Sad truth behind our false start on path to Paris
Expectations of another big medal haul for our swimmers in Paris are sky high after what happened at the Tokyo games. So should we be worried about this week’s national champs?
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Anchor walks out over Lia Thomas tribute
An American sports personality has laid the boots into a former employee after they delivered a tribute to transgender athlete Lia Thomas.
Titmus responds as Summer’s shadow looms large
Ariarne Titmus won the 400m at the Australian swimming championships, but she couldn’t take back a record that was once hers. See all the results here.
Watch out world: Pain-free Chalmers sends a message
Look out world, Aussie Kyle Chalmers says he has not felt this good since he won Olympic gold in 2016, and he’s backed it up in the pool, solidifying himself as Australia’s best male sprinter.
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Wu dives into Olympic waters for third time
SHE made her Olympic debut as a tiny, shy teenager at the Beijing Games back in 2008. Now eight years on Melissa Wu is the veteran of the Australian diving team heading to Rio.
Aussie swimmers braced for US reality check
AUSTRALIA’S Olympic gold medal contenders have been warned to expect world records to fall as the US Olympic trials put heat on our pace-setting Dolphins.
Mckeon draws on dad’s deep pool of knowledge
EMMA McKeon believes listening to her father rather than rebelling against him is the reason she will head to the Rio Olympic Games as a medal contender in five events.
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Webster off to make splash in Rio
EXPLODING from the water and on to the world stage, Victorian Rowie Webster is on her way to Rio.
Olympians on struggle street
SIMPLICE Ribouem is relying on Centrelink benefits to help him through his Olympic journey.
Water baby Poort passes parent trap
ONE month before Jarrod Poort qualified for his second Olympics, the open water swimmer faced the daunting prospect of ruining his parents’ trip to Rio.
Keeping it in the Olympic family
SISTER acts and brotherly love: Michael Carayannis speaks to the seven sets of Australian sporting siblings already bound for Brazil this August.
Refugee who swam for life off to Rio
A SYRIAN refugee who last year was forced to swim for her life trying to reach Greece will now swim for a gold medal after being selected for the Rio Olympics.
Barely believable audition for Rio
IF ED Moses somehow manages to scrape onto the US Olympic swimming team, the story of how he got there will be one for the ages.
Evans’ rough road to Rio
WEST Australian swimmer Blair Evans is living proof of the saying “what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger”.
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