Swimming

Weeks before the Paris Olympics, World Aquatics confirms a US criminal investigation is underway into the cases of 23 Chinese swimmers who failed doping tests in 2021 but were allowed to continue competing. 

These desert lifeguards want more remote swimming pools to be reopened, revitalised, and maintained to unlock the many benefits they offer. 

Paralympic swimmer Jasmine Greenwood's life changed forever as a six-year-old after acquiring a brain injury.

A childhood brain injury left Jasmine Greenwood with left-side weakness and a tremor in her left hand and leg, now at 19 she's made the Australian Paralympic Swimming Team for a second time ahead of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games.

When Jack Cartwright lines up on the blocks at the Paris Olympic Games next month, a childhood dream inspired by his hometown swimming coach will be realised.

More than a week on from her emotional finale at the Australian Olympic Trials, swimming great Cate Campbell officially calls time on her stellar career.

Australia's swimmers laid down a marker at the Australian Swimming Trials in Brisbane, but in front of record crowds in Indianapolis, America's best have answered the call and, with a little extra incentive provided by a former Australian great, they are ready to go hard in Paris.

Australian star Kyle Chalmers will have his work cut out in Paris after Romanian David Popovici swims the third-fastest 100 metres freestyle of all time at the European Championships.

Kaylee McKeown goes from hunted to hunter at Paris 2024 Games after Regan Smith smashes her 100m backstroke world record at the US Olympic Trials.

French swimmer Rafael Fente-Damers pulled out the swim of his life to qualify for his home Olympic Games, but now he'll have to wait on the results of scans after appearing to dislocate his shoulder celebrating.

After failing to make the Australian Olympic swimming team for the Paris Games, Cody Simpson says he can resume his music career knowing he gave everything he had in the pool.

Only a day after Australia wrapped up its Olympic selection trials, American Gretchen Walsh breaks the world record for the women's 100 metres butterfly ahead of the Paris Games.

Australia will take a swimming squad to Paris filled with giants of the sport and with a goal of topping its Tokyo haul. For a team which has already tasted so much Olympic greatness, this will be its toughest challenge ever.

Last weekend, whilst swimming in what looked like a protected natural rock pool, I was pulled into a dangerous rip that was dumping onto a reef. My mind cleared as I slowed down and I thought: "So this is it. This is how people drown."

Strip away the dazzling lights, pounding music and enthralled crowds that have enjoyed the Australian Swimming Trials at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre and you’re left with something pretty stark: stories of personal tragedy, personal pain and personal glory.

Cate Campbell has put everything she had into swimming. After her career ended in heartbreak, her competitors showed her just how much she meant to them.

Contamination levels in the first eight days of June, after persistent heavy rain in Paris, showed bacteria such as E. coli and enterococci existed in the river beyond the limits judged safe for athletes.

Head coach Rohan Taylor says Australia's Olympic swimmers have to trust WADA and that his team "can only control what we can control" after another alleged positive test is reported.

Cate Campbell has reached the final of the 50 metres freestyle, giving her one last shot at making the Olympic swimming team for the Paris Games, as has pop-star turned swimmer Cody Simpson.

Cate Campbell's 16-year Olympic career could come to an end unless she pulls one last miracle swim out of the bag.

A defiant Mollie O'Callaghan and an overjoyed Shayna Jack book their spots in a dramatic 100m freestyle final at the Australian Swimming Trials.

In one of the highest-quality 100m freestyle fields in Australian swimming history, four-time Olympic gold medallist Cate Campbell misses out on making the final by just 0.01 seconds.

Kaylee McKeown has nudged the world record to the point of it wobbling precariously on the mantelpiece three times in three different events at the Australian Swimming Trials. And that's great news for Paris.

Olympic champion sprinter Kyle Chalmers reveals he is battling a degenerative back issue as he plots his path to another gold medal in Paris, while Kaylee McKeown falls agonisingly short of breaking her own world record in the women's 200m backstroke.

Emily Seebohm says she wants to show that it's possible for new mums to achieve their dreams after becoming mothers.