Swimmer

Kieran Smith won bronze in the men’s 400m freestyle on Saturday, bringing Team USA’s medal count to three.

Olympic swimmer Caeleb Dressel took home two gold medals from Rio in 2016. Dressel explains how his philosophy of being one with his environment helps him excel.

Former U.S. Olympic swimmer Klete Keller has been charged in federal court in connection to the U.S. Capitol riot last week.

Fifteen year-old Anastasia Pagonis’ vision impairment has progressively worsened over the years. In 2018, she lost her vision, but she did not let that stop her zest for life. She turned to what she knew and loved — swimming. Pagonis’ passion for swimming developed as she battled vision decline between the ages of five and 15 during therapy. Now, she’s...

The woman who was sexually assaulted by ex-Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner and later read a powerful statement at his sentencing has revealed her identity.

A 9-year-old Brooklyn boy died during a class trip to a water park in New Jersey Tuesday, authorities said.

If summer is making you itch, then Minuteclinic Nurse Practitioner Patricia Baginski is here to help. Here are her tips for tick bites, poison ivy, and more:

City rescuers and health care professionals converged on Loyola Park Beach Monday night for a safety workshop to benefit any and every level of swimmer and boater in the area–given that 27 deaths have already been reported this year in Lake Michigan.

A 14-year-old boy died Friday after being found unresponsive in a pool days earlier at Thornton Fractional South in south suburban Lansing.

An appeals court on Wednesday rejected a former Stanford University swimmer’s bid for a new trial and upheld his sexual assault and attempted rape convictions.

A bridegroom has been credited with saving a struggling swimmer just moments after his beach wedding on the Gulf Coast last week. Zac and Cindy Edwards had just gotten married at Orange Beach, Alabama, and were taking wedding photos when a woman came up and said someone was struggling in the surf, WALA-TV reported. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class...

Ryan Lochte posted a photo for the world to see, and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency noticed. It got him suspended — again. The longtime U.S. swimming star has been banned from competition until July 2019, which means the 12-time Olympic medalist cannot compete as planned in the national championships that start this week in California. Lochte will also be ineligible...

The prosecution of U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte for filing a false police report during the 2016 Olympics is back on after a Brazilian court decision this week. During the games in Rio de Janeiro, the 12-time Olympic medalist told NBC that he and fellow swimmers were robbed at gunpoint in a taxi by men with police badges as they returned...

Professional distance swimmer Ben Lecomte set off from Japan to San Francisco on Tuesday in an attempt to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean. Spokesman Alexandre Borreil said Lecomte left at 8 a.m. on Tuesday from Choshi, Japan, which is northeast of Tokyo in neighboring Chiba prefecture. He is expected to swim eight hours daily on...

When an athlete succeeds as often as Mikaela Shiffrin does, the slip-ups suddenly seem to get a lot more attention. So when Shiffrin held a pre-Olympics news conference Saturday, 48 hours before the first of what could be five events for the American skiing star at the Pyeonchang Games, the initial question was not about her 2014 slalom gold medal...

World champion swimmer Ariana Kukors has accused an U.S. Olympic team coach of sexually abusing her starting when she was 16, the latest misconduct allegations against those charged with caring for young athletes. It’s another scandal for the U.S. governing body of swimming and for the sports world, which was rocked by a litany of sexual misconduct by former USA...

A sea lion reportedly bit a female swimmer at San Francisco’s Aquatic Park Thursday morning, marking at least the fourth such attack to occur in the area over the past month, according to fire officials.

The Golden Gate National Park Service has closed San Francisco’s Aquatic Park to swimming until Monday after two attacks by sea lions in as many days.