When the Australians say they are not swimming well, that's when you must worry.

Is the manned Chinese program something to worry about? Not really. Nobody has really come up with a military argument about man in space, which is not the same thing to say about the Chinese space program as a whole, which has clear military implications.

You don't swim 1:46 consistently unless you're in good shape.

Thorpe said they were bad swims, but for anyone else, that's a world-class performance ... Thorpe has been below 1:46 only four or five times in his life.

I'll believe it when I see Thorpe in the stands watching his own races.

They've done it with Grant Hackett [Australia's long-distance star] too many times for me to believe them.