Swimming Australia

Magnussen Goes Lifetime Best in 50 Free Prelims

Women’s 50 Free – Prelims After his world-beating 100 free from Monday evening’s finals (Monday morning US/European Time), Australia’s James Magnussen was…

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Magnussen’s Stunning 100 Free is Textile Best [race video added]

Magnussen made dust of his own textile-best time, and he pulled his teammates to the lead with him.

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Campbell, Kukla Tops in Prelims of 100 Free, Trickett Through 7th

Women’s 100 Free – Prelims Youth was served in the prelims of the 100 free. The top four qualifiers into…

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Rice Makes it Two on Sunday

Stephanie Rice qualified in the 200 IM, which means either Seebohm our Coutts had to be left out… (Photo Courtesy: ©Tim Binning/TheSwimPictures.com)

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Thorpe Fails to Make Olympic Team in Second Try

Ian Thorpe’s final attempt at the London Olympic Team was derailed from the very first step.

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Aussie Trials Day 2: Ian Thorpe Earns Second Swim in 200 Free

Australia’s Ian Thorpe has advanced, at least one small step, closer to his goal of making the 2012 London Olympic Team…

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Aussie Olympic Trials Results

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Fraser-Holmes Breaks Australian Record on Day 1

Thomas-Fraser Holmes upstaged Stephanie Rice by mutilating the Australian Record in the men’s 400 IM.

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Schipper’s Top 10 100 fly Accents Aussie Trial Day 1 Prelims

Jessica Schipper Moves Into the World’s Top 10 times in prelims of day 1 at the Australian Olympic Trials.

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Thorpe Set to Crowd Magnussen’s Spotlight at Aussie Trials

Link to entry highlights. Dark-dingo picks for Australian Olympic Team. Schedule of events (same as Olympics). Live Results available here….

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Thorpe Breaks 4 Minutes in First 400 Free in 5 Years

For the first time since his comeback from retirement, and therefore the first time since at least 2006, Australia’s Ian…

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Park Crushes National Record in 1500, Seebohm/Gandy Top World in 200 Meter Events

On the final day of swimming in New South Wales, the Australians and their guests assaulted the World Rankings lists….

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Seebohm Rocks World's Top 100-Back; Beavers Breaks National Age Record on Day 2 at NSW

After day 1 in Australia, when Emily Seebohm didn’t have a great swim in the 100 free, I quipped that she…

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Magnussen Wins 100 Free; Schlanger Tops TYR World Rankings in Women's Race

What a difference a week makes. After telling the media that he was in the same heavy training this week…

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Australian Olympic Gold Medalist Ashley Callus Retires Short of 4th Olympic Bid

As the Australian Olympic lineup could potentially be boosted by the returns of Thorpe, Klim, Trickett and Huegill, Australian swimmer…

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