Olympic Swimming News Archives

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.

BO'NESS swimmers made a splash in France this October half term, taking part in a training camp at a pool used by the French national team.

A total of 10 swimming Asian records were smashed at 11th the Chinese National Games after national champion Chen Qian renewed Asian best to win the women's 800m freestyle final on Friday.

WASHINGTON, DC , October 22, 2009 - The acclaimed documentary film "Crude," which details the 16-year struggle of indigenous peoples in Ecuador's Amazon to hold Chevron legally accountable for contamination of a huge rainforest area, opens in Washington, DC on Friday during intense scrutiny of a $27 billion liability lawsuit against the oil giant.

It looks as though Michael Phelps will eventually take all the fun out of swimming in the United States, at least if Japan serves as any guide.

Double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima will return to competitive swimming next month for the first time since the Beijing Olympics.

Michael Phelps will make his first competitive appearance in Britain when he competes in a new Ryder Cup-style match that will pit a European Select team against the United States at the Manchester Aquatics Centre on Dec 18-19. Big splash: 14-times Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps will lead an American team against a European squad in ...

Olympic champion Liu Zige trimmed 1.6 seconds off the world record in the women's 200-meter butterfly at China's National Games on Wednesday.

In this Oct. 14, 2008 file photo, Natalie Coughlin, 11-time Olympic medalist in swimming, attends the 29th Annual Salute to Women In Sports Awards Dinner in New York.

Young swimmers hoping to emulate the double Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington's Beijing exploits at the London 2012 Games are being subjected to an unacceptably heavy training regime and excessive "surveillance", a study has concluded.

There was a time when Cheyenne Cousineau was an athlete without a sport. Growing up, the Temperance native spent a great deal time in gymnastics.

Former Arizona swimmer Lacey Nymeyer was honored as the NCAA woman of the year at a dinner Sunday night.

Dara Torres has downloaded a bunch of movies and piled up all sorts of books, anything to pass the time over the next few months.

University of Arizona swimmer Lacey Nymeyer was named the NCAA 's 2009 Woman of the Year on Sunday night in recognition of her athletic accomplishments, community service and leadership.

To the staccato poolside call of 'Go! ... Go! ... Go! ...' each time her head bobbed above the water, Olympic breaststroker Danielle Beaubrun and the FGCU swimming and diving team notched the biggest win in program history Saturday.

Developers with the National Swimming Center Corporation and USA Swimming have hired a Cape Coral engineering firm to study the feasibility of an Olympic-caliber swimming complex in the north Cape.

Three cities have officially submitted applications to the International Olympic Committee in an effort to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.

San Diego State will open its 2009-10 season against Cal on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 10:00 a.m. at the Aztec Aquaplex.

PHOENIX, Arizona, October 9. THIS month's Junior Swimmer section contains meet coverage from Junior Nationals, YMCA Long Course Nationals and the SPEEDO Championship Series Sectionals.

Former Australian swimming champion Hayley Lewis has been announced as the new host of The Biggest Loser .

With four all-conference performers returning along with a recruiting class ranked fourth in the nation by CollegeSwimming.com , San Diego State has been picked to finish third in the Mountain West Conference in the league's annual coaches' poll.

Never mind the moon, Michael Phelps will become the sporting equivalent of the first man on Mars if he wins eight swimming gold medals at the Beijing Olympics.

SYDNEY: Former Olympic champions are among more than 28,000 competitors from 95 countries gathering here for the seventh World Masters Games, getting underway on Saturday .

A nine-year-old Mitcham boy is celebrating winning all six events at the Development Chaser Open Gala in Bognor Regis.

Six swimmers from the Vodafone Malta Foundation sponsored-Special Olympics Malta have been selected to travel to Spain, Palma di Mallorca for the European Championships to be held between 14 and 19 October.

TRIATHLETE Michael Adams is embarking on an intensive winter training schedule in a bid to achieve his Olympic dream.

Shaquille O'Neal has made a career out of twisting around opposing centers. Now he is doing it to himself.

6, 2009, in New York. Dara Torres knew she needed surgery on her ailing left knee.

I dropped by the swimming pool at Bidwell Junior High on Wednesday afternoon to check out the big meet between Pleasant Valley High and Chico High - two of the top teams in the Northern Section - hoping to track down some coaches and watch a bit of the local talent in action.

I was sorry to see that Chicago did not get the 2016 Olympic Games. It just says that we in Abingdon need to start now if we are going to have a viable proposal for the 2020 Games.

President Obama made an eloquent personal pitch for Chicago, but the city was not awarded the 2016 Olympic Games.

The host city of the 2016 Olympic Games will be announced on Friday, Oct. 2. In an effort to prepare you for the big day in Copenhagen, we'll take a look at each city this week, leading up to Friday's announcement.

Results are cut-and-dry in swimming, and Natalie Coughlin wishes the same was true for Dancing with the Stars .

Whether you want to swim laps without being disturbed by other swimmers, or you want to train your body for swim competitions, knowing where to find an Olympic pool is important.

Chicago thought they were in the lead for the 2016 Olympics, but the city received the fewest votes in the first round.

The NSCC Premier Aquatic Center has been funded and could be built in north Cape Coral in the near future, according to a speaker at Thursday nighta s Capeopoly event.

Once Mike Brown learned that Shaquille O'Neal was wearing a Speedo on national television, he wasn't concerned about his new star's physical conditioning.

The exterior design for the main stadium at the 2014 Winter Olympic Stadium looks decidedly insect or reptilian-like Global design company Populous has been selected to design the main stadium for the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held in Sochi, Russia.

Scottish swimming is drawing on lessons from sumo wrestling, rock climbing and surfing in an attempt to maintain the flow of medals launched by a record haul at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.