Just a few years before the outbreak of WWII, the Olympic Games in Berlin were a way for Hitler to illustrate the supremacy of the Nazi regime. Jesse Owens, the grandson of slaves, won four gold ...

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," ...

OMAHA, Neb. -- Holding off one of his best friends, Michael Phelps started his second attempt to break Mark Spitz's Olympic record with another epic swim. Less than an hour later, the teenager he ...

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 ...

Phelps's chase of Mark Spitz's mark of seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games captivated the world and thrilled millions who had never previously watched a swimming race. It's easy to forget that ...