Descrease article font size Increase article font size Katie Ledecky blitzed the field to retain her 1,500 meters freestyle title at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, the American iron-woman securing a record-equalling eighth gold medal in the sport. World record holder Ledecky blew away the field in the grueling, 30-lap race at La Defense Arena, … Read more
Australian Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Cook booked his spot in the semi-finals of the 200m backstroke after giving fans and commentators a “heart attack” with a wild swim. On a night where Aussie big guns Kyle Chalmers, Mollie O’Callaghan and Shayna Jack all progressed in their 100m heats, there was genuine concern Stubblety-Cook would have been … Read more
Image: Gregory Bull (AP) Paris 2024, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, kicked off to great fanfare over the weekend. One of the games this round isn’t based in Paris at all, however, mostly due to the area’s lack of gnarly swells. The surf competition, added to the Olympiad schedule in 2020, … Read more
Brazilian swimmer Ana Carolina Vieira was ordered to leave Paris immediately after she was busted for sneaking out of the Olympic village with her boyfriend. Vieira’s boyfriend, Gabriel Santos, is also a Brazilian swimmer but he only received a warning for what the country’s head of swimming called “acts of indiscipline”. The couple snuck out … Read more
Mollie O’Callaghan has upstaged Ariarne Titmus to win 200m freestyle gold in the highly anticipated Olympic showdown between Australian teammates. Titmus was seeking to add to her legacy by becoming the only swimmer to go back-to-back in 200m and 400m freestyle. But O’Callaghan stormed to her first individual gold medal in 1:53.27, a new Olympic … Read more
Superstar swimmer Emma McKeon has won more gold medals than another Australian, but is she our greatest Olympian of all time? McKeon went past Ian Thorpe (five gold) on Sunday morning (AEST) as Australia won the 4x100m freestyle relay. The superstar swimmer now stands alone as the most decorated with six gold medals among 12 … Read more
Eurosport has sacked Bob Ballard from its commentary team for the Olympics over a sexist comment about Australia’s swimming gold medallists. The first night of action in the pool was headlined by the 4x100m freestyle relay finals, with the women’s race taking place before the men. Mollie O’Callaghan, Emma McKeon, Meg Harris and Shayna Jack … Read more
A staff member at Paris La Défense Arena has saved the day during a break in the Olympic swimming proceedings. A race on Sunday night (AEST) was delayed when officials spotted a stray object at the bottom of the pool near the blocks. Competitors put their warm-up jackets back on as the stadium waited patiently … Read more
Superstar Australian swimming duo Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O’Callaghan are both safely through to the 200m freestyle Olympic final after clinical efforts in Monday morning’s (AEST) semi-final. Fresh off her 400m gold medal on Sunday morning, Titmus won the second semi of the morning with a time of 1:54.64, just 0.06 seconds ahead of O’Callaghan … Read more
Emma McKeon stands alone as Australia’s greatest Olympic champion after separating herself from Ian Thorpe at the first opportunity in Paris. The 30-year-old drew level with her fellow swimming legend on five golds in Tokyo and had to wait three years to get another crack at the record. McKeon wasted no time taking out her … Read more
