World Aquatics regulations require an Olympic-sized swimming pool to be 50 meters, or approximately 164 feet, long. This measurement is taken from end to end of the pool, including the touch ...

Each aquatic Olympic event has specific facility rules, according to World Aquatics. For swimming, the pool is classified as "long course" due to its measurements. World Aquatics dictates an ...

Add in varying distances and swimming strokes, and there’s a lot to keep track of in the pool. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. There are four strokes in Olympic ...

A few hundred red and white tiles—embedded on the underside of a concrete slab bridge in Broad Ripple Park—is what’s left of the old Broad Ripple Pool, a former crown jewel of the Midwest and site of ...

Now a time-obsessed sport is grappling with the possibility that the Paris Olympics are being contested in a dreaded Slow Pool. It has become the dominant swimming topic of conversation on the ...

Forty years after introducing a standard pool to the Games, London brought Olympic swimming inside. The U.S. men raised the roof with the first — and still only — gender sweep, taking all six events.