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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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Trenton Julian Blasts 1:54.71 200 Fly at Speedo Summer Championships In the Olympic Trials final of the men's 200 butterfly, Trenton Julian led throughout but faded to eighth on the last length. Now, Julian has recorded a time that would have qualified him for the American Olympic team at the Speedo...

USA Swimming, the national governing body for the sport of swimming, today announced the dates for its domestic competitions for the 2025 calendar year. Some locations are still being finalized and will be announced in the coming months. The event schedule features Open Water Nationals and Junior .....

Olympic champion and record holder Michael Phelps has been named the No.1 athlete of the past 25 years by ESPN. The sports network released its decision in a video. Phelps became a household name when he won a record eight Olympic gold medals in 2008 in Beijing. In his career, his is a five-time Oly...

ASCA Announces Top 10 Age Group Coaches of the Year The American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) and Fitter & Faster Swim Camps are pleased to announce the Top 10 age group coaches for 2024. Congratulations to the following outstanding coaches (in alphabetical order): Name Club Joe Finke Saint P...

Paris Open Water Prep Differs for Mariah Denigan, Katie Grimes Mariah Denigan likes to joke with her teammates that the 1500 freestyle in the pool feels like a sprint. She omitted, perhaps strategically, her teammates’ response to that. But when it came to U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis last mo...

USA Swimming has announced its four captains for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Katie Ledecky and Abbey Weitzeil were selected as the women's team's captains, while Ryan Murphy and Nic Fink were tabbed as captains for the men's team, USA Swimming announced. Ledecky is headed to her fourth Olympics. She qu...

Ryan Lochte Reveals Details of Major Car Accident in November 2023: 'So Thankful' Six-time Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte has revealed that he suffered major injuries in a car accident last November while driving to pick up his children from school. Lochte, 39, told host Kyle Millis of the Athlet...

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) today announced the 592-member 2024 U.S. Olympic Team that will compete at the upcoming Olympic Games Paris 2024. The Opening Ceremony will take place Friday, July 26, with competition beginning Wednesday, July 24 and concluding Sunday, Aug. 1...

USA Swimming, the National Governing Body for the sport of swimming, today announced its roster for the 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, to be held August 21-24 in Canberra, Australia. Athletes qualified based on results from the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming, presented by Lilly. “....

After an independent prosecutor cleared the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) of any bias toward China in a recent finding, it did not take the U.S. Anti-Doping Agencey (USADA) long to respond. “The WADA report issued by Mr. (Eric) Cottier today provides athletes and the world with some additional inf...

The Kaitlin Sandeno Effect on Trials & Swimming Goes Beyond the Pool Kaitlin Sandeno has been around the sport of swimming for almost her entire life.  Sandeno, a two-time Olympian and four-time Olympic medalist, is a model of everything that USA Swimming represents; someone who has achieved excelle...

Allison Schmitt is a mainstay around the pool deck at big events, but after making four Olympic teams, she was at Lucas Oil Stadium in a different capacity. "I love the adrenaline and the lights and the swimmers in the water," Schmitt said. "It brings back so many emotions." The Olympic gold medalis...

Ryan Held Makes Triumphant Olympic Return: 'Heartbreaking' Tokyo Miss Now 'Blessing in Disguise' He had missed making international teams before, finishing seventh in the 100 freestyle at the 2017 U.S. Nationals and missing the World Championships team by four hundredths before falling to eighth one...

Isabelle Odgers walked out to the thunderous applause of an Olympic Trials final. The former All-American at USC and former Swimming World intern had never experienced a race of quite that magnitude. But there she was walking out for the final of the 200 breaststroke with a chance of making an Olymp...

The American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) and Fitter & Faster are pleased to announce the Top 50 Age Group Coaches of the Year for 2024. The results were compiled using the USA Swimming Power Points of the top ranked 11-14 year-old swimmers for the 2023 Long Course season and 2023-24 Short Co...