Caeleb Dressel’s Olympic journey is ending in a painful way. On Friday, the swimming superstar didn’t even final in his best event — the 100-meter butterfly. Thirty minutes earlier, he finished sixth ...

By then, the Team USA star already had 13 World Championship titles; a medley relay world record on the final day in Tokyo was the ninth in his possession. A swimming superhero had fully established ...

PARIS, France — Caeleb Dressel, the Tokyo Olympics gold medalist in the 100-meter butterfly, failed to qualify for the event final in Paris after finishing fifth in his heat on Friday. After the ...

But the water has been choppy since. It was barely a fortnight after that Olympics that Dressel took a short break from swimming for mental health concerns, before parting ways with long-time coach ...