Olympic Swimming News

Eric Shanteau, who became one of Austin's most talked about residents after competing in Beijing in 2008, spoke with KVUE's Melissa Gale.

Michael Phelps says he's "not in the best shape" for the upcoming European World Cup meet in Stockholm.

Wrestling * Last week: The team began its season Friday night by hosting the Maroon and Gold Dual.

Walsh, who lives in Berkeley, swam against the best in the country in the national finals this month and scooped a bronze medal in the 200 metre breast stroke with a time of 2:57.52 seconds; beating his previous best by over seven seconds.

Olympic bronze medallist Priscilla Lopes-Schliep and others will have a chance to race in front of a home crowd when the Pan American Games come to Toronto in 2015.

Fitness is a family value. Eric Heiden, M.D. Tribune Media Services November 6, 2009 I grew up during the 1950s and '60s in Madison, WI, in a family that lived and breathed sports, and I don't mean watching sports.

The Taut 100 is a nationwide programme sponsored by sports drink Taut and run in conjunction with SportsAid.

LIBBY Trickett is still agonising over her future in the pool as fellow golden girl Leisel Jones dips back into international competition for the first time in 15 months on Friday.

Rhode Island Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel has announced that she plans to attend the University of Florida next fall.

Vancouver has the best quality of life of any big city in the world, according to the British international affairs magazine The Economist.

AN Olympic sporting hero has challenged a Tyneside disabled woman to the swim of her life.

Tara Kirk Sell, right, smiles as her sister Dana Kirk gives remarks after they were named 2009 Inductee awards for swimming at the Kitsap Sports Hall of Fame Banquet on Saturday, Oct.

Kosciusko family doctor Timothy Alford will carry an Olympic torch at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver in February.

Owing to its historical significance, the hosts wanted to win the marathon more than any other event and 100,000 fans roared on Spyridon Louis as he took the lead two and a half miles from the finish and went on to win for the home nation.

PHOENIX, Arizona, October 26. OLYMPIAN Kara Lynn Joyce will join Swimming World's Facebook Fan Page for an interactive online discussion with our Fan Page fans this Thursday, Oct.

The 11th Chinese National Games which ended in east China's Shandong province on Wednesday were regarded as a trial to pick out promising athletes for the London Olympics.

Katherine Wyld has set her sights on a Commonwealth Games relay berth in 2010 as she embarks on one of the busiest years of her sporting and professional life.

Want to know why the International Olympic Committee immediately backed NBC when it became angry over the prospect of a U.S. Olympic Network? Yes, the $5.7 billion NBC paid for U.S. broadcast rights to the Summer and Winter Games from 2000 through 2012 had something to do with it.

THE Australian Olympic Committee has expressed frustration at delays in the federally-commissioned Crawford report into sports funding.

Susan Kelsey will be a Comox Valley trailblazer when the Olympic Torch begins its journey across Canada at the end of this month.