Olympic Swimming News

Readers have made their decision, and the Fan Favorite finalists have been selected for the third annual Varsity Cup awards banquet.

LESS than a year after swimming in his third Olympics, the double Commonwealth gold medallist David Carry has been appointed a director of Scottish Swimming the sport's most successful competitor ever to reach board status.

IT was a case of so close yet so far for Wyre Forest SC as for the second round in a row they came runners-up in the Ross PGL League.

IRVINE, California, May 24. THE Speedo Grand Challenge kicked off today with its first day of competition.

NEWPORT Swimming Club's Sam Hynd is hoping his hard work pays off with more medals at the World Championships in August.

Olympic champion Ryan Lochte was the teacher and Hassaan Abdel-Khalik was happy to be the pupil during Friday's opening night of the Mel Zajac Jr.

Rising senior Pavel Sankovich will represent Belarus at the FINA World Championships in the 50m and 100m back as well as the 100 fly.

A University of Maryland spokesman acknowledged Friday that the university had received a letter in the late 1980s from then-swimming and diving coach Rick Curl admitting that he had sex with an underage girl.

Luis Villanueva preaches a simple message and it's one he hopes will resonate clearly with New Zealand's leading swimmers.

Every year Professor Stephen P. Leatherman of Florida International University ranks America's 10 best beaches based on a list of 50 criteria.

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THE refurbished swim centre includes an improved 10-lane, 50-metre competition pool and a new six-lane, 50-metre warm-up pool, creating one of the largest facilities of its kind in Europe.

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 23. THE Israel swimming foundation announced this week that seven men and one woman will represent the country at the FINA world championships this summer in Barcelona, Spain.

One of swimming's four strokes could soon have a brand new look and not everyone is happy about it.

A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed.

A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing one of the girls he instructed.

Memorial Day weekend is just around the corner, and, conveniently, so is the opening date for several area pools.

The British Heart Foundation have released more places for the biggest charity sea swim in Europe after over 1,000 have already signed up for the Bournemouth Pier to Pier swim.

Local ex-swimming coach Rick Curl, who once led one of the nation's largest swim clubs and guided athletes to Olympic gold, will be sentenced Thursday afternoon for sexually abusing a girl he coached in the 1980s.

Carry retired after the 2012 London Olympics , but won gold in the 400m freestyle and individual medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.