A jerk, but is he a drug cheat?
THERE is plenty of evidence Sun Yang has a serious attitude problem, but as for being a drug cheat — the case is less clear cut.
Swimming
Magnussen ‘happy’ even without Olympic gold
JAMES Magnussen accepts he may never win an Olympic gold medal but he would still retire from swimming more than content with his career.
Aussie washout, but the Yanks are laughing
REPORT Card: Michael Phelps is still magical, but it was a sobering night for the Aussies at the pool after the highs of day one. See how they fared.
Massive relay gamble backfires
AUSTRALIA’S bid for relay redemption was sunk at the first turn when a big gamble backfired in spectacular fashion.
Aussies can’t hit opening night highs
AFTER a double gold medal haul on the opening night, the Aussies might have walked away from the pool slightly deflated after finding the going tougher on day two.
‘Don’t apologise’: Why Mack was right to slam cheat
STICK to your guns Mack. That’s the message from Geoff Huegill, who is staunchly supporting Australia’s Rio swim sensation Mack Horton in the face of fire from irate Chinese fans.
Seebohm’s competition for ‘dreamy’ Larkin
A NEW rival for world champion Emily Seebohm has emerged – 13 year-old Nepalese swimmer Gaurika Singh.
Serena Williams rooting for Aussie sisters
IF there’s an athlete who knows about competing with her sibling, it’s Serena Williams, and she’s just come out in support for Australia’s newest gold medal winning sisters.
Mum’s pride: ‘That’s my girls’
SHE may have been 14,000 kilometres from Rio but Jenny Campbell’s nerves really hit home as daughters Bronte and Cate clinched their gold medal.
Chinese trolls go after Horton
NEWLY crowned 400m freestyle Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton has felt the wrath of Chinese swimming fans after he sledged rival, Sun Yang.
The unforgettable swimmer of the Rio Olympics
THERE will be many great stories played out in Rio over the next fortnight. Few will compare to that of Yusra Mardini.
Thorpe: Mack’s driving force for winning lap
IAN Thorpe was unsure about Mack Horton’s decision to call out the “drug cheat” who stood in his way for a gold medal. Then the Olympic legend watched the final lap.
Aussies keen to cash in on golden start
THE Australian swim team put the past behind them and began focusing on a brilliant future after a golden day at the pool kickstarted their Olympic campaign.
How Mack’s family celebrated golden moment
THE proud family of Mack Horton describe how they had to wait an agonising few seconds before they knew their boy had won a gold medal.
Horton a ‘hero’ for stance against doping
AN hour before the start of the Olympic men’s 400m final swimming writers discussed the statement made by Australia’s Mack Horton about drug cheats.
Olympic daily wrap: Aussies strike gold and go top!
A one stop round up of what went down on day 1 of the Games: Aussie medals in the pool and shooting range, a NSFW injury and robbers who messed with the wrong guys …
Coach backs Mack on dope cheats, weak bans
MACK Horton looks set to inspire a revolt against doping in swimming with coach Jacco Verhaeren endorsing his decision to voice his anger at weak drug bans.
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.
How Aussie sporting legends inspired Horton
TWO of Australia’s most successful sportsmen – Murray Rose and John Bertrand – inspired Mack Horton’s stunning Olympic Games victory.
How Mack’s ballsy drugs sledge rocked Rio
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.
Campbell sisters lead Australia to glory
AUSTRALIA’S Campbell sisters have realised a lifelong dream, winning Olympic gold together in the 4x100m freestyle relay. WATCH THE HIGHLIGHTS.
Aussies 2, Yanks 0 as the great battle begins
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.
Who is Rio gold medallist Mack Horton?
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?
Horton takes down drug cheat to win gold
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.
Horton fires shot at ‘drug cheat’ Chinese
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.
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.
Phelps condemns Rio doping farce
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.
Aussie attribute that made Phelps ‘the greatest’
MICHAEL Phelps is the greatest ever Olympian and it’s an Australian attribute that helped him reach such extraordinary heights, writes Kieren Perkins.
‘I just won gold and I’m going to drown’
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.
Dolphins looking to top more than US
AUSTRALIA is ready to smash the Americans like guitars. But it’s not just one relay team that the Dolphins have in their sights.
How Aussies repel mozzies on pool deck
AUSTRALIAN swimmers have been warned to be vigilant of the threat of zika virus with mosquitos visibly present at the Olympic swimming venue.
Short and Sweet: A fightback and a comeback
WE have a comeback and a fightback to remember and the latest from a huge week of woman and sport in SHORT AND SWEET.
Most dominant star at Rio Olympics
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.
What really goes on inside Rio village
PARTIES, condoms and celebrities. Olympian Melanie Wright reveals what really happens when 10,000 athletes live together.
Out of our way, the Aussies are here
IN A show of force and intent, Australia’s fresh-faced Olympic swimming team have taken over Rio’s Olympic Aquatic Stadium
Sharp practice means Wilson is Rio ready
MADISON Wilson issued a warning to her backstroke rivals in Rio, declaring her training was “a lot faster” than last year when she was a shock world titles silver medallist.
‘I thought I’m going to vomit all over myself’
AUSSIE swimmer Alicia Coutts knows she’s left nothing in the tank for her third Olympic Games and there was almost television footage to prove it.
Campbell joins social media blackout
CATE Campbell is the latest of our swimming stars to stop using social media during the Olympics, telling her followers that she will be “taking a break”.
Bronte cool as ice on Cate’s WR
FINALLY the Campbell sister rivalry just got real. Very real. When Cate broke the 100m freestyle world record last month, Bronte was nowhere to be seen.
Olympic legends help raise McKeon’s stocks
DAVID McKeon has taken advice from Olympic greats Mark and Tracey Stockwell every day for the past year as he looks to conquer his nerves on the world stage.
Bruce’s 50 must-see Rio moments
WORRIED you might miss the Rio Olympic moments we’ll be talking about for years? Fear not, Channel 7’s Bruce McAvaney is here to mark your card …
Sister act is lapping up the pressure
THE Campbell sisters stand on the verge of creating Olympic history but there is no chance the swimming superstars will be weighed down by the burden of what they can achieve in Rio.
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
AUSTRALIAN taxpayers have handed over an incredible war chest of riches to our swimmers in Rio. The cost of a gold medal will shock you.
Thorpe’s emotional words driving Larkin
WORLD backstroke champion Mitch Larkin has revealed how an “emotional” speech by Australia’s greatest Olympian Ian Thorpe has inspired his Rio Olympic quest.
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
AFTER reading too many messages of adulation on Twitter prior to her final at the Lodnon Olympics, Emily Seebohm has a whole new approach for Rio.
The scandal that’s left McEvoy lost for words
CAMERON McEvoy is renowned for his intelligence. He’s pondered life’s big questions, is an academic and understands string theory. But this question stopped him in his tracks.
The worst roommates at the Olympics
BRONTE Campbell has warned that however much you prepare for an Olympic Games, success hangs on picking the right person to bunk with. And there’s a group you should definitely avoid.
Chalmers ready to do some heavy lifting
PORT Lincoln’s Olympic story to date rests on the broad shoulders of tuna fisherman turned weightlifting star Dean Lukin. Kyle Chalmers is set to add a new chapter in the pool.
Respect now due to class of 2016
AUSTRALIA’S swim team will have the rock star treatment without the rock star behaviour when they arrive in Rio via a $300,000 private charter 737 jet on Sunday.
Video: McEvoy’s mind-blowing science lesson
WORM holes dinosaurs and e=mc2. Cameron McEvoy is passionate about science, so when we approached him for a physics lesson, he blew our minds. WATCH HERE.
‘Disrespectful’ to compare us to London team
TEAM leader and world record holder Cate Campbell launched an emphatic and passionate defence of the Australian swim team and its cultural rebuild.
Swim team from Stilnox to scrabble
FROM Stilnox to scrabble, parties to fancy dress — this is the PG-rated Australian Olympic swim team of 2016.
McLoughlin’s irritating formula to success
BEEP … beep … beep. Like a fridge with a door left open, an annoying sound to a normal person is actually a formula to make Jack McLoughlin swim to victory.
Swimmers’ preparation is down to the letter
AUSTRALIAN swimmers have received personal handwritten letters of inspiration from past Olympic greats to help them cope with the stress and pressure of competing in Rio.
McEvoy’s plans to make a Big Bang in Rio
HE IS hoping to leave Rio as the biggest name in swimming, catapulting him alongside Usain Bolt as a star of the games; but instead of partying, Cameron McEvoy has just one “must do” item on his list.
Russian pleads to be allowed to race McEvoy
CAMERON McEvoy’s main Russian rival Vladimir Morozov has pleaded his innocence of doping allegations and pleaded to be allowed to compete in Rio.
Wu hoping it’s third time lucky in Rio
AUSTRALIAN diver Melissa Wu is confident she is ready to claim an individual Olympic medal as she prepares for her third Games after an incredible 10 years on the national team.
McEvoy: The vital lessons I learnt form Phelps
CAMERON McEvoy plans to use Michael Phelps as inspiration to avoid the emotional wave of competition when he tackles Australia’s busiest schedule in Rio.
Russia ban is relay good news for Aussies
THE men’s 4x100m freestyle relay team have moved one step closer to Olympic gold after a decision by FINA to ban Russian rivals from the Rio Games.
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Our 409 Rio athletes deserve the spotlight
I’M done with the bad energy. Let’s leave Russia, Kitty Chiller, Zika and crime at the Rio door and focus on what the Olympics is really about – the athletes.
Olympic footnote’s hidden torment
FAMOUSLY standing aside for Ian Thorpe ahead of the 2004 Olympics wasn’t even the lowest blow Craig Stevens copped during his swimming career.
New Rio nightmare for our biggest stars
HERE’S a sneak peek at where Aussie athletes will be forced to sleep at the Rio Olympics, and it is making our biggest stars more than a little bit nervous.
‘I am only human’ McEvoy’s ultimate sacrifice
CAMERON McEvoy says his decision to withdraw from the 200m freestyle in Rio is in the best interests of the relay teams and his own pursuit gold medal pursuit.
Fraser-Holmes’ endless search for winning edge
SWIMMER Thomas Fraser-Holmes is pulling out all the stops ahead of Rio as he looks for that 1 per cent difference between Olympic gold and nothing.
Disgraced swim coach slips through Rio net
CONTROVERSIAL swim coach Scott Volkers has landed a gig in Rio despite a request by Australian officials to bar him from the Rio Games because of alleged child sex crimes.
Swimmers ready for their time in the sunnies
REVOLUTIONARY sunglasses to be worn at night are the Australian swim team’s secret weapon to combat late night finals and the stilnox ban at the Rio Olympic Games.
Short and Sweet: Thank goodness for female golfers!
ROOKIES rule, golfers excited, a working mum excels, NSW Swifts soar and a legend misses the Games cut. All this and more women’s sport news in SHORT AND SWEET.
Aussies march out of opening ceremony
AS few as one in three Australian Olympic athletes will march behind golden girl Anna Meares at next month’s Rio opening ceremony.
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