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Florent Manaudou & Tom Daley Among Flagbearers At Opening Ceremony Of Paris 2024 Florent Manaudou and Tom Daley were among the flagbearers for France and Great Britain at the Opening Ceremony of Paris 2024. Manaudou won 50 free gold on his Olympic debut at London 2012, taking silver in the two subse...

Olympics: Heat Sheets Posted For All Eight Days of Swimming Prelims The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the first six events of preliminary heats: the women's 100 butterfly, women's 400 freestyle, men's 100 breaststroke, men's 400 freestyle, women's 400 freestyle rela...

Tom Dean On Smartness As Key To 4x2 Success; Time For 'Something Special' In the 4x100 Free Tom Dean says one of the key factors in Great Britain’s continued 4x200 free success is “executing a smart race.” Since James Guy anchored the quartet to victory at the 2015 worlds in Kazan, Russia, Great Bri...

Olympics Mini Feature: Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O'Callaghan a Dangerous Duo for Australia Ariarne Titmus, 23, outdueled Katie Ledecky for Olympic gold in the 400 free three years ago in Tokyo before overtaking Siobhan Haughey to win the 200 free. In the last year, Titmus has broken world records in...

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...

Gretchen Walsh to Make High-Stakes Olympic Debut Three years ago, Gretchen Walsh watched from back in the United States as older sister Alex raced for an Olympic medal in the women's 200 IM. Alex led that final with 50 meters remaining before taking silver behind Yui Ohashi. Now, as Gretchen and Ale...

Jillian Cox Among Three Repeat Winners at Speedo Summer Championships During the middle night of racing at the Speedo Summer Championships in Irvine, Calif., three highly-regarded swimmers won their second individual event apiece of the meet. Texas' Jillian Cox pulled away for a win in the women's 4...

Olympics Mini Feature: Kaylee McKeown-Regan Smith Rivalry Set for Next Chapter A scroll through the all-time performances list for women’s backstroke tells a simple story: Kaylee McKeown and Regan Smith have been dominant. How about these stats? McKeown and Smith account for the 15-fastest marks in ...

Is Caeleb Dressel Confident in Clean Olympics? 'No, Not Really' Within the last three months, accomplished international swimmers have heavily criticized the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and World Aquatics for a lack of transparency after 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine in e...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 8: Can Katie Ledecky Accomplish Four-Peat in 800 Freestyle? After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 184 co...

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 ...

Australian Coach Michael Palfrey Under Scrutiny For 'UnAustralian' Support of Kim Woo-Min Prior to the beginning of the Olympic swimming competition, Australian coach Michael Palfrey provided consulting services to numerous South Korean swimmers, including 400 freestyle world champion Kim Woo-min. N...

Mini Feature: Sprint Queen Sarah Sjostrom Stalking Gold in 50 Freestyle Blink, and you might miss Sarah Sjostrom in the water. That warning applies not only to the speed which Sjostrom possesses as the world’s premier sprint freestyler, but also to her limited schedule at this summer’s Olympic Games...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 7: Cameron McEvoy Aiming to Fight Off Dressel, Proud in 50 Free After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 18...

Rex Maurer, Kayla Han Record Strong 400 IM Performances at Speedo Summer Championships On the second evening of racing at the Speedo Summer Championships in Irvine, Calif., Rex Maurer and Kayla Han each swam exceptional performances in the 400 IM. Maurer posted a time which would have placed fourth ...

Chinese Doping Controversy Hovering Over Paris Games Over the past three months, a significant doping controversy has dominated headlines thanks to recent revelations that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) months before the Tokyo Olympics but received no sanction. As athlet...

Remembering Frank Gailey, the Australian Who Won Four Medals for the U.S. at the 1904 Olympics Frank Gailey holds a special place in the annals of Australian and US Olympic swimming rivalry as the only Australian to swim for an American team and win four medals in St. Louis in 1904 – before the cen....

Olympics Mini Feature: Leon Marchand Could Be the Face of the Paris Games Most Olympiads feature a Face of the Games. Think Jesse Owens (1936) and Mark Spitz (1972). They will forever be linked to Berlin and Munich. Consider Carl Lewis (1984) and Michael Phelps (2008). Their names are tied to Los An...

Olympics Mini Feature: Summer McIntosh Chasing Fistful of Paris Medals Had the Tokyo Olympics been held in 2020 as originally scheduled, Summer McIntosh likely would not have qualified as a 13-year-old, but the one-year delay because of the COVID-19 pandemic gave her a little extra time to develop. ...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 6: Kos-Murphy, McIntosh-Smith Among Gold-Medal Matchups After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 184 countr...