Team USA has historically dominated Olympic swimming. Since the dawn of the Modern Games, U.S. swimmers have won 606 Olympic medals, 265 of them gold. That number is just under 22 percent of all gold medals won by U.S. athletes in both Summer and Winte...
Marathon swimmers face all sorts of conditions. In Paris, the open-water swimmers faced a mean current.
NANTERRE, France — After nine days of swimming at Paris’ La Defense Arena, the U.S. women put an exclamation mark on the end of the the Olympic Games Paris 2024 — shutting down the pool with a new world record.After first-time Olympian Gretchen Walsh n...
NANTERRE, France — Coming to the Olympic Games Paris 2024, men on the U.S. swimming team had won at least one gold medal in an individual event in every Olympiad since the Olympic Games Paris 1900. But by the final day of swimming in Paris, they had ye...
NANTERRE, France — A dozen years ago to the day, Katie Ledecky won her first Olympic gold medal. She was 15 years old, not yet a sophomore in high school, and was so far off the radar that night that reporters were not even paying attention to the wome...
