Sycerika McMahon has qualified for the women's 100m freestyle at May's European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.

Two Irish records have been broken in the morning heats on day three of the Irish Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials at the National Aquatics Centre.

One of Irish swimming’s oldest records fell on day three of the Irish Long Course Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials, as 20-year-old Bethany Carson slipped under Michelle Smith’s 100m butterfly mark from 1996.

Ian Thorpe has confirmed he will come out of retirement and return to international swimming in a bid to compete at the 2012 London Olympics.

Tyson Gay’s dreams of competing for a 100 meters and 200m double in Beijing ended dramatically today when he fell during his 200m quarter-final at the US Olympic Team Track & Field Trials.

Athens gold medal favourite Allen Johnson just scraped into the USA team at the Olympic Trials in Sacramento.

Sonia O’Sullivan also produced a marvellous performance against reigning World 10,000m champion Berhane Adere in their BUPA 5,000m confrontation at today’s Balmoral Road Races..

ED MOSES, the greatest 400 metre hurdler in sporting history, has announced that he is making a return to the track - at the tender age of 48.

THEY MAY have been jousting there for the last two months, jostling, sandbagging and sprinting to see whose latest boat has the edge, and whose despite the millions invested in research and development may yet be ‘off the pace’, but the real 2002/3 America’s Cup story starts to unfold in earnest next Tuesday.