Aussie sisters make Olympic history
CATE Campbell can’t remember when the dream started, only that it was real and now it’s been achieved.
CATE Campbell can’t remember when the dream started, only that it was real and now it’s been achieved.
TWO of Australia’s most successful sportsmen – Murray Rose and John Bertrand – inspired Mack Horton’s stunning Olympic Games victory.
MACK Horton pulled off the ultimate Olympic psyche-out to win Australia’s first gold medal in Rio — then declared it a win for clean athletes at a Games overshadowed by doping.
AUSTRALIA’S Campbell sisters have realised a lifelong dream, winning Olympic gold together in the 4x100m freestyle relay. WATCH THE HIGHLIGHTS.
REPORT Card: Two glorious golds gave Australia a flying start in their bid for pool supremacy at the Rio Olympics. Meanwhile there was agony for one Aussie.
MACK Horton won Australia’s first gold medal of the Rio Olympic Games with a stellar swim in the men’s 400m freestyle final. But who is our latest champion?
EMERGING young swim star Mack Horton has conquered a “drug cheat” and claimed Olympic gold as Australia made an emphatic start to their Rio Games campaign in the pool.
MACK Horton has ignited a major feud ahead of today’s Olympic 400m freestyle final, slamming his Chinese opponent as a “drug cheat” who he does not respect.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BROKEN, embarrassed, rebuilt and rebranded – now it’s time for the Australian men’s 4x100m relay team to right the wrongs from London 2012.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MICHAEL Phelps has condemned the entire sporting world for failing to conquer the war on drugs as his fifth Olympic Games at Rio descends into a doping farce.
MICHAEL Phelps is the greatest ever Olympian and it’s an Australian attribute that helped him reach such extraordinary heights, writes Kieren Perkins.
NO Australian man has won Olympic 100m freestyle gold since Michael Wenden defied all the odds 48 years ago. He’s convinced Cam McEvoy is the man to end the drought in Rio.
AUSTRALIA is ready to smash the Americans like guitars. But it’s not just one relay team that the Dolphins have in their sights.
AUSTRALIAN swimmers have been warned to be vigilant of the threat of zika virus with mosquitos visibly present at the Olympic swimming venue.
WE have a comeback and a fightback to remember and the latest from a huge week of woman and sport in SHORT AND SWEET.
DON’T be fooled by the sweet smile, this star is untouchable right now and she’s set to enter “a different stratosphere” at Rio 2016.
SISTER acts and brotherly love: Michael Carayannis speaks to the seven sets of Australian sporting siblings already bound for Brazil this August.
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.
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.
WEST Australian swimmer Blair Evans is living proof of the saying “what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger”.
THE new dolphin tattoo on Taylor McKeown’s rib cage has far greater meaning than simply being a member of the Australian swimming team.
SWIMMER Cameron McEvoy has endured a nightmare 24 hours in Japan after experiencing an earthquake in his hotel room before waking to find his Twitter account hacked.
HE has been tipped to win six gold medals at the Olympics later this year, and despite being less than three months from arriving in Rio, Cameron McEvoy is no closer to gauging how he will fare.
CAMERON McEvoy read the hidden message stitched inside the leg of his new Olympic racing uniform, “I am ready”. Immediately he thought: “no I’m not’’.
CHEF de mission Kitty Chiller hailed Australia’s aquatic superstars at the launch of the new-look swimming, diving and water polo Rio Olympic uniforms. CHECK OUT THE PICS.
THIS is the letter AOC president John Coates hopes will protect 34 members of the Australian swimming team from alleged sexual offender Scott Volkers in Rio de Janeiro.
AUSTRALIA’S rising Rio Olympics star Cameron McEvoy has revealed plans to use former greats Grant Hackett and Ian Thorpe as personal mentors .
OLYMPIC legend Dawn Fraser refuses to make any gold medal predictions for our swimmers but believes the current crop can bury the demons of the past in Rio.
IN a little over 100-days the Campbell sisters hope to create a piece of family history no one of the planet is likely to better.
THE stakes could not be higher for the Campbell sisters, with Cate ready to call time on her career and hand the baton over to Bronte soon after the Rio Olympics.
AUSTRALIA’S Olympic swim team have been formally told to avoid “risky” activities between now and Rio.
HE is a teenage man-child who races adults in a swimming pool and breaks them. Kyle Chalmers is the next Ian Thorpe, right?
RIO-BOUND West Australian Blair Evans admitted to being a “broken swimmer” when she first teamed up with coach Bud McAllister in 2014.
KYLE Chalmers says he would love Grant Hackett to be at the Rio Olympics as a mentor but the AOC are staying tight-lipped on the fast-fading prospect.
GRANT Hackett is facing costly consequences for his mid-air spat with a male passenger that has again tarnished his image.
OLYMPIC legend Grant Hackett has been questioned by Federal Police over an incident on a flight home from the Australian swimming championships this morning.
THE stars are starting to align rapidly for Adelaide swimming star Kyle Chalmers after winning selection in Australia’s squad for the Rio Olympics.
THE once-shiny Dolphin Express sat idle after a London Games smeared with boorish behaviour and bullying. But this crop of swimmers is winning back the fans.
AUSTRALIA’S swim coach Jacco Verhaeren has labelled the 34-member team named for the Rio Olympics on Thursday night “one of the best I have ever seen.”
CATE Campbell jokes that all she did was hit a poker machine “spin” button and – ding, ding, ding – up came a new 50m freestyle Commonwealth record.
NORMALLY athletes thank their parents and their coaches, but Australian swimming’s bright young star had someone else he wanted to mention.
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