Swimming

Michael Loynd’s “The Watermen” digs into the early days of Olympic swimming.

Swim On Foundation, a local nonprofit, is launching a summer swimming campaign to encourage Black families to take swimming lessons and help keep their children from drowning.

Memorial Day marks the opening of many pools and lakes, and water safety advocates are urging Missourians to keep themselves and their children safe from…

It took four failed attempts before long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad finally became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the aid of a…

Henry Biggs, an entrepreneur and former dean at Washington University in St. Louis, had a big goal in mind that involved a 27-mile swim for a good…

USA Swimming has announced that the 2016 Olympic swimming trials will be held in Omaha, besting St. Louis and the other finalist for host city, San…

Water samples taken this week from 12 coves at the Lake of the Ozarks did not contain elevated E. Coli levels, but two Missouri beaches will remain closed…

If you were planning on going swimming at three specific Missouri state beaches sometime soon, you may want to make other plans.The Missouri Department of…