Stephen Smith is a managing editor for CBSNews.com based in New York. A Washington, D.C. native, Steve was previously an editorial producer for the Washington Post, and has also worked in Los Angeles, ...

The 200 freestyle, where distance swimmers meet sprinters, is one of the hardest events in competitive swimming. Whether you are racing the 200 freestyle in short course yards or meters, or long ...

Katie Ledecky swam the 13th-fastest time ever in the 800-meter freestyle, only she wasn’t racing the 800. She still had 700 meters to go. The American swimming star challenged her own unmatchable ...

For the fourth consecutive time and the fifth time in the past six Olympics, Australia won the gold medal in the women's 4x100-meter freestyle relay at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris on Saturday. The ...

The 50-yard freestyle is swimming’s equivalent of track and field’s 100-yard dash. There is no margin for error, and the smallest mistake can be the difference between a gold medal and no medal at all ...

Canadian Summer McIntosh won the 400m freestyle — the first of her two head-to-heads with Katie Ledecky — to open her bid to win a record-tying five individual gold medals at the World Swimming ...

Singapore, Singapore - July 29: World Champion Katie Ledecky of USA competing in the Women 1500m Freestyle Final Swimming event on day 19 of the Singapore 2025 World Aquatics Championships at WCH ...