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The Olympic Games bring many iconic moments captured in photos. Check out a gallery of the fourth finals session of the Tokyo Olympics as well as the preceding preliminary session. Katie Ledecky rallied to win the 1500 after Ariarne Titmus won the 200 free, while Kristof Milak broke the Olympic reco...

Where Was Dressel? How About Seliskar? Lineup Decision Dooms U.S. Men’s 800 Free Relay to Historically Poor Result The American men were underdogs in an Olympic relay like never before. They had won four straight Olympic gold medals in the 800 freestyle relay, all of them with Michael Phelps and Rya...

Siobhan Haughey looked at the board and a huge smile opened up across her face. She isn’t always the most outwardly emotional in the water, but this was a race like none other in her stellar career. This one was historic. Haughey finished second in the 200 freestyle to claim the first medal in Hong ...

Michael Phelps Empathizes With Simone Biles, Says Her Withdrawing “Broke My Heart” It was a stunning sight Tuesday evening at the Olympic Gymnastics Centre. Simone Biles, widely considered and hyped as the greatest gymnast in history, could not complete her planned vault during the women’s team comp...

Olympics: Great Britain Ends Medal Drought in 800 Free Relay; Dressel-less Americans Fail to Medal Five teams entered the 800 freestyle relay at the 1908 Olympics at London’s White City Stadium. Four made the final (tough luck, Sweden). One wouldn’t make the podium with a time – and a name, Australa...

Olympics: Fittingly, Katie Ledecky Powers to Gold In Inaugural Women's 1500 Freestyle It was the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and the women’s marathon was added to the track and field program for the first time. As Joan Benoit captured the gold medal in sweltering heat, the event’s inclusion ma...

Olympics: Double Delight for Yui Ohashi with 200 IM Gold Olympic races are supposed to be close. But even by Olympic standards, the 1.4 seconds separating the eight finalists in the women’s 200 individual medley Wednesday morning was outstandingly tight. The race they delivered didn’t disappoint. In...

Olympics: Zac Stubblety-Cook Comfortably Posts Top 200 Breast Time; WR-Holder Anton Chupkov Seventh Australia's remarkable bounceback Olympics continued Wednesday morning in Tokyo as Ariarne Titmus won her second gold medal of the week and the nation's fourth, and Zac Stubblety-Cook could be in posi...

Since there were only 16 competitors in the women’s 200 butterfly after a late scratch before prelims, all 16 advanced to the semifinals at the Tokyo Olympic Games. It is a different vibe than most Olympic races ever have. But only eight would survive the semifinals and reach the finals as the menta...

Olympics: Australia’s Ariarne Titmus Triumphs in 200 Freestyle In Tokyo Tussle II; Katie Ledecky Fifth Australia’s latest international freestyle star Ariarne Titmus has dethroned swimming’s queen Katie Ledecky for the second time in three days in another stunning gold medal swim in the 200m freesty...

Olympics: Hungary's Kristof Milak Blasts Field For Gold in 200 Butterfly Few Olympic finals – if any, some years – are already-know-the-outcome affairs. On the biggest stage in the sport, multiple athletes jockeying for the podium is the norm, a mistake here or an error there determining the height ...

Olympics: Kliment Kolesnikov Posts European Record of 47.11 in 100 Free Semis; Caeleb Dressel Wins SF1 in 47.23 The United States' Caeleb Dressel put up his fastest time -- and the fastest time -- of 2021 in the first semifinal of the 100 free as he cruised into the wall in 47.23, but Russia's Klime...

Olympics: Day Five Prelims Heat Sheets Posted; Four Individual Events and Women's 800 Free Relay The Olympic swimming competition has passed its halfway point, and Wednesday evening in Japan will bring the prelims of four more individual events as well as the women's 800 freestyle relay at 7 p.m. lo...

Olympics: Men's 800 Free Relay Finals Lineups Released; Americans Go With Smith, Kibler, Apple & Haas The lineups for the final of the men's 800 free relay have been posted, and Great Britain will go into the final as the big favorite for gold after Tom Dean and Duncan Scott finished 1-2 in Tuesday'...

With Huge Time Drop, Honduras’s Julimar Avila Fills Final 200 Fly Semis Seat Julimar Avila saw the empty chair, smiled and let herself dream for just a moment. Avila understood the math, even without the benefit of the biology degree the 24-year-old earned at Boston University. The preliminaries of ...

Olympics Day 4 Notebook: Exciting, Oscillating Medley Showdown Imminent Six women swam under 2:10 in the semifinals of the women’s 200 IM, and realistically, any of them could win gold in this race. For the first time at these Tokyo Olympics, a final is arriving with very little indication as to how...

NEW COMMIT: The University of Florida has received their fourth verbal commitment for the 2022-23 season and beyond from U.S. Open qualifier Daniel Gordon of East Berlin, Pa. He will join Gio Linscheer, Cam Abaqueta and Dawson Joyce in Gainesville as a member of the Gators’ Class of 2026. He told Sw...

Lydia Jacoby: The Rapid Rise from Alaskan Unknown to Gold Medalist If you say you’d heard of Lydia Jacoby before this past April, at least 90% of you are lying. Don’t even bother claiming you correctly predicted that Jacoby would stun the world and win Olympic gold. Before April, Jacoby’s claim to f...

Olympics: After Historic Start in Tokyo Pool, Great Britain Destined for 800 Free Relay Gold Off the final turn in the men’s 200 freestyle final, Great Britain’s Tom Dean and Duncan Scott asserted themselves, getting past early leader Hwang Sun-Woo of South Korea and beginning to pull away. The only...

Olympics: Day Four Finals Heat Sheets; Ledecky in Two Finals The heat sheets have been posted for fourth morning of finals action at the 2021 Olympics. Beginning at 10:30 a.m. Tokyo time Tuesday morning (9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT Monday in the USA), the two-hour session will include five gold-medal ...