Australia poke US bear to ramp up swimming rivalry for Olympic Games | Nicole Jeffery

Old comments have been recycled to fire up the American team before the two nations vie for supremacy in the Paris pool

Cowbells. Australia's Olympic swimmers could be hearing them in their sleep, and definitely will be hearing them in their waking hours at the Paris Olympic pool, after the US-Australian rivalry ignited this week.

Comments that Australia's former sprint queen Cate Campbell made last year about the sweetness of beating the US team and their infernal cowbell" were the talk of the US swimming trials that finished in Indianapolis earlier this week.