Editor’s note: This article is part of our “Origin Stories” series, focusing on the backstories of athletes and topics around the Summer Olympics. The world has seen two very public sides of Missy ...

To an outsider, swimmers seem to have a strange relationship with their sport. They simultaneously love and hate every aspect of it. They complain to anyone who will listen. But at the same time, they ...

Stand me at the top of a 10 meter diving platform and the swirl of vertigo will be enough to send me clambering nervously back down down the narrow steps. But once I get to the bottom and my legs are ...

The seven-time Olympic gold medalist punched his first individual-event ticket to the Paris Olympics in the 50-meter freestyle Friday, completing a rise back to upper echelon of the sport after a ...