Tattoos? Parmesan? Five key questions every armchair Olympics enthusiast is asking
Answers to the important issues of the day, from what makes Jules Bouyer so popular, to how to (not) decode scoring systems
Slovakia’s Tamara Potocká collapses poolside after Olympic swimming heat
Slovakia swimmer Tamara Potocka collapsed poolside on Friday morning after a qualifying heat of the women’s 200m individual medley
China rallies behind Pan Zhanle after Australian coach’s disbelief at world record swim
Chinese state and social media have rallied behind the Olympic gold medal after Australian coach Brett Hawke said the world-record win was not ‘humanly possible’
USA’s Katie Ledecky wins 13th Olympic medal to set all-time female record
Katie Ledecky became the most decorated female Olympic swimmer of all time while Kate Douglass finally captured her first individual gold
Australia’s 4x200m freestyle relay team live up to expectations to claim Olympic gold
Australia claimed an eighth gold medal of the Paris Games after the women’s relay team won the 4x200m freestyle final in an Olympic record time
‘Bit weird’: swimming rivalry heats up as Kyle Chalmers hits back at Chinese snub claim
China’s Pan Zhanle claims Australia’s Kyle Chalmers disrespected him amid Chinese claims that Australian beef was behind positive anti-doping tests
Covid cluster worsens in Australian Olympic camp as Zac Stubblety-Cook reveals infection
Zac Stubblety-Cook reveals he swam through infection to win his silver medal as Great Britain’s swim legend Adam Peaty joins athletes hit by Covid
‘It’s crazy’: Kyle Chalmers and Zac Stubblety-Cook bow to new generation in Paris
China’s Pan Zhanle takes 0.4sec off own world record to win 100m freestyle, while France’s Leon Marchand claims second Olympic gold of day
Léon Marchand seals historic double with gold in 200m butterfly and breaststroke
Léon Marchand won his third individual gold of Paris 2024 with a butterfly-breaststroke double never achieved at an Olympic Games before
USA’s Katie Ledecky makes Olympic history with gold in 1500m freestyle
Katie Ledecky won the 1500m freestyle on Wednesday night in Paris, becoming the first female swimmer to claim gold at four different Olympics
Australian swim duo stunned in 100m freestyle sprint upset at Paris Olympics
Australia’s female sprinters were shut out of the medals in the 100m freestyle final in one of the biggest shocks of the Paris Olympic Games
‘Our bet paid off’: Paris celebrates Olympic triathletes’ swim in the Seine
City officials say they have ‘reversed the tide of history’ thanks to completion of €1.4bn sewerage system
How race, celebrity and speed dominated the pool at the 1924 Olympics
A new book looks at how swimmers from Chicago, Hawaii and Japan helped usher in a new Olympic era a century ago in Paris
Kaylee McKeown swims her own race – even with a rare Olympics ‘double-double’ in sight
Backstroke champion could become first Australian swimmer to defend two Olympic titles even while refusing to focus on medals at Paris 2024
Duncan Scott shrugs off comparison with Chris Hoy after seventh medal
Swimmer Duncan Scott shrugged off comparisons with Chris Hoy after matching the cyclist’s total of seven Olympic medals