Keep reading to learn more about each stroke and how they're swam, plus which muscles are worked. This powerful stroke requires a swimmer to move up out of the water and back down in a smooth, almost ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 12. THIS week's Throwback Thursday video wasn't an easy pick, considering each of Amy Van Dyken's four gold medal races in the 1996 Olympics were exciting to experience. But ...

Today, we accept that there are four competitive strokes. But when the first rules for competitive swimming were written in the early 19th century, there was only one rule: Whoever swam the fastest ...

Scientists regularly draw ideas from the natural world in a bid to improve robotic performance, and when it comes to soft robots that swim, motion in the ocean is a rich source of inspiration. The ...

Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers have developed an energy-efficient soft robot that can swim more than four times faster than previous swimming soft robots. The robots are ...

WASHINGTON — Swimming at the Olympics is a competitive event that brings together swimmers from all over the world. The 2024 Paris Olympics will feature 17 swimming events per gender and four ...

Heading into the 2016-17 season, many believed ASU men’s swimming team had one of the strongest butterfly groups in the nation. Often proper coaching can make all the difference, and the No.11 ASU men ...

The actor showed off his butterfly stroke in a pool as he challenged the 23-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer to a race Karwai Tang/WireImage; Emma McIntyre/KCASports2017/Getty Kevin Hart is proud of ...

image: Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an energy-efficient soft robot that can swim more than four times faster than ...