Women’s 400m freestyle heats: A 4:00-point and a 4:01-point led Katie Ledecky and Ariarne Titmus to their Games 400m free destinies in the showdown in the morning. The runes suggest...

Tatjana Schoenmaker felt doubly able to call herself an Olympian at last when she laid down a 1:04.82 Olympic-record and Africa-record gauntlet in the first race of her Games career,...

Tokyo, July 25, Day 1 Finals & Semi finals – Gold and a title retained in a stunning World-record victory for the Australian women’s 4x100m freestyle quartet of Bronte Campbell,...

Tokyo Olympic Games – Men’s 400m freestyle final – Ayoub Ahmed Hafnaoui wrote several lines in the book of Olympic swimming history when he tore the form guide to shreds with...

Tokyo Olympic Games – Women’s 400m Medley final – Yui Ohashi finished 40th in the 400m medley at national championships back in 2015 after a diagnosis of extreme anaemia that threatened her...

Another few metres and it looked like Chase Kalisz might not have made the end of battle – but that’s the point of racing to the bitter end and by the time...

Tokyo, Japan – Penny Oleksiak decided what she wanted for her teammates then went out and got it. Oleksiak outbattled American Simone Manuel down the stretch to win silver in...

The pandemic has delayed the Olympic Games by a year but here we are in Tokyo and the Aquatics Centre, void of crowd but with First Lady Jill Biden in...

Aimee Willmott and Max Litchfield booked tickets to their respective 400m medley finals and the TeamGB Women’s 4x100m freestyle relay quartet cracked the national record to go through to the...

Katie Ledecky Vs Ariarne Titmus and Caeleb Dressel Vs Kyle Chalmers are the billboard posters for the brewing clash of aquatic armies from the United States and Australia at the...

For the first time since 1996, the Olympic Games will not feature a boy and then man called Michael Phelps. The American GOAT will be entertaining home audiences as a...

When the Court of Arbitration for Sport imposed a suspension of four years and three months on Sun Yang* last month after three judicial processes that came to an end...

John Atkinson, head of performance for Canada, believes the coming nine days of racing at the Tokyo Olympic Aquatics Centre “is going to be phenomenal”, among key challenges for all...

Ilya Borodin, the European 400IM champion,  has been forced to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics as the latest athlete to return a positive Covid-19 test result. The latest in a series...

The Olympic Games is heading back Down Under for a third time after Brisbane was confirmed as the 2032 host after a vote of International Olympic Committee (IOC) member nations...

The SOS Olympic Diary is where you’ll find news lines, snippets and commentary, with relevant links to the colour and coverage of the Games in Tokyo 57 years after the...

Former pupils, athletes and parents of swimmers at Ellesmere College Titans, one of Britain’s top talent developers in swimming, have backed Alan Bircher and his coaching staff after Swim England...

The Olympic Games will get underway in Tokyo next weekend after a delay of a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Japanese capital first hosted the world’s biggest multi-sports...