The Olympic 200m free champion is covering 18km a day in training, and in the midst of it clocked 8:32.26 and 16:24.03 over 800m and 1,500m within 2 hours at a meet in Bordeaux
World record holders Michael Phelps, Aaron Peirsol, Ryan Lochte, Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker, Natalie Coughlin, Katie Hoff and Kate Ziegler are set to make the Missouri Grand Prix sizzle
In conjunction with the European Union's Erasmus project, the swimming body has helped to develop an online Game that promotes European Languages: the winner will get a ticket to the Beijing Olympics
The top African team at the FINA world s/c championships in England in April will include Olympic relay gold medallists Roland Schoeman, Ryk Neethling and Lyndon Ferns, and team captain Gerhard Zandberg.
The doctor at the centre of the controversy that led to the suspension of Rebeca Gusmao had given official warning in 2003 that swimming was starting to show a level of positive tests higher than the national average across all sports in Brazil
David Davies, the Olympic and world bronze medallist over 1,500m freestyle for Britain, has taken a stroke towards joining pool rival Grant Hackett (AUS) for the inaugural 10km thrash in Beijing with an impressive victory in South Africa, in 1:53:58.00
The key exceptions were Zhang Lin and Zhu Qianwei. Early February, and a 3:45.04 over 400 free; Zhu Qianwei, 17, improves from 2:00.65 to 1:58.90 to defeat Lurz
Just four world records have fallen on that rarest of days, the 29th, among them the last stand of Dawn Fraser, who holds the record for setting global standards in the second month of the year - at lucky 8
Brazil this week finds itself half way to having the whole nation removed from international competition under rules governing numbers of fouls within a country in any one year
The National team Head Coach and mentor to 1996 Olympic medallist Paul Palmer and current Commonwealth champions Ross Davenport and David Carry is the second senior coaching figure to leave Britain in Olympic season; Turner to be director with North Shore