Zimbabwe's Coventry defends title in backstroke

Coventry successfuly defended her title at the 2008 Olympics. I managed to catch this on CBC's olympic coverage last night on the only channel i have.  this woman's face was so composed the entire time i was completely impressed. "With the wider world waiting for Michael...

"When I wear it, I feel like an action hero."

"Behind the battle for Beijing berths at the US Olympic swimming trials another conflict was simmering: The swimsuit wars. Speedo's sensational new LZR Racer has taken swimming by storm, playing a role in 19 of 20 long course records set this year. "For me, wearing the...

Zimbabwean sets swimming world record

Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwe’s most successful Olympian has now set a new world record in the 200 backstroke Kirsty set the record at the Missouri Grand Prix on Saturday the 16th February and the new time to beat is two minutes 6.39 seconds. She finished more than four seconds...

Americans take all at Melbourne swimming...or almost all

On a golden night in the pool for the Americans, no one was better than Michael Phelps. He became the first man in history to go under 1 minute, 44 seconds in the 200-meter freestyle at the world championships, breaking Ian Thorpe's revered world record on the home turf of...

Phelps Sets 200m Freestyle Record

Ian Thorpe has barely hung up his goggles before Oz's American arch-rivals make their move, led by Michael Phelps. "Phelps’s time of 1 minute 43.86 seconds took two tenths of a second off the record Thorpe, the Australian freestyler who retired last year, set in the 2001...