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VALETTA, Malta, July 8. IF Anthony Ervin is he "next Alex Popov," who's the next Anthony Ervin? How about Croatia's Duje Draganja. The 18-year-old Croat, playfully dubbed the "swimming Goran Ivansevic" by teammates in honor of the latter's victory at Wimbledon, won his second and third g...

By Ian Hanson BRISBANE, May. 7. DOUG FROST, the man who has guided Ian Thorpe to the top of the international swimming heap, was tonight awarded international coaching’s highest accolade when he was named the World Swimming Coaches Association Coach of the Quadrennium on Australia's Gold Coast. ...

VALETTA, Malta, July 5. THE opening day of the European Junior Championships got off to a fast start here today when Great Britan's James Goddard went a blistering 4:19.30 to win the 400 IM. Blistering? Well, how 'bout these numbers? Goddard's time is a four-second improvement over his o...

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 22. THE national champion University of Texas men's team announced the signing of three top high school athletes for the 2000-2001 season: swimmers Andrew Davidson and Rainer Kendrick, along with diver Jonathan Linette. Joining the Longhorns next year will be swimmers Andrew ...

By Thephen J. Thomas SYDNEY, May 18 – The final of the women’s 200m breaststroke saw a quality field battle for only two places on the Olympic team. Former world record-holder, Rebecca Brown, was the fastest qualifier. In the finals, she led the field for the first half of the race with dual Olympia...

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, Jan. 12. AFTER a pair of outstanding early-season swims by Grant Hackett during the first three days of the Queensland Open and Age Group Championships at the Chandler Aqauatic Centre here earlier in the week, Thursday's and Friday's' competition has been more low ke...

By Ian Hanson OSAKA, may 20. RISING Australian swimming star Leigh McBean will take another major step towards realising his sporting dreams when he dives into the Osaka Pool tomorrow on day one of the 2001 East Asian Games. McBean, 19, has been one of Australian Swimming’s quiet achievers in his qu...

1996 Olympic silver medalist, Paul Palmer will withdraw from the 1998 Commonwealth Games because of illness. The Commonwealth Games Council for England said Palmer was suffering from muscle fatigue syndrome.

By Stephen J. Thomas PERTH, Australia, Jan. 30. AUSTRALIAN Olympic and world champion, Bill Kirby has announced his retirement from international swimming after nine years as a regular member of the Australian National Swimming Team. In a successful career, Kirby was part of six world record relay t...

Organizers of the 1998 Commonwealth Games, to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September, are taking a rather tough stand on illegal drugs. Any athlete caught in the possession of illegal drugs will face the death penalty. Tunku Maziah Mukhtar, a Games official, pledged there would "no compromis...

By Ian Hanson BRISBANE, QLD., Australia, March 19. IAN Thorpe and Grant Hackett will lead a new-look Australian men's 4x200m relay team into the Commonwealth Games in Manchester in July and into the future after an intriguing 200m freestyle final on night two of the Telstra Australian Swimming C...

By Ian Hanson OSAKA, Japan. May 22. AUSTRALIAN Swimming’s proud tradition in the men’s 4x200 meter freestyle relay continued in awesome fashion tonight when a team of three young guns joined Olympian Rob Van Der Zant to record Australia’s first win of the Games in the fastest time in the world this ...

By Phillip Whitten SYDNEY, Feb 26. LOOK out Lenny, 'cause here come Da Thorpedo! Yes, folks, you read that right. Australia's 19 year-old Boy Wonder, Ian Thorpe, is seriously entertaining the idea of expanding his swimming horizons and entering the backstroke in a bid to win a record seven g...

By Stephen J. Thomas MELBOURNE, Australia. August 28. THE majority of the competitors had just come down from intense training so times at this weekend's Melbourne Grand Prix--the final tune-up before the Olympic Games open in less than three weeks--should not be taken at face value. However, as...