U.S. Swimming

U.S. swimmer Bowe Becker walked away from swimming and the Summer Games. Now he has a gold medal

On a night the U.S. swim team had two defending Olympic champions competing, it was 17-year-old Lydia Jacoby who took home the lone gold for Team USA. The Americans claimed four more medals at the Tokyo Aquatics Center on Monday night, with Jacoby winning gold and Lilly King taking bronze in the women’s 100m breaststroke, Regan Smith capturing bronze...

U.S. Swimmer Chase Kalisz recalled asking Michael Phelps how he handled the same difficult schedule Olympians face now in Tokyo, with preliminary heats at night and final competition in the morning, when Phelps competed in Beijing....
Kalisz, the first American to capture a gold medal at the Tokyo Games when he won the men’s 400m individual medley on Sunday, noted that...

U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky won silver in the 400m women’s freestyle, losing to her Australian rival Ariarne Titmus in a much anticipated show China’s Li Bingjie took the bronze medal. Titmus, who won the event in the 2019 world championships, took the gold medal with a time of 3:56.69. Ledecky came in at 3:57.36 and Li at 4:01.08.

What do Olympians dream of? U.S. swimmer Lilly King shares one of hers with us and it just might surprise you.