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Australia’s latest international freestyle star Ariarne Titmus has dethroned swimming’s queen Katie Ledecky for the second time in three days in another stunning gold medal swim in the 200m freestyle in Tokyo – to take a golden double in the pool. [caption id="attachment_483444" align="alignright" w...

Olympics: Izaac Stubblety-Cook, Arno Kamminga Tie as Top Seeds in 200 Breast It was almost a preliminaries of the men’s 200 breaststroke that was fit to be tied. The final two heats of the event each ended in ties, though the final one was broken by a disqualification. It leaves Izaac Stubblety-Cook...

Olympics: Kaylee McKeown Dedicates 100 Back Olympic Gold to Father; Regan Smith Snares Bronze Australia’s 20-year-old Kaylee McKeown created her own slice of swimming history in Tokyo today, becoming the country’s first ever female Olympic backstroke gold medallist in an emotionally charged 100-mete...

Olympics: It's a Magical Golden Moment For Canadian Maggie MacNeil in 100 Butterfly It took a few moments to sink in but World and Pan Pac champion Maggie MacNeil has today been crowned the Olympic champion, winning Canada’s first swimming gold of the Tokyo Games with a stunning 100m butterfly victo...

Australian Round-Up: Nervous Kaylee McKeown Sets New Olympic Record And Finds Solace In Previous Owner Kaylee McKeown has shrugged off the nerves and delivered a record breaking start to her Tokyo campaign – relying on the former Olympic record holder and team mate Emily Seebohm to guide her along t...

Olympics: Kaylee McKeown Last of Three to Set 100 Back Olympic Record On paper, the women’s 100 backstroke looked like one of the most loaded events in the Tokyo Olympics. In the pool, it was somehow even more fun in prelims Sunday night. In successive heats, Kylie Masse, then Regan Smith, then Kayl...

Olympics: Tunisian Tiger's Tokyo Dream: Ahmed Hafnaoui's Wild Celebration After Winning Shock Gold From Lane Eight Tunisian teenager Ahmed Hafnaoui has caused the first major upset of the Tokyo 2020 Games - winning an extraordinary Olympic gold in the 400 metres freestyle from lane eight. The 18-yea...

Australia’s embarrassment of riches was very much on show on the opening night of swimming in Tokyo with the Dolphins blasting their way into the top ten fastest all-time relay times in history in the heats of the women's 4x100m freestyle. Their 3:31.73 was the fastest preliminary performance ever s...

Olympics: Zhang Yufei, Emma McKeon Threaten World Record, Tie for Top Seed The gauntlet has been thrown down in the wide-open women’s 100 butterfly, and already the world-record line has gotten  a stiff test. The five-year-old record endured a couple of scares Saturday night at the first women's eve...

Elijah Winnington Headlines Big Opening Night For This Pod Of Dolphins On Day One In Tokyo There is no shortage of headline acts on Australia's Olympic swim team in Tokyo with most of the attention featuring a women's team that has more freestyle depth of any team to leave Australia's shores.  ...

It's Brisbane's Time To Shine As Olympics Arrive Down Under For A Third Time With Tokyo about to move into full swing...how good is it to wake up this morning in the latest Olympic city, with images of Brisbane, the Gold Coast Coast and Sunshine Coast beamed around the world - the Olympics are comin...

Australian Swimming League's "Big Splash" Plans Unveiled On Eve Of Tokyo Olympics A hugely successful T20 “Big Bash” cricket league is about to have company with the launch today of what could become Australian sport's “Big Splash” - an Australian professional swimming league. With the countdown on ...

The Air-Guitar Concert: When Australia Ended American Streak in 400 Freestyle Relay (Video) More than 17,000 passionate Australian fans stood and yelled, anticipating a moment their country had long envisioned. The Sydney Aquatic Center was the focal point of the 2000 Olympic Games, and as the first...

There was no rest for the wicked – as they say, even on the 20th birthday for Kaylee McKeown in Cairns yesterday. Surrounded by her Tokyo Olympic teammates, Australia's latest world-record holder was in the pain lane. Australia’s newest backstroking star farewelled her teenage years unlike most othe...

Cate Campbell, who has been very much the leading lady of Australia swimming over the past decade, will now become one of the leaders of the country’s Olympic team, named tonight to share the Flag Bearing duties at the 2020 Tokyo Games, with another four—time Olympian, inspiring indigenous basketbal...

Testing Times For Olympic Golden Boys Mack Horton And Kyle Chalmers Caught Up In COVID Lockdown Swimming Australia has confirmed that members of its Olympic team, including Rio golden boys Kyle Chalmers and Mack Horton, “did not attend any high risk locations” during their visit to Magnetic Island, ...

It is a marathon swimming story of Olympic proportions which will now become an Olympic story of marathon proportions – one that Kai Edwards will savor for the rest of his swimming career after the 22-year-old secured the final berth on the Australian Swim Team for Tokyo. Edwards is the last and 37t...

Sun Yang will not defend his 200 freestyle title at the Tokyo Olympics after he was banned for four years and three months after a retrial at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Link to CAS verdict Link to WADA statement Adam Peaty Welcomes Tokyo Absence The Chinese swimmer had been handed an eight-...

The boy from the Blue Mountains Matthew Wilson wore the biggest smile on the pool deck in Adelaide earning inclusion in the  35-strong Australian Olympic Swim Team for Tokyo - after missing automatic qualification. Wilson was nominated to the Team under Swimming Australia’s selection policy...

World ranked number one Kaylee McKeown has tonight continued on her record breaking way to this year's Tokyo Olympic Games - with Matthew Temple and Ariarne Titmus joining the record rush in a spectacular first hour of the final night of the Australian Trials in Adelaide. McKeown set a new  Commonwe...