Japanese swimming prodigy Rikako Ikee made her Tokyo Summer Olympics debut Saturday night, less than a year after returning to competition following a Leukemia diagnosis. And although she didn’t ...

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 ...

BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA, Oct. 2. A decade ago, when America's Mike Barrowman was stroking to an Olympic gold and the world-record in the 200 meter breaststroke at Barcelona, Japan's Kosuke Kitajima was a ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - AUGUST 09: Kosuke Hagino of Japan reacts after winning the silver medal in the Men’s 400m Individual Medley Final on day one of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships at Tokyo Tatsumi ...

Japanese swimmer Rikako Ikee, the 18-year-old who is already an early favorite to medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, has been diagnosed with leukemia. Ikee announced the news via Twitter on ...

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 ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The next swimming world championships were formally postponed for a second time Tuesday because of the COVID-19 pandemic and will now take place in 2023 in Japan. World ...

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 ...

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 ...