Swimmer's Daily

  • Bobby Finke was the last hope for the U.S. men’s swim team to earn an individual Olympic gold medal.

    On swimming’s final night, he delivered in a big way.

    Finke earned the Olympic gold in the men’s 1500-meter freestyle and set a new world record on Sunday.

    He was under world-record pace the entire race and really turned it on coming to the finish. He touched in 14 minutes, 30.67 seconds to break the record of 14.31.02 set by China’s Sun Yang at the 2012 London Games.

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  • Paris organisers’ worst fears have materialised as multiple athletes have fallen seriously ill after competing in the triathlon events held in the Seine River.

  • Hong Kong swimmer Siobhan Haughey made her triumphant return home from the Paris Games on August 6, 2024. The city’s most decorated Olympian recently won bronze in the 100m and 200m women’s freestyle, three years after she nabbed two silver medals in the same events at the Tokyo Games. Haughey also earned Hong Kong’s first swimming gold medals in the 100m and 200m events at the 2022 Asian Games, as well as silvers in the 50m freestyle, 50m breaststroke and bronzes in the team relays. Against the backdrop of Haughey’s Games success, the city’s swimming chief has been under fire from Hong Kong fans and athletes. Days earlier, Ronnie Wong Man-chiu had described Haughey’s showing in Paris as “a bit regretful”.

  • With the swimming competition at the Paris 2024 Games all wrapped up, some of the top swimmers have big plans still ahead of them, including preparing for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, getting married and mapping out what retirement will look like.

  • “To me obviously, it’s unfortunate that one of the ways to kind of validate, the decisions, was to test the Chinese swimmers double, or triple than the rest of the athletes.”

    “We’ve seen the number of tests that the Chinese swimmers have been exposed to just to make sure and provide, I guess, peace of mind to the rest of the world, the rest of the athletes, especially the US, ADA, you know, to see that there’s nothing, that there’s absolutely nothing.”

    Says IOC Athlete’s Commission member Pau Gasol when asked about the amount of doping tests the Chinese swimmers go through.

  • At the Paris 2024 Olympics, American swimmer Bobby Finke knocked Sun Yang out of the history books in an epic finish, after smashing his 1500m freestyle event record by 35 hundredths of a second.

    In the space of a decade, Sun won three Olympic gold medals and became an eleven-time world champion, not to mention one of the world’s most controversial athletes.

    The Olympics is no stranger to athlete misconduct scandals, with Sun the subject of a high-profile anti-doping case in 2018. World Aquatics, formerly known as FINA, cleared him of wrongdoing, but the World Anti-Doping Agency reopened the case.

    Sun was barred from competing in the Paris Games after a panel of judges unanimously found him guilty of refusing to cooperate with anti-doping sample testers, handing him an eight-year ban in February 2020 that was later downgraded to four years and three months.

    Sun has also had run-ins with other athletes, including Australian swimmer Mack Horton, who made global headlines after refusing to stand on a podium alongside Sun at the 2019 World Championships in South Korea.

    Sun’s swimming ban recently ended, and he now says he hopes to return to competitive swimming as soon as possible.

    Sun will be 36 years old when the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games comes around, so whether he can reclaim his record will have to wait until then.

  • The US is back in the artistic swimming competition this week at the Olympics, thanks in large part to UCLA’s Daniella Ramirez who will anchor a team that expects success

  • 17-year-old Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh, who made history by winning three gold medals at the Paris Olympics, has spoken for the first time since her victories on Monday.

    McIntosh expressed her excitement about her results and said, “I don’t think it’s sunk in at all. To be honest, I’m pretty, sleep deprived and tired. But also just coming here today. I knew that it wouldn’t be so much fun to celebrate what Swimming Canada has done, alongside my friends and my teammates. So, yeah, it’s been great, but I will definitely take a while for me to realize, like, what exactly we’ve done. I think it’ll sink in more once I head back to Canada.”

    McIntosh’s remarkable achievement in becoming the first Canadian to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games has positioned her as the heavy favourite to be Canada’s flag bearer at the closing ceremonies.

    Additionally, she claimed a silver in the 400-meter freestyle event, further solidifying her exceptional performance at the Games.

  • CBC’s Heather Hiscox talks to Canadian swimmer Summer McIntosh about her becoming the first Canadian to win 3 gold medals at a single Olympic Games.