TOKYO, Japan, March 22. THE Japanese Swimming Federation today announced that it will move the site of the Japan Open from Tokyo to Osaka. The meet was scheduled from May 20-22 as final preparation ...

Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee, the 18-year-old who is already an early favorite to medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, has been diagnosed with leukemia. Ikee announced the news via Twitter on ...

TOKYO, Japan, April 2. THE Japan Swim kicked off in fine fashion today in Tokyo with some blazing fast efforts by those in assemblance. The meet is serving as part of Japan's Olympic qualification ...

Japanese swim star Rikako Ikee reacts after a women’s 50-meter freestyle at a local race meet, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center in Tokyo. Ikee, who revealed in ...

Australia’s James Magnussen (l) and US swimmer Nathan Adrian (r) dive as they compete in the final of the men’s 100-metre freestyle swimming event in the FINA World Championships at the indoor stadium ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The next swimming world championships were formally postponed for a second time Tuesday because of the COVID-19 pandemic and will now take place in 2023 in Japan. World ...

Japan’s Rikako Ikee reacts after winning the women’s 100m freestyle final during the Japan National Swimming Championships, which doubles as a qualifier event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, at the Tokyo ...

A professional swimmer set off on Tuesday to swim from Japan to San Francisco.Ben Lecomte wants to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean. Lecomte, 50, left from northeast of Tokyo ...

Little-known Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi giggled politely at the suggestion that she might have become one of the stars of her home country’s Olympics in the absence of Naomi Osaka. She dismissed the ...