The Rio 2016 swimming test is due to begin in the freshly opened Rio 2016 Aquatics Centre ©Rio City Government The venue in the main Olympic Park in Barra de Tijuca was officially opened last week in ...

OMAHA — Maya DiRado has an expiration date on her swimming career. The 23-year-old will swim in her first Olympics this August, and she’ll retire right after. On Sept. 9, she’ll begin her new career, ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Yulia Efimova, who won two Olympic silver medals this month after being cleared to compete in Rio following a doping ban, has compared swimming in the Games to being at war.

Doesn’t feel like it, but it’s been nine years since the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The final Olympiad for Michael Phelps. The trifecta of Katie Ledecky. Mack Horton’s epic defeat of Sun ...

A very different kind of Olympics is underway in Rio de Janeiro to honour the original games in Ancient Greece - where all the competitors are naked. The sporty naturists wear just a suntan as they ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's Cate Campbell says she felt betrayed by swimming in the wake of her flop at last year's Rio Olympics where she was tipped to win gold in the 50 and 100 meters ...

“After letting my walls down and coming out to the team, I felt like I could finally be me,” Canada’s Markus Thormeyer says.