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The Latest Breaking News from Swimming Australia

O'Callaghan shades Titmus in red-hot 200m freestyle

Mollie O'Callaghan has beaten Olympic champ Ariarne Titmus in the women's 200m freestyle final, with both crushing the swimming world championship trial time.

AAP

Swimming Australia CEO Eugenie Buckley resigns with immediate effect

Swimming Australia is searching for another new chief executive after Eugenie Buckley resigned from her post with immediate effect on Friday

The Guardian - AU

Chief executive Buckley quits Swimming Australia post

Just over a year out from the Paris Olympics, Swimming Australia has lost another leader with chief executive Eugenie Buckley announcing her resignation.

AAP

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Deadly Little Dolphins program looks to find Australia's next First Nations Olympic or Paralympic swimming champion

Australia has historically lacked First Nations representation in the Olympic pool — but this program is looking to change that by Brisbane 2032.

ABC News

Paralympian Karni Liddell fears severely disabled swimmers are being edged out of the Games

A former captain of the Australian Paralympic swimming team says an athlete like her probably wouldn't make the squad today, because swimmers with milder impairments are getting opportunities ahead of those with severe disabilities.

ABC News

Swimming Australia calls for new acquatics centre to be legacy of Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games

The current plan for swimming events at the Games involves a drop-in pool at the planned Brisbane Live entertainment arena to be built at Roma Street, with $2.5 billion in funding from the federal government.

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Australia appoints two head coaches for para-swim team

Australia's para-swimmers will have two head coaches for the first time with Kate Sparkes and Harley Connolly to lead the team to this year's world titles.

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Olympic medallist Alicia Coutts dissatisfied with Swimming Australia's approach to addressing disordered eating

Three-time Olympian Alicia Coutts says she doubts Swimming Australia's new guidelines on disordered eating will be effective unless the organisation is fully committed to their implementation.

ABC News

As an elite athlete, Cate Campbell struggled to manage her period. She wants more awareness of women's health issues

Champion swimmer Cate Campbell has spent her career trying to manage troublesome periods. But the elite athlete felt she had no-one to turn to for advice — and it came at a significant cost.

ABC News

The seven questions that preceded Hancock Prospecting’s decision to cut netball ties

As the stand-off between Hancock Prospecting and netball players rolled on, Tracey Holmes put several questions to the mining giants

ABC News

Chalmers' dad says Swim Aust failed Kyle

The father of Kyle Chalmers, Australia's Commonwealth Games 100m freestyle champion, says Swimming Australia should have done more to protect his son.

AAP

I didn't use banned drug: banished swimmer

Swimmer Isaac Cooper says he didn't take a banned substance when being kicked off Australia's Commonwealth Games team.

AAP

Australia axe Commonwealth Games swimmer for 'use of medication'

Sydney (AFP) - Commonwealth Games medal hope Isaac Cooper was on Wednesday axed from Australia's swim team and sent home over "wellbeing challenges, including the use of medication".

AFP

Australian swimmer Isaac Cooper to miss Commonwealth Games for disciplinary reasons after being sent home from camp

Cooper had been set to make his Games debut in four events — the 50m and 100m backstroke, 50m butterfly and 50m freestyle.

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Swimmer Cooper banished from Comm Games

Australia's champion backstroker Isaac Cooper has been sent home from a pre-Commonwealth Games camp for misusing a medication.

The Guardian - AU

Transgender swimming ban: Cate Campbell backs Fina restrictions

Australia’s Olympic champion has supported the vote as Maddie Groves calls the policy shift ‘discriminatory and unscientific’

Newcastle Herald

Abbey Harkin named in Australian swim team for world titles and Commonwealth Games

She is among 39 athletes selected.

The Guardian - AU

Emily Seebohm condemns ‘horrific’ transphobic billboard that uses her image without permission

Olympic swimmer says election message promoted by rightwing lobby group Advance ‘is just awful to me’

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Morning mail: lobby group under fire for trans billboard, old China trip sparks new dispute, Elon Musk buys Twitter

Tuesday: AOC and Swimming Australia threaten legal action over billboards claiming ‘women’s sport is not for men’. Plus: the world’s richest man now owns Twitter

The Guardian - AU

AOC and Swimming Australia threaten legal action over billboards claiming ‘women’s sport is not for men’

Conservative lobby group uses images of elite swimmers in ads targeting ‘woke politicians’ but Emily Seebohm says Advance acted ‘without my consent’

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Swimming Australia Has Condemned The Demonic Anti-Trans Billboard Going Around Sydney

The fuck is this shit?

ABC News

Olympian Emma McKeon says rules allowing transgender athletes to compete need to be 'fair'

Australia's most decorated Olympian says it is unfair for "biologically male" swimmers to compete against female athletes.

ABC News

Australian swimmers to face United States rivals as Duel in the Pool returns

Australia and the US will meet in the revived Duel in the Pool event, 22 years since the infamous "smash them like guitars" comment sparked a flashpoint in their rivalry at the Sydney Olympics.

AAP

Dolphins signal changing of swim guard

Swimming Australia have named a group to lead the team to Paris 2024, replacing Mitch Larkin, Bronte and Cate Campbell, who may not appear at the event.

ABC News

Katya dreamed of swimming for Olympic gold but says 'toxic masculinity' caused her to quit the sport

As Swimming Australia begins implementing reforms to do better for female athletes, a former promising national junior swimmer alleges she was bullied, harassed and victimised by her coach in an experience that led her to leave the sport.

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