Mack Horton and Lilly King will be forever linked for their outspoken attack on dopers at the Rio Olympics. But there is an undeniable sadness that their Olympic exploits were lost amid the revolt.
Teenager Chalmers was fastest through to the finals, in a dramatic round of swimming heats.
The 24-year-old is adamant he has "nothing to prove" as the spectre of doping continues to rear its head at the pool.
The 400m gold medalist was back swimming again on Tuesday and thanked fellow swimmers like American Lilly King for supporting his stance against convicted dopers.
Australia has raised a complaint about swimmers and hockey players being called for early morning drug tests interrupting their sleep at the Rio Olympics.
French swimmer Camille Lacourt has taken a swipe at controversial Chinese swimmer Sun Yang, declaring: "he pisses purple".
The Olympics fancy themselves as the United Nations of sport, but this week would be described by foreign correspondents as a ticking time bomb.
In a stunning press conference, the American teenager joined Mack Horton on the anti-doping crusade, continuing her assault on rival Yulia Efimova and taking on the fastest man in America in the process.
Chinese swimmer Sun Yang says the pressure of his explosive slanging match with Australia's Mack Horton had taken its toll in the lead-up to his 200 metres freestyle triumph on night three at the Olympic Aquatic Centre, admitting he hadn't slept well since the dispute erupted.
The controversial Chinese swimmer claimed victory in the men's 200 metres freestyle on the third night at the pool in Rio.
Favourites for gold before the Olympics, the Brisbane pair had their dreams of gold medals skewered within 10 minutes on a tough night for the Australians at the Rio pool.
Australian world champion Mitch Larkin has been tipped out of a medal by 0.03 of a second in the 100 metres backstroke at the Olympic Aquatic Centre on Monday night.
Australia's backstroke world champion Emily Seebohm has finished seventh in the final of the women's 100m backstroke as Hungary's Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu claimed another gold medal in the Rio pool.
On his Australian Olympic team profile Brisbane's Grant Irvine cites Michael Phelps' haul of eight gold medals in Beijing as the sporting performance that inspires him the most.
For Australian backstrokers Mitch Larkin and Emily Seebohm, the climax of four years of work will unfold within the space of 10 minutes.
Bronte and Cate Campbell are as close as sisters can be ... until they race against each other.
Australia has flatly rejected calls for an apology over swimmer Mack Horton's controversial comments about Chinese swimmer Sun Yang.
The doping saga has boiled over at the Rio Olympics.
Did somebody say Olympic spirit? Umm, no. Instead, a squabble between Olympic swimmers has a whole lot of people in China saying a whole lot of other, not-so-podium-worthy things.
Not to be outdone by the Mack Horton, Sun Yang row the pooldeck in Rio is again heating up as US breaststroker Lilly King fired an anti-doping broadside at Russian world champion Yulia Efimova.
The American smashed her own 400m freestyle mark by nearly two seconds, while Britain's Adam Peaty and Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom also set world records.
Cam McEvoy says his relay swim has him primed for an assault on the 100m but a familiar foe stands in his way after Nathan Adrian guided the American men to gold in Rio.
Seebohm qualified seventh for the women's 100m backstroke final while fellow world champion Larkin was third fastest.
The hostile war of words between Australian Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton and his Chinese rival Sun Yang has boiled over again in Rio, as the pair prepare to face in the pool in the 1500 metres.
The 20-year-old has been attacked by China for branding Sun Yang a drug cheat. But his fellow swimmers are behind him.
Former America's Cup hero John Bertrand was the inspiration for the 20-year-old's deliberate pre-race psychological ploy.
The body's chief executive says Horton has its full support amid hysterical Chinese reactions, while the doping row is set to escalate at the Rio pool as controversial Russians begins to contend for medals.
Andrew Horton, the proud father of 400m freestyle gold medallist Mack, admitted he had no idea if his son had managed to win gold as his view in the last 15 metres of the race was blocked by the crowd in front of him.
Australia's 400m freestyle gold medallist Mack Horton has copped a barrage of abuse from Chinese swimming fans on social media in the wake of his sledge on rival Sun Yang.
Australia has qualified third fastest for today's final behind Russia and America, with Cameron McEvoy the star inclusion in a star-studded final that will also include American greats Michael Phelps and Nathan Adrian.
Like most of her career to date, the question is really only how much the American will win by.
The more Mack Horton and Sun Yang avoided contact - body, eye, incidental - the more of a contact sport this became.
Alicia Coutts has juggled her swimming career with pulling beers in Belconnen or caring for cats at the RSPCA.
Chinese sports fans and local media have turned on Australia's newest Olympic swimming sensation Mack Horton for calling home favourite Sun Yang a drug cheat.
One always had an Olympic dream, the other followed.
The new Olympic gold medallist has admitted his drug cheat comments about rival Sun Yang were part of a series of mind games to rattle China's deeply controversial former champion.
The women's 4x100 metres freestyle team's world record capped a great start to the Olympic meet for Australia.
Australia's champion women's 4x100 metres freestyle quartet have announced themselves as the country's greatest relay team with the second gold medal of a thrilling first night at the Olympic Aquatic Centre.
Mack Horton has backed up the talk to walk the walk, winning Australia's first gold medal of the Rio Olympic Games with a stirring victory in the 400m freestyle final over arch-rival Sun Yang.
The scene is set for an electrifying 400m freestyle final after Australian Mack Horton called out Chinese star Sun Yang as a doper after the pair were involved in a tense run-in at the training pool.
Miguel Duran Navia provided a feel-good moment on the first day of racing at the Olympic pool after he was given a reprieve after going in early off the blocks.
Australia's world-beating women's 4x100 metres freestyle relay team has laid down a formidable marker
A member of the 10-strong Refugee Olympic Team the teenager's story was already an inspiring one before she dove into the water on Saturday.
Not everyone can be over the moon at 'winning silver' at an Olympic Games, which is why our athletes deserve some slack at their most emotionally vulnerable moment.
Australians again risks being branded whingers after asking swimming officials to clean up the Rio Aquatics Centre warm-up pool over infection fears.
Night one at the pool stands to be about a women's relay team that can cement their place as Australia's greatest.
Gaurika Singh will go down as the youngest athlete of the 2016 Rio Olympics at 13 years and 255 days, but her place in history could have been vastly different had she not survived the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
For a nation surrounded by the deep blue, precious few really feel 'at home' encased in H2O. Those who do look like they were born to it.
Fairfax Media reports that the dual-Olympic champion was up to no good in the Olympic training pool went down like a lead balloon with Chinese officials, who insisted Sun Yang was on good terms with his Australian rivals.
Australia's rising distance star kept his composure after the controversial Chinese gold medalist Sun Yang tried to disrupt a session just days out from the start of the Games.
Her sister might think talk of failure in London is disrespectful, but the swim star says what happened at the last Olympics was the disaster the Australian swim team had to have
Michael Phelps, the most successful Olympian of all time, has offered a sobering admission as the Russian doping scandal continues to cloud the lead-up to the Rio Games
Nathan Adrian, the defending Olympic champion in the 100m freestyle, says McEvoy could be the first man to smash the 47-second barrier outside of the supersuit era.
The sight of Emily Seebohm bawling her eyes out pool-side did provide a fairly convincing argument. But Australia's dual world champion backstroker says she doesn't want to be the poster girl for social media bans at Rio.
Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky and friends have hit town and this time, Australia's swimmers are ready for the challenge of shaping up to Team USA.
The Australian sprint hope has done a fine job of tuning out Olympic distractions and even a seismic Russian doping scandal can't change his focus.
Swimming's world governing body FINA has allowed Russian swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Nikita Lobintsev to compete at the Rio Olympics, TASS news agency quoted their lawyer Artyom Patsev as saying on Tuesday.
Do you know the way to the centre of the universe?
Legendary Australian swimming coach and the country's oldest Olympian, Forbes Carlile, has died at age 95.
Australia's swimmers have arrived in Rio ready to kick start the country's Olympic campaign and happily unburdened by medal pressure from coaches.
Teen diver Brittany O'Brien was one of the last to know about her 11th hour call-up to compete in the Rio Olympics.
A bearded James Magnussen stood on the blocks, took a deep breath, swung his arms in the air and launched himself like a long jumper, feet first into Auburn University's indoor pool.
Cate Campbell says it's unfair and disrespectful for her Rio-bound swim team to be repeatedly reminded about the disastrous London Olympics.
If Australia once rode on the sheep's back, the nation's Olympic gold medal hopes traditionally weigh heavily on the shoulders of our swimmers.
Seven Russian swimmers have been barred from the Rio Olympics, including three linked to recent allegations of a major doping cover-up by Russian authorities, world swimming's governing body FINA said on Monday.
It is with great pride that Michael Phelps claims he will answer anything. It does not matter how raw or how personal the question, he says, he will give you a reply and he will not sugar-coat it.
The time difference this year is unforgiving but these Olympic hopefuls will make the late nights and early mornings worth the effort.
Swimmer Cameron McEvoy will reportedly pull out of the 200m freestyle at the Rio Olympics to focus on Australia's relay teams.
Matthew Abood will have a "million things" running through his head when he enters the Olympic village in Rio.
The times say Australia could be in for a medal windfall in the Rio pool but experts and former greats have sounded a note of caution as the US giant gets ready to rise in Brazil.
The star sprinter's blistering efforts in Brisbane over the weekend couldn't have arrived at a better time for a pre-Olympic campaign punctuated by controversy and bitter feuds between athletes and officials.
Cate Campbell became the fastest woman to ever grace the pool, then celebrated with a quote from Cool Runnings, as she blasted her way into the records books.
Forget her rivals, Cate Campbell expects her stunning 100m freestyle world record to fire up her sister Bronte the most ahead of the Rio Olympics.
American superstar Missy Franklin has failed to make the cut for the 100m backstroke, removing one more hurdle for Emily Seebohm as she tries to go one better than London 2012.
Australia's newest distance star knows his nation wants 1500m gold but says the 400m, an event he's grown to love, has become a major focus ahead of the Olympic Games.
Michael Phelps edged old foe Ryan Lochte in a pulsating 200 metres individual medley showdown at the US Olympic trials on Friday, adding another thrilling chapter to the greatest rivalry in swimming.
London silver medallist clocked his fastest 100m freestyle time in over a year at the Rio Farewell Grand Prix in an encouraging sign for Australia's sprint relay team.
Australia's sprint gun Cameron McEvoy is officially on a collision course with close friend and defending Olympic champion Nathan Adrian after the American booked his spot in Rio with victory at the US trials.
The world champion continues to battle with a shoulder injury as she rounds out her preparations for the Olympic Games with a two-day meet in Brisbane.
Michael Phelps, the most decorated athlete in Olympic history, will become the first male swimmer to compete in five Summer Games.
The first event of the US Olympic swimming trials produced a stunning outcome as an injured Ryan Lochte failed to qualify for the Rio team in an event he won at the 2012 London Games.
The Dolphins look set to make a splash in the Rio Olympic pool after a record-breaking Jessica Ashwood sparked a podium charge at the Santa Clara Pro Swim meet in California on Monday (AEDT).
Petria Thomas says officials must find the balance between traditional sports and attracting new fans to the Olympics.
Australian swimming coach Scott Volkers, who was investigated for alleged sexual abuse in the 1980s, has been banned from the Rio Games by the Brazilian Olympic Committee.
Ning Zetao, who beat McEvoy to the world title, has a drug ban on his record but McEvoy says he will focus solely on the clean water in his lane at the Rio pool.
Michael Phelps became a father on Thursday when his fiancee Nicole Johnson gave birth to a boy, the Olympic swimming champion announced on Instagram.
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