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US Masters Nationals Day 5 Recap: Four 90-Year-Old Swimmers Describe Their Experiences in Greensboro By Daniel Paulling U.S. Masters Swimming’s competitions are for adults of all ages, but no races seem to captivate meet participants, fans, and event staff as much as those for the older age groups. ...

Olympics: Men's 400 Free Relay Lineups Released; Caeleb Dressel Leading Off For USA in Tokyo Debut The full start lists are out for the men's 400 free relay final at the Tokyo Olympics, and as expected, superstar Caeleb Dressel will lead off for the United States in his first race of the meet. Dress...

With Penny Oleksiak Anchoring, Canada Delivers Relay Silver You Can Swear By With silver medals around their necks, the Canadian women’s 400 free relay team was all smiles, giggles and hugs Sunday afternoon in Tokyo. And before the race, for a swimming program renowned for its collegial nature? “The...

After Swimming Faster 400 IM than Olympic Gold Medalist, Carson Foster More Motivated Than Ever Six weeks before Jay Litherland moved up from sixth place after 300 meters into silver medal position at the finish in the men’s 400 IM final at the Olympic Games, Litherland pulled the exact same comebac...

Olympics Day 2 Notebook: Time for Emma McKeon’s Individual Shining Moment? Emma McKeon has been an international force for Australia since 2013, a presence never missing from the Dolphins’ lineup in any of the relay events at an international meet during that eight-year span. She has won 17 medals a...

Shi Tingmao, with Wang Han, Repeats as Women’s 3-Meter Synchro Champ Five years ago, Shi Tingmao won gold at the Rio Olympics alongside Wu Minxia. In Tokyo, Shi’s partner is different, but the result is the same. Shi and Wang Han dominated the women’s synchronized three-meter springboard final Sunda...

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...

Australian Round-Up: Nervous Kaylee McKeown Sets New Olympic Record And Finds Solace In Previous Owner Kaylee McKeown has shrugged off the nerves and delivered a record breaking start to her Tokyo campaign – relying on the former Olympic record holder and team mate Emily Seebohm to guide her along t...

Olympics: Day Two Finals Heat Sheets Posted; First Ledecky-Titmus Showdown Highlights Busy Morning The heat sheets have been posted for second first morning of finals action at the 2021 Olympics. Beginning at 10:30 a.m. Tokyo time Monday morning (9:30 p.m. ET/6:30 p.m. PT Sunday in the USA), the ses...

Olympics: Italy Nails Down Top Seed in 400 Freestyle Relay; USA Second With Caeleb Dressel To Come There will be a rash of lineup substitutions before the final of the 400-meter freestyle relay is called to the blocks at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. For now, Italy has established itself as the team t...

Olympics: Katie Ledecky, Ariarne Titmus Lined Up for 400 Free Duel The stage for the first battle between Katie Ledecky and Ariarne Titmus is set. Both women won their heats in the 400 freestyle preliminaries at the Tokyo Olympics Sunday to earn spots in the top three in the final for Monday morning...

Olympics: Kliment Kolesnikov Maintains Season Momentum As Top Seed in 100 Backstroke It's been quite a year for Russian Kliment Kolesnikov. From setting a world record in the 50-meter backstroke to clocking the second-fastest time in the world in the 100 freestyle, the 21-year-old has long looked re...

Olympics: Sunwoo Hwang Sets WJR in 200 Freestyle At Front Of Youth Movement Over the past several weeks, and for good reason, much has been made about the talent of surging youth David Popovici. At the recent European Junior Championships, the 16-year-old Romanian was sensational en route to a trife...

Olympics: Tatjana Schoenmaker Sets Olympic Record in 100 Breast Tatjana Schoenmaker swam so fast Sunday night she nearly swam out of her cap. She did, though, swim into an Olympic record. The South African attacked the penultimate heat of the women’s 100 breaststroke in preliminaries of the Tokyo Ol...

The U.S. men’s water polo team found itself down three goals less than two quarters into its Olympic tournament Sunday. It took a big effort to turn it around. Five goals from Alex Bowen did the trick, leading the U.S. to a 15-13 win over Japan in its Olympic water polo opener at the Tatsumi Water P...

Olympics: Kaylee McKeown Last of Three to Set 100 Back Olympic Record On paper, the women’s 100 backstroke looked like one of the most loaded events in the Tokyo Olympics. In the pool, it was somehow even more fun in prelims Sunday night. In successive heats, Kylie Masse, then Regan Smith, then Kayl...

Adam Peaty, Arno Kamminga Set for Two-Man Duel in Olympic 100 Breast Final The Olympic final in the men’s 100 breaststroke might feel, for stretches Monday morning in Tokyo, like a two-man match race. There will be six swimmers in the water at the Tokyo Aquatic Centre whose goal, as much as getting ...

The Past Is Defeating the Present at Olympic Games in Tokyo Racing is the bottom line of the Olympic Games and getting a hand on the wall ahead of the competition is the most-important goal. Nonetheless, it is interesting to note that through two men’s finals in Tokyo (obviously, a small sample size...

Olympics: United States Overcomes Apparent Weakness for Hot Start in Tokyo It would have been easy to excuse a slow start for Team USA on day one. Coming out of Olympic Trials, the team had significant weaknesses across various events, particularly on the men’s side. The U.S. men won medals in all b...

Olympics: Tunisian Tiger's Tokyo Dream: Ahmed Hafnaoui's Wild Celebration After Winning Shock Gold From Lane Eight Tunisian teenager Ahmed Hafnaoui has caused the first major upset of the Tokyo 2020 Games - winning an extraordinary Olympic gold in the 400 metres freestyle from lane eight. The 18-yea...