TOKYO (Reuters) – Swimming’s world governing body FINA rescheduled the 2021 Fukuoka aquatics world championships to May 2022 on Monday to avoid a clash with the postponed Tokyo Olympics. The new dates for the swimming event in the Japanese city are May 13-29, ... More »
ATHENS (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee is stepping up its “scenario planning” for the Tokyo 2020 Games — including a possible postponement — as the coronavirus pandemic spreads, it said after an emergency meeting on Sunday. The IOC will hold di... More »
(Reuters) – United States backstroke specialist Jacob Pebley has called on USA Swimming to postpone June’s Olympic trials and lobby for the Tokyo Games to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. “I am deeply concerned by the IOC’s recent statement that t... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – In a change of scene, Santa Claus is donning flippers and a diving mask along with his traditional red-and-white outfit to scuba dive in a Paris aquarium as he teaches kids about global warming and climate issues during the festive season. Th... More »
VIEUX FORT, St Lucia (Reuters) – Endurance athlete Cameron Bellamy completed the longest recorded ocean channel swim on Sunday, covering the 151.7 km (94 miles) from Barbados to St Lucia in the Caribbean in 56 hours and 36 minutes, according to the official we... More »
TOKYO (Reuters) – High levels of E.coli bacteria forced Tokyo officials to cancel the swimming segment of Saturday’s Paratriathlon World Cup, raising concerns about next year’s Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Water quality tests at Odaiba Marine Park foun... More »
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s peak anti-doping authority has defended its use of “confidentiality agreements” to suppress details of doping cases amid a storm of criticism over the handling of swimmer Shayna Jack’s failed drug test. Jack was pulled out of ... More »
GWANGJU, South Korea (Reuters) – If the world swimming championships in Gwangju were just a taste of what is to come at the 2020 Olympics, then in the words of recently retired Australian sprinter James Magnussen — “Brace yourselves”. A meet that was supposed ... More »
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – U.S. payments card company Mastercard Inc said on Friday it still plans to apply for a bankcard clearing license in China and was in “active discussions” to explore solutions. Mastercard “continues to make every effort to secure the requis... More »
GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) – The Commonwealth Games has become a multi-sports party that struggles to pull high-profile guests but enthusiastic host Australia has promised a beach-side bash on the Gold Coast to reaffirm the event’s place in the global lan... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian George Corones, who will celebrate his 100th birthday next month, shaved a good chunk of time off the 50 meters long course freestyle world record for his age group at this week’s Commonwealth Games trials. The 99-year-old Victori... More »
Australian swimmer Cate Campbell professed a new-found love for her sport after breaking the 100 meters freestyle short course world record upon her return from a long break. More »
Katie Zaferes led an American one-two at the first women's triathlon Super League on Sunday after a weekend of high-octane racing across various formats in the sport's newest competition. More »
Fed-up with the grind of taking a bus or bike to work every day on congested streets in Munich, Benjamin David started swimming there instead. More »
Commuters in Taiwan on Tuesday pretended to hit a ball with a bat, swim and run on a Taipei subway train as part of a campaign to promote the capital's Summer Universiade games this month. More »
Malik Mohammad 24, leaves his house in Kabul, Afghanistan May 18, 2017. Picture taken May 18, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail It took a pair of landmines that severed Malek Mohammad’s legs for him to find his life’s passion for swimming in land-locked Afghanista... More »
File photo: 2016 Rio Olympics – Swimming – Preliminary – Men’s 100m Freestyle – Heats – Olympic Aquatics Stadium – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 09/08/2016. Ning Zetao (CHN) of China (PRC) reacts REUTERS/David Gray World champion Ning Zetao has been ditched from Ch... More »
By Carolyn Crist(Reuters Health) – Popular fitness trackers made for swimmers are accurate enough for recreational use to track and improve p More »
Olympic swimmer Grant Hackett of Australia speaks at a news conference at an event to unveil the new line of Speedo LZR Racer X swim suits in the Manhattan borough of New York City, December 15, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar Australian long distance swimming great ... More »
Some 30 swimmers braved the frosty waters of Germany’s Chiemsee over the weekend, racing to be crowned “Ice King” of the famous lake near Munich. More »
FILE PHOTO – 2016 Rio Olympics – Swimming – Preliminary – Men’s 200m Freestyle – Heats – Olympic Aquatics Stadium – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 07/08/2016. Park Tae-Hwan (KOR) of South Korea competes. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler South Korea’s Park Tae-hwan banish... More »
A British man aiming to swim across the Atlantic Ocean said on Monday he was battling to save his expedition after the captain of a support vessel and the team medic unexpectedly quit. More »
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike speaks in front of Tokyo 2020 Olympics emblem during an interview with Reuters at Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Tokyo’s governor said on Wednesday that now was the last ... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO First time Olympic winners, including Australian teen Kyle Chalmers in the 100 meters freestyle, plundered three of the four golds in the Rio pool on Wednesday but there was no getting past Katie Ledecky. On a night of novelty, with Mireia Belmo... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO A year ago, Mireia Belmonte was injured and unsure whether she would even be able to compete at the Rio Olympics. Now, after a come-from-behind victory in the 200 meters butterfly, the 25-year-old is the first female swimmer to win a gold medal ... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO Freestyle queen Katie Ledecky won her third gold medal of the Rio Olympics by anchoring the U.S. women to victory in the 4×200 metres freestyle relay on Wednesday while struggling Missy Franklin opened her account without being in the water for ... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO Leonidas of Rhodes would recognize a kindred spirit in Michael Phelps of Baltimore. After 2,160 years of history, give or take a decade, the greatest athlete of ancient Greece is no longer alone on his pedestal. The medal machine that is Phelps ... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO Mireia Belmonte won the 200 meters butterfly on Wednesday to become the first Spanish woman to win an Olympic swimming gold medal. The silver medalist in London four years ago went a step better in Rio with a winning time of two minutes, 4.85 se... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO The water in the Olympic diving pool was bright green on Tuesday, baffling at least one competitor who said she could not see her partner underwater, although organizers said that it did not pose any danger to health. The mysterious shade of the... More »
RIO DE JANEIRO Hans Gubler is the man who knows the answers but will never tell, the keeper of secrets as well as time at Rio’s Olympic aquatics center. Gubler is the Omega man, overseeing a ‘nerve-centre’ of timing systems as a privileged insider with access ... More »
BERLIN When record Olympic champion Michael Phelps and the king of sprinting Usain Bolt resume their hunt for world records and gold medals at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics next month they will not be the only big stories in town. A team of refugees, hand-picked... More »
OMAHA, Nebraska After the cut-throat competition of the U.S. Olympic Trials, the Rio Games will be a swim in the park, Michael Phelps said on Saturday as the most decorated Olympian of all time prepared for his final races in the United States. A reflective, r... More »
OMAHA, Nebraska Missy Franklin was selected this week in the Harlem Globetrotters’ 10th annual celebrity player draft, yet she comes into the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials that begin on Sunday as anything but a slam dunk for Rio Games gold. With a resume that inclu... More »
CAPE TOWN Kirsty Coventry could become the first female Olympian to win eight individual medals when she competes at the 2016 Games this summer, but recent doping scandals have made the Zimbabwe swimmer wonder if her races in Rio will be clean. The 32-year-old... More »
SEOUL The doctor who administered injections which caused decorated South Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan to fail a doping test was found not guilty of causing injury through professional negligence on Thursday. The doctor, identified only by her surname Kim, had... More »
