Sport
Swimming
‘More than smiles and flower caps’: Why artistic swimmers are Games’ fittest athletes
Meet some of Australia’s toughest competitors. They train eight hours in the pool every day, all year, in a sport that is often completely misunderstood.
- by Jonathan Drennan
Latest
Thorpe prevails in ‘Race of the Century’
The men’s 200m freestyle final was the most anticipated swimming race at the Athens Olympics in 2004. After losing the event four years earlier in Sydney, Thorpe was out for revenge against Dutch star Pieter van den Hoogenband.
Can an American star stop McKeown from becoming Australia’s greatest Olympian?
Kaylee McKeown could be on the cusp of Olympic immortality if things go perfectly in Paris, but there’s one major rival standing in her way.
- by Tom Decent
The Olympic swimmer who chases a rubber chicken in the pool
You’ve heard of greyhounds chasing fake rabbits around a racetrack. Wait until you see how Matt Temple has been training for the Olympics in Paris.
- by Tom Decent
Opinion
Paris 2024
Why is Australia picking a fight with the US Olympic swim team?
Australia is looking at a record haul in the pool at the Paris Olympics — but we’re setting ourselves up for a monumental face-plant with the job not yet done.
- by Andrew Webster
Analysis
Paris 2024
The USA’s Olympic swimming trials have finished. Australia’s stars have work to do
Five weeks out from the Olympics, we crunch the numbers to see just how Australia’s swimmers are faring against their US rivals.
- by Tom Decent
Why Australia’s No.1-ranked male swimmer isn’t flying with the team to Olympics
Cam McEvoy’s quest to make history in Paris is so important to Swimming Australia that the veteran athlete has been granted a special request.
- by Tom Decent
McKeown stunned as American star breaks world record in Olympic warning
Kaylee McKeown has lost one of her world records after an eye-catching swim from her arch-rival at the US Olympic swimming trials in Indianapolis.
- by Tom Decent
‘We want to kill each other’: Phelps, US stars react to ‘sore losers’ barb
Cate Campbell’s comments from a television interview last year have made their way onto NBC’s prime-time coverage of the USA swimming trials.
- by Tom Decent
How Australia’s swimmers compare to the rest of the world ahead of Olympics
Is the Australian swimming team heading to Paris as good as is being advertised? Here’s a look at the early numbers.
- by Tom Decent
Jack has been to hell and back. Now, finally, she will be an Olympian
Even on a Sunday in mid-2024, when Shayna Jack’s drug ordeal is behind her and she will soon board a plane to Paris, the subject is still enough to draw tears.
- by Emma Kemp