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Swimming Australia’s next generation of swimming stars will receive a major boost to their development pathway and future swimming careers thanks to the Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) NextGEN squad support grant. Following on from the impressive results at the 2015 Georgina Hope Sw...

By Katrina Beikoff SYDNEY, Oct. 10. SWIMMING superstar Ian Thorpe will become the new face of Japanese television and launch an international range of Thorpedo toys, clothes and action figures in a series of massive new deals that will earn the 18-year-old more than AUS$10 million (US$5 million). Th...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, June 26. THE USA Women's Senior National Team will head to Kirishi, Russia to compete in the Kirishi Cup this July 1-5. USA Head Coach Adam Krikorianhas assembled a roster featuring many of the athletes that helped the United States to gold at the recent FINA World Leag...

By Craig Lord FUKUOKA, Japan, July 25. AUSTRALIANS were in a spin over the suggestion that Ian Thorpe clones may one day come back to haunt them if the Olympic champion's DNA were ever stolen to create aquatic Frankensteins to rival his immense aquatic talent. When the subject of what the next b...

BRISBANE, Australia. Aug. 29. THE US women won 10 events and posted nine second- and nine third-place finishes to defeat the European All-Stars, 82-67, in the opening dual meet of the Goodwill Games swimming competition at the Chandler Aquatic Centre in Cleveland, a suburb of Brisbane. The American ...

SYDNEY, May 4 (Reuters) - A top Australian swimmer who smashed her kneecaps in a car crash just two months ago has been cleared to compete in next week's Olympic trials after completing a remarkable recovery. Lori Munz seemed certain to miss the Australian national championships at the Sydney In...

SYDNEY, Australia, April 8. IN a story more reminiscent of a former rock star who hits rock bottom in terms of substance abuse and the subsequent health issues that arise from that lifestyle, Ian Thorpe's 2014 became even more dramatic today according to various media reports. First, Network Seven r...

By Ian Thorpe Sept. 22. WE have now all seen the horrific pictures from New York and America, spoken to friends and family about this terrible tragedy and had a tiny amount of time to ponder the inconceivable. I experienced New York. I'm not happy about the fact that I'm able to write about ...

SYDNEY, Oct 9 (Reuters) - AUSTRALIAN triple gold medalist Ian Thorpe, 17, is flying to New York hoping to appear in the sitcom, "Friends." According to Thorpe's manager, Dave Flaskas, Australian model Elle Macpherson, who has appeared in a cameo role in the sitcom, has offered to help the swimme...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, March 7. A delegation of three USA Swimming officials traveled to the Gold Coast in Australia recently to visit the site of the facility that will host this summer's Pan Pacific swimming championships, and returned with rave reviews. "I've got a lot of confidence in Austr...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, May 14. USA Men's Senior National Team Head Coach Dejan Udovicic has announced the roster for the upcoming FINA Men's Intercontinental Qualification Tournament. The event, set for May 26-31 in Shanghai, China, will serve as a qualifier for the FINA World League Super Fi...

SYDNEY, Australia, April 30. AUSTRALIAN superstar Ian Thorpe has left the hospital after a three-week stay following a serious infection stemming from shoulder surgery, multiple media outlets including an AFP report. Although his manager downplayed reports about the potential lose of the use of his ...

By Greg Buckle SYDNEY, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Australia's dual gold medalist Kieren Perkins was officially reprimanded on Tuesday for calling American Gary Hall a "drugs cheat" as tension rose between the two nations set to dominate the Olympic swimming competition. Australian Olympic Committee pres...

By Ian Hanson MELBOURNE, Oct. 23. OLYMPIC gold medalists Michael Klim and Grant Hackett and backstroke wonderboy Matt Welsh have been joined by national age group star Ashley Anderson and comeback queen Lori Munz on the Telstra Dolphins Australian swimming team for the FINA World Cup in Melbourne, D...

By Ian Hanson CANBERRA, July 14. DUAL Olympian and former Olympic bronze medalist Karen Stephenson (nee Moras) will lead an Australian Swimming team into 2008 Olympic city, Beijing, for the 2001 World University Summer Games in September. The 1968 Olympic bronze medalist over 400m freestyle and form...

By Ian Hanson and Belinda Dennett HOBART, March 31. TWENTY-SIX members of Australia's 2000 Olympic team have won selection in the 44-strong Telstra Dolphins Australian team to contest this year's World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan in July. Heading the list are individual Olympic ...

By Hideki Mochizuki TOKYO, April 23. THE JAPANESE Swimming Federation announced today the team roster for World Championships. Twenty men and 19 women were selected for the World Champsionships. After the turmoil surrounding the federation's decision last year not to select Suzu Chiba--the natio...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, March 13. USA Swimming today announced the staff selected to guide next month’s National Junior Team Camp, which is slated for April 9-13 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. The aim of the annual camp is to identify elite 18-and-under swimmers and int...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, January 28. THE USA Men's Senior National Team will kick off their 2014 competition schedule with a visit to Sznolnok, Hungary to take part in the Volvo Cup this February. Team USA will meet Serbia, Germany, and Hungary in three matches from February 7-9. Head Coach Dej...

Photo by Andrew Weber-USA TODAY Sports HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, August 5. USA Women's Senior National Team Head Coach Adam Krikorian has announced the 13 athletes that will compete for Team USA at the upcoming FINA World Cup. The event is set for this August 12-17 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia whe...