Mollie O’Callaghan beats nerves to win 100m freestyle showdown for the ages World champion sees off decorated field to seal Olympic slot as Australia’s greatest Olympian Emma McKeon misses out
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has lost her legal case against World Aquatics and any hopes of making next month’s Paris Olympics
Mollie O’Callaghan and Ariarne Titmus aim to get it just right in 200m freestyle showdown They’re good friends and training partners, but there can only be one winner at the Australian Olympic trials
Kaylee McKeown sends warning to Olympic rivals with second fastest 100m backstroke ever Australian world champion touched first in 57.41 at the swimming trials in Brisbane to qualify for the Paris Games
Quiet confidence as Australia’s swimmers bid to make history at Olympics The Dolphins came close to beating the Americans in Tokyo and belief is building that they can one better in Paris
Ariarne Titmus gears up for Olympics with second fastest 400m freestyle in history Freestyle queen Ariarne Titmus delivered an ominous message to her rivals at the Australian Olympic trials to qualify for the Paris Games
Olympic Games’ €1.4bn clean-up aims to get Parisians swimming in the Seine Organisers expect 75% of identified bacterial pollution will be gone by the time the starting gun fires for the open water events
David Wilkie obituary One of the greatest British swimmers who won gold in the 200m breaststroke at the Montreal Olympics in 1976
Gina Rinehart portrait saga: largesse comes at a peculiar cost for Australia’s swimmers To understand why some Olympians would go into bat for the mining magnate on a matter unrelated to the pool, one need only look at the financial hold she has over the sport
Olympic dreams in 3D: Australian swimmers turn to VR goggles in pursuit of Paris gold Australia’s swim team are using virtual reality to practice relay changeovers and cut fractions of a second off their times
‘The ambition is gold’: Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe target Olympic splash University students believe they can deliver Great Britain’s first-ever artistic swimming medals in Paris this summer
Will Yang: the Olympic swim hopeful bridging the gap between Australia and China After surgery on a tumour in his spine and despite recent ructions in the pool the powerhouse is fully focused on reaching Paris
UK water sports alliance calls on government to end ‘death-knell’ pollution British Rowing, British Triathlon and Swim England are among the sports demanding the government go ‘further and faster’ in tackling water pollution
Inside anti-doping’s civil war: anger and suspicion spill into the open A doping case involving Chinese swimmers has brought years of pent-up feeling into the public domain – and it shows no sign of stopping
Wada hits back at ‘damaging’ bias accusations over handling of China case Independent prosecutor Eric Cottier has been to appointed to look at the cases of 23 swimmers who were cleared of doping after positive tests in 2021