These days it's Mark Spitz who has to worry about swimming with the sharks. He's hoping his new Missoula Aquatic Club swim cap will help out with that. At 58, Spitz - whose nickname was "The Shark," ...

BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Michael Phelps prepared to join Mark Spitz on his Olympic seven-gold pedestal when he won his sixth Beijing swimming title on Friday and then swept into his seventh final.

Gary Hall Sr. won medals at three consecutive Olympic games, an unprecedented feat for the 1970s. But as he told Olympic.org this week, that didn’t even make him the most decorated member of his ...

Among the most important things an athlete can do is set goals, and with these goals come standards. Proper training, sleep, and nutrition are vital necessities for success in any sport. But balancing ...

BEIJING, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Michael Phelps reaches for his seventh Beijing gold medal on Saturday to match the prodigious feat achieved by Mark Spitz in 1972. Sign up here. Phelps goes into the 100 ...