"Duel in the Pool" - Hello Europe, Goodbye Australia.

From the Sydney Morning Herald: "A proposed swimming competition between the United States and Europe is set to sound the death knell on the Australia-USA Duel in the Pool meets. ..." [Link]

What is really cool is that they would use the London 2012 pool.

Australia would like to be invited but it is coyly suggested that Europe is not so keen on English speaking countries handing them their bum in each event.

I would love to see Laure Manaudou and Kate Ziegler have an excuse to race each other; or Natalie Coughlin against Laure Manaudou in the 200 back. Then there is Filippo Magnini, Cullen Jones, Brent Hayden*, and Alain Bernard in the 100 free. (Phelps can go race the fishes in the Mariana Trench)

(*We secretly let Canada come too.)