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Commonwealth Games: Aussies Chasing Freestyle Dominance in Glasgow 36 Years After the Golden Glow of Auckland in 1990 Australia swimmers have the chance to turn the clock back 36 years as they chase a freestyle clean sweep at the 23rd Commonwealth Games, starting in Glasgow on Friday. Auckland host....

Backstroke Queen Kaylee McKeown Reveals She Has Endometriosis; Juggling Life and Goals for 2028 and 2032 A week after backstroking queen Kaylee McKeown’s withdrawal from the Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacs with glandular fever, Australia’s five-time Olympic gold medallist opened up about life outsi....

Dual Olympian Tommy Neill The Latest Withdrawal From Australia’s Commonwealth Games Swim Team For Glasgow. Australia’s Commonwealth Games swim team for Glasgow has been dealt another blow with the withdrawal of Queensland’s dual Olympian Tommy Neill with a hand injury on the eve of the team’s depar....

Commonwealth Games, Glasgow: Cam McEvoy Launches 50m Freestyle World Record Attack With Personal Best Training Time in German Camp The world’s fastest human Cam McEvoy is on track to launch another full-scale attack on his 50-meter freestyle world record when the 23rd Commonwealth Games kicks off n....

Commonwealth Games 400m Showdown: If Sam Gets It Right On The Night He Won’t Be Short This Time Sam Short vs. Ian Thorpe and Lukas Martens – that’s the tantalizing imaginary matchup for what could well be the major swimming highlight of this year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The Games countdow.....

The Day Doctors Told Mollie O’Callaghan She Would Not Be Swimming at Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacs Australia’s triple Olympic gold medalist from Paris, Mollie O’Callaghan, will take her place in the Australian swim team for this year’s Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacs despite being told by doctors....

Glasgow Offers The Perfect Stage For Dolphins To Cash In On Swimming Australia’s Bold New Contract Plans Timing is everything as they say and the upcoming Commonwealth Games and Pan Pac campaigns could well provide the perfect platform for Swimming Australia’s bold new plan to contract its swimmers....

Emotional Shayna Jack Reveals She Will Make Her Farewell to Pool After Glasgow Commonwealth Games Australian swimming golden girl Shayna Jack has revealed today in an emotional video that she will bid farewell to the pool after this month’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, retiring from the sport she....

Is Commonwealth Games Door Now Open for Mollie O’Callaghan To Replace Kaylee McKeown in 100 Backstroke? How do you fill the shoes of Kaylee McKeown? The loss of the world’s premier backstroker from this year’s Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacs with glandular fever leaves a huge hole in the Australian....

Backstroking Golden Girl Kaylee McKeown Chasing A Taylor-Made Treble In Glasgow Australian swimming’s golden girl Kaylee McKeown will head to Glasgow for what could well be her last Commonwealth Games next month, primed to emulate the gold medal feats of her sister Taylor. [caption id="attachment_6....

Six Paralympic Gold Medallists To Spearhead A Full Strength Australian Team to 2026 Para Pan Pacs Australia will send a full-strength team of 37 swimmers to this year’s Para Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Walnut, California in August - including six Paralympic champions with a total of 15 Pa....

Aussie Trials, Day 6, Finals: Ben Armbruster Sinks Two Olympic Champions To Snatch Dolphins Team Selection For Glasgow And Irvine Paris Olympian Ben Armbruster took just 22.90 seconds to sink two Olympic champions and gatecrash his way onto both the Australian Commonwealth Games and Pan Pac teams a....

Aussie Trials, Day 5, Finals: Mollie O’Callaghan 52.33 and Meg Harris 52.63 Deliver A 1-2 Punch In 100m Freestyle Two-time world champion Mollie O’Callaghan has powered home to win the much-anticipated women’s 100m freestyle crown at the Australian Trials in Sydney -  clocking in 52.33 – the third ....

Aussie Trials, Day 5 Finals: Sam Short Seals Rare 200, 400, 800 and 1500m Freestyle Sweep In Sydney Queensland’s fearless freestyler Sam Short has joined swimming royalty after his never-say-die victory in the men’s 1500m freestyle at the Australian Selection Trials and National Championships in S.....

Aussie Trials, Night 4, Finals: King Kyle Chalmers Turns The Clock Back 11 Years To Celebrate A Decade Of Domination LIVE RESULTS Australian freestyle king Kyle Chalmers has turned back the clock 11 years in Sydney tonight – celebrating an unbeaten domestic record of more than a decade in swimming.....

Backstroking queen Kaylee McKeown has tonight swum into a realm where only she and US rival Regan Smith have ventured as she chased her first personal in three years - her own world record - on night four of the Australian Trials at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. And the unstoppable McKeow....

Aussie Trials, Night 3, Finals: Fearless Sam Short Pops 800 Freestyle Textile Suit World Record of 7:36.73 LIVE RESULTS A fearless and confident Sam Short has set a new 800m freestyle textile suit world record of 7:36.73 in the bravest swim of his career in Sydney tonight. Short snuck under the t...

Aussie Trials, Night 3 Finals: Mollie O’Callaghan’s 1:52.86 Shakes The Life Out Of the Women’s 200m Freestyle World Record Australia’s Olympic champion Mollie O’Callaghan has shaken the life out of the women’s 200m freestyle world record in Sydney tonight – Mollie O just missing the mark set when c....

Aussie Selection Trials, Day 3, Heats: Queensland Young Gun Jamie Jack Upstages Cam McEvoy, Grabs Lane Four For Tonight’s 50m Freestyle Final   LIVE RESULTS Emerging Queensland sprinter Jamie Jack has upstaged world record holder Cam McEvoy in the heats of the men’s 50m freestyle on day three of t.....

Aussie Selection Trials, Day 2, Finals: Teenage Stars Sienna Toohey and Henry Allan Emerge As The New Faces Of Australian Swimming Two teenage stars came of age on night two of the Australian Trials and Australian Championships Meet in Sydney – with 17-year-old regional champions Sienna Toohey and ....