It sounds weird, right? Water? On a track? For steeplechase runners, it's not weird at all. The 30,000 meter race has been ...

Each game and period in Olympic water polo starts with a swim-off, which is a race for the ball in the center of the pool. Players from each team are lined up along their own goal lines and the first ...

PARIS (AP) - Three German swimmers became ill after competing in the open water races at the Paris Olympics, though it was not immediately clear if the long-polluted Seine River was responsible ...

The 10k open water race only has a final, which will be swam in the Seine river at the Paris Games. The event was introduced at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and is sometimes referred to as the "marathon ...

that troubled Olympic swimmers competing there on Aug. 4. “The water doesn’t smell bad compared to two years ago,” said Yumi Kida, who finished 13th in the women’s marathon swimming race.

This exciting development follows a partnership established by Swimming New Zealand’s new Olympic head ... of the 5km race at the Apollo Projects New Zealand Open Water Swimming Championships ...