The New York Times story reported on lifeguards tasked with watching over the athletes, even someone as adept in the pool as Michael Phelps, who had 18 gold medals to his name at the time the story ...

After the Paris Olympics began in late July 2024, a meme went viral making fun of the notion that professional lifeguards are present at Olympic swimming events, calling it the most "useless" job in ...

In the last week, we've seen swimmers diving headfirst into the 2024 Paris Olympics pool, limbs gracefully slicing through the water. And yet, world and Olympic records weren't broken at quite the ...

Short course: A term used to describe a pool in which one length measures 25 meters (or 25 yards). Most college pools are short courses, and most events during the winter are held at short-course ...

As Olympic athletes jumped off diving boards and flipped through their artistic water sports routines in Paris, they were doing so in a pool heated by a nearby data center. The Aquatics Centre, a ...

Dutch Olympic swimming champion Maarten van der Weijden, 44, broke the world record for backward swimming on Saturday, ...

The U.S. Olympic Swim Trials will return to Indianapolis in 2028, according to a report from the Indianapolis Business Journal. An announcement from USA Swimming and Indiana Sports Corp. is expected ...

Swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics will take place inside Paris La Defense Arena, the largest indoor events venue in Europe.

Tyler Melbourne-Smith On His Record-Breaking Feats & Training Alongside Olympic Elite Tyler Melbourne-Smith rewrote the Welsh ...

The world’s deepest swimming pool is Deep Dive Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The pool is 60 meters deep and filled with 15 million liters of freshwater, which is the equivalent of six Olympic ...

Michael Phelps is no longer defined only by his Olympic medals. Nine years after retiring from swimming, the most celebrated ...