Rock bottom
Now it's official. For the first time in 40 years, Canada did not win even one Olympic swimming medal, a drought that hasn't happened since Tokyo in 1964. It's really no big surprise since none of our 20-member swim team was ranked in the top three in the world going into this Olympics. And yet, it's a mighty fall from the heady days when Canada won 10 medals in the pool in Los Angeles in 1984 and eight in Montreal in '76.
Aug. 22: Full Story

Phelps simply a cut above
Michael Phelps has proven he is the best swimmer ever -- in and out of the pool. Yesterday, the 6-ft. 5-in. 19-year-old from Baltimore won his sixth gold medal to add to his two bronze, making him the swimmer to cart home the most medals from one Olympics in the history of the Games.
Aug. 22: Full Story

What went wrong?
It's been the Canadian story of the Summer Games: what in the name of Mark Tewksbury is happening in the pool? It's been a dozen years since Calgary's Tewksbury won Canada's last swimming gold medal.
Aug. 20: Full Story

Putrid in the pool
The man who owns the Baltimore swim club that produced Michael Phelps and other past Olympic medal winners, has a name for Canadian swimming. Murray Stephens calls it "socialist swimming."
Aug. 19: Full Story

Brown's effort floats hope
Mike Brown is promising to be on the podium in Beijing, four years from now. And he's not kidding.
Aug. 19: Full Story

Golden girl
Kirsty Coventry may have won a silver and a bronze in the Olympic pool but for her country of Zimbabwe, she's golden and always will be.
Aug. 19: Full Story