NANTERRE, France - A strange thing happened in the final of the women’s 400-meter freestyle Saturday night at the Paris Olympics, an event billed as a potential “Race of the Century” for the ...
The concerns about the status of the competition pool inside La Défense Arena have gotten louder each day of the Olympic swimming competition. While there have been five Olympic records, no world ...
PARIS — In the men’s 100-meter breaststroke final here at the 2024 Olympics on Sunday, eight world-class swimmers glided through a pool … and not a single one would have finished better than eighth at ...
It’s true the pool at La Défense Arena is shallower than at other recent Games, but does the ‘slow pool’ theory hold water? There has been plenty of rain, sweat and tears shed at the Paris Olympics ...