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Swimming has been a sport at every modern Summer Olympics. It has been open to women since 1912. Along with track & field athletics and gymnastics it is one of the most popular spectator sports at the Games and the one with the largest number of events.
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Two-time Olympic swimming gold medalist Rebecca Adlington says she will stay away from Twitter during the London Games because of the nasty comments she has received about her looks.
Adlington says she's fed up with the "awful" abuse on Twitter and other social networks.Winner of the 400-meter and 800-meter freestyle events at the 2008 Beijing Games, Adlington says "even if there are 10 nice comments, you get one idiot. I've now given up."Adlington, who has more than 48,000 followers on Twitter, is one of Britain's most prominent athletes heading into the Olympics on home soil.She says she won't be using or checking Twitter during the games because "you don't want that added stress."Adlington says "I think I will Tweet once it is over."...Moving to Rio, I had visions of paradise, of a sprawling apartment with panoramic views over a palm-lined beach.Instead, I found myself plunged into the inferno of o...
The youngest person ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee was running around in a stream with a friend, hunting for rocks. Suddenly, she came charging up the...
Janet Evans finished sixth in the 800-meter freestyle Sunday at the Speedo Grand Challenge in the former Olympic champion's final tuneup meet before the Olympic tria...
The Japanese swimming federation is reconsidering plans to conduct altitude training following the death of Norwegian 100 meter breaststroke world champion Alexander...
The president of the Syrian Olympic Committee says the war-torn country will send 20 sports officials and 10 athletes to the London Games.Gen. Mowaffak Joumaa says 1...
If you ever need motivation to slide off the couch and hit the gym, just think of Dara Torres.At 45, the superstar swimmer has been training feverishly to make her s...
The Japanese swimming federation is reconsidering plans to conduct altitude training following the death of Norwegian 100-meter breaststroke world champion Alexander...
Alexander Dale Oen, a world champion swimmer who was one of Norway's top medal hopes for the London Olympics, has died during training camp in Flagstaff, Ariz. He wa...
By Thahir AsmalDURBAN (Reuters) - Princess Charlene of Monaco will host a two-week training camp for South Africa's swimming team in the build-up to the London Olymp...
Swimming governing body FINA has announced the draw for water polo at the London Games, grouping men's Olympic champion Hungary with the United States, Serbia, Roman...
Three-sport discipline tests the endurance of an athlete in swimming , cycling and running
Kosuke Kitajima has qualified for his fourth Olympics after winning the men's 100-meter breaststroke at Japan's swimming championships.Kitajima, who captured gold in...
Los Angeles Police Officer on ride to break world Ferris Wheel Record.
Lee Korzits grew up at a humble water sports school north of Tel Aviv, where stacks of surfboards stand next to low-slung rusty tin shacks.It's an unlikely training ...
One of the world's largest open-air landfills, a vast, seaside mountain of trash where thousands of people have made a living sorting through the debris by hand, wil...
Olympic swimmers Janet Evans and Ricky Berens discuss the upcoming Olympic games
South Africa's Olympic swimmers can expect to be treated like kings and queens while preparing for the London Games after an offer of help from a former team member ...
South Africa's Olympic swimmers can expect to be treated like kings and queens before the London Games.Princess Charlene of Monaco, a former Olympic swimmer for Sout...
For Jack Faust, a 101-year-old Navy veteran of World War II, the key to longevity is pretty simple."I never drank, I never smoked -- and that's helped out a lot," Fa...
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