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The Italian Swimming Federation recently named its team for the Olympic Games this year in Tokyo, with a total of 36 athletes set to represent the nation in Japan's capital in less than three weeks. The team is highlighted by 2008 Olympic champ Federica Pellegrini, who is on her fifth and final Olym...

Olympics: Prelims-Leading Italians, Dressel-Led Americans and Outside Smoke Russians to Battle for Gold in Men’s 400 Freestyle Relay Prior to the 2000 Olympics, the American men were undefeated in Olympic competition in the men’s 400 freestyle relay. But since then, every time we have seen this even...

The Outstanding But Overlooked Men's Swims From the Tokyo Olympics At the Tokyo Olympics, Caeleb Dressel stormed to three individual Olympic golds, a total only Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps had ever previously achieved in one Olympics, and he shepherded the U.S. men to a pair of gold medals in the ...

World Championships Preview — Men's Relays: Great Britain, Italy Seeking More Wins Against Established Nations Eight years ago, Great Britain first broke through as a true global contender in men's relays, knocking off the five-time defending champion Americans to win an 800 freestyle relay crown. M...

Sarah Sjostrom unleashed an eye-watering 56.71secs in the 100m butterfly and Florent Manaudou hit the wall after just 21.56secs in the 50 free on the second day of the 22nd Euro Meet 2020 in Luxembourg. Both were meet records and Sjostrom, who had warmed up with second in the 50m backstroke, then re...

European Championships: Italy Win Men's 4x100 Freestyle Relay Ahead Of Hungary And Britain Italy won the men's 4x100m freestyle relay with Manuel Frigo anchoring them home in 47.26 at the European Championships in Rome. The quartet of Alessandro Miressi (47.76), Thomas Ceccon (47.88), Lorenzo Zazzer...