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Paris La Defense Arena will host swimming events during the 2024 Paris Olympics.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Jul 16, 2024
World Aquatics to strengthen testing of Chinese swimmers at Games
The first aquatics events of the Paris Games are set to take place on July 27.
Katie Ledecky competes in the women's 400 freestyle swim during preliminaries for the Olympic Swimming Trials in Indianapolis, Indiana, on June 15.
OLYMPICS
Jun 25, 2024
Dressel and Ledecky lead U.S. Olympic swim team with eyes on Australia
The intense nine days of the U.S. trials concluded Sunday and produced a team of 46 swimmers.
Michael Brinegar in action at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha on Feb. 8
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jun 25, 2024
Former U.S. Olympian Brinegar hit with four-year doping ban
American swimmer Michael Brinegar, who competed in the 800 and 1,500 meters events at the Tokyo Olympics, has been handed a four-year suspension for blood doping, the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) said on Monday.
Simone Manuel, seen on at the U.S. trials in Indianapolis on June 18, won the 50-meter freestyle on Sunday.
OLYMPICS
Jun 24, 2024
Simone Manuel wins 50-meter freestyle race at U.S. trials
Manuel said she's focused on getting faster and having some fun with her U.S. teammates.
Bill May (rear, second from left) poses with the rest of the U.S. team after earning silver at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka on July 17, 2023.
OLYMPICS
Jun 10, 2024
No men chosen to compete in artistic swimming at Olympics in Paris
World Aquatics said it was very disappointed that there would be no men in the Olympic competition.
A World Anti-Doping Agency logo is seen at the WADA Symposium in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 12, 2024.
MORE SPORTS
May 2, 2024
USADA slams WADA for making 'half-truths' in China doping case
WADA has been under fire since last month, when the New York Times reported 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine before the Tokyo Games.
Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned substance before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
MORE SPORTS
Apr 26, 2024
WADA asks 'independent prosecutor' to examine its handling of China case
The United States Anti-Doping Agency branded WADA's announcement of an independent investigation "self-serving."
WADA President Witold Banka attends the World Anti-Doping Agency Symposium in Lausanne, Switzerland on March 12.
OLYMPICS
Apr 25, 2024
Britain and Australia call for WADA review amid China scandal
WADA has been under fire since confirming media reports that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned substance trimetazidine.
China's Olympic gold-medal winning 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay team celebrates on the podium at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on July 29, 2021. Zhang Yufei (third from left) is among 23 top Chinese swimmers who tested positive for a banned substance in the lead up to the Games.
OLYMPICS
Apr 20, 2024
Top Chinese swimmers tested positive for banned drug, then won Olympic gold
The episode sharply divided the anti-doping world, where China’s record has long been a flashpoint.
Daiya Seto in action during the men's 400m medley final at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha on Feb. 18.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Apr 2, 2024
Japanese swimming veteran ready to make waves at Paris Olympics
Daiya Seto wants to be a voice for meaningful change in the domestic sport.
Joseph Schooling of Singapore celebrates after winning the men's 100m Butterfly final at the 2016 Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in August 2016.
OLYMPICS
Apr 2, 2024
Singapore's only Olympic champion Schooling retires
The swimmer was mired in controversy in 2022 after confessing to taking cannabis overseas.
Japanese swimmers Yui Ohashi (right) and Shiho Matsumoto celebrate after qualifying for the Paris Olympics in the women's 200-meter individual medley at the selection trials at Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Sunday.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Mar 25, 2024
Olympic swimming champion Ohashi qualifies for Paris in 200 IM
Ohashi won the 200 IM in 2 minutes, 9.17 seconds, well inside the qualifying time of 2:10.70.
Swimmers Rikako Ikee (left) and Mizuki Hirai celebrate after earning spots at the Paris Olympics in the women's 100-meter butterfly at the qualifying trials at Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Monday.
OLYMPICS / Swimming
Mar 19, 2024
Hirai and Ikee qualify for Olympics in 100-meter butterfly
Rikako Ikee, who will be 24 years old in early July, is set for her third Olympic appearance.
Daiya Seto swims butterfly in the men's 400-meter individual medley final at the world aquatics championships in Doha on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Feb 20, 2024
Seto gets medley bronze; Japan ends with two medals at worlds
Japan finished with just two medals from the swimming program contested by only 12 of its athletes in Doha.
Australia's Mack Horton celebrates after winning gold in the men's 400 freestyle final at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, on April 5, 2018.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Jan 22, 2024
Australian swimming star Mack Horton retires ahead of Olympics
Horton, a fierce anti-doping campaigner, called time on his career on Sunday just months ahead of the Paris Olympics.
Canada's Summer McIntosh and Katie Ledecky of the U.S. celebrate medal wins with Leah Smith of the U.S. at the FINA World Championships in Budapest in June 2022.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Dec 1, 2023
McIntosh topples Ledecky in U.S. Open 400m free
Summer McIntosh, a four-time world champion, handed Katie Ledecky her first defeat in the event in a U.S. pool in 11 years.
Ukrainian Olympic artistic swimmers Vladyslava (left) and Maryna Aleksiiva on April 6. The sisters are training ahead of the Paris Games in the city of Kharkiv, despite regular bouts of shelling there.
OLYMPICS
Nov 6, 2023
Ukrainian artistic swimmers train for Paris Olympics near front
After Russia invaded, the team moved to Italy and then Kyiv, before returning to Ukraine's second largest city.
Artistic swimmer Yukiko Inui celebrates on the podium after winning the women's solo free final at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka on July 19.
MORE SPORTS / Swimming
Oct 20, 2023
Olympic medalist Yukiko Inui to retire
Inui earned bronze in both the team and duet events at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
A type of adenovirus that causes pool fever
JAPAN
Sep 27, 2023
'Pool fever' cases reach highest level in a decade in Japan
Local governments are calling for infection prevention measures such as washing hands and gargling.
Kurara Okuno first encountered mermaiding in 2020, not long before she jumped into the deep end of the aquatic subculture.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 19, 2023
Move over Ariel: Meet Japan’s professional merpeople
While mermaiding is still a niche activity in Japan, it is possible to slip on a tail and dive in.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
One dead, three missing as heavy rain batters Tohoku
Camera footage shows the Mogami River bursting its banks in Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Friday morning.
Brazil issues apology for persecuting Japan immigrants during WWII
Enea Almeida (right), chair of the Brazilian amnesty commission, shakes hands with the representative for Japanese immigrants on Thursday in Brasilia.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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