Australia's Chef de Mission Ian Chesterman hailed his team's record-equalling performance at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday, wiping tears from his eyes as he spoke of its impact on people back home - a nation largely in COVID-19 lockdown.

Olympics 2020: Australia hail Tokyo campaign as balm for pandemic struggles back home

The American star won his fifth gold medal of the Tokyo Games, finishing off one of the great performances in Olympic history. He joins an elite club of just four other swimmers ever with at least five gold medals at one games.

Olympics 2020: US swimmer Caeleb Dressel joins Olympic pantheon with five golds in Tokyo

American Caeleb Dressel stormed to the men`s 100m butterfly gold medal on Saturday with a world record time of 49.45 to pick up his second individual gold of the Tokyo Games and Australia`s Kaylee McKeown timed her swim perfectly to win the 200m backstroke.

Tokyo Olympics, Swimming: More gold for Dressel, McKeown does backstroke double

Australia's Ariarne Titmus and Japan's Yui Ohashi won their second gold medals in Tokyo while Britain picked up their third swimming gold with an impressive victory in the men's 4x200m freestyle relay on a thrilling day of action in the pool on Wednesday.

Tokyo Olympics, Swimming: More golds for Titmus and Ohashi, British men win relay

Australia's world number one Kaylee McKeown will pull out of the women's 200 meters medley at the Olympic Games over a scheduling conflict to focus on backstroke events, the national coach said on Thursday.

Tokyo Olympics: Australia's Kaylee McKeown to withdraw from 200 medley

The International Swimming Federation says it will revisit its decision barring a swimming cap designed explicitly for Black hair from being utilized in the competition.

Swimming: FINA to review Afro swim cap at competition level after facing backlash

The International Swimming Federation has banned caps designed for Black athletes at the Tokyo Olympics. FINA reportedly said the caps do not 'follow the natural form of the head'.

Gravitas: The Soul Cap ban controversy

The US Olympic swimming trials still get Michael Phelps's synapses firing, even though the Games great has nothing on the line at the pressure packed meeting. Phelps is at the trials in Omaha as an honored spectator, but after five Olympic campaigns that yielded an astonishing 28 medals -- 23 of them gold -- Phelps said being on the deck in Omaha, Nebraska, gave him chills.

Olympic icon Phelps fired up by return to US swimming trials

Hungary's world record holder Kristof Milak posted the second-fastest men's 200m butterfly of all time at his home European swimming championships in Budapest on Wednesday.

Swimming: Milak clocks second fastest 200m butterfly in history

Olympic swimming champion Joseph Schooling is seeking to further delay his national service in Singapore so he can compete in the postponed Tokyo Games, officials said Wednesday.

Swimmer Schooling seeks national service delay after Olympics moved

British endurance swimmer and United Nations patron of oceans Lewis Gordon Pugh braved the freezing temperatures of East Antarctica, swimming in its icy rivers, to raise awareness about climate change.

Swimmer raises awareness on climate change in freezing Antarctic waters

Nike announced its new Victory Swim Collection on Wednesday which will include a Full-Coverage Swimsuit and will provide a game-changing option for female athletes seeking full coverage and a full range of motion in the water.

Nike announces new swimwear collection to include ‘Swim Hijab’  

The United States set a world record of three minutes and 50.40 seconds in the women's 4x100m medley relay final at the world championships on Sunday. The quartet of Regan Smith, Lilly King, Kelsi Dahlia and Simone Manuel helped the US better their own world record of 3:51.

US set world record, claim women's 4x100m medley relay gold

American star Caeleb Dressel, swimming's chiselled, tattooed pin-up boy, destroyed Michael Phelps's 100 metres butterfly world record Friday as countrywoman Simone Manuel retained her 100m freestyle world title.

USA's Caeleb Dressel sparks record-breaking night at world swim

Britain's Adam Peaty became the first male swimmer to capture three 100 metres breaststroke world titles Monday, completing his golden treble in dominant fashion.

Britain's Adam Peaty completes world treble in men's 100m breaststroke

World championship swimmers slammed China's Sun Yang over lurid doping allegations and said competitors were firmly behind Australia's Mack Horton, who snubbed the Olympic star on the podium.

Swimmers 'don't trust' Sun Yang as doping row boils over

Britain's Adam Peaty shattered his own 100 metres breaststroke world record Sunday as he chased a third successive world title. The Olympic champion stormed home to win his semi-final in a time of 56.

Britain's Adam Peaty crushes 100m breaststroke world record

Britain's Adam Peaty promised to go even faster after shattering his own 100 metres breaststroke world record Sunday. The Olympic champion stormed home to win his semi-final in a time of 56.

'I've evolved so much', says Adam Peaty after smashing magical 57 seconds

China's Sun Yang stormed to 400 metres freestyle gold at the world swimming championships Sunday, retaining his title and winning it for a record fourth time. The controversial triple Olympic champion clocked three minutes, 42.

China's Sun Yang blazes to record fourth 400m freestyle world crown

Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee, who won six titles at last year's Asian Games and was considered a strong medal contender for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, said on Tuesday she had been diagnosed with leukaemia.

Tokyo Olympics medal hopeful Rikako Ikee diagnosed with leukaemia

According to the local police, bodies of the deceased have been sent for postmortem

Telangana: Four drown while swimming in pond

On the coast of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, women are already wearing increasingly modest outfits, ?but few can afford the Burkini

Burkini 'not a big deal' in North Africa

Both Phelps and Bolt have announced that Rio will be their last Olympics

Phelps says goodbye to Olympics after unprecedented 23-gold haul

Yusra Mardini,18, less than a year ago found herself swimming for her life when the crowded dinghy headed for Lesbos suffered engine failure

Syrian refugee Mardini wins 100m butterfly heat in Rio

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