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Ahmed Hafnaoui: Tunisian Star Is Biggest Surprise of Tokyo - So Far Everyone in the Tokyo Aquatics Centre was stunned as the men’s 400-meter freestyle concluded, and that’s when the winning swimmer noticed he was on top. Ahmed Hafnaoui provided the first shock of the Olympic Games in Tokyo when he w...

The Olympic Games bring many iconic moments captured in photos. Check out a gallery of the fifth finals session of the Tokyo Olympics as well as the preceding preliminary session. China and the USA stunned heavily favored Australia to win the 800 free relay on the women's side, while Caeleb Dressel ...

Satisfying Silver for Team USA Women Gives Allison Schmitt Double-Digit Medals in Her Illustrious Career Before the women’s 800 free relay final had fully played out in exhilarating and completely unexpected fashion, the opening leg swimmers set the tone for their teams. There was China’s Yang Junxu...

Olympics: China Snares Upset Gold in 800 Freestyle Relay As Entire Podium Goes Under World Record No matter the lens used, it was impossible to see Australia finish anywhere but on top in the women’s 800-meter freestyle relay. The Aussies had ridiculous firepower and figured to obliterate the world ...

Michael Andrew looked to shake off his fourth-place finish in the 100 breaststroke with a strong preliminary swim in the 200 IM at the Tokyo Olympic Games to take the top seed. In semifinals, Andrew has the fourth seed after finishing second in the second semifinal heat. A It was a late charge from ...

Olympics: Tatjana Schoenmaker Scares 200 Breast World Record Again, Swims 2:19.33 in Semifinals After South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker set an Olympic record in the 100 breast prelims and ended up winning silver in the event, it was evident that she would be extremely difficult to beat for gold in ...

Olympics: In Long-Awaited Showdown, Caeleb Dressel Seizes 100 Freestyle Crown From Kyle Chalmers The race has been hyped for several years. Before COVID-19 delayed the Olympic Games. During the pandemic – albeit with hope it would even take place. In the months leading up to the rescheduled Tokyo Ga...

Olympics: Zhang Yufei Sets Olympic Record for 200 Fly Gold; Americans Go 2-3 The mixed zone presented a pair of contrasts from the American medalists in the women’s 200 butterfly Thursday morning at the Tokyo Olympics. On one side was an elated Regan Smith, ready to collect her silver medal. On the ...

Olympics: Zac Stubblety-Cook Strikes Australia’s Fifth Gold In 200 Breaststroke in Olympic Record Time [caption id="attachment_483706" align="alignleft" width="468"] Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher/USA Today Sports[/caption] Australia’s Zac Stubblety-Cook has continued the Dolphins golden run at the ...

Olympics: Evgeny Rylov Tops Men's 200 Backstroke Semifinals, Luke Greenbank & Ryan Murphy 2-3 One man has swept both the 100 and 200-meter backstroke at three of the last five Olympic Games, with Lenny Krayzelburg in 2000, Aaron Peirsol in 2004 and, most recently, Ryan Murphy in 2016. The Russian Ol...

Olympic Semifinals: Emma McKeon Leads Siobhan Haughey, Cate Campbell into Women's 100 Free Final Emma McKeon has been busy in Tokyo — and fast. McKeon was having a strong meet, already having been part of a winning relay, and earned a bronze medal in the 100 butterfly. But she saved her best for the...

Olympics: Bobby Finke Unleashes Massive Final 50 to Collect 800 Freestyle Gold Bobby Finke took a look up, 760 meters into the race, and knew it was now or never. Whatever was left in the 21-year-old Floridian’s legs, he was going to have to wring out if he had a chance to get in the medal picture i...

Olympics: Day Six Prelims Heat Sheets Posted; Mixed Medley Relay Makes Debut The second-to-last evening of swimming prelims competition at the Tokyo Olympics will begin Thursday evening at 7 p.m. local time (6 a.m. ET in the U.S.). The schedule includes the women’s 800 freestyle, men's 100 butterfly...

Olympics: Women's 800 Free Relay Finals Lineups Released; Titmus Leading off, McKeon and Ledecky to Anchor The lineups have been released for the women's 800 freestyle relay final at the Olympics, and top-seeded Australia is introducing an entirely new foursome from their group that posted the top t...

Does Swimming Need a Schedule Change for Paris 2024 for Katie Ledecky? Most people watching swimming on Tuesday night were shocked at what they saw in the two women’s freestyle finals contested.  In the 200 free, Katie Ledecky missed the podium, and in the 1500, while winning the event, Ledecky was ...

Sarah Bacon, Emily Cook, Cameron Kelley Will Return to Minnesota for NCAA Extra Eligibility Year University of Minnesota Swimming & Diving student-athletes Sarah Bacon, Emily Cook and Cameron Kelley have all announced they will be returning to the Gophers for the 2021-22 season. The trio are all exe...

United States Aquatic Sports is recognizing the officials who play key roles in support of the Olympic Games across all aquatic disciplines. Read their full announcement below. United States Aquatic Sports is pleased to recognize twelve individuals who will play key roles in the Tokyo Olymp...

Olympics Day 5 Notebook: Tatjana Schoenmaker is Better in the 200 Breaststroke In Swimming World’s predictions for the Olympics, Tatjana Schoenmaker was not in the conversation to make the medal podium in the 100 breaststroke. Maybe she had an outside medal shot but no more. Then, of course, the 24-...

Olympics: Australian Women Should Crush 800 Freestyle Relay World Record; USA and Canada to Battle for Silver For the first time all Olympics long, a relay should go off without too much competitive drama since it’s really difficult to imagine the Australian women being challenged at all in the 800 ...

Olympics: Day Five Finals Heat Sheets; Dressel Faces Kolesnikov and Chalmers in 100 Free Final The heat sheets have been posted for fifth 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 sess...