Bonnie Desimone

Appreciative applause met Jordan's Omar Dallal as he finished the 400-meter freestyle dead last Tuesday--almost half a minute slower than the next-to-last swimmer in the 34-man field. Don't knock his...

Erik Namesnik, whose silver medal in the 400-meter individual medley highlighted the keen rivalry between him and teammate Tom Dolan, was serious when he said he expects to be on...

Atlanta's own Eric Wunderlich just missed qualifying in both breaststroke events in 1992. At this year's Olympic trials, he suffered through another third-place finish in the 100-meter event before finally...

Kristine Quance has her last shot at an Olympic medal in the 200-meter individual medley Wednesday. Quance, whose controversial disqualification at the Olympic trials cost her the chance to swim...

Three U.S. medalists will aim for the podium again Tuesday. Team spark plug Amanda Beard, a silver medalist in the 100 breaststroke, will swim the 200, her stronger event; 400...

Dawn Fraser, Australia's most successful and perhaps most beloved past Olympian, will be hospitalized for the next several days after suffering an angina attack. Fraser, 58, checked herself in after...

Penny Heyns' first world record in the 100-meter breaststroke elicited an invitation to the capital from South African president Nelson Mandela. Her second, set hours before she won the country's...

Janet Evans wasn't the only world-record holder who had a bad Monday. China's He Cihong finished 26th in the women's 100-meter backstroke in 1:05.87--nearly 6 seconds off the record-setting time...

One reason there seems to be more sportsmanship in the Olympics is the lack of the not-so-great recent American tradition of trash talking between opponents. U.S. women's basketball player Dawn...

Nebraska's Penny Heyns, a native of South Africa, just edged USC's Kristine Quance of Northridge, Calif., for NCAA honors in the 100-yard breaststroke this spring. Sunday, the distance was metric,...