The guiding principle for Audrey Tirrell in founding Freestyle Swimwear was finding products she wished she could use when she swam. The discomfort and drabness of training suits has been the ...

Katie Ledecky continues to prove she's the greatest female swimmer ever whenever she steps foot into a pool. The nine-time Olympic gold medalist posted the second-fastest swim ever in the 1,500-meter ...

Simone Manuel claimed a tight victory in the women’s 50-meter freestyle at the US Olympic swimming trials on Sunday, edging out Gretchen Walsh by 0.02 seconds. Manuel, a five-time Olympic medalist, ...

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Canadian Summer McIntosh won the 400m freestyle — the first of her two head-to-heads with Katie Ledecky — to open her bid to win a record-tying five individual gold medals at the World Swimming ...

Who are the top contenders for the men's 100m freestyle? Not only is this year's 100m freestyle field the fastest in history, with five of the top ten swimmers in history competing at this year's ...

From Summer McIntosh shattering three world records last month to Gretchen Walsh and Katie Ledecky lowering their own world records in May, the times have only gotten faster since the Paris Olympic ...