The action in the Rio swimming pool has been stellar during the 2016 Olympics so far--especially for Team USA, which has emerged very, very golden. Michael Phelps is the latest to grab another gold in ...

Stand me at the top of a 10 meter diving platform and the swirl of vertigo will be enough to send me clambering nervously back down down the narrow steps. But once I get to the bottom and my legs are ...

Team USA's excellence in the pool continued Monday as there were medals aplenty and some high drama on Day 3 of the Rio Olympics. Most of USA's biggest names in swimming were in action, while some of ...

The U.S. has won nearly a third of all Olympic swimming medals ever awarded and look to add to their 500-plus medals at the 2016 Rio Games. Team USA swimmers have dominated a number of events – their ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Everyone on the planet has been talking about Michael Phelps and Chad Le Clos, NBC swimming analyst Rowdy Gaines said Tuesday. Uh oh. When NBC ran a split screen picture of an inert ...

As it turns out, it’s pretty easy being green. Olympic organizers scrambled to answer just how they let a pair of outdoor Olympic pools in Rio turn green. It began Tuesday when, apparently overnight, ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The "embarrassing" emerald green water in the pools at the Rio aquatics centre that left some athletes with itchy eyes is the result of an unplanned dump of hydrogen ...

A Brazilian judge has ordered the closure of Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park from today on safety grounds. The complex includes the abandoned site of the pool in which we witnessed the last stand of ...

With this month’s Olympic Swimming Trials now upon us, Swimming World takes a back-to-the-future approach to revisit some training done by superstar Katie Ledecky prior to the 2016 U.S. team ...

The new Fierce Five open the team competition after men's competitor Samir Ait Said broke his leg on the vault. And the U.S. could score a rare medal in men's fencing. By Andy Lewis Day two of the Rio ...

Ukraine secured a Rio 2016 berth after claiming gold on the final day of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) Synchronised Swimming Olympic Games Qualification Tournament at the Maria Lenk ...