Swimming

Risking all for a bite at record

BRITISH-AUSTRALIAN swimmer, Penny Palfrey, has launched a historic attempt to swim unassisted from Cuba to the US, seeking to become the first do so without a shark cage.

Aussie fails in Cuba-US swim bid

Australian marathon swimmer Penny Palfrey's bid to swim from Cuba to the United States has ended in failure after she called it quits 43kms short.

Aussie grandmother set for Cuba-Florida swim

British-Australian swimmer Penny Palfrey will on Friday launch a historic attempt to swim across the shark-infested waters from Cuba to the United States, but bad weather could affect her plans.

Swimming

Poort gets a call-up to Games

Michael Cowley, Sydney You won't find Jarrod Poort's face in the traditional Australian swimming team photograph taken at the conclusion of the Olympic selection trials in Adelaide in March.

Olympics

Whooping cough outbreak forces Roberts to relocate

Chris Wilson OLYMPIC medal prospect James Roberts has been forced from his accommodation at the Australian Institute of Sport to protect him from a whooping cough outbreak at the Canberra campus, but he and the AIS swim squad will continue training at the institute.

Whooping cough scare disrupts swimmers

Liam FitzGibbon Australian head swimming coach Leigh Nugent says the squad's Olympic preparations are on track despite a health scare forcing him to call off a meet.

Swimming

Olympic swim meeting cancelled over whooping cough scare

AAP The Australian swim team's final Olympic warm-up meet in Canberra has been cancelled after two members of the women's water polo and a coach contracted whooping cough.

Swimmers support tough love: Green

Paul Mulvey Australia's Olympic chef de mission Nick Green says the punishment handed out to Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk has not divided the swimming team.

Olympics

Duo's Olympic ban for the good of the team: Green

Samantha Lane Australia's new chef de mission has confessed he agonised over the toughest decision of his tenure but is adamant D'Arcy remains a worthy team member.

Swimming

Medals, not guns, the main game: Rickard

Samantha Lane The disapproval of Australian swimmers over the handling of Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk has not subsided, despite the pair being spared further punishment in the gun photo affair.

Skylarking D'Arcy, Monk accept punishment

Jim Morton Controversial swimmers Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk have banned themselves from social media before and during the Olympic Games.

Katter comes out blazing for 'sporting heroes' D'Arcy and Monk

Bob Katter says Australia's "thought police have gone too far" in pillorying our Olympic swimmers for being pictured with legal firearms.

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Team bosses return fire in gun controversy

Olympic organisers have defended their decision to sanction Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk over their gun pose controversy.

Swimming

Red faces for swim officials as new gun pictures emerge

Samantha Lane Embarrassing double standard exposed as Swimming Australia - now facing pressure from dissenting London-bound athletes - is today set to sanction Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk over the weapon photo saga.

Olympics

Rifle range bonding session reveals Olympic double standard

Samantha Lane IN 2007, the Australian swimming team went to a Canberra shooting range as a team-bonding session.

Swimming

An Olympic-sized apology?

David Polkinghorne Under-siege swimmer Kenrick Monk has defended his controversial photo with Nick D’Arcy as ‘‘just a bit of fun’’ after the pair met with Swimming Australia officials in Brisbane today.

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Eamon Sullivan backs gun-pose teammates

Eamon Sullivan has backed his team-mates Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk over their gun-pose controversy.

'Dumb and dumber' to be sent home early from London

Dominic Bossi Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk will be sent home from the London Olympics immediately after the final day of the swimming events as punishment for posting inappropriate images on social network sites this week.

D'Arcy and Monk: Australia's Dumb and Dumber

Peter FitzSimons Let's cut to the chase of the photos posted on Facebook by two Olympic swim team members- Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk - posing in a California gun shop with heavy weight pistols and shotguns.

D'Arcy and Monk apologise for gun photos

Paul Mulvey Olympic swimming hopes Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk have flown back to Australia and apologised for the controversial gun photos.

Hold your fire: D'Arcy, Monk sorry for 'fun' gun photos

Marissa Calligeros Olympic swimmer Nick D’Arcy has apologised after posting a photograph of himself and fellow competitor Kenrick Monk posing with guns on Facebook.

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Hot shots in trouble over gun photo

Georgina Robinson LONDON-BOUND swimmers Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk are being investigated by Swimming Australia after posting online ''foolish'' photos of each other posing with weapons in the US.

Swimmers D'Arcy and Monk in guns photos

Paul Mulvey Swimmers Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk have been ordered to remove Facebook photos of themselves posing with high powered guns.

Olympics

D'Arcy and Monk fire up Swimming Australia with gun photo

GEORGINA ROBINSON Two bad boys of Australian swimming are in hot water again for posting online photos of themselves posing in a gun shop in the United States.

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US not only threat, says Magnussen

GEORGINA ROBINSON The much-hyped rivalry between the Australian and US men's 4x100 metres freestyle relay teams is overrated, world champion James Magnussen says.