Could this be the night when a British woman sets a medley world record; can Markus Rogan burst through his string of silver linings for a rare global gold; will Ryan Lochte prompt the biggest bout of sulking among breaststroke aces we've ever seen?

FINA President calls for celebration of athletes not suits; FINA to meet coaches to discuss the cluttered calendar; attack on Olympic Torch and 'attack on Olympism'

There is a new twist to the suit story today: Mizuno has joined the swim suit race and has produced a garment that Japan's double Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima described as 'sensational'

Thoughts on progress, change and the suitability of conditions, rules and processes for a modern professional era that is pulling the world of swimming into the future with an irresistible force. Better that the sport prepare itself

The USA head coach knows his job: produce the fastest swim team in the world. To that end he has one message on the suit - 'my advice to athletes is: you have a black and white decision - the money or the gold medal'

FINA today adopted the new Omega starting block for use after the 2008 Olympic Games and used it as a platform from which to dive in as the first international sports federation to take on board the newest version of the WADA Code

As part of our package on the debate about suits in advance of the meeting between FINA and suitmakers on Saturday, here are the rules of the game

South African squad caught in chaos at Heathrow, connection missed, training nightmare. Hopefully it'll be sorted by London 2012 ...

Ryan Lochte is down to race the 50m freestyle, 200 backstroke, 50 and 100m breaststroke, 100, 200 and 400 medley - and relays. His progress is sure to be monitored closely by Michigan control

Brazilian sprinter clocks 48.34 national record at Ohio grand prix to confine superfish to silver - but then Phelps did go faster than he ever has, at 48.41

The floodgates have opened to a generation of sub-minute women 100m backstrokers but the woman who led the way is planning for the next push

Swimming South Africa will send 22 swimmers to Beijing for the Olympic Games after trials ended on Sunday in Durban

Squad chosen at the end of an extraordinary seven days of trials in Sheffield that witnessed 1 world, two European, eight Commonwealth and 24 British records broken

Medley world champion continues to clock world-class times mid-season on her way to a Beijing blast; Vanderkaay races to 3:44.41 400m freestyle; Coughlin goes 2:10.88 medley in Palo Alto

Ten Canadian records later and 27 swimmers head to Beijing to represent Canada at this summer's Olympic Games. One new swimmer was added tonight: 15 year old Lindsay Seemann won the 200 back in yet another PB

The issues involving the Speedo LZR Racer are heavily focussed on buoyancy, which is actually the least of what the suit is doing, according to some of the world's leading experts on fabric performance. More of that later. Here's FINA's statement

Olympic champion Yana Klochkova's European and former world record is no more: Hannah Miley clocks 4:33.24 at Britain's Olympic trials in Sheffield

400m and 800m champion adds 200m to British record list with a 4sec improvement that unfolded in her first appearance in a Speedo LZR Racer

There are men and women in this world who keep alive the lore of the sport that we love. They came no better than Buck Dawson, the ISHOF founder who has passed away

One million people swimming on 5th April