A pair of N.C. state champions headline the 2025 All-Observer boys’ and girls’ swim teams. The teams represent the best players in The Charlotte Observer’s regional coverage area, which includes ...

Neil Robertson whitewashed fellow former world champion Stuart Bingham 10-0 to win the World Grand Prix for the second time in Hong Kong. Robertson won all eight frames in the opening session and ...

Justice Neil Gorsuch broke from the Supreme Court ... "Imagine a lifeguard perched on his chair at the beach who spots a swimmer struggling against the waves," Gorsuch said.

A new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has been elected. Kirsty Coventry, the two-time Olympic gold medallist and Zimbabwe sports minister, has become the first woman and ...

Former teammates of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas are celebrating Donald Trump's decision to cut $175million in funding to the University of Pennsylvania for allowing biological males to take ...

Kirsty Coventry, a former Zimbabwean swimmer, won the race to be the next president of the International Olympic Committee, the most powerful job in world sport. After a single round of voting at a ...

Former UPenn swimmer Ellen Holmquist and attorney Bill Bock weigh in on the fight for fairness in women’s sports on ‘Fox News @ Night.’ ...

Former UPenn swimmer Margot Kaczorowski and her attorney Bill Bock on the Trump administration freezing funding to the university over the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. University of Pennsylvania athlete Lia Thomas prepares for the 500 meter freestyle event at the NCAA ...

Thomas’ time on the men's swim team Thomas, an Austin, Texas native, graduated high school in 2017 and was recruited to swim for the Penn men’s swimming and diving team, for which she started to ...

The next day, the Education Department announced an investigation into Penn’s swimming program. But the Ivy League school’s federal money was suspended in a separate review of discretionary federal ...

The Ivy League school has been facing an Education Department investigation focusing on its swimming program. That inquiry was announced last month immediately after President Donald Trump signed ...