The 50-to-1500 last-session sandwich at Australian trials stretched from a 23.99 win for Shayna Jack* in a 50m freestyle that is likely to have marked the dash swansongs of Olympic champion Emma McKeown and former World champion Cate Campbell, to […]

Three of the 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned heart booster in January 2021 but were cleared to swim on by domestic and then global anti-doping authorities had previously tested positive for the steroid, clenbuterol, but escaped […]

Emma McKeon will not defend the Olympic 100m freestyle crown nor will the two fastest Australians of the hour from the world’s dominant sorority of 100m freestyle speed represent the Dolphins at the Paris Olympics after World champion Mollie O’Callaghan […]

Zac Stubblety-Cook checked into the defence of the Olympic 200m breaststroke crown in a duel with Josh Yong that ended 2:07.40 to 2:08.08 in favour of the Tokyo 2020ne champion, both men well inside the cut for Paris 2024. Stubblety-Cook, […]

Olympic relay champion Meg Harris, World 100-200m champion Mollie O’Callaghan and their 52.5s led the 100m free charge of six swimmers making the Paris cut but the drama was in the deep end of results among those who didn’t make […]

Cate Campbell, unwell and out of the 100m free final by 0.01sec and Sam Short, unwell and out of the 1500m free: the fifth morning at Australian Trials included a painful glimpse of the agony side of a coin that […]

In 2:03.30, Kaylee McKeown rattled her 2:03.14 World record with the second swiftest 200m backstroke swim in history to go 6/best10 and 12/best20 on the all-time rankings as she booked her twin tickets to a double defence of the Olympic […]

Ariarne Titmus frowned at the scoreboard when she clocked the “disappointing” numbers: 8:14.06 on day four of Australian trials, a 3:55 world-record rattler in the 400m free and a scorching 1:52.23 200m free behind her. Titmus The Terminator Destroys WR […]

Gold in Rio, silver by 0.06 in Tokyo and now Kyle Chalmers heads to Paris with a 47.75 trials win over 100m freestyle in the bag knowing that he will need to axe the best part of a second off […]

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has kicked out a challenge by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to World Aquatics rules barring any who experienced male puberty from competition in female events. The tribunal’s decision to dismiss the challenge comes 11 […]

Ariarne Titmus, Titmus The Terminator – 1:52.23: for the first time in history, the World 200m freestyle record is faster than Mark Spitz‘s Munich 1972 victory in the week the American swim to sporting immortality with seven Olympic golds. Beaten […]

Still panting from the fight and furious flight of a 1:52.23 World record in the 200m freestyle, Ariarne Titmus told us in Brisbane: “It’s exciting to do it in my hometown, in front of the hometown crowd, but it gives […]

Cameron McEvoy is a four-times Olympian, the first Australian male swimmer to make four Games, indeed: at the age of 30, his dominant 21.35 dash was followed by a 21.84 from Ben Armbruster, both men on the Dolphins squad for […]

Eighteen months ago, promising swimmer Max Giuliani took the biggest gamble of his life. He had left school and found himself at a fork in the road. In one direction was the well-trodden path to becoming a tradie in his […]

Kaylee McKeown claimed ownership of nine of the all-time swiftest 10 swims over 100m backstroke with a 57.41 world-record rattler forged in a duel that made Mollie O’Callaghan the fourth member of the sub-57sec club, her 57.88 ensuring that both […]

In the context of Australian and World swim history and what other contenders for the Paris Olympics 4x200m podium have been laying down of late, Dolphin 200m prospects are relatively meagre – but none of that mattered to Max Giuliani […]

Arnie Titmus sees herself as “smarter swimmer” and “much more well-rounded athlete and … person” that she was heading into a soaring success as a debut Olympic Dolphin at the Tokyo Games three years ago. Asked if she felt not […]

Three second-generation Olympians made their way onto the Australian team for Paris on the first night of the Australian Olympic trials in Brisbane: Lani Pallister, the daughter of 1988 Olympian Janelle Elford, and Ella Ramsay, the daughter of 2000 Olympic […]