She’s the queen of backstroke, an understated champion and some would say she’s so used to winning she appears bored, but that’s simply not the case for Kaylee McKeown, who could become Australia’s greatest, blurred vision and all.
Throughout her life, and at these Olympic Games in Paris, luck has been against swimmer Lani Pallister. But for so many reasons, a medal in the 800 metres freestyle would be very fitting for her and her family.
Chinese state security services suspected that contaminated Australian beef caused two swimmers to test positive to a powerful steroid.
In the biggest shock in swimming so far at the Paris Olympics, Mollie O’Callaghan and Shayna Jack both missed out on winning medals in the women’s 100 metres freestyle final.
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.
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.
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.
MICHAEL Phelps is the greatest ever Olympian and it’s an Australian attribute that helped him reach such extraordinary heights, writes Kieren Perkins.
AUSTRALIA is ready to smash the Americans like guitars. But it’s not just one relay team that the Dolphins have in their sights.
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.
PARTIES, condoms and celebrities. Olympian Melanie Wright reveals what really happens when 10,000 athletes live together.
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.
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