The action in the Rio swimming pool has been stellar during the 2016 Olympics so far--especially for Team USA, which has emerged very, very golden. Michael Phelps is the latest to grab another gold in ...

With this month’s Olympic Swimming Trials now upon us, Swimming World takes a back-to-the-future approach to revisit some training done by superstar Katie Ledecky prior to the 2016 U.S. team ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Everyone on the planet has been talking about Michael Phelps and Chad Le Clos, NBC swimming analyst Rowdy Gaines said Tuesday. Uh oh. When NBC ran a split screen picture of an inert ...

Pernille Blume has announced she is retiring after a career in which the Danish swimmer reached the Olympic pinnacle in the 50 free at Rio 2016. The 28-year-old leaves the pool with three Olympic and ...

The U.S. has won nearly a third of all Olympic swimming medals ever awarded and look to add to their 500-plus medals at the 2016 Rio Games. Team USA swimmers have dominated a number of events – their ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Plans to hold late night swimming finals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics are "outrageous", says England swimming's head coach Jon Rudd, joining a growing campaign opposing the ...

When it comes to swimming, the Rio Olympics has its big names and new records. Now, it has its first controversy. A day after adding a record 19th gold medal to his collection, Michael Phelps swims in ...

Breaststroke is the racewalking of competitive swimming—the slowest way to go fast in the pool. The chest-forward, bobbing, frog-kicking stroke historically has been a shaky spot for the otherwise ...

Great Britain's Ed Ling won bronze in the men's trap shooting yesterday and still hasn't got used to being an Olympic medallist. "It hasn't sunk in really, it's going to take a couple more," said the ...

MONACO (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee has defended Rio de Janeiro Olympics organizers' plans to have late night swimming finals at the 2016 Games, saying on Friday the competition ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBC commentator criticized for calling the coach and husband of Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu "the guy responsible" for her turnaround said Sunday it is impossible to tell ...