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Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 3: Adam Peaty Eyeing 100 Breaststroke Three-Peat Against Qin Haiyang The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine days of competition. Before t...

Aussie Star Ariarne Titmus is Fitter, Faster and Fired Up For Paris Olympic Assault Ariarne Titmus is fitter, faster and as fired up as ever as Australia’s dual defending Olympic champion puts the finishing touches to her Paris Preparation with the Australian team at their French headquarters in Cha...

Olympic medalist Mitch Larkin has announced his retirement after nearly a quarter century in the sport that included a plethora of international medals. The Australian star made the announcement on social media: "They say all great things must eventually come to an end. As much as I wish this wasn’t...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 4: Katie Ledecky Seeks Historic Four-Peat in 800 Freestyle The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine days of competition. Before that, Swimm...

40 Years in the Making: The Evolution of Olympic Racing Suits from 1984 to 2024 Over the years, racing suits in the sport of swimming have evolved to continually push the boundaries of speed and efficiency. Initially, suits were simple, functional, and made from materials like Lycra and nylon. These...

5 Reasons Why 'Casual' Masters Swimming is Important Masters swimming is seen by many as a way to continue competing after high school and college. However, most Masters swimmers do not compete in meets. US Masters Swimming estimates that fewer than half of its members compete. Even though these swi...

On His Fifth Try, Dr. Jeremy Bagshaw Will See the Olympics Now Jeremy Bagshaw looked at the video board and wouldn’t let himself believe it at first. For five Olympic cycles, from a 16-year-old prodigy from British Columbia in 2008 to a 32-year-old medical school graduate who’d been to four World Ch...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 5: Caeleb Dressel Trying to Return to Gold-Medal Form in 100 Butterfly The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine days of competition. Before...

Manly Olympian Frank O’Neill, The First Australian To Break 60 seconds for 110 Yards and who taught Greta Garbo How To Swim, Dies Age 97 One of Australia’s oldest surviving Olympians and Commonwealth Games medallists, Frank O’Neill, has passed away peacefully at home in his beloved suburb of Manly,....

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 6: Summer McIntosh, Kaylee McKeown, Kate Douglass Conclude Individual Events With 200 IM Clash The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine day...

The Dolphin Kick Controversy of Kosuke Kitajima vs. Brendan Hansen The final of the 100 breaststroke at the 2004 Olympics in Athens was shrouded in controversy after Japan’s Kosuke Kitajima was shown performing an illegal dolphin kick on the way to defeating American Brendan Hansen. The move by Kita...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 7: Ryan Murphy, Thomas Ceccon Will Face Off Again in 100 Backstroke The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine days of competition. Before th...

Olympic Throwback: A Look Back at Australia's Epic Relay Triumph of 2000 and an Air Guitar Concert Ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Swimming World has been sharing features on some of the great Olympic races of the past. Today, we look at Australia's dynamic victory in the 400 freestyle rel...

Architectural Digest: Take a Look Inside the 2024 Olympics Aquatics Centre After the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials were a success in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the new facilities at the Paris Olympics will be other exciting places for competition. But, while the pool at trials was temporary, ...

Race Of the Century: When Two Stalwarts and a Rising Star Clashed For History (Video) The 200 freestyle had enough substance at the 2004 Olympics, thanks to a repeat clash between the Netherlands’ Pieter van den Hoogenband and Australia’s Ian Thorpe. But when Michael Phelps entered the fray, too, th...

Aussie Teens Receive Paris Presents Of A Lifetime as Lani Pallister and Mollie O'Callaghan Streamline Olympic Programs Two Australian teenagers,  surf lifesaving star Jamie Perkins and former child gymnastic protege Iona Anderson have been gifted Paris presents of a lifetime – with the revelation th...

Olympic Entries: Sarah Sjostrom Adds 100 Free, Summer McIntosh Drops 200 Free The official list of Olympic entries, released by World Aquatics on Friday, brought a couple of surprises in the Olympic programs of stars. Perhaps the biggest change is for Summer McIntosh. She is entered in the 400 frees...

Paris Olympic Entries: 4 Neutral Athletes, Kai Winkler Makes Switch to Germany World Aquatics on Friday released the official entry lists for the Paris Olympics, which brought a few last-minute surprises. In all, 854 swimmers will be in Paris – 463 male and 391 female. They represent 187 official co...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 8: Kristof Milak Trying to Rocket Past 200 Fly Field in Comeback The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine days of competition. Before that,...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 9: Could World Record Go Down in Men’s 400 Freestyle? The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine days of competition. Before that, Swimming W...