Afternoon edition: Why Australia’s go lden swim team could soon face Russian treatm ent

Email Australia’s champion swimmers are facing the humiliating possibility of competing at future international events as ‘neutrals’, like Russian and Belarusian athletes, as Swimming Australia faces expulsion from the world’s governing body.

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