Alice Dearing is Team GB’s first Black female swimmer, and this year she’s hoping ... Dearing admits that the stop-start nature of her Olympic journey has been tough. “When the first ...

A retired British Olympic swimmer has urged people to only swim ... Alice Dearing, who specialises in open water swimming and became the first black woman to swim for Great Britain at an Olympic ...

Olympic swimmer Alice Dearing, an ambassador for the swim cap company, penned a thoughtful essay for The Guardian on how the rule put her and other Black swimmers at a disadvantage. Dearing's ...

Former Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry, has been elected as the next President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), making history as the first woman and first African to hold the post ...

Jake Mitchell is the youngest male swimmer on the U.S. team, just 19 ... Jake Mitchell is, against crazy odds, an Olympic finalist. And that, that black cap, is something to take back home to Indiana.

A Wisconsin man made history at the 1904 Olympics when he became the first Black person to win a medal. Geoge Poage broke barriers, but his story hasn't been well known until recently. Chelsea ...

Former Zimbabwe swimmer and Olympic Gold medallist Kirsty Coventry has stunned the world by landing the biggest job in sport and creating history at the historically conservative IOC. The surprise ...

While the three downward-facing strokes allow athletes to track their position in the pool by looking at a black line ... distances in the Olympic program, 200m and 400m. The medley relay features ...