Tuesday saw a practice session for the event cancelled after negative testing Paris have spent over £1.2billion on upgrading ...

A test run meant to allow Olympic athletes to familiarize themselves with the marathon swimming course in the Seine River was canceled Tuesday over concerns about water quality in the Paris waterway.

The event was introduced at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and is sometimes referred to as the "marathon swim" or "the 10k." Twenty-two competitors will swim in the event. There are no lanes, and physical ...

Whereas all other Olympic open water races have featured a lapped course, Paris will mark the first point-to-point marathon swim in the history of the Games. Tickets for the swimming events at the ...

The proud 27-year-old from Wellington, spent 9 hours and 25 minutes in the waters of the Foveaux Strait (Te Ara a Kiwa) last month, completing the final piece of an eight-year marathon swimming ...

Preparation is everything, also before the last competition on 18 March in Fremantle WA, prior to the 25 kilometre swim to Rottnest Island. Austrian Michael Pranckl has just become the first ...

Paris 2024 Olympics - Marathon Swimming - Women's 10km - Alexander III Bridge, Paris, France - August 08, 2024. The river Seine and the Alexander III Bridge are pictured ahead of the race. REUTERS ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Netherlands' iron-woman Sharon van Rouwendaal claimed her second Olympic women's 10km marathon swimming gold as she snatched victory from her Australian friend and training ...