Ryan Lochte had a surprising reaction to his latest record-setting performance. "A little disappointed," he said after breaking Michael Phelps' meet record in the finals of the 200-meter individual medley Sunday at the U.S. Open. Lochte's time of 1 minute, 59.24 seconds bettered Phelps' mark of ...
Michael Phelps, you've got company. Caeleb Dressel won his seventh gold medal of the world championships Sunday, putting the U.S. team ahead to stay with another dominating swim in the 4x100-meter medley relay. Twenty-four hours after becoming the first swimmer to win three golds in one ...
Michael Phelps has finally met his match in the water: a "great white shark." The Olympic champion swimmer was bested Sunday night in the Discovery Channel's Shark Week special "Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White." But Phelps didn't swim with a real shark. He ...
Michael Phelps' eagerly anticipated race against a great white shark will keep the USA's swimmers glued to their television screens at the FINA World Aquatic Championships on Sunday, Katie Ledecky has revealed. Phelps, 32, nicknamed GOAT — "greatest of all time" — is the most ...
America's Olympic athletes will no longer pay a so-called victory tax under a bill President Barack Obama has signed into law. The IRS will now be prohibited from taxing most medals or other prizes awarded to U.S. Olympians. The U.S. Olympic Committee awards cash prizes to ...
Michael Phelps brought the curtain down on his incredible swimming career with his 23rd Olympic gold medal — and his fifth of the Rio Games — as the United States beat Britain and Australia to win the men's 4x100-meter medley relay on Saturday. Phelps, who ...
Rie Kaneto won gold in the women's 200-meter breaststroke but failed in her mission to break the world record at the Rio Olympics on Thursday night. Kosuke Hagino, meanwhile, took silver behind the imperious Michael Phelps in the men's 200 individual medley to add to ...
Masato Sakai claimed silver after coming out of nowhere to almost deny Michael Phelps his 20th Olympic gold medal in the men's 200-meter butterfly at the Rio Games on Tuesday. There was nothing Japan could do to stop Phelps from collecting his 21st either, as ...
Katie Ledecky continued her assault on the Rio Olympics by annihilating the women's 400-meter freestyle world record to pick up her first gold medal of the games on Sunday. Michael Phelps also extended his all-time record haul of Olympic medals with his 19th gold, helping ...
It is safe to say Michael Phelps has no need for a lifeguard watching over him in the Olympic pool but the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 18 gold medals among his career haul of 22, will have one anyway at the ...
Swim star Kosuke Hagino believes he is ready to end years of American Olympic dominance as he bids to get Japan off to a golden start at the Rio Games this weekend. Hagino will attempt to live up to the expectations of a nation when ...
A mischievous Michael Phelps hinted the Rio Games may not be his last when the most decorated Olympian of all-time said on Wednesday he was excited his infant son Boomer would be in the stands to watch "the potential" last races of his career. The ...
