PARIS — After months of speculation about whether the Seine River would be clean enough for Olympic athletes to compete in it, officials deemed the water safe for swimming after a last-minute test.

Contrary to a recent action/horror movie, there are no sharks in the Seine. There was a shark watch, though, at the very first Olympic triathlon in 2000 during the Sydney Games. At the Olympics, water ...

A trio of local high school girls’ swimming and diving teams linked up on the island of Grosse Ile on Tuesday for an early-season non-conference tri-meet outdoors at the Grosse Ile Golf & Country Club ...

PARIS, France — After days of water-quality concerns caused by heavy rains last week put the swimming portion of the Olympic triathlons in doubt, the women dove into the Seine River on Wednesday under ...