A report on Friday night from WBBH, an NBC television affiliate in Fort Myers, Fla., said Phelps will return to swimming with an eye toward competing at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The three-paragraph story on the station's Web site was posted by news anchor Peter Busch, who is the son of Frank Busch, director of the U.S. national swim team.
"The greatest Olympian of all time isn't hanging up his swimsuit, after all," the report said, without citing any sources.
Phelps went on Twitter to downplay the report, but he didn't specifically deny it either.
"Why do I keep getting texts about coming back?" he wrote. "Do (people) really believe everything they hear or read? There are (too) many (people) in the world that think they have a 'story.'"...
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12:32 PM, May 18, 2013
Young swimmer Bobby Rana returned home with two bronze medals (50m and 100m butterfly) in his bag, which he won at the World Schools Swimming Cup Championship under-18 (boys and girls) held in Herzilya (Israel). ...
12:05 PM, Apr 23, 2013
London: A lifeguard was chatting to a customer for up to 15 minutes in the lead-up to the drowning of an eight-year-old Indian boy in the city of Wolverhampton, a British court was told. The lifeguard Kelly Woods is accused of failing to properly supervise pool users including youngster Suraj Mall at Wolverhampton Swimming and Fitness Centre in February 2008. During Woods' trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Friday jurors...
09:57 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Ahmedabad: A swimming pool in Ahmedabad is creating waves of controversy. The Gujarat University Vice Chancellor, Adesh Pal, is building a private pool with a capacity for 72,000 litres of water. Political activists have hit out at him saying this is blatantly insensitive given that thousands of villages in the state are drought hit. Many are questioning the estimated cost of Rs 20 lakh for the pool, while the university...
07:53 AM, Apr 12, 2013
New York: Lance Armstrong's plan to return to athletic competition was stopped by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) as he was pulled out of a swimming event. Armstrong, who is serving a lifetime ban from Olympic sports because of his doping violations, will not compete in the Masters South Central Zone Swimming Championships at the University of Texas this weekend after FINA raised objections on Thursday, reports Xinhua. The 41-year-old...
04:50 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Nugent, who oversaw Australia's second-best Olympic medals haul at the 2004 Athens Games, was named head coach in 2009. ...
10:52 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Michael Phelps has ruled out the possibility of competing at the 2016 Rio Olympics, saying he is happier in retirement. ...
02:42 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The government seems to have major hopes attached to archery, boxing and shooting - increasing their budget by almost 100 percent. ...
04:48 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Swimming Australia has appointed a panel to investigate allegations of drunkenness, misuse of prescription drugs and bullying by members of the London Olympic team. ...
01:08 PM, Feb 21, 2013
American swimmer Ryan Lochte ended his world short-course championships on a high in Istanbul. ...
12:29 PM, Dec 17, 2012
London: Judges are choosing the winner of Britain's most prestigious literary trophy from a shortlist that includes novels set in the court of King Henry VIII and the opium dens of Mumbai. Hilary Mantel is favored to win the 50,000 pound ($82,000) Booker Prize with "Bring Up the Bodies," a tale of Tudor treachery which follows the fates of the king's right-hand man, Thomas Cromwell, and the monarch's second wife,...
04:56 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Man Booker Prize winner for 2012 will be announced today, as some are calling it "the book world's equivalent of Oscars night". India's Jeet Thayil is also in the running for his debut book Narcopolis, a prize worth 50,000 pounds. Indian writer Jeet Thayil's first novel 'Narcopolis', described as a compelling tale of Mumbai's hazy world of opium addiction, has made it to the six-author shortlist for...
11:14 AM, Oct 16, 2012
I am normally not a fan of Booker Long List of Short List nominations. I tend to find them boring to get by and honestly do not see the fuss made around them sometimes. However, when I started reading one of this year's shortlisted books, I began to see the light, at least for that book. 'Swimming Home' by Deborah Levy is an outstanding nominee for this year's much awaited...
04:58 PM, Oct 15, 2012
London: Indian writer Jeet Thayil's first novel 'Narcopolis', described as a compelling tale of Mumbai's hazy world of opium addiction, has made it to the six-author shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2012 announced today. Apart from 53-year-old Kerala-born Thayil, authors on the shortlist are Deborah Levy, Hilary Mantel, Alison Moore, Will Self and Tan Twan Eng. The winner will be announced on October 16 at Londons Guildhall during a...
05:37 PM, Sep 11, 2012
New Delhi: India's sole entry in swimming, Sharath Gayakwad finished fourth in his 100m Butterfly heat with a personal best timing of 1:07.12 but failed to qualify for the finals in the Paralympics Games Thursday. His timing was 0.58 seconds slower than the qualification mark for the finals. Commenting on his performance, having shaved off five seconds from his Olympic qualification time, the 21-year-old said, "I am really proud of...
11:31 PM, Aug 30, 2012
CNN takes a look at some Olympians who lost but still won hearts in London. ...
05:30 PM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Chen Ruolin of China won the women's 10-meter platform title at the London Olympics on Thursday night, easily defending her title from Beijing by a 55.80-point margin. Chen totaled 422.30 points during the five-dive final. She earlier won gold in the 10-meter synchronized and swept the platform events for the second consecutive games. Chen was dominant through all three rounds of the competition. She finished the morning semifinal with...
02:07 AM, Aug 10, 2012
London: Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina extended Russia's domination of synchronized swimming with an Olympic gold medal in duet on Tuesday. The Russians improved on their free score from the prelims, finishing with a total of 197.100 points. They haven't lost an Olympic synchro event since the 1996 Atlanta Games. The only real drama was for silver, which went to Spain's Ona Carbonell and Andrea Fuentes with 192.900 after a...
09:33 PM, Aug 07, 2012
