Swimming

Australia has to win a few more gold medals to beat any records this Olympic Games. 

There are only eight athletes representing Palestine in Paris. This swimmer has stories to tell, and the Games are her opportunity.

Meg Harris and the women's 4x100m medley team add two more silvers to a haul that completes Australia's best Olympics campaign after Tokyo three years ago and Melbourne in 1956.

Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson have secured silver and bronze for Australia in the high jump, while Noah Lyles has claimed 100m gold by the barest of margins.

Katie Ledecky fourth-straight victory in the 800m has assured her Olympics immortality — but who is next in line to create greatness in the pool?

Ariarne Titmus explains the pressure she felt coming into the Paris Olympics, as Australia added three more medals to its tally in the pool.

Kaylee McKeown's rare Olympic "double-double" means she stands alone in Australian swimming history, but even without the records she will be remembered as one of the sport's most unique champions. 

With her 200m backstroke title defence Kaylee McKeown becomes the first Australian to win four individual Olympic golds, while Cam McEvoy shatters the disappointment of Rio with Paris gold.

Clementine Stoney Maconachie made her Olympic debut in the pool at the Sydney 2000 Games. More than two decades later, she's in Paris as an Olympian Artist.  

Is it the Parisian water, the type of lane ropes or maybe the construction of the pool itself that's slowed our swimmers down? Or is all this talk of a 'slow' pool really just a bunch of hokum.   

Shane Keating is an expert of fluid dynamics and says the relatively shallow Olympic pool may not be the culprit for the low number of world records.

Led by the two greatest 200m swimmers of all time, Australia came together once again to create an unstoppable winning machine at last.

Aspiring future Olympic swimmers from South Australia cheered on Kyle Chalmers in the 100 metre freestyle final.

Members of Kyle Chalmers's first swim club in his South Australian hometown are ecstatic over his silver medal success and some are already setting their sights on the Brisbane Games.

Kyle Chalmers believes he was bested by a clean racer. But that did little to satiate Pan who has accused the Aussie star of a poolside snub.

Nobody has ever won gold medals in breaststroke and butterfly events at the same Games, let alone on the same night within two hours of each other. But there has never been someone like Léon Marchand.

Australian expectations were high heading into Thursday morning, and it took some magic moments to deny the Aussie gold rush at the Olympics.

You may have also noticed some strange mannerisms from Olympic swimmers before they mount the starting blocks. Coach Michael Legge says splashing and slapping has become a "ritual". 

Kyle Chalmers was denied a gold medal courtesy of a world record swim from China's Pan Zhanle, but he says he is going nowhere.

Mollie O'Callaghan says she needs to "suck it up" after being stunned in the women's 100m freestyle final in Paris.

British swimmer Luke Greenbank, who won bronze in the mens 200-metre backstroke in Tokyo, has been disqualified after winning his heat in Paris.

After delays, cancellations and far too much talk about poo, the River Seine was finally given its chance to shine, highlighting an important issue about the health of our major rivers.

Two months ago Kaylee McKeown was the world record holder in the 100m backstroke, before having it whipped away from her by Regan Smith — but this race proved once again that it's the timing that counts at the Olympic Games.

After defending her 100m backstroke title and setting a new Olympic record, Kaylee McKeown pays a heartfelt tribute to her father, who died in 2020.

Lani Pallister, who was regarded as a genuine chance of claiming a medal in the 1,500m freestyle, has withdrawn from the event after testing positive to COVID.