Swimming will be a major part of the 2024 Olympic schedule in its opening week with the events taking place at Paris La Défense Arena. Europe's largest indoor arena, it opened in 2017 as the home of ...

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La Defense Arena in Paris has undergone an extraordinary transformation to host the Olympics swimming events at Paris 2024. Usually a rugby stadium and the home of Racing 92, as well as a concert hall ...

As Opening Ceremonies for the 2024 Paris Olympics approach, athletes are frustrated at the high amounts of fecal bacteria plaguing the River Seine, where marathoners and triathletes will swim.

NANTERRE, France — We are taught, rather early in life, that correlation is not causation. But something is keeping the world’s best swimmers from swimming their usual fastest at these Summer Games.

Pan Zhanle of China is the only Olympic swimmer to break a world record in the first seven days of the 2024 Olympics The Race Club; Heinz Kluetmeier/Sports Illustrated via Getty Team USA has 21 medals ...

As Olympic athletes jumped off diving boards and flipped through their artistic water sports routines in Paris, they were doing so in a pool heated by a nearby data center. The Aquatics Centre, a ...

Through the first four days of competition in the portable pool at La Defense Arena, no world records were set. That finally changed in the final race Wednesday night when Pan Zhanle of China broke ...