Swimming News

" Valerie Grand'Maison got Canada off to a flying start at the Paralympics, leading a podium sweep in the 100-metre butterfly for the visually impaired on the opening day of competition.

GREAT BRITAIN enjoyed a tremendous opening day of the Paralympic Games with three cycling gold medals before also triumphing in the pool.

BEIJING -- Never mind the prospect of a swimmer competing in the butterfly who has only one leg, or a long jumper who is blind.

Entertainment Tonight Headlines Record-breaking Olympian Michael Phelps continued to celebrate his eight gold medals from the Beijing Olympics in Las Vegas.

BEIJING : Melissa Stockwell has her share of coveted medals, like a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

GRANT Hackett says it remains a 50-50 decision whether he will retire or swim on to the Commonwealth Games in India in 2010.

Rescuers on Friday searched for a missing crew member from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter that crashed in ocean waters off Oahu, killing the three others on board.

Canada's Chantal Petitclerc has won 14 Paralympic medals, including eight gold, during her stellar career.

Tropical Storm Hanna rattled the tourist beaches of the Carolinas as its center edged closer to shore early Saturday for the start of a projected dash up the Eastern Seaboard that could wash out the weekend for ...

The International Swimming Federation on Friday banned Brazilian star Rebeca Gusmao for life for failing two drug tests.

Radar Staff Writer Neel Shah spent the evening in Las Vegas , and was kind enough to send along these fine photos of Olympic hero Michael Phelps "massively skeeving on girls at the Playboy Club" in that city's ...

A swimmer trains at the water Cube in Beijing ahead of the Paralympic Games. Still basking in the glory of staging a successful Olympics, China is about to step into the limelight again with what promises to be ...

Swimmer Natalie du Toit will make history when she leads the South African Paralympic team as the official flag bearer at the opening of the Beijing Paralympics tomorrow.

Todd Cruz, an infielder with the 1983 world champion Baltimore Orioles, has died.

Michael Phelps of the United States celebrates victory in the Men's 100m Butterfly Final held at the National Aquatics Centre during Day 8 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 16, 2008 in Beijing, China.

A Chandler High School swimmer was rescued and resuscitated by her coach Tuesday afternoon after having an epileptic seizure while in the water.

Authorities have identified the swimmer whose body was recovered from the Wisconsin River near downtown Wausau.

Blind swimmer Donovan Tildesley of Vancouver will be Canada's flagbearer for Saturday's opening ceremony of the 2008 Paralympics.

Campbell County Emergency Dispatch has released information from the 911 call about the child's drowning.

The Army Corps of Engineers will release stormwater runoff from Lake Okeechobee, in preparation for rains that may come with the three storms in the Atlantic.