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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...

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...

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...

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...

Ryan Lochte Reveals Details of Major Car Accident in November 2023: 'So Thankful' Six-time Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte has revealed that he suffered major injuries in a car accident last November while driving to pick up his children from school. Lochte, 39, told host Kyle Millis of the Athlet...

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...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 10: Gretchen Walsh, Torri Huske Trying to Hold Off International Rivals in 100 Fly 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 competi...

WADA-Appointed Independent Prosecutor Exonerates WADA in Chinese Doping Case The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced Tuesday that an independent prosecutor has cleared the organization of wrongdoing three years ago when the organization did not contest the decision of the China Anti-Doping Age...

Which Swimmers Are Heavy Favorites to Win Olympic Gold? Just two-and-a-half weeks remain until Olympic swimming begins, and there are plenty of races expected to come down to the wire in Paris. In the women's backstroke events, defending champion Kaylee McKeown of Australia will take on resurgent Am...

Ryan Held Makes Triumphant Olympic Return: 'Heartbreaking' Tokyo Miss Now 'Blessing in Disguise' He had missed making international teams before, finishing seventh in the 100 freestyle at the 2017 U.S. Nationals and missing the World Championships team by four hundredths before falling to eighth one...

How Lilla Bognar Nearly Pulled Off Medley Stunner at Olympic Trials With two lengths remaining in an Olympic Trials final, Lilla Bognar was sticking stubbornly close to the favorites. Katie Grimes and Emma Weyant had both captured international medals in the women's 400 IM, but this 17-year-old from...

Her Confidence Booming, Regan Smith Ready to Take On the World A joyous Regan Smith climbed out of the pool, a smile radiating pride, bliss and relief stressed across her face, and she raised her arms to an adoring crowd. For the first time in five years, since she was a 17-year-old breakout star wh...

Todd DeSorbo Focused on Creating 'Great Environment' for U.S. Olympic Team to 'Thrive' At the University of Virginia, there is no countdown clock mounted on pool deck to remind swimmers how soon are the Olympic Trials or Olympic Games. Head coach Todd DeSorbo typically reminds his team once a week, ...

Olympic Relay Analysis: United States, China Set For Men's Medley Rematch The American men have never lost the 400 medley relay at the Olympics. Only the 1980 Games, boycotted by the U.S. and several allies in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, saw another country standing atop the meda...

Olympic Relay Analysis: World-Record Breakers Give American Women a Medley Relay Advantage Three years ago at the Tokyo Olympics, the U.S. women were gunning for a relay win in their final chance, the 400 medley relay, but Cate Campbell out-swam American anchor Abbey Weitzeil to get to the wall 13-h...

Maximus Williamson, Alex Shackell Lead NISCA All-America Lists For 2023-2024 The National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association (NISCA) has posted its All-America lists for the 2023-2024 season, highlighting the top performances from around the country in high school swimming. While the women's l...

Olympic Relay Analysis: Dressel's Return Plus Young Sprint Stars Make American Men 400 Free Relay Favorites The United States has a complicated recent history with the men's 400 freestyle relay. The Americans had never lost the event in the Olympics before the start of the 21st century, but in four ...

Olympic Relay Analysis: Australian Women Favored For Fourth Straight 400 Free Relay Gold The last time Australia was not victorious in the women's 400 freestyle relay at a major international competition was 2017, when the United States won a tight World Championships final at a meet when Cate Campb...

Top 8 Performances of U.S. Olympic Trials: Gretchen Walsh, Regan Smith Lead Way With World Records Nine nights of swimming at Lucas Oil Stadium produced record-setting races in front of record-sized crowds, and by the end, the United States had assembled a team of 46 pool swimmers (20 female, 26 mal...