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...
12:32 PM, May 18, 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
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 on Sunday, when he took gold in the 4x100 metres medley and 100 metres individual medley to take his overall medal tally to eight. Lochte swam the free leg of the 4x100 medley and guided the Americans to victory in a time of 3:21.03 ahead of Russia 3:22.86 and Australia 3:24.77. The victory gave Lochte his...
12:29 PM, Dec 17, 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
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
Speaking to CNN, the most decorated Olympian in history Michael Phelps shared his experiences and the post retirement plans. ...
05:57 PM, Aug 07, 2012
CNN IBN experts panel discussed about the most decorated Olympian Michael Phelps who called it a career on Saturday night with a fitting ending. ...
11:00 AM, Aug 05, 2012
London: Michael Phelps kept his word after swimming into history with one last, immense Olympic appearance on Saturday. The greatest Olympic swimmer, and to many the greatest athlete as well, called time on his sensational career with an 18th gold medal and the recognition that he had done everything he had set out to do. Asked why he had to go, when he was still so obviously a winner, still...
09:44 AM, Aug 05, 2012
London: An era of unprecedented sporting domination comes to an end at the London Olympics on Saturday, when Michael Phelps swims his last competitive race. Phelps is heavily favored to add one more gold to his collection of 21 Olympic medals, 17 of them gold, when he swims the butterfly leg of the 4x100 medley relay, a race the Americans have never lost. The 27-year-old swam his first Olympics in...
02:54 PM, Aug 04, 2012
London: American teenager Missy Franklin confirmed her arrival as the new queen of the pool when she broke the world record to win the 200 metres backstroke final on Friday and become the first triple gold medallist of the London Olympics. The 17-year-old from Colorado led the four-lap race from start to finish to win in a time of two minutes 04.06 seconds, slashing three-quarters of a second off Kirsty...
12:52 AM, Aug 04, 2012
London: Swimming legend Michael Phelps, the most prolific Olympic medallist, has confirmed he would retire after the London Olympics. "No more competitive swimming, no more club meets. I will definitely retire after London Olympics," Phelps was quoted as saying by Xinhua on Thursday. Phelps retained a third straight Olympic gold in the 200m individual medley ON Thursday, becoming the first male swimmer to win the same event at three successive...
06:50 PM, Aug 03, 2012
London: Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands won the 100-meter freestyle at the London Olympics on Thursday. Kromowidjojo clocked 53.00 to improve on her own Olympic record set in Wednesday's semifinals. Aliaksandra Herasimenia of Belarus touched in 53.38 to take the silver medal and Tang Yi of China finished in 53.44 for bronze in swimming's signature event. ...
02:06 AM, Aug 03, 2012
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