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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

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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.

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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.

ABC News

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.

AAP

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’

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

She is among 39 athletes selected.

Newcastle Herald

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’

The Guardian - AU

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 - UK

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’

The Guardian - AU

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

The fuck is this shit?

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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.

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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.

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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.

AAP

McKeon wins top Swimming Australia award

Emma McKeon and her coach Michael Bohl have won the major gongs at Swimming Australia's awards night.

AAP

Stockwell new Swimming Australia president

Three-times Olympic champion and respected sports administrator Tracy Stockwell has been named Kieran Perkins' successor as president of Swimming Australia.

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The Guardian - AU

Should Australia’s major sports stars really be defined by fossil fuel companies trying to look good?

What is the cost to athletes and sports of accepting money from an influential denier of global warming? And what is the cost to our planet?

AFP

Swimming Australia vows change, apologises over abuse

Melbourne (AFP) - Swimming Australia looks set to ban skin-fold tests and the term "physique" while unreservedly apologising Friday for the way women have been treated in the sport.

ABC News

The Loop: Swimming Australia's apology, reactions to WA backflip, Adele's residency delayed

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The Guardian - AU

Swimming Australia report calls for skinfold test ban and female coach quota

Internal review commissioned after series of allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct makes 46 recommendations for improvements

ABC News

Swimming Australia releases findings of report on treatment of women and girls

An independent panel was established in June last year after Olympic silver medallist Maddie Groves withdrew from Tokyo Olympic trials.

AAP

No quick fix to swimming's culture issues

Swimming Australia president Kieren Perkins says the organisation will deliver on 46 recommendations made by a review into the sport's abusive culture.

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