Swimming News

In the wake of headlines announcing the public coming out of a hockey star's son, the dialogue about gay sports pros has opened up once again.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- With all due apologies to Mr. Oscar Hammerstein: Fish gotta swim .

Aaron Curry is about to get an unexpected breather from the Seahawks. He's had so many life changes since April, he probably could use it.

In simpler times, maintaining good health was a matter of joining a gym or lacing up running shoes for a loop in the park.

Moko the dolphin had serious competition for the friendliest sea creature title on Wednesday as two orcas swam close to a Gisborne beach to hang out with a class of divers.

John and Donna Pringle were newly widowed when they fell in love and decided to slip into retirement together at a sprawling community being built for the 55-and-up crowd a few miles from their homes in this sun-bleached Southern California town.

Australia's Leisel Jones believes the year she took away from serious competition has given the multi-medal winner added motivation to compete at the 2012 Olympics.

Royal Caribbean's new Oasis of the Seas is the largest, widest, tallest, most expensive cruise ship afloat, with capacity for 6,292 passengers plus 2,165 crew.

Winger Pavol Demitra is the only Vancouver Canucks player remaining on the injury list and he's swimming to rehabilitate a damaged shoulder.

After a rocky start, swimmer Eamon Sullivan came from behind to win Celebrity MasterChef / Channel Ten Eamon Sullivan wins Celebrity MasterChef Scored 30/30 for his dessert OLYMPIC swimmer Eamon Sullivan has embraced his competitive nature to beat INXS rocker Kirk Pengilly and model Rachael Finch to become the first Celebrity MasterChef winner.

Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington and world champion Federica Pellegrini will compete for Europe against the United States at next month's Duel in the Pool.

The Olympic torch relay enlisted the help of a world-class swimmer on Tuesday to ensure the flame would traverse one of New Brunswick's largest swimming pools with ease.

KIEL - The Kiel boys basketball team received a game-high 22 points from senior Brandon Gries to cruise past Chilton, 74-45, in the season opener for both schools.

Leisel Jones has provided her strongest indication she is ready to carry on and become the first Australian swimmer to compete at four Olympics.

Olympic champion Liu Zige and world champion Zhang Lin will lead a group of Chinese elite swimmers at the Asian Swimming Championships which ran through Nov.

The University of North Carolina men's and women's swimming and diving teams concluded a successful weekend by taking team victories in the Gamecock Invitational at the Carolina Natatorium.

Victories by Kate Fesenko in the 200 butterfly and Cassie Luhrsen in the 1,650 freestyle highlighted the final day of competition for the Indiana women's swimming team at the 2009 Hoosierland Invitational at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center.

National head coach Alan Thompson says Australia can become a force once more in the 1500m freestyle following Robert Hurley's World Cup victory over Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli.

Moderate-to-high intensity exercise such as jogging, swimming or tennis may help reduce stroke risk in older men but not in women, researchers report.

On the beach at Monster, bulldozers painstakingly turn sand dredged from the bottom of the North Sea bed into dunes in an ambitious effort to safeguard the Netherlands from flooding.