State high school associations may adopt rules permitting the use of backstroke ledges during swimming competitions starting ...

North Carolina State alum Katharine Berkoff has emerged as seemingly the No. 2 sprint backstroke swimmer in Team USA’s arsenal. After finishing fourth in the 100 backstroke at the Olympic Trials ...

As if a three-way swim-off wasn’t entertaining enough, the finish Saturday morning in the men’s 200 backstroke was a thriller. Event 116 Men 200 Yard Backstroke Swim-off ...

The race that had an entire country on the edge of their seats: Spyros Gianniotis wins a silver medal at the Rio Olympics—the ...

Italian swimming sensation Sara Curtis has shown signs she could eclipse former Olympic champion Federica Pellegrini after a record-breaking display at the national championships on Wednesday. Curtis ...

At a swim meet just outside St. Louis ... the Makos swimmers practice in a YMCA pool that doesn’t have starting blocks. Backstroke flags are held in place with fishing wire, and the assistant ...

Big Blue Swim School is opening its third New Jersey location in North Brunswick on April 7. Husband-and-wife owners Julia and Jamey Holmes are committed to swim safety and share Big Blue’s ...

Adam Peaty will carry on swimming until the next Olympics after ... never previously been contested at a Games in breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly. Peaty holds the 50m breaststroke world ...

The IOC also announced that swimming will finally include 50-meter ... So in Los Angeles, a 50-meter breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly race will be in the program. A new discipline has ...

Pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King are among six women who traveled aboard Blue Origin’s all-female, suborbital space tourism mission. • The company’s New Shepard rocket lifted ...

Two British tourists have drowned while swimming at a beach near the Great Barrier Reef. A 17-year-old boy and a 46-year-old man entered the water without lifeguards in the town of Seventeen ...

Gayle King has slammed people who called her Blue Origin flight a 'space ride', claiming it's 'sexist'. The 70-year-old broadcast journalist joined the likes of Katy Perry, Jeff Bezos's fiancée ...