Hosts: Rio de Janeiro Dates: 5-21 August Rio time: BST -4 Coverage: Watch on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four, Red Button and up to 24 HD video streams on mobile, desktop, connected TVs and app, plus follow ...

With this month’s Olympic Swimming Trials now upon us, Swimming World takes a back-to-the-future approach to revisit some training done by superstar Katie Ledecky prior to the 2016 U.S. team ...

Gold medalist Simone Manuel of the United States celebrates during the medal ceremony for the Women's 100m Freestyle Final on ...

The action in the Rio swimming pool has been stellar during the 2016 Olympics so far--especially for Team USA, which has emerged very, very golden. Michael Phelps is the latest to grab another gold in ...

The swimmers of Team USA claimed 33 medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, matching their highest-ever total since the 2000 Sydney Games. So many great moments contributed to this total, including Michael ...

Both Andrew Willis and Craig Benson will feel they have something to prove because Ross Murdoch, the European champion, isn't in the team. They must know that people are talking behind their backs.

The U.S. has won nearly a third of all Olympic swimming medals ever awarded and look to add to their 500-plus medals at the 2016 Rio Games. Team USA swimmers have dominated a number of events – their ...

Belarus’ Ihar Boki dominated the men’s 100m backstroke S13 final on the last night of swimming competition at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games ©Getty Images The 22-year-old secured victory in 56.68sec to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Plans to hold late night swimming finals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics are "outrageous", says England swimming's head coach Jon Rudd, joining a growing campaign opposing the ...

A Brazilian judge has ordered the closure of Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic Park from today on safety grounds. The complex includes the abandoned site of the pool in which we witnessed the last stand of ...

Stand me at the top of a 10 meter diving platform and the swirl of vertigo will be enough to send me clambering nervously back down down the narrow steps. But once I get to the bottom and my legs are ...

Great Britain's Ed Ling won bronze in the men's trap shooting yesterday and still hasn't got used to being an Olympic medallist. "It hasn't sunk in really, it's going to take a couple more," said the ...