• Chris Barrett
• 43 mins ago

The younger of the Campbell sisters placed fourth in the 100m freestyle final, missing a medal by 0.05 second.

• Chris Dutton
• 1 hr ago

Olympic Games swimming legend Michael Phelps created another slice of history by winning his 22nd gold medal on Friday, but a Canadian commentator's case of mistaken identity sent the internet into meltdown.

• Phil Lutton

Cate and Bronte Campbell's Olympic dreams have been shattered in a dramatic final of the 100m freestyle, with both sisters missing a medal.

• Chris Barrett

The 22-year-old's underwhelming individual campaign came to an end on the sixth night at the Olympic Aquatic Centre when he failed to reach the final of the 50m freestyle.

• Childs Walker

Michael Phelps has won the Olympic 200 metres individual medley to capture the 22nd gold medal of his career and become the first swimmer to win the same event at four consecutive Games.

• Michael Chammas

Mitch Larkin didn't get the gold medal he was after, but it was Emily Seebohm who failed to fire the most after missing out on the finals of the 200m backstroke.

Australian Cameron McEvoy has missed the cut for the 50m freestyle final at the Rio Olympics.

• Michael Chammas

Australian head swim coach Jacco Verhaeren wasn't always sure if gold medal winner Kyle Chalmers would be a sensation in the pool, but he knew AFL wasn't capable of catapulting him to stardom.

• Megan Levy

Kyle Chalmers is being feted online for his stunning performance in the swimming pool at the Olympics this week.

• Chris Barrett

Amid suggestions of illness Verhaeren said the pre-event favourite had simply bottled it on the big occasion in the 100m final.

• Phil Lutton

One teenager has already taken out the world's best. Now Cate Campbell and sister Bronte will try to ensure it doesn't happen to them as a clear and present danger emerges from the pack.

The man dubbed "Robel the whale" has an explanation for his painfully slow swim in the 100m freestyle in Rio.

• Laine Clark

Before each race, Kyle Chalmers had a little ritual.

• Stathi Paxinos, Emma Quayle

He's got a big record collection, he had to pick between footy and swimming, and his dad got into a bit of trouble for sending a fax, once upon a time.

• Phil Lutton

The Adelaide teenager elected to pursue swimming over Australian Rules Football. A stunning gold in the Rio pool would vindicate that decision as Chalmers shook up the big guns of sprinting to claim an history gold medal.

• Chris Barrett

The 21-year-old from Brisbane fought bravely in the 200m butterfly final only to be beaten to the wall fractionally by Spain's Mireia Belmonte Garcia.

• Daniel Cherny

Inspired by compatriot Mack Horton's win over Sun Yang, Australian Taylor McKeown wants to follow in his footsteps and strike a blow for clean sport by beating controversial Russian Yulia Efimova in Thursday night's 200m breaststroke final.

• Andrew Webster

He had been favourite to win the 100m in the pool for the past year. But in the end the 22-year-old physics student had no answers for his seventh placing.

• Phil Lutton

At just 16, Canada's Penny Oleksiak has thrown down the gauntet to Cate and Bronte Campbell ahead of the 100m freestyle final at the Rio Games.

• Daniel Cherny

A tear was shed on Monday night, but then Mitch Larkin put the disappointment of his 100m backstroke near miss to bed, and locked in on securing gold in Thursday night's 200m backstroke final.

• Phil Lutton

Kyle Chalmers has stunned the swimming world. The Adelaide 18-year-old has come from the clouds to upset the superstars of men's sprinting and take a famous gold medal in the 100m freestyle final.

• Daniel Cherny

Mitch Larkin put on a brave face in the immediate aftermath of the 100m backstroke on Monday night, but behind the scenes things were different.

• Jonathan Levin and Tariq Panja

In the every-millisecond-counts world of Olympic swimming, the US swimming team has an unlikely partner in its quest for gold.

• Darren Kane

It's dangerous and foolhardy to tarnish Sun Yang with the same brush as other drug cheats.

• Megan Levy

Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui clinched the bronze medal 100m backstroke final, but has struck gold with fans across her home country with her hilarious/lively post-race interviews.

• Chris Barrett

The Brisbane 21-year-old will start in lane four at the Olympic Aquatic Centre on night five of swimming finals in Rio.

• Michael Chammas

Australian water polo players have complained of stinging and teary eyes after another Olympic pool turned green at the Rio games on Wednesday morning.

• Phil Lutton

FINA may not be able to tell the sprint sisters apart but Cate Campbell has set the bar high for the 100m freestyle, with Bronte Campbell comfortably through to the semi-finals in eighth spot.

• Phil Lutton

Teenager Chalmers was fastest through to the finals, in a dramatic round of swimming heats.

• Phil Lutton

The scene has been set: America versus Australia versus Australia. Cameron McEvoy has company in his quest to win the 100m freestyle crown, with teenager Kyle Chalmers preparing to crash the party in Rio.

• Chris Barrett

The relieved Australian collected her second medal of the Games in the 200m freestyle.

• Malcolm Knox

Careers such as Michael Phelps's span eras. He began racing Ian Thorpe and now races Mack Horton. Tide goes in, tide goes out, Phelps endures.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Chris Barrett

The 24-year-old is adamant he has "nothing to prove" as the spectre of doping continues to rear its head at the pool.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Samantha Lane

Australia has raised a complaint about swimmers and hockey players being called for early morning drug tests interrupting their sleep at the Rio Olympics.

• Michael Chammas

French swimmer Camille Lacourt has taken a swipe at controversial Chinese swimmer Sun Yang, declaring: "he pisses purple".

• ANALYSIS
• Greg Baum

The Olympics fancy themselves as the United Nations of sport, but this week would be described by foreign correspondents as a ticking time bomb.

• Phil Lutton, Chris Barrett

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.

• Chris Barrett and Philip Wen

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.

• Reuters

The controversial Chinese swimmer claimed victory in the men's 200 metres freestyle on the third night at the pool in Rio.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Chris Barrett

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.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Chris Barrett

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.

• Phil Lutton

For Australian backstrokers Mitch Larkin and Emily Seebohm, the climax of four years of work will unfold within the space of 10 minutes.

• Andrew Webster

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.

• ANALYSIS
• Andrew Webster

The doping saga has boiled over at the Rio Olympics.

• Emily Rauhala

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.

• Chris Barrett

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.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Chris Barrett

Seebohm qualified seventh for the women's 100m backstroke final while fellow world champion Larkin was third fastest.

• COMMENT
• Andrew Webster

The 20-year-old has been attacked by China for branding Sun Yang a drug cheat. But his fellow swimmers are behind him.

• Megan Levy

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.

• Chris Barrett

Former America's Cup hero John Bertrand was the inspiration for the 20-year-old's deliberate pre-race psychological ploy.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Patrick Bartley

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.

• Scott Spits

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.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Chris Barrett

Like most of her career to date, the question is really only how much the American will win by.

• Greg Baum

The more Mack Horton and Sun Yang avoided contact - body, eye, incidental - the more of a contact sport this became.

• Chris Dutton

Alicia Coutts has juggled her swimming career with pulling beers in Belconnen or caring for cats at the RSPCA.

• Philip Wen

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.

• Holly Ferling

One always had an Olympic dream, the other followed.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Chris Barrett

The women's 4x100 metres freestyle team's world record capped a great start to the Olympic meet for Australia.

• Chris Barrett

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.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Chris Barrett

Australia's world-beating women's 4x100 metres freestyle relay team has laid down a formidable marker

• Chris Barrett

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.

• COMMENT
• Phil Lutton

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.

• Phil Lutton

Night one at the pool stands to be about a women's relay team that can cement their place as Australia's greatest.

• Michael Chammas

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.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Andrew Webster

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

• Chris Barrett

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

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Phil Lutton

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.

• Andrew Webster

Do you know the way to the centre of the universe?

• Tom Decent

Legendary Australian swimming coach and the country's oldest Olympian, Forbes Carlile, has died at age 95.

• Melissa Woods

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.

• Peter Mitchell

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.

• Peter Mitchell

Cate Campbell says it's unfair and disrespectful for her Rio-bound swim team to be repeatedly reminded about the disastrous London Olympics.

• Roy Masters

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.

• Emily Smith

The time difference this year is unforgiving but these Olympic hopefuls will make the late nights and early mornings worth the effort.