Nice training partners Camille Muffat and Yannick Agnel brought their French short-course nationals campaign to a world-beating conclusion with global textile bests in their respective 200m freestyle finals: 1:51.65; 1:39.70...
A day after knocking six bells out of the 800m freestyle world short-course record in 8:01, Camille Muffat swam at the same pace to win the French 400m crown in 3:59.38 at Angers...
Australia, China and South Africa will clash in the 2013 BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series in Perth in January, with half a million dollars up for grabs over two days of racing in Perth; top team gets $100,000 ...
Where men went back in 1978, Camille Muffat is threatening to go in 2012 as the Olympic 400m champion from France challenges the 8-min mark at the French s/c nationals in Angers...
The morning after setting a world short-course record of 3:32.25 over 400m freestyle at French nationals in Angers, Yannick Agnel clocks a European s/c mark of 7:29.17, the second fastest ever in textile after Grant Hackett...
An Olympic medallist at 15 at a home Games in Sydney, Leisel Jones overcame adversity to become the world's pacemaker on breaststroke, crashing into uncharted waters in the middle of the last decade as the honours piled up ...
Cal women's swimming has heralded Missy Franklin's autumn 2013 arrival with official confirmation that the 17-year-old four-times Olympic gold medal winner from London 2012 has signed on the dotted line...
News Round-Up: Olympic 200m freestyle champion Yannick Agnel, set a world short-course record of 3:32.25 over 400m at French nationals in Angers today; Sun yang takes gold in 200m free at Asian Champs in Dubai...
Ian Thorpe contemplated suicide during his days as the world's leading middle distance freestyle, the 30-year-old told the BBC on a tour of promoting his autobiography "This is me"...
News Round-Up: 1,047 tickets for swimming, 2,327 for diving, from London 2012 among 263,000 tickets unsold despite demand; Savage moves from swimming to triathlon Down Under...
Head of the Dutch swim programme Jacco Verhaeren will remain with the KNZB as technical director until the Rio 2016 Olympic Games but is to quit his role on the deck as coach at the NZE centre of excellence...
Dr Pippa Grange and a team at Bluestone Edge will lead an "assessment of culture and leadership" in Australian swimming; move welcomed by swimmers' association...
"Essentially we are moving from the toxicology approach that existed in the seventies to now a more forensic science approach" - Dr Mario Zorzoli...
David Davies, Olympic silver (2008) and bronze (2004) medal-winning distance freestyle ace, has retired a decade after his international senior debut for Wales at the 2002 Commonwealth Games...
A salient and sobering tale of the damage that can be done if clear lines of communication break down between swimmers and those who govern the sport ...
News Round-Up: Sjostrom yet to make her mind up on Istanbul, faces domestic test; Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin end the Minneapolis Grand Prix with two more victories each; Pan Pacs upgrade Down Under...
On the list of hard-working World Cup $100,000 prize winners, Hungarian Katinka Hosszu surely leads the way after concluding a tour of 28km of racing with two more triumphs to take her tally to 39 victories at eight meets...
There are days when you just know you've made the right move. British coach Ian Armiger will have surely felt that this weekend as he surveyed a different kind of burning deck: the Grand Cayman coast; Mellouli graces 5km race...
On the second night of the Minneapolis Grand Prix, four-times Olympic gold medal winner Missy Franklin claimed another brace of victories, taking the 50 yards freestyle and the 100 yards backstroke...
Tired by a marathon year that brought an Olympic silver medal over 400m medley, Thiago Pereira is to bypass the World Short-Course Championships in Istanbul next month...
