Katie Ledecky earned her third consecutive women’s 800 metres freestyle Olympic gold as compatriot Caeleb Dressel lowered his own men’s 100 metres butterfly world record on the penultimate day of Tokyo 2020 swimming finals here today.
Ryan Murphy of the United States, who won swimming silver in today’s men’s 200 metres backstroke final behind Evgeny Rylov of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), told a media conference that he could not be sure the race was clean.
Tatjana Schoenmaker won the women’s 200 metres breaststroke title in a world record to secure the first swimming gold medal at these Games for South Africa on a day when Emma McKeown added Australia’s sixth gold with an Olympic record in the women’s 100m freestyle.
China held off the United States to win the women’s 4x200 metres freestyle Olympic title in a world record time as both nations secured two gold medals here today.
Ariarne Titmus, Yui Ohashi and Tom Dean all won their second gold medals of Tokyo 2020 after another intriguing session of swimming finals which saw Katie Ledecky become a six-time Olympic champion.
Tom Dean and Duncan Scott gave Britain their first one-two finish in an Olympic swimming pool for 113 years after powering onto the men’s 200 metres freestyle podium at Tokyo 2020 here.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has granted an additional marathon swimming quota place for Tokyo 2020, which will allow Kazakhstan's Vitaliy Khudyakov to compete in the 10 kilometres event.
Australia’s Ariarne Titmus came from behind to snatch victory from five-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky in an epic women’s 400 metres freestyle final, while Britain’s Adam Peaty retained his men’s 100m breaststroke title on a thrilling morning of swimming finals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics here today.
Kazakhstan's Vitaliy Khudyakov has registered an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) Ad Hoc Division here at Tokyo 2020, in a last-gasp bid to be allowed to race in the Olympic marathon swimming competitions.
Tunisian teenager Ayoub Hafnaoui claimed a stunning gold on the opening morning of Olympic swimming finals at Tokyo 2020, as Yui Ohashi topped the podium for hosts Japan and Australia set a relay world record.
The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has opened a bidding process to choose an official pool partner for 2022 to 2025.
The newly-built, 15,000 capacity Aquatics Centre will not see any spectators but it seems certain to witness a succession of United States victories for Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel.
The European champion in the men's 400 metres individual medley is the latest athlete ruled out of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics through testing positive for COVID-19.
Jennifer Harding-Marlin’s last-ditch attempt to compete at the 2020 Olympics here has been dashed after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Ad Hoc Division dismissed her appeal to win a universality spot at the Games here.
Long-time International Olympic Committee (IOC) sponsor Panasonic has launched a video series with athlete ambassadors in advance of this year's delayed Games in Tokyo.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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