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Florent Manaudou & Tom Daley Among Flagbearers At Opening Ceremony Of Paris 2024 Florent Manaudou and Tom Daley were among the flagbearers for France and Great Britain at the Opening Ceremony of Paris 2024. Manaudou won 50 free gold on his Olympic debut at London 2012, taking silver in the two subse...

Olympics: Heat Sheets Posted For All Eight Days of Swimming Prelims The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the first six events of preliminary heats: the women's 100 butterfly, women's 400 freestyle, men's 100 breaststroke, men's 400 freestyle, women's 400 freestyle rela...

Olympics Mini Feature: Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O'Callaghan a Dangerous Duo for Australia Ariarne Titmus, 23, outdueled Katie Ledecky for Olympic gold in the 400 free three years ago in Tokyo before overtaking Siobhan Haughey to win the 200 free. In the last year, Titmus has broken world records in...

Olympics Mini Feature: Kaylee McKeown-Regan Smith Rivalry Set for Next Chapter A scroll through the all-time performances list for women’s backstroke tells a simple story: Kaylee McKeown and Regan Smith have been dominant. How about these stats? McKeown and Smith account for the 15-fastest marks in ...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 8: Can Katie Ledecky Accomplish Four-Peat in 800 Freestyle? After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 184 co...

Mini Feature: Sprint Queen Sarah Sjostrom Stalking Gold in 50 Freestyle Blink, and you might miss Sarah Sjostrom in the water. That warning applies not only to the speed which Sjostrom possesses as the world’s premier sprint freestyler, but also to her limited schedule at this summer’s Olympic Games...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 7: Cameron McEvoy Aiming to Fight Off Dressel, Proud in 50 Free After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 18...

Chinese Doping Controversy Hovering Over Paris Games Over the past three months, a significant doping controversy has dominated headlines thanks to recent revelations that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ) months before the Tokyo Olympics but received no sanction. As athlet...

Remembering Frank Gailey, the Australian Who Won Four Medals for the U.S. at the 1904 Olympics Frank Gailey holds a special place in the annals of Australian and US Olympic swimming rivalry as the only Australian to swim for an American team and win four medals in St. Louis in 1904 – before the cen....

Olympics Mini Feature: Leon Marchand Could Be the Face of the Paris Games Most Olympiads feature a Face of the Games. Think Jesse Owens (1936) and Mark Spitz (1972). They will forever be linked to Berlin and Munich. Consider Carl Lewis (1984) and Michael Phelps (2008). Their names are tied to Los An...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 6: Kos-Murphy, McIntosh-Smith Among Gold-Medal Matchups After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 184 countr...

Olympics Mini Feature: USA-Australia Battling for Top Billing and Bragging Rights Time for some trivia. When was the last time in which the United States – barring the 1980 boycotted Games – failed to top the medals chart at the Olympics? The answer to the question is 1956, when host Australia claim...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 5: 100 Freestyle Finals Bookend Busy Middle Night After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 184 countries. T...

Already a World Champion, Hubert Kos Prepared to Take Next Step in Paris Bob Bowman, ever the statesman, was ready with a deflection. The 2023 World Aquatics Championships were about to wrap up in Fukuoka, Japan. The coach fielded questions about his work with Team USA and his tutelage of Leon March...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 4: Regan Smith, Kaylee McKeown Face Off in 100 Backstroke After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 184 coun...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 3: Summer McIntosh, David Popovici Favored to Reach Gold-Medal Podium After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes f...

Return of Fans, Olympic Experience Herald Normalcy for Veterans at Paris Olympics In a sense, everyone was a rookie at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. There was no precedent for an Olympics, already postponed a year, to be held during a global pandemic. With no overseas fans, no family, an impermeable b...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 2: Leon Marchand Heavily Favored For First Gold Medal After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 184 countrie...

On Sale! Swimming World Olympic Games Racing Guide Ahead of the Olympic Games in Paris, Swimming World is unveiling its Olympic Guide, a comprehensive statistical package designed for fans, coaches, athletes and media. The 240-page Olympic Guide, which has been weeks in preparation, features content...

Commentary: The Olympic Games Are Back - In the Fashion We Want Remember three years ago? Tokyo was the host, and the Japanese people were beyond welcoming. But there were no spectators. There were no roars from the stands. Athletes wore masks in between events. So did officials and media members. D...