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Performance Boosters for Swimmers: What Can Help By Allie Clark and Wilson Josephson, Swimming World College Interns As a new season begins, we’ve taken a look at some interesting foods athletes have adopted as ways of getting the most out of their bodies. These super foods for swimmers may surprise...

2020s Vision - The Athlete Voice Libby Trickett, four-times Olympic champion, has called on politicians and sports leaders in her country to start putting athletes first as further threats of cuts in funding follow criticism that the Australian Institute of Sport has turned into the home not for pod...

Swimming World will publish a collection of coaching perspectives written by Alabama head swimming coach Dennis Pursley. This is the 12th installment of a series that will be rolled out throughout the coming months. PERFORMING UNDER PRESSURE Pressure—we have all experienced it. Do we welcome it, or ...

By Stephen Thomas SYDNEY — Klim Reclaims 50 fly World Record Michael Klim reclaimed his 50m fly Short Course world record from Swed Lars Frolander at a club meet at the Australian Institute of Sport pool Sunday. Klim took 0.08 seconds off the mark set by Frolander in March, at the World Short Course...

Swimming World will publish a collection of coaching perspectives written by Alabama head swimming coach Dennis Pursley. This is the 10th installment of a series that will be rolled out throughout the coming months. MENTAL TOUGHNESS IS A HABIT There is little dispute that mental toughness is a key c...

SYDNEY, Australia - 1996 Olympic silver medalist Scott Miller suffered another setback in his roller coaster swimming career when he withdrew from the Australian World Championship Trials. Miller hasn't competed in a major competition since his 100m butterfly silver medal at the 1996 Olympic Games. ...

The Soak - Swim News In Brief Collated weekly Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com The Week of April 20-26, 2020 Sat...

By Stephen Thomas SYDNEY, December 4. IN the hiatus that has followed the pressure and tension associated with the World Championships and Goodwill Games, many of Australia's leading swimmers have been using the opportunity to take some important 'dry land' matters in hand. Several have ...

By Belinda Dennett HOBART, Tasmania, Australia. March 27. EIGHTEEN-YEAR OLD Australian wonder boy, Ian Thorpe, destroyed the world record in the 200 meter freestyle with a time of 1:44.69, taking back the mark Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband snatched from him at last year's Sydney Olympics at...

By Steve Thomas Alex Popov, the Russian dual-double Olympic freestyle sprint Champion, sounded a clear warning to his rivals come September in Sydney, with a sizzling 21.99 seconds for the 50 free at the Russian National Championships. His time was the fifth fastest swim all-time over the distance a...

A test developed in Canberra to detect the banned super drug EPO is almost foolproof and could be ready in time for the Sydney Olympics, according to the Australian Institute of Sport. Initial trials show the chance of a faulty test is only one in 100,000, according to Allan Hahn, AIS head of physio...

By Stephen Thomas CANBERRA, Australia. April 11. OLYMPIC 200m butterfly silver and bronze medalist Petria Thomas took 0.07 off her previous Commonwealth short course mark to record 58.26 at the Eastern University Games in Canberra. After winning three gold, one silver and a bronze medal at the Austr...

By Ian Hanson SYDNEY, May 30. AUSTRALIAN Swimming is today mourning the loss of one of its greatest administrators, former Olympian, master coach and fierce anti-drugs campaigner Terry Gathercole, who died in Canberra this morning, aged 65. Gathercole, died of a heart attack after a long illness and...

By Stephen J Thomas MELBOURNE, Feb. 6. AUSTRALIAN Olympic and world champion, Michael Klim is to undergo a microscopic discectomy today - an operation that requires the removal of the fragment of the disc in his lumbar spine that is impinging on the sciatic nerve. Surgeons will also shave away bone ...

Swimming Australia’s High Performance team will receive a boost in the form of Canadian Olympic and Commonwealth Games gold medallist and former world record holder, Alex Baumann, who will take on a new role as Swimming Australia’s Chief Strategist, High Performance. The Chief Executive of High Perf...

By Stephen J. Thomas SYDNEY, May 14. IAN Thorpe continued to amaze the swimming world with another mighty performance in the semi-final of the 200m free tonight. His time, 1:45.69, slashed .31 of a second off the record he set at the Pan Pacific Championships last August. Unlike last night in the 40...

Scott Miller, the 1996 Olympic silver medalist in the 100m butterfly, has been dismissed from the AIS (Australian Institute of Sport) in Canberra, for fighting at a night club.

By Belinda Dennett HOBART, Tasmania, Australia. March 28. GEOFF Huegill, swimming out in lane two after foxing in his semi-final, stopped the clock at 52.23 to just out-touch Michael Klim by 0.11 seconds to defend his national 100m butterfly crown on night five of the Telstra Australian Swimming Cha...

Sydney, Australia - The Australian Government and the IOC announced they have reached an agreement in principle, pending approval by the IOC Executive Board, establishing a transparent and accountable results management system for the Sydney Olympic Games. The agreement, based on proposals offered b...

The Australian Dolphins Swim Team are turning challenges into opportunities as they leave nothing to chance in preparation for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. This week, at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra they are learning to race when they are normally asleep and to sleep in late, to repl...