Australia has announced a team of 40 for the Pan Pacific Championships in Canada in August but Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett, Libby Lenton and Leisel Jones are not among them.

As such, there will be no clash between Michael Phelps, Thorpe and Hackett over 200 metres freestyle, no battle between Jones and the likes of Tara Kirk, Megan Jendrick, Jessica Hardy and other US breaststroke specialists.

Melbourne in March 2007 and a home world championships a year and a bit out from Beijing 2008 will doubtless have played a role in the decisions of Thorpe and Co.

The four-day Pan Pac meet takes place at the Saanich Commonwealth Pool, Victoria, Canada from August 17-20. Australia will take 26 of its Commonwealth Games team to Canada. Head coach Alan Thompson described his Pan Pacs squad as a mix of experienced internationals and emerging talent.

"This is an exciting blend of experience and youth and those swimmers on their first or second teams will greatly benefit from being on a team with so many Olympians and long serving team members," said Thompson.

Meanwhile, coach Stephan Widmer has appealed to the Australian public through his national media for the return of logbooks charting the work of Leisel Jones to be returned to him after they were stolen from his car.

The logbooks chart Jones's daily progress and training programmes for the past 14 months. Widmer, 39, was at a fund-raising event in Brisbane last Wednesday night when a thief struck, taking a bag containing the logbooks.

There was more bad news for Jones, who claimed two world records at Australia's Commonwealth Games trials last week: she has lost one of her records - but don't panic - no-one has gone a 2:19 200m breaststroke just yet.

Jones has lost a record she set 10 years ago at the Burpengary Swimming Club. The girls' 9 year-olds 200m freestyle record had stood to the former Tullawong State High School student in 3min 17sec since 1995. Little Josephine Hungerford confined that to the dustbin of sporting stats with a 3min 04.17sec.

The Australia team for the Pan Pacific Championships

Men: Leith Brodie, Nick Ffrost, Casey Flouch, Trent Grimsey, Ephraim Hannant, Josh Krogh, Andrew Lauterstein, Adam Lucas, Kurtis MacGillivary, Andrew Mewing, Kenrick Monk, Travis Nederpelt, Adam Pine, Andrew Richards, Brenton Rickard, Ethan Rolff, Cameron Smith, Hayden Stoeckel, Eamon Sullivan, Matt Welsh
Women: Frances Adcock, Bronte Barratt, Lara Carroll, Jade Edmistone, Michelle Engelsman, Joanna Fargus, Melissa Gorman, Elka Graham, Brooke Hanson, Sarah Katsoulis, Linda MacKenzie, Kylie Palmer, Sarah Paton, Shayne Reese, Jennifer Reilly, Stephanie Rice, Jessicah Schipper, Melanie Schlanger, Caroline South, Kelly Stubbins