Pan Pacific Championships, Irvine, California, day 3 finals: Not at best but the best by a league, Michael Phelps produced a 50.86 championship-record victory to steam ahead at the helm of the 2010 world rankings as the sole sub-51 man

Pan Pacific Championships, Irvine, California, day 3 finals: Dana Vollmer got off the team bus and there was Andy Grant, her fiancee to bring surprise support that helped produce a 57.56 win over Magnuson, 57.95 and Coutts, 57.99

Pan Pacific Championships, Irvine, California, day 2 heats: wold champ Cesar Cielo (BRA) goes 49 flat for 11th in 100 free heats, but makes cut; Kitajima - 59.02 CR; Rickard scrapes in; Beisel, 4:34.04 CR 400IM; Phelps 3rd American, out of 400IM

Eamon Sullivan (AUS) plunges into 100m freestyle battle at Pan Pacific Championships today with a newly extended contract in tow: the 24-year-old sprint ace has signed up with Speedo for a fresh deal that takes him to May 2013

Pan Pacific Championships, Irvine, California, day 1 finals: Canadian Olympic bronze medallist and Chad La Tourette (USA) demolish struggling Olympic champion Ousamma Mellouli in 30-lap battle;

Pan Pacific Championships, Irvine, California, day 1 finals: Kate Ziegler on second-best time ever for distance crown ahead of Chloe Sutton and Katie Goldman

Pan Pacific Championships, Irvine, California, day 1 finals: World champions reinforce status, Schipper by 0.03sec over Teresa Crippen, Phelps 0.62sec ahead of Aussie Nick D'Arcy on his post-brawl-punishment return

Pan Pacific Championships, Irvine, California, day 1 heats: Ryan Lochte on 1:46.10 in 200 free and 53.69 in 100 back for two finals but gives up back berth to Aaron Peirsol; Allison Schmitt, 1:56.23 CR 200 free; Phelps, 1:55.23 season best 200 'fly

The Pan Pacific Championships get underway in Irvine, California today with a Phelpsless 200m freestyle for men and a 1,500m that offers a glimpse into the cauldron of 30-lappers, Olympic champ Ousamma Mellouli (TUN) hemmed in by danger

The European Championships just ended in Budapest will provide a spur for fast times at Pan Pacific Championships that get underway in Irvine, California, tomorrow, says Leigh Nugent, head coach to the Dolphins

The FINA approved suits lists is up and down like a yo-yo: June 22 - 476 suits; August 5 - 424 suits; August 13 - 558 suits; will that be it now for Shanghai 2011?

Singapore - Youth Olympics: This wasn’t a race. It was a scene, one that underscored just how much these Youth Olympic Games are for so many of the young competitors very much a journey.

Great expectations and how to handle them was the theme of the last Budapest team meeting for the only continental squad with its main long-course mission still ahead of it

European Championships, Budapest: France, Russia, Britain top the medals

European Championships, Budapest, day 7 finals; the French medley quartet takes last crown of the 2010 champs on Margaret Island in 3:31.32; Russian silver in 3:33.29; Dutch take breakthrough bronze in 3:33.99

European Championships, Budapest, day 7 finals; Russian touch a hand ahead of defending champions but one among them went off too soon

European Championships, Budapest, day 7 finals: after a tough call in the 800m free as an unrested swimmer, Olympic champ takes 400m crown ahead of Etienne (FRA) and Friis (DEN), on 4:05.40 and 4:07.10

European Championships, Budapest, day 7 finals: Hungarian crowd can hardly contain itself as Laszlo Cseh storms to 4;10.95 victory in the 400m IM to taken fourth crown in a row as Tamas Darnyi did before him; silver for Verraszto, bronze for Nevo

European Championships, Budapest, day 7 finals: Katinka Hosszu leads another Hungarian 1-2, in 2:06.71, with Zsuzsanna Jakabos taking silver in 2;07.06, bronze for Britain in 2:07.54 for Ellen Gandy

European Championships, Budapest, semi-finals, day 5: Swedish world champ wins crown by 0.08sec in 57.32 ahead of Fran Halsall (GBR), bronze going to Therese Alshammar (SWE), on 57.80