If you came here for tips on how to swim like Lucy Charles-Barclay or Alistair Brownlee, you may have found yourself in the wrong place. But if you're looking to become a better all-around swimmer, ...

Down the road, the day will arrive when Ryan Murphy is inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. An Olympic and world champion on multiple occasions, the former Cal-Berkeley Bear emerged ...

As anyone who's ever watched a swim competition or the Summer Olympics knows, there's more than one way to move across a pool, lake, or ocean — and each stroke demands something different in terms of ...

There are two propulsion methods for swimming: the arm pulls and the kick. Strategically, you could add the kicks off the wall when testing in a pool as a third, because that is the momentum starter ...

By definition, freestyle events permit athletes to use any style of swimming they choose. However, one technique, the front ...

Swimming is one of the marquee Olympic sports, and it comes with a long list of rules. Between individual events, relays and medleys, there are a bevy of swimming races. Add in varying distances and ...

Today, we accept that there are four competitive strokes. But when the first rules for competitive swimming were written in the early 19th century, there was only one rule: Whoever swam the fastest ...