The International Swimming League is making some changes ahead of its second season as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The 10 teams, including new additions Tokyo and Toronto, will...

The International Swimming League debuts this weekend, with some of the sport's biggest names competing for cash prizes in a team format that culminates in a splashy finale in Las...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Caeleb Dressel might want to start practicing his acceptance speech for the Golden Goggles.

He's the only swimmer nominated for male athlete of the year at the Nov. 24...

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Ryan Lochte failed to qualify for the 200-meter freestyle final at the U.S. national championships.

The 12-time Olympic medalist finished 37th in the preliminary...

GWANGJU, South Korea (AP) — Adversity finally found Katie Ledecky and when it did, it hit hard.

Headaches, irregular pulse, elevated heart rate, sleeplessness, nausea. The symptoms she...

GWANGJU, South Korea (AP) — The Americans got ailing Katie Ledecky back. They just couldn't overcome a world record by the Australians.

Ledecky returned after two days out of the pool while...

GWANGJU, South Korea (AP) — Katie Ledecky's phone pinged with a middle-of-the-night text from Michael Phelps.

Sick and struggling to fall asleep, she read his message of concern from half a...

GWANGJU, South Korea (AP) — Federica Pellegrini began the countdown to the end of her stellar career in style.

The Italian defeated a field of younger competitors, minus ailing Katie...

GWANGJU, South Korea (AP) — Katie Ledecky withdrew from the 200-meter freestyle preliminaries and the 1,500-meter final Tuesday at the world swimming championships because of illness.

GWANGJU, South Korea (AP) — Katie Ledecky is usually there in the end, her endurance powering her to the wall well ahead of the competition.

GWANGJU, South Korea (AP) — After an unexpected assist from her coach, Katie Ledecky opened the world championships with a dominating performance in the preliminaries of the 400-meter freestyle...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new professional league for elite swimmers will debut this year with U.S. and foreign teams competing in a mixed gender format with the athletes being paid.

She showed up in Paris wearing a black catsuit, a reminder that nobody can command the Grand Slam stage quite like Serena Williams.

She reached the finals at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, proving again how well she can play no matter how little she practices.

Williams didn't win those or any other tournaments, which in every other situation might have made for a forgettable year.

NEW YORK (AP) — Katie Ledecky was honored as the top female swimmer for the sixth straight year, while Ryan Murphy took home three prizes at USA Swimming's Golden Goggles awards.

Ledecky and Murphy were honored Monday night In New York for their performances at 2018's biggest meet, the Pan Pacific Championships.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Olympic champion swimmer Simone Manuel of Stanford won the Honda Cup on Monday night for collegiate woman athlete of the year.

It's the second time Stanford has had back-to-back winners. Katie Ledecky, Manuel's Olympic and collegiate teammate, won last year. Swimmer Tara Kirk won the award in 2004, followed by volleyball player Ogonna Nnamani the next year.

Manuel, of Sugar Land, Texas, received the trophy at the Galen Center on the Southern California campus.

Katie Ledecky is turning pro.

The five-time Olympic swimming gold medalist gave up her final two years of eligibility at Stanford, allowing her to concentrate on training for the 2020 Olympics while cashing in on sponsorship and endorsement deals that wouldn't have been available to her as a college athlete.

Katie Ledecky got her start in swimming because she just wanted to make friends. Her brother was eager to join a team at a pool near their house and as a 6-year-old, she tagged along.

By summer's end, the Ledecky siblings had made 100 friends ranging in age from 6 to 18. Some of them remain good friends with Katie, who went on to become the world's best swimmer in the post-Michael Phelps era.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — OK, it wasn't like Katie Ledecky was a flop at the world championships.

Far from it.

She won five gold medals. She took silver in her other event.

"If that was my bad year for the next four years, then the next couple years are going to be pretty exciting," Ledecky declared.

But her performance in Budapest did prove one thing.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Katie Ledecky reached for the wall.

Someone else was already there.

For the first time ever at the world championships, Ledecky knows what it's like to lose.

Bidding to become only the second female swimmer to win six golds at a single worlds, Ledecky settled for silver in the 200-meter freestyle Wednesday evening when Italy's Federica Pellegrini surged to a stunning victory on the final lap.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Katie Ledecky breezed to her third gold medal of the world championships, backing off a bit on her most grueling night of the meet.

It was left to Lilly King, Kylie Masse and Adam Peaty to take down the swimming record book — and King to claim another impressive triumph over her Russian rival.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Katinka Hosszu has a case full of medals.

She wants so much more.

From marketing marvel to ambitious businesswoman to fledgling union organizer, the Hungarian swimmer known as the "Iron Lady" knows how to make a splash — in and out of the pool.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — With Katie Ledecky getting the night off, Hungary's Iron Lady seized the moment Monday at the world championships.

Katinka Hosszu lived up to her country's enormous expectations with an electrifying victory in the 200-meter individual medley, spurred on by a flag-waving, foot-stomping crowd at Duna Arena.

The new 12,000-seat aquatic facility along the Danube was packed all the way to the rafters, and it was clear who most of the fans came to see.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Katie Ledecky is off to a golden start at the world championships.

Make it a double.

The 20-year-old American star began an audacious week by winning a pair of gold medals Sunday on the opening night of swimming along the Danube River. She cruised to a dominating victory in the 400-meter freestyle and put the U.S. ahead to stay in the 4x100 free relay.

Anchored by Nathan Adrian, the American men also won gold in the 4x100 free.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Katie Ledecky started a very busy week at the world championships with a dominating performance in the preliminaries of the 400-meter freestyle Sunday.

The 20-year-old American set a meet record with a time of 3 minutes, 59.06 seconds, nearly 3 seconds ahead of the next-fastest qualifier, teammate Leah Smith (4:02.00).

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Katie Ledecky shrugs off the notion that she's doing anything special over the next week.

For the 20-year-old American star, the improbable has become the expected.

"It's really just putting in the work, putting in the training," Ledecky said Friday, sounding so nonchalant that she might as well have been describing a leisurely afternoon swim in one of those thermal baths along the Danube.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Katie Ledecky and Lilly King spent Friday night cleaning up in Indianapolis.

Now the two American stars can start planning their next major project — sweeping the world championships.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Katie Ledecky led wire-to-wire in the 400-meter freestyle Friday night for her third title of the week in the U.S. National Championships.

Ledecky broke her own U.S. Open record with a time of 3 minutes, 58.44 seconds. Leah Smith was second in 4:03.77 — the third time this week the duo went one-two.

Ledecky has qualified in four individual events for the world championships next month.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Katie Ledecky keeps makes winning look easy. Nathan Adrian continues to prove experience matters when things get close.

Either way, the result was the same Tuesday night in Indianapolis: The two Olympic gold medalists qualified for another American world championship team.

Missy Franklin is so upbeat, so full of energy, so dang positive all the time, it's hard to imagine her ever going to a dark place.

After what happened last summer, though, it's only natural that she would start to question everything she stood for.

"Being totally honest with you, it's something that terrifies me," Franklin said, her perpetually positive tone suddenly filled with doubt and insecurity. "What if I'm never as good as I was?"

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stanford swimmer Katie Ledecky has won the Honda Cup as the nation's top collegiate female athlete.

Ledecky won five medals, including four golds, and set two world records at last summer's Rio de Janeiro Olympics. She capped an impressive freshman season at Stanford with five national titles at the NCAA championships.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Multiple stars from last summer's Rio Olympics highlight this year's nominees for best male and female athletes for The ESPYS.

Swimmer Michael Phelps, who won five gold medals in Rio, joins National League MVP Kris Bryant of the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby and Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook as the four nominees for best male athlete.