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WAIS swimmer Rhys Mainstone has finished a courageous sixth at the 2010 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in Canada in the 5km event, just days after bouncing back from hypothermia.

WAIS volleyball athlete Tara West has switched the court for the sand at the Oceania Beach Volleyball Championships.

Goal shooter and WAIS scholarship holder Ellie Smart has been announced in the Australian 19/Under netball team that is playing a series of matches against New Zealand 21/Under and England 19/Under at the AIS this week.

AIS-WAIS cyclist Sarah Kent has sent another update from sunny Holland, describing her trials and tribulations as she continues her rehab from injury.

The Aussie Sharks failed to add to their trophy cabinet, losing 9-7 to world No Three Croatia in the play-off for bronze at the men's water polo FINA World League Super Finals in Nis, Serbia this week.

WAIS swimmer Rhys Mainstone was forced to withdraw from the FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in Roberval, Canada after cold >

Western Australian Institute of Sport IASP scholarship holder Nicholas Kidd has been included in the ten member Australian badminton team to compete at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games.

The all-new Australian Spark will this week step onto the world stage to launch its seven-day all-Aussie assault on the 13th IAAF world junior championships in Moncton, Canada, where the world's top emerging track and field athletes will vie for 132 medals across 44 events.

WAIS javelin thrower Kim Mickle knows just about better than anyone the ups and downs of being an elite athlete. The 2010 national champion caught up with WAIS reporter Rory Campbell to describe her journey and the up coming Commonwealth Games.

World champion WAIS pole vaulter Steve Hooker and Dani Samuels will tomorrow night lead a three-pronged Aussie attack in Round 9 of the IAAF Diamond League series, the two world title-holders to be joined on the Paris leg of the 14-meet tour by comeback king Jarrod Bannister.