Léon Marchand’s life changed drastically after he won four gold medals a year ago in the Paris Olympics.

A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis has been sold at auction for $545,371 as part of a larger collection of memorabilia from previous Games.

Léon Marchand completed his dominating run through the Paris Olympics, capturing his fourth swimming gold with another runaway victory in the 200-meter individual medley Friday night.

Chase Kalisz has become the seventh American swimmer to make six world championship teams.

Katie Ledecky has joined an elite club, earning her sixth trip to the world championships with a dominating victory in the 800-meter freestyle at the U.S. nationals.

László Cseh outlasted longtime rivals Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte.

For the first time in more than a century, Britain claimed relay gold at the Olympic pool.

Gunnar Bentz, one of the three other U.S. Olympic swimmers involved in Lochtegate in Rio, gets a chance at a clean slate in Tokyo

Caeleb Dressel could win as many as seven medals in the pool at the Tokyo Olympics.

Ryan Lochte’s Olympic career is surely over.

Ryan Lochte, 36, became the oldest man to ever qualify for a U.S. Olympic Swim Team.

A tantalizing men's 200m IM final highlights Night 6 at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials.

Caeleb Dressel highlights Night 5 at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha.

Twelve-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte is one race away from qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics, potentially his fifth Games.

Olympic champion Ryan Lochte has failed to advance from the preliminaries of the 200-meter freestyle in his first event of the U.S. Olympic swimming trials.

Outside of it, the Olympic champion is pushing herself in a new endeavor to boost the profile of women’s sports. AdShe’s aiming to defend her 100 free title at the Tokyo Olympics, delayed for a year by the coronavirus pandemic. When Stanford closed its facilities last March, Manuel and training partner Katie Ledecky found a backyard pool to work out in. He failed to make it out of the preliminaries, finishing 32nd in the 100 free and 25th in the 100 breaststroke. Blake Pieroni won the men’s 100 free in 49.19 seconds.

“This is probably going to go down as my worst meet that I’ve ever had,” he said by phone from Sarasota, Florida. Lochte figures he’s competed in just seven meets since 2016. Lochte said he’s still in touch with Phelps, who retired after Rio and has three boys of his own now. Lochte looks around the pool deck at his young competitors and admits not knowing their names and who is the fastest. It’s still fun.”Lochte still has his supporters, whether it’s his fans who know he’s always willing to accommodate their requests or those in the sport.

Irvine is hosting about 240 swimmers — a mix of national team members, collegians and high schoolers — competing outdoors under strict safety guidelines at a time when COVID-19 is surging again in many parts of the country. Ryan Lochte, seeking to make his fifth Olympic team at age 36, is competing at the U.S. Open site in Sarasota, Florida. Swimmers enter the complex through a designated spot and follow a progression from the warm-up pool, competition pool, warm-down pool and exit. The number of swimmers who can be in the same lane training at the same time is limited to a maximum of four. Multiple sessions are being staged to keep the number of swimmers at the complex at one time lower.