How Hollywood ensured a Happy Ending for the Olympics By David Owen Today the Olympic Movement is well established as the most powerful, and one of the best-resourced, sports organisations the world has seen. But it has not always been that way. Thirty years ago, political pressure and inept commercial management had weakened it to the point where its very existence was under threat. What then enabled the Five Rings to check out of intensive care and embark on the path to complete recovery? A few things, but one of...

Amanda Beard, 32 and mother of 2, to keep swimming Nick Zaccardi Aug 2, 2014, 7:54 PM EDT Leave a comment Getty Images Seven-time Olympic medalist Amanda Beard hasn’t been seen much, if at all, in competition since the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. But she’s not done swimming yet. “The way that I look on my swimming career is as long as I’m physically capable of doing it,” Beard told the Springfield (Ill.) Journal-Register. “I don’t want to look back in 30 years and say, ‘Man, I could’ve kept swimming....

The United States Olympic Committee joins the global Olympic Movement in celebrating the two-year countdown to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Tuesday, Aug. 5. To commemorate the two-year milestone, the USOC is sharing thoughts from some of its top 2016 Olympic hopefuls, distributing sport storylines and qualification procedures, launching a video and online feature series dubbed “Ready for Rio” on TeamUSA.org, and promoting #ReadyForRio on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Additionally, and per tradition, OMEGA’s Olympic Games Countdown Clock will launch Aug. 5 on the homepage of TeamUSA.org, alerting fans on...

USA Women's National Team Announces Roster For Upcoming FINA World Cup Huntington Beach, CA - August 5 - USA Women's Senior National Team Head Coach Adam Krikorian has announced the 13 athletes that will compete for Team USA at the upcoming FINA World Cup. The event is set for this August 12-17 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia where the United States will look to defend their championship, won in 2010 in Christchurch, New Zealand. The title in 2010 marked the first World Cup crowned for the USA Women since 1979. Olympians Kami...

Two Years to 2016 Rio Olympic Games: Links to News, Photos & Aquatic Venues & Test Events FINA Newsletter - July 30, 2014 World Anti Doping Agency Play True Newsletter US Synchro Swimmers Take Top Spots at FINA World Masters Championships FINA posts schedule of events for 2015 World Championships & World Masters FINA Press Release: USA's Alex Meyer wins 10K in Canada's Lake Magog 15th Masters Worlds in Montreal, Canada continues through August 10th Results of USA Swimming's SPEEDO Junior Nationals Championships in Irvine, California International Swimming Hall of...

IRVINE, USA--The 2014 USA Nationals is tomorrow through Sunday (August 6-10) in Irvine, California. The meet serves as the qualifier for the USA's team to the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships, later this month in Gold Coast, Australia. Results from the meet will be available online at OmegaTiming.com U.S. Swimming Championships entry lists released Nick Zaccardi Jul 31, 2014, 7:05 PM EDT Leave a comment AP Michael Phelps could swim up to four events at next week’s U.S. Championships, and he may face Ryan Lochte in all of them. Here are...

RIO 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES NEWS, PHOTOS & SCHEDULE OF TEST EVENTS Links to the Rio 2016 Aquatic Venues: DIVING OPEN WATER SWIMMING SYNCHRO WATER POLO Rio 2016 celebrates two years until the Olympic Games by stepping up the pace Progress made in venue construction, test events and education programme, with volunteers, tickets and mascots on the horizon The official 2 years to go photo can be downloaded in high resolution here: http://we.tl/EUJNi8oITh Please credit: Alex Ferro / Rio 2016 With exactly two years to go before the opening of the...

Sustainability? Legacy? LA 1984 revisited Published on August 1, 2014 | by Alan Abrahamson Los Angeles 1984 No one likes I-told-you-so’s, and if there is a good lord up above, he — or she — knows full well that others find it tiresome, indeed, to hear Americans boasting about anything. So this is not — repeat, not — that column. There’s no point. At the same time, it’s just plain dumb to ignore reality. So, now, with International Olympic Committee extolling a renewed commitment to “sustainability” and “legacy,” and with...

USA Today: Bored in Retirement, Michael Phelps Happy to be Back in the Pool by Nicole Auerbach, USA Today Sports U.S. nationals Nicole Auerbach, USA TODAY Sports 2:37 p.m. EDT August 4, 2014 (Photo: Kevin Liles, USA TODAY Sports) 419CONNECT 232TWEET LINKEDIN 9COMMENT EMAIL MORE IRVINE, Calif. — The greatest Olympian ever didn't become the greatest Olympian ever easily. Training was grueling, events were demanding and focus was single-minded. His life was spent in — and his mind and body bound to — the pool. And it worked. Michael Phelps...

Remembering June Krauser “The Mother of Masters Swimming” Played Key Roles with ISHOF and the Special Olympics June 16, 1926 ‒ August 2, 2014 FORT LAUDERDALE - June Krauser, a leading figure in the development of Masters Swimming and the Special Olympics passed away on Saturday, she was 88 years-old. Known primarily as the “Mother of Masters Swimming” around the word, Krauser also played important, but lesser known roles in the creation of the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) and the Special Olympics. “June Krauser was a remarkable woman,’...