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Diver Brandon Loschiavo Added to Paris Olympics on Eve of Games Brandon Loschiavo has been added to Team USA’s roster for diving just a day before the Paris Olympics start. Loschiavo got the word Thursday that the U.S. would get an additional quota spot for men’s 10-meter after a last-minute withdra...

11 Americans Among Aquatics Technical Officials at Paris Olympics Eleven Americans are among the aquatics technical officials and specialized committee members at the Paris 2024 Olympics for aquatics. Five Americans are on technical and specialized committees for the Games, while six are serving as ...

At Paris Games, Kate Douglass Seeking Next Step in Sensational Career Kate Douglass welcomed Kate Douglass to Indianapolis for U.S. Olympic Trials.  If Douglass was feeling pressure as she pondered a four-event program at Trials, seeing her visage rendered stories tall on the side of Lucas Oil Stadi...

Already a World Champion, Hubert Kos Prepared to Take Next Step in Paris Bob Bowman, ever the statesman, was ready with a deflection. The 2023 World Aquatics Championships were about to wrap up in Fukuoka, Japan. The coach fielded questions about his work with Team USA and his tutelage of Leon March...

Return of Fans, Olympic Experience Herald Normalcy for Veterans at Paris Olympics In a sense, everyone was a rookie at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. There was no precedent for an Olympics, already postponed a year, to be held during a global pandemic. With no overseas fans, no family, an impermeable b...

Canada’s Resilient Regan Rathwell Earns ‘Magical’ Olympic Chance There’s no easy way around it, so you might as well just ask it. Regan Rathwell has spent the last five minutes presenting an atlas to her various injuries over a hellish last two years, and the question is begging its way out. The bro...

Paris Countdown: Olympic Games - as Always - Sure to Offer Intriguing Storylines As the end of nine days of U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Indianapolis neared for Katie Ledecky, her focus started to shift ever so slightly. The 10-time Olympic medalist had done what she’d aimed to at Lucas Oil Stadium, ...

Canadian Molly Carlson is Reaching New Heights, On Diving and Online Platforms The first time Molly Carlson watched one of her videos on TikTok go certifiably viral, the content of it surprised her. It wasn’t a well-executed dive. It wasn’t a life milestone or a swimsuit haul that took off. It wasn’...

Growth Mindset Has Led Max Irving to Water Polo Stardom One wakeup call occasioned another for Max Irving. It was 2017, and Irving’s star was rising fast. He’d gone from a redshirt season at UCLA in 2013 to an All-American. That June brought his first U.S. national team call—in the FINA Intercontine...

On His Fifth Try, Dr. Jeremy Bagshaw Will See the Olympics Now Jeremy Bagshaw looked at the video board and wouldn’t let himself believe it at first. For five Olympic cycles, from a 16-year-old prodigy from British Columbia in 2008 to a 32-year-old medical school graduate who’d been to four World Ch...

Paris Open Water Prep Differs for Mariah Denigan, Katie Grimes Mariah Denigan likes to joke with her teammates that the 1500 freestyle in the pool feels like a sprint. She omitted, perhaps strategically, her teammates’ response to that. But when it came to U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis last mo...

Olympic Entries: Sarah Sjostrom Adds 100 Free, Summer McIntosh Drops 200 Free The official list of Olympic entries, released by World Aquatics on Friday, brought a couple of surprises in the Olympic programs of stars. Perhaps the biggest change is for Summer McIntosh. She is entered in the 400 frees...

Paris Olympic Entries: 4 Neutral Athletes, Kai Winkler Makes Switch to Germany World Aquatics on Friday released the official entry lists for the Paris Olympics, which brought a few last-minute surprises. In all, 854 swimmers will be in Paris – 463 male and 391 female. They represent 187 official co...

West Virginia Adds Canadian Olympian Sydney Pickrem As Assistant Coach Canadian Olympian Sydney Pickrem is joining West Virginia as an assistant coach, the school announced on Thursday. Pickrem will compete in Paris at her third Olympics. She won bronze in the medley relay in Tokyo to go with seven ...

World Aquatics Confirms 13 Additional Swimmers for Olympic 10K Races World Aquatics on Tuesday confirmed 13 additional swimmers for the Olympic open-water races in Paris on the basis of their times in the pool. Among the notable names joining the open water fray are veteran medal contenders Felix Au...

New Zealand Recovers 1912 Olympic Swimming Medal, Oldest in Nation’s History The New Zealand Olympic Committee has recovered the oldest Olympic gold medal in the country’s history, belonging to swimmer Malcolm Champion. The medal dates from the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. It was won by Champ...

Veterans Farida Osman, Quah Ting Wen Late Exclusions from Olympics Veteran female swimmers Farida Osman of Egypt and Quah Ting Wen of Singapore have been ruled out of the Paris Olympics just weeks before they open on procedural grounds. Osman, 29, was set to represent Egypt for a fourth Games. While...

U.S. Paralympic Swimming Names Eight Assistant Coaches for Paris Paralympics U.S. Paralympic Swimming on Monday named eight assistant coaches who will be on staff for the Paris Paralympics. The assistants will be on-the-ground support for the 33-member team at the Paralympics. They will be directed ...

Miami Ohio Hires Samantha Pitter as Head Coach Samantha Pitter is the new coach of Miami Ohio, coming over from the University of Pittsburgh to replace Hollie Bonewit-Cron. Bonewit-Cron in May was hired for the head job at Penn State, and the RedHawks have drawn upon another Pennsylvania school for ...

Paris Olympics Reveal Vaires-sur-Marne as Open Water Alternative to Seine The Paris Olympic organizing committee on Friday revealed its backup plan if the Rive Seine is not suitable for open water swimming at the Olympics next month. A Paris 2024 spokesperson told Reuters that the rowing venue at th...