Read moreParis Olympics: Zhang Yufei Denies Wrongdoing in First Public Comments Since Positive Test News27 July 2024Paris Olympics: Zhang Yufei Denies Wrongdoing in First Public Comments Since Positive Test News For the first time since she was named among 23 Chinese swimmers who tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) in 2021, Zhang Yufei has spoken to reporters and claimed inculpability, blaming her positive te...
Read moreParis Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: Pan Zhanle Anchors in 46.98 to Give China Top Seed in Men's 400 Free Relay27 July 2024Paris Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: Pan Zhanle Anchors in 46.98 to Give China Top Seed in Men's 400 Free Relay A dramatic finish is the norm in an Olympic final of the men's 400 freestyle relay. Think back to Australia beating the United States for the first time ever in this event in 2000 or South Afric...
Read moreParis Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: Behind Emma McKeon, Australia Chasing Another 400 Free Relay Title; Sarah Sjostrom Sizzles27 July 2024Paris Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: Behind Emma McKeon, Australia Marching Toward Fourth Straight Gold in 400 Free Relay The Australian charge toward a fourth consecutive Olympic title in the women's 400-meter freestyle relay is looking like a formality, as the Dolphins comfortably notched the top seed f...
Read moreParis Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: Lukas Martens Tops 400 Free Qualifying After Flirting With World-Record Pace27 July 2024Paris Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: Lukas Martens Tops 400 Free Qualifying After Flirting With World-Record Pace Three minutes, forty seconds: that is the barrier pushed but never surpassed in the men's 400 freestyle, even if swimmers have been reaching for that time for more than a decade. Ian Thorpe tw...
Read moreParis Olympics: Sarah Bacon, Kassidy Cook Claim Synchro Silver for First U.S. Medal27 July 2024Paris Olympics: Sarah Bacon, Kassidy Cook Claim Synchro Silver for First U.S. Medal The first American medal of the 2024 Paris Olympics belongs to Sarah Bacon and Kassidy Cook. The U.S. 3-meter women’s synchro pair kicked off Paris with silver in the event at the Paris Aquatics Centre, the first med...
Read moreParis Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: Caspar Corbeau Heads 100m Breaststroke Ahead Of Adam Peaty; Qin Haiyang Through In Ninth27 July 2024Paris Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: Caspar Corbeau Heads 100m Breaststroke Ahead Of Adam Peaty; Qin Haiyang Ninth Adam Peaty safely navigated the 100m breaststroke as he seeks to make more history although it was Caspar Corbeau who headed the prelims at La Defense Arena. Peaty will join Michael Phelps in...
Read moreParis Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: As Next Version of Race of the Century Looms, Katie Ledecky and Ariarne Titmus Pace 400 Freestyle27 July 2024Paris Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: As Next Version of Race of the Century Looms, Katie Ledecky and Ariarne Titmus Pace 400 Freestyle Version 2.0 of the Race of the Century started to take shape on Saturday morning, as the preliminaries of the women’s 400-meter freestyle set the stage for an epic final a...
Read moreParis Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: Zhang Yufei Leads Quick 100 Fly Prelims27 July 2024Paris Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: Zhang Yufei Leads Quick 100 Fly Prelims The class of Olympic medal contenders runs pretty deep in the women’s 100 butterfly. Morning prelims at the La Defense Arena in Paris did little to separate them. Zhang Yufei led the way in prelims with a time of 56.50 seconds, b...
Read more1Paris Olympics, Day 1: Kate Douglass, Emma McKeon Get Morning Relay Swims27 July 2024Paris Olympics, Day 1: Kate Douglass, Emma McKeon Get Morning Relay Swims The battle in the women’s 400 free relay on the opening day of the Paris Olympics Saturday will likely come down to the United States and Australia. The morning appetizer between them features plenty of big names, and the men’...
Read moreBella Sims, Grant House Impress in 200 Freestyle at Speedo Summer Championships27 July 2024Bella Sims, Grant House Impress in 200 Freestyle at Speedo Summer Championships After finishing shy of their 2024 Olympic ambitions at last month's U.S. Olympic Trials, Bella Sims and Grant House each swam the 200 freestyle Friday evening at the Speedo Summer Championships in Irvine, Calif., and pos...
Read moreFlorent Manaudou & Tom Daley Among Flagbearers At Opening Ceremony Of Paris 202426 July 2024Florent Manaudou & Tom Daley Among Flagbearers At Opening Ceremony Of Paris 2024 Florent Manaudou and Tom Daley were among the flagbearers for France and Great Britain at the Opening Ceremony of Paris 2024. Manaudou won 50 free gold on his Olympic debut at London 2012, taking silver in the two subse...
Read moreOlympics: Heat Sheets Posted For All Eight Days of Swimming Prelims26 July 2024Olympics: Heat Sheets Posted For All Eight Days of Swimming Prelims The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the first six events of preliminary heats: the women's 100 butterfly, women's 400 freestyle, men's 100 breaststroke, men's 400 freestyle, women's 400 freestyle rela...
Read moreTom Dean: Racing Smart Key To 4x2 Success & Time For 'Something Special' In The Sprint Freestyle26 July 2024Tom Dean: Racing Smart Key To 4x2 Success & Time For 'Something Special' In the 4x100 Free Tom Dean says one of the key factors in Great Britain’s continued 4x200 free success is “executing a smart race.” Since James Guy anchored the quartet to victory at the 2015 worlds in Kazan, Russia, Great Brit...
Read more1Olympics Mini Feature: Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O'Callaghan a Dangerous Duo for Australia26 July 2024Olympics Mini Feature: Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O'Callaghan a Dangerous Duo for Australia Ariarne Titmus, 23, outdueled Katie Ledecky for Olympic gold in the 400 free three years ago in Tokyo before overtaking Siobhan Haughey to win the 200 free. In the last year, Titmus has broken world records in...
Read moreDiver Brandon Loschiavo Added to Paris Olympics on Eve of Games26 July 2024Diver Brandon Loschiavo Added to Paris Olympics on Eve of Games Brandon Loschiavo has been added to Team USA’s roster for diving just a day before the Paris Olympics start. Loschiavo got the word Thursday that the U.S. would get an additional quota spot for men’s 10-meter after a last-minute withdra...
Read moreGretchen Walsh to Make High-Stakes Olympic Debut26 July 2024Gretchen Walsh to Make High-Stakes Olympic Debut Three years ago, Gretchen Walsh watched from back in the United States as older sister Alex raced for an Olympic medal in the women's 200 IM. Alex led that final with 50 meters remaining before taking silver behind Yui Ohashi. Now, as Gretchen and Ale...
Read moreJillian Cox Among Three Repeat Winners at Speedo Summer Championships26 July 2024Jillian Cox Among Three Repeat Winners at Speedo Summer Championships During the middle night of racing at the Speedo Summer Championships in Irvine, Calif., three highly-regarded swimmers won their second individual event apiece of the meet. Texas' Jillian Cox pulled away for a win in the women's 4...
Read moreOlympics Mini Feature: Kaylee McKeown-Regan Smith Rivalry Set for Next Chapter25 July 2024Olympics Mini Feature: Kaylee McKeown-Regan Smith Rivalry Set for Next Chapter A scroll through the all-time performances list for women’s backstroke tells a simple story: Kaylee McKeown and Regan Smith have been dominant. How about these stats? McKeown and Smith account for the 15-fastest marks in ...
Read more1Is Caeleb Dressel Confident in Clean Olympics? 'No, Not Really'25 July 2024Is Caeleb Dressel Confident in Clean Olympics? 'No, Not Really' Within the last three months, accomplished international swimmers have heavily criticized the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and World Aquatics for a lack of transparency after 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine in e...
Read moreOlympic Swimming Predictions, Day 8: Can Katie Ledecky Accomplish Four-Peat in 800 Freestyle?25 July 2024Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 8: Can Katie Ledecky Accomplish Four-Peat in 800 Freestyle? After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 184 co...