Swimming: Big payday for swimmers

Many of the world's top swimming speedsters are lining up to compete for $US310,000 ($752,000) in cash prizes in the Novo Nordisk Sprint Cup on October 20 in New York.

Among the athletes committed to racing in what is billed as the biggest payday in swimming history are world recordholders Mark Foster (Britain), Inge De Bruijn (Netherlands), Roman Sloudnov (Russia), Ed Moses (US), Neil Walker (US), Therese Alshammar (Sweden) and Mark Warnecke and Sandra Voelker (Germany).

The competition will be between three teams - the United States, the European Union and the World.