Records that stand for more than a decade are supposed to fall by the slimmest of margins, a swim of a lifetime resulting in a touch of the wall just faster than the star of a past era. They're not ...

Tyler Clary touched the wall, ripped off his goggles and whipped around to check out the scoreboard. He liked what he saw: a ''2'' beside his name. Clary rallied to finish second in the 200-meter ...

When the initial entries for the World Championships were released, Leon Marchand appeared set to duplicate his four-event program from last summer’s Olympic Games in Paris. At a home Olympics, the ...

Marchand, a star in France, enjoys a relatively anonymous life in the U.S., where he trains. He and Speedo have a plan to boost his profile in America ahead of the 2028 L.A. Olympics. Du Yu / Xinhua ...

Léon Marchand said he was going for the world record in the 200-meter individual medley at the world championships. He didn’t even wait until the final to get it. In Wednesday’s semifinals in ...

Chase Kalisz and Jay Litherland delivered Team USA’s first medals of the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday night, taking the gold and silver, respectively, in the 400 individual medley. Kalisz established a ...