An in-competition test that resulted in Asmaa Kataria's suspension shows the need for Africa to now be included in the out-of-competition regime that many improving nations of the continent have so far avoided
As the Brazilian sprinter prepares to fight her case in CAS, more news of bad practice emerges from events that took place at the Pan Am Games in Rio in July
The world distance freestyle champion continued her record-breaking ways at the Toyota Minnesota Grand Prix on Saturday, setting a Minnesota pool record in 4:35.00 over 500 yards short-course
The Hungarian Olympic champion is said to have refused to submit to an out-of-competition test on October 30. However, she did produce a sample and the evidence appears to point to incompetence on behalf of testers
The Olympic 100m free champion is quitting Canberra in a return to Brisbane in search of fresh motivation for her campiagn to defend her crown in Beijing
One of the few who could stop the Phelps Express notched up a couple of wins in his first race outing since July, though the yard results are somewhat lost in translation to the rest of the world
The first day of action in Russia was largely a domestic meet, through the 100m freestyle saw Stefan Nystrand, of Sweden, get the better of Australia's Eamon Sullivan, 46.60 to 47.09
A scandal is brewing that will rock not only Brazilian swimming but may require the intervention of FINA under rules that hold doctors, coaches and others responsible in doping cases where darkness is found to lurk
Finland's first female world champion has escaped the dark days and plummeting temperatures of winter in Helsinki for the balmy climes of an Aussie spring as she prepares for the Battle of Beijing
Is it right to continue to question the reputation of Thorpe?; Italy susends waterpolo player; Brazil's anti-doping experts knock down Gusmão arguments
Australia is working towards setting up an offshore sports hub in Singapore to provide a state-of-the-art outpost in Asia for its elite athletes; pitch can be floated out into bay and flooded to create temporary aqautics facility
In race practice at two s/c events in Europe, sprinters have been testing themselves ahead of a season that holds European s/c championships, European l/c championships, world s/c championships and the one that will count for more than all of those put to