USA Swimming’s unprecedented move to catch dominant Aussies
USA Swimming has gone all out to incentivise their swimmers at the 2024 Paris Olympics, in the hopes of taking down Australia’s champion female swimmers.
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‘Are they the best team of all time? No’
Swim star Cate Campbell has opened a can of worms by arguing Australia’s all-conquering women’s cricket team isn’t the greatest of all time.
World stunned by Aussie’s mind blowing act
Kaylee McKeown has revealed the secret behind her stunning world record after a ‘hard patch’ around the Tokyo Olympics.
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Olympic success is all in the mind
THE Australian swim team’s secret weapon is a sports psychologist who has armed our medal prospects with all the mental tools required to become a champion.
Cate makes the switch to automatic
CATE Campbell’s coach has tried to turn her into a swimming “robot” but from now until the Olympic Games she’s being treated as fragile as a China doll.
True cost of an Olympic medal
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Thorpe’s emotional words driving Larkin
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What price success? How we fund Rio stars
IT HAS cost the Australian taxpayer $38m to get our swimmers to Rio. With estimates the team could win eight gold medals, that works out to $4.75m each.
Seebohm’s anti-social plans for Rio
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