Ben Lecomte, a 50-year old Frenchman turned Texan, will slip into the water Sunday off the coast of Choshi, Japan, and start swimming. If all goes as planned, he won’t set foot on land for six months.

Japanese swim star Rikako Ikee reacts after a women’s 50-meter freestyle at a local race meet, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020, at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center in Tokyo. Ikee, who revealed in ...

The days of the Japanese excellence in the 400-meter individual medley are alive and well, as the final day of the Japan Swim demonstrated. In the final event of the men’s program, three athletes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan's female synchronised swimming team aims to restore the country's dominance in the sport as it gears up for the 2016 Summer ...

TOKYO, Japan, April 2. THE Japan Swim kicked off in fine fashion today in Tokyo with some blazing fast efforts by those in assemblance. The meet is serving as part of Japan's Olympic qualification ...

Little-known Japanese swimmer Yui Ohashi giggled politely at the suggestion that she might have become one of the stars of her home country’s Olympics in the absence of Naomi Osaka. She dismissed the ...

Japan’s Rikako Ikee reacts after winning the women’s 100m freestyle final during the Japan National Swimming Championships, which doubles as a qualifier event for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, at the Tokyo ...

Tokyo — A Chinese woman who was swept out to sea while swimming at a Japanese beach was rescued 37 hours later after drifting in a swimming ring more than 50 miles in the Pacific Ocean, officials said ...

Australia’s James Magnussen (l) and US swimmer Nathan Adrian (r) dive as they compete in the final of the men’s 100-metre freestyle swimming event in the FINA World Championships at the indoor stadium ...