Best in the world not good enough for Aussie wonderkid
Despite recording the fastest time in the world this year, young Aussie swim sensation Mollie O’Callaghan is confident she can go even better at next month’s world championships.
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Magnussen: It’s time Kyle Chalmers’ teammates stepped up
Kyle Chalmers is as selfless a teammate as there is in Australian swimming, but for him to achieve a lifelong dream, his teammates must the selfless ones, writes James Magnussen.
Cody Simpson in huge drama at swim trials
Cody Simpson has kept his dream of going to next month’s World Championships alive in dramatic fashion at the Aussie trials.
‘Geez, where did that come from?’: Horton ponders retirement
Australian Olympic champion Mack Horton could hang up his goggles after missing selection in the Australian team for next month’s world championships.
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Legend hopes to ‘raise a glass’ to Larkin
IT’S 60 years since Australia produced its first and only backstroke gold medallist and the man who sealed the deal is chilling a bottle of champagne.
Rio 2016 Swimming: Everything you need to know
AUSTRALIA’S swimmers are out to knock the US of its perch. Here’s everything you need to know before Australia’s sprint queens and Mack Horton lead the day one charge.
Re-launched Missile leads pool assault
JAMES Magnussen will be the measure of how far the team culture and positive energy in our swim squad has come since the London debacle, writes Kieren Perkins.
‘We’re not carrying the weight of the nation’
A POOR pool performance in London was seen as totemic for a woeful national campaign, but coaches caution against high expectations on our swimmers, writes Todd Balym.
‘Soupy’ pool puts our swimmers at risk
CLOUDY and soupy water has forced Australia’s swimming team out of the main training pool in Rio; amazingly however some athletes continue to use the facility.
‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’
BROKEN, embarrassed, rebuilt and rebranded – now it’s time for the Australian men’s 4x100m relay team to right the wrongs from London 2012.
London heartbreak fuels McKeon’s Rio dreams
EMMA McKeon looms as the multi-event ironwoman of the Australian swim team, but missing the 2012 London Olympic Games almost saw her quit the sport.
USA v Aus: ‘Expect fireworks in the pool’
OLYMPIC great Michael Phelps is wary of the threat posed by the Aussie team, and if one race defines the meet it may be Nathan Adrian versus Cameron McEvoy.
Thorpey’s formguide: Where we’ll win gold
IAN Thorpe is one of Australia’s all-time great Olympians winning five gold medals in the pool. The man known as the ‘Thorpedo’ runs the rule over Australia’s best chances in 2016.
Rio star who left greatest Olympian awestruck
MICHAEL Phelps has 18 Olympic golds but a fellow megastar has left him starstruck in Rio. Meanwhile, the swim legend made a bombshell doping admission.
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