Swimming

One of China’s most successful and popular Olympians, two-time gold medalist swimmer Pan Zhanle, shut down his official fan page on the regime-controlled Weibo social media site this week, prompting loud applause from state media for taking a stand against “toxic fan culture.”

CrossFit athlete Lazar Dukic drowned Thursday during a competition in Fort Worth, Texas, only 100 yards from the finish line of a swimming event, reports say.

The China Anti-Doping Agency issued a statement on Thursday demanding the world force American athletes to take more tests for banned substances, an apparent respond to growing condemning of the Chinese Olympics team for allowing athletes who tested positive for banned substances compete in Paris.

History’s most decorated Olympian, swimmer Michael Phelps, told reporters competitive sports should have a “one and done” rule for athletes who test positive for banned substances – anyone testing positive should “never be allowed to come back.”

An Olympic swimmer from Paraguay was kicked out of the Olympic Village in Paris over the weekend for alleged “inappropriate behavior.”

Belgium said it would withdraw from the mixed relay triathlon at the Olympics after one of its competitors who swam in the Seine River fell ill.

An Australian swimmer who has won gold and silver thus far is slamming the “ridiculous,” woke, eco-friendly Olympic village schemes as not conducive to high-performance athletics, and it may have cost her a record finish.

U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Brinegar has been handed a four-year ban for blood doping.

Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions during the Paris Olympics.

Lia Thomas, the infamous transgender swimmer who won so many NCAA women’s swimming titles in 2022, is barred from the 2024 Olympics.

Trans athlete Cece Telfer competing in a women’s event is “simply cheating” former Great Britain Olympic medal winner Sharron Davies declared Monday.

Owen Lloyd won the ACC championship 1650-yard freestyle ACC title on Saturday, but his celebration only lasted minutes.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko was jeered by some of the crowd after finishing second in the women’s 400-meter medley on the closing day of the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar on Sunday.

A man is accused of stripping off his clothes and then jumping into the Bass Pro Shops aquarium in Leeds, Alabama, on Thursday.

A Chicago-area community is grieving the loss of a high school freshman who tragically died Sunday after he suffered a stroke during swim practice.

A 50-year-old male-born transgender swimmer has caused outrage after being allowed to compete in a teen girls’ swimming competition.

Swimmer Meghan Cortez-Fields, a man living as a woman, broke several records after switching from the men’s team over to the women’s team.

A group of female college swimmers in Virginia won their battle to prevent a male-born “transgender woman” from joining their team.

Riley Gaines delivered another cutting blow in the ongoing feud with former ESPN sports anchor Keith Olbermann.

Keith Olbermann has sparked controversy over his personal attack on former NCAA swimming champion Riley Gaines.

A cause of death for former U.S. swimming champion Jamie Cail, who died in Feb., has finally be determined.

Paris Olympics organizers canceled a swimming test event Saturday in the Seine River because of new concerns about water quality.

Former Olympic swimmer Helen Smart, who represented Britain during the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia, has died at the age of 43.

Citizens are in awe of a group of lifeguards in Flagler Beach, Florida, who performed an incredible rescue August 5.

Australian swimming champion Cate Campbell said she is glad she won’t have to hear the U.S. national anthem after the Aussies beat the U.S.

Ex-UPenn swimmer Paula Scanlan spoke out against the school’s decision to allow the male-born Lia Thomas to use the women’s locker rooms.

Even the heat wave passing over Europe isn’t enough to keep the popular public baths open, as authorities react to a rising tide of violence, allegedly by migrant men.

A trio of furry raccoons were spotted living their best life Friday in Huntington Beach, California. 

Radical transgender activist Schuyler Bailar claimed this week that Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps’ “long torso” giving him an advantage

A group of Wis. high school girls have sent a letter to their school district upset by a policy allowing a transgender to shower with them.

Former NCAA women’s swimming star Riley Gaines was reportedly “ambushed” and “hit by a man wearing a dress” at San Francisco State University on Thursday after giving a speech about saving women’s sports during a Turning Point USA and Leadership Institute event on the campus.

A person who saw a child in extreme danger took immediate action in Santa Ana, California, on Sunday afternoon.

A second body was found at approximately 1:00 a.m. Thursday during a search for twin boys who vanished over the weekend in the water at pier in Galveston, Texas.

A New Jersey high school swimmer was reportedly disqualified due to the American flag on his swimming cap being too big for regulation, according to the boy’s father. 

Democrat U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman’s wife, Gisele, recently lamented about the supposed racism that pervades swimming in America.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that a woman cannot be born with a penis “without being a man” during a trip to Rwanda, but warned that people must be “very, very sensitive” when discussing such issues.