SYDNEY  - Australia's world championship selection trials begin in Adelaide on Friday as fallout from last year's mediocre performance in the pool at the London Olympics continues to haunt the team.In the eight months since the nation's worst Olympics swimming medal tally in 20 years a massive ...

LONDON - Double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington announced Tuesday her retirement from competitive swimming at the age of 23. The popular Briton won two gold medals at the Beijing Games in 2008 but could only muster two bronze medals at London 2012 as the host nation's swimmers managed a ...

Justine Henins hopes of a fifth French Open title vanished with a 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 fourth-round defeat by Australian seventh seed Sam Stosur on Monday. Henin, a four-time champion returning to the game after a 20-month stint in retirement, looked set to canter through after sealing the opening set in ...