Sport
Swimming
Sun Yang faces lifetime ban as WADA appeals over 'smashed vial of blood'
WADA elects to challenge FINA decision to let controversial swimming champion Sun Yang walk free after he allegedly smashed a vial of blood with a hammer during a drug test.
- by Phil Lutton
Latest
Rebel race league perfectly timed for comeback queen Campbell
Bronte Campbell believes the new International Swimming League could be a perfect springboard into an Olympic campaign after she was selected as part of the London franchise for the rebel competition.
- by Phil Lutton
Top Australians line up for big-money breakaway swimming league
Some of Australian swimming's biggest names have hit the jackpot after being chosen for a London team that will feature in a lucrative breakaway league.
Flashback
From the Archives: Why Ian Thorpe had to quit
On March 7, 2006, Ian Thorpe confirmed the worst fears of Commonwealth Games organisers when illness robbed the Melbourne event of its biggest drawcard.
- by John Huxley
Swimming
Campbell sisters get official nod to lead Dolphins towards Tokyo 2020
Cate and Bronte Campbell, along with Mitch Larkin, Alex Graham and Jess Hansen, have been unveiled as Australian swimming's athlete leaders ahead of the World Championships and Tokyo Olympics.
- by Phil Lutton
ACT sport
New swim club stokes Hayley Baker's Olympic dream
Tracey Menzies and Hayley Baker wanted to stay in Canberra. They just needed an avenue to make it happen.
- by Caden Helmers
ACT sport
University of Canberra dives into another sporting frontier
Coaching great Tracey Menzies will be unveiled as the head coach of the newly-launched swim club.
- by Caden Helmers
Opinion
Water safety
The chore that most parents start too early
Everyone acknowledges the importance of swimming lessons for children, but we're starting - and stopping - too early.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Swimming
How Dean Boxall rose to be one of swimming's new rockstar coaches
The mentor of Ariarne Titmus never did fit the mould. But neither did the man he's been compared to since he started weaving his magic around the pool.
- by Phil Lutton
Olympics
Sun the king of drama as Chinese star swims through endless controversy
Despised by some of his peers, idolised by an adoring nation, Sun Yang continues to be one of the most-polarising Olympic athletes after his latest doping saga.
- by Phil Lutton
Chinese swim body backs Sun Yang following explosive report
Chinese swimming's governing body has rubbished a British newspaper report which claims Sun Yang smashed a vial of blood during a clash with drug testers.
- by Laine Clark