Between 50 and 75 lifeguard instructors will be on watch where you might least expect to see them next summer: the US Olympic trials.

'I was glad when it was over but, you know, it's not really over yet and it never will be. My name is forever tarnished' - Olympic champion and 400m world record holder

Will she, or won't she? The Beijing programme lends itself to the 400m free champion having a crack at four laps on backstroke at the end of her workload

Steffen, Pietsch, Schäfer, Deibler, Rupprath, Meeuw and Biedermann lead the DSV's medal hopes in Debrecen next month

The FINA World Cup winners were followed by Nystrand and Pereira and Coughlin and Veldhuis

After nationals end in Essen, Germany has at its disposal a full and strong team for the European s/c championships in Debrecen, Hungary, next month.

The sprint contenders are piling up but Hayden is among those prepared to stick with a longer build-up before firing any rockets, times in Toronto suggest

Belo Horizonte indeed: $100,000 pay day comes into view for globetrotters Therese Alshammar and Randal Bal

Janine Pietsch takes down European record 50 back in 26.92; Steffen Deibler clocks 47.23 100 free for two records in a day; Helge Meeuw blasts 1:51.51 200 back; Britta Steffen swims 1:55.07

A sprint storm is brewing: the Swede is setting a new sprint pace early in Olympic season - and his rivals are happy to have him shoulder the pressure; Hayden clocks a 49.32 at Bell Grand Prix in Toronto

There was nothing left in Laure Manaudou's tank at the end of the 800m freestyle at the French Cup in Montpellier (long-course) and Coralie Balmy seized the day

Two days at the German s/c nationals have produced solid performances from some of those aiming for a faster moment in Debrecen next month

Swimming Canada and Speedo will pay its swimmers $50,000 for a gold, $10,000 for a silver and $5,000 for a bronze at the Beijing Olympic Games

At 86, Sydney grandad John Gwillim has just got home after seven years on a swimming marathon: he covered one million metres

Just about anyone likely to make the Olympic team will race at the first global champs to be held in Britain since the 1948 Olympic Games in London; Foster makes GB comeback at 37

Good news for the health of the Olympic champion that the condition has been picked up - but how did it take them so long, one wonders

A campaign to get every child in New Zealand to be able to swim 200 metres confidently by the age of 12 has been backed by the scouting movement, which reaches 14,000 children a year

Brooke Hanson, winner of a record six world s/c titles at Indianapolis 2004 in the wake of a silver medal the Olympic Games over 100m breaststroke and a relay gold, has retired

Honours for the man who knocked down two Thorpe standards, swam faster over 200m 'fy than Mark Spitz raced on freestyle and covered 400 medley just shy of the world record time in which USA won the inaugural Olympic 4x100m medley title in 1960

What Nystrand, Velhuis and other stars of the Berlin FINA World Cup showcase had to say