Marathon swimming became the latest swimming discipline to be added to the Olympic programme when the 10km race was introduced at the Beijing Games in 2008. The short history of this discipline means ...
Where will open water swimming take place at the Paris Olympics? The highly-anticipated 10k open water events will take place in the Seine River through the heart of Paris. The race will begin from ...
Olympic swimming also attracts one of the highest ... in 1968 and expanding again in 2008 with the 10-kilometer open water race. In the 1996 Atlanta Games, the women’s 4×200-meter freestyle ...
Ledecky is the elder stateswoman, a seven-time Olympic gold medallist who chooses her words carefully not wanting to provide added motivation in a race that ... holders are swimming in the event ...
PARIS (Reuters) -Australian Ariarne Titmus defended her Olympic 400 metres freestyle title ... were past or present world record holders. The race had been compared to the epic men's 200 freestyle ...