winter work at the second stage of the Golden Lanes Circuit at home in Nice; Camille Muffat clocks 8:30.59 over 800m...
At a hearing of the UCI Commission in London, Britain's 11-times Paralympic champion Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, a panel member, tells UCI counsel Ian Mill: "It amazes me that we've had no documents whatsoever"...
Coach Laurie Lawrence, whose charges account for more than 30 Olympic medals, is a nominee for Senior Australian of the Year 2013 as the brain behind a Kids Alive (Do the Five) safety awareness campaign ...
Swimming Australia is in negotiations to relocate from Canberra to the Gold Coast before the region stages the 2014 Pan Pacs and 2018 Commonwealth Games ...
News Round-Up: Arena and the Italian Swimming Federation have signed a sponsorship agreement for a term of four years, ending the Jaked years; Dutch team to return to Phuket 'winter-sun' base every year up to Rio 2016...
The Aussie team is bound for the Gold Coast to work with more than 100 other swimmers, coaches and staff at the "2013 National Event Camp" from Jan 28 to Feb 2. Head coach Leigh Nugent has an "us against the world"-style message to deliver...
