(JTA) Last month, at the Pan American Games in Medellin, Colombia, spectators, journalists and the event’s organizers lined up with anticipation along the side of a pool to watch a 400-meter medley.

It must be the easiest job at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Due to Brazilian law, four lifeguards must be present at poolside, meaning the finest swimmers on the planet are protected just in ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Former British police officer Ben Hooper hopes to make history by swimming every mile of the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to South America. After more than three years of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — The sewage-tainted waters off Copacabana weren’t much of an issue for the open-water swimmers. “It tastes like ocean,” Santa Clara native Haley Anderson said nonchalantly after ...

This summer, the YMCAs of the Wabash Valley will partner with the city of Brazil to manage the Forest Park pool in Clay County. The pool — which consists of a 1-meter diving board in the 10-foot-deep ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Last month, at the Pan American Games in Medellin, Colombia, spectators, journalists and the event’s organizers lined up with anticipation along the side of a pool to watch a ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – Former British police officer Ben Hooper hopes to make history by swimming every mile of the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to South America. After more than three years of ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Former British police officer Ben Hooper hopes to make history by swimming every mile of the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to South America. After more than three years of ...