Australia

New Zealand Olympians Ingram and O’Donnell announce retirement

2012 Olympians Melissa Ingram and Carl O’Donnell announced their retirements today. In a press release from New Zealand Swimming Ingram…

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Coutts takes 50 butterfly and 100 freestyle on first night of New South Wales Championships

Men’s 400 freestyle 18 year old Kosuke Hagino of Japan found himself third at the 200 meter mark where David…

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Australian Olympic Committee Launches Investigation

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has announced that they will be conducting their own investigation into the behaviour of James…

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Will there be a comeback for Ian Thorpe?

Although Ian Thorpe has talked about making comebacks for the both the 2013 World Championships and the 2014 Commonwealth Games,…

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Australian Men’s 4 x 100 freestyle relay team will answer for their behaviour

At press conference later today all six members of Australia’s men’s 4 x 100 freestyle relay team will admit to…

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Reaction to Australian Swimming Reviews

Yesterday two reports were published reviewing the state of Australian swimming, more specifically what happened leading into and at the…

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Official Review Calls Swimming Australia “Culturally Toxic”

In an independent report called the “Bluestone Review,” Swimming Australia’s culture was blamed for the relative lack of success at…

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World Juniors Dates Set; New Zealand Announces Qualifying Criteria

Swimming New Zealand has announced their selection criteria for the Junior World Championships (Stock Photo Courtesy: ©Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)

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Coutts and Bohl feel Aussie training camp a huge success

After a disappointing performance at the London Olympics and even more disappointing behavioural problems, the brass within Swimming Australia decided…

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Aussie Press: Michael Scott to Look at Swimming Australia CEO Position

It has been reported for weeks that Michael Scott had left British Swimming to take a job in his native…

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Shannon Rollason to take National Team coaching job in Denmark

As reported by Wide World of Sports Shannon Rollason the Head Coach of the Australian Institute of Sport has announced…

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Swimming greats Dawn Fraser and Stephanie Rice join the Cast of Celebrity Apprentice

Swimming greats Dawn Fraser and Stephanie Rice join the cast of Celebrity Apprentice in Australia. Olympic swimming legend Summer Sanders…

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Australia looks to Its University Sports System

Australian Olympic Committee Chief John Coates is very interested in seeing the Australian University Sport system play a much bigger…

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Former British High Performance Director Sweetenham Lured to NZ

New Zealand has sucked one more top-level coach out of Australia, as Bill Sweetenham has agreed to step into New Zealand…

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Pickett, Wright and Rickard stay in Perth to race at the SWA State Championships

Three athletes who medalled at the BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series decided to stay in Perth a few days longer…

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