Swimming

Yakima's Franklin Pool closed out the 2016 swimming season Sunday (Aug. 28) by letting it go to the dogs. Literally.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — This is the seventh day of the Olympics and for the first time in 112 years, golf is being contested. Today marks the start of play with six of the top 10 players in the world not taking part. For various reasons they withdrew before the start of the Games...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Michael Phelps has made up for one of the few losses in his Olympic career. Phelps avenged his defeat at the 2012 London Games by winning the 200-meter butterfly on Tuesday night, holding off Japan's Masato Sakai by a mere four-hundredths of a second...

The city of Yakima has announced that it will be closing Lions Pool beginning Monday, (Aug. 8), for three weeks to complete annual maintenance on the indoor facility.

Attention everyone who has a beard! There is now a swimming cap that covers your head and your whole face. Now your beard can stay in tack while you swim. If you like looking like a dork at the same time! I can't tell you how many Yakima Valley people I know who have a beard. I am sure some of them will like this, but most of them, it is already about appearance!  HA

These crazy kids should do this for a show!

Many of the 49 men and women who make up this year’s US swimming squad — like Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Jessica Hardy and Rebecca Soni — have years of experience. But fresh-faced Missy Franklin is a relative newcomer to the sport.

US Olympian Matt Grevers, 27, will compete at the Summer Olympics in London at the end of this month. After hauling in three medals in Beijing in 2008, Grevers has trained diligently and seems destined to add to his personal medal count in 2012.