swimming
-
BUDAPEST, Hungary—Canadian 15-year-old Summer McIntosh won another gold medal and Italy pipped the United States to the men’s 4×100 medley relay title on the last night ...
-
BUDAPEST—American Hunter Armstrong won gold in the men’s 50m backstroke in a dramatic finish at the world championships in Budapest on Saturday after compatriot Justin Ress ...
-
BUDAPEST, Hungary—Katie Ledecky extended her record haul of medals from the world swimming championships to 22 with her latest 800-meter freestyle win on Friday. Ledecky clocked ...
-
FINA, the world’s swimming governing body, has adopted a new gender policy. It effectively bars any male who identifies as female from competing in female competitions—unless ...
-
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says some China tariffs from the Trump era serve no strategic purpose. Does it signal the end of some of them, ...
-
The governing body for international swimming approved new policies for transgender swimmers that will go into effect starting on June 20. In a notice (pdf) on ...
-
USA Swimming official Cynthia Millen has resigned in protest over the participation of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in women's competitions, saying in the resignation letter she ...
-
Visitors at a Paris aquarium were met with an unusual sight Thursday. A professional diver dressed as Santa Claus delighted children and adults alike.
-
TOKYO—Make it five for Caeleb Dressel. The American star won his fifth gold medal of the Tokyo Games, finishing off one of the great performances in ...
-
TOKYO—U.S. swimmer Caeleb Dressel will be going for the first individual Olympic gold of his multi-medal career in Thursday’s showcase 100m freestyle, with the world record ...
-
TOKYO—Britain enjoyed a one-two success in the men’s 200m freestyle on Tuesday, while Russian swimmers ended U.S. dominance in the 100m backstroke, and Kaylee McKeown gave ...
-
TOKYO—Races often end in a blur for Canada’s Maggie MacNeil, who wears glasses outside the pool but doesn’t use contacts or prescription goggles when swimming. That ...
-
TOKYO—You could see by the way they huddled afterward, arms linked and beaming smiles on every face, that this team is tight. Just about untouchable, too. ...
-
A UK company is to build what it says is the world's biggest and deepest pool, in a new project backed by British astronaut Tim Peake.
-
SYDNEY—Tokyo Olympic hopeful Kaylee McKeown has confirmed her rich vein of form by claiming a 200 meter (656 feet) backstroke short course world record at the ...
-
A Texas girl has died after battling a brain-eating amoeba for more than a week, according to her family and school.
-
U.S. endurance swimmer Sarah Thomas has become the first person to swim across the English Channel four times without stopping.
-
Great white sharks, although some of the deadliest marine animals, can't attack humans on land and won't hurtle from the skies in a torrent of teeth ...
-
A Maryland woman said that her son was infected with a flesh-eating bacteria after swimming in a bay. Brittany Carey took to Facebook to share the ...
-
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson removed a picture showing his daughter near a swimming pool after a backlash over a key aspect of the picture. Johnson, an ...
-
Video footage shows a 10-year-old Georgia girl jumping into a swimming pool to save her toddler sister from drowning. The incident took place on May 15 ...
-
A Russian swimming coach was accused of abusing babies after videos of her methods went viral, but some parents have defended her, saying that she has ...
-
Dogs and their owners competed in a combined swimming and running race on the Croatian island of Rab in the Adriatic Sea on Aug. 28. The ...
-
SYDNEY–Australian George Corones, who will celebrate his 100th birthday next month, shaved a good chunk of time off the 50 meters long course freestyle world record ...
-
Missy Franklin, Cullen Jones, Rowdy Gaines and a handful of other Olympic champions are climbing into the pool this summer to help American kids learn how ...