TOKYO AQUATICS CENTRE

Chinese diver Quan Hong Chan nailed two perfect dives in the final round of the women's 10m platform competition to win the gold and shattered the Olympic record

Delaney Schnell had a strong performance in the prelims of the women's 10m diving event to finish third and easily advance to the semifinals while Katrina Young snuck into the top 18 on her final dive.

Diving legends Ken Terauchi and Romel Pacheco enjoyed moments of heartfelt appreciation from their fellow members of the diving community.

China had another dominating performance at the Olympic diving pool, taking the top two spots in the semifinals of the women’s 3-meter springboard.

After torching the pool in three different events on Saturday, Caeleb Dressel has a chance to accomplish something only achieved since 1992 by the legendary Michael Phelps.

While they cannot be in person at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, supporters of Team USA swimmers send their love from afar.

Great Britain won the first mixed medley relay in Olympic history, finishing in world record time.

TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Games got their first swimming individual world record and a fast start to the track competition on Day 7 of the Olympics. Djokovic was attempting to become the first man to win all four Grand Slam tournaments and Olympic gold in the same year. DOUBLE TROUBLERussian Evgeny Rylov has completed a backstroke sweep at the Tokyo Olympics. It also might have cost Allyson Felix a chance at her record-setting 10th Olympic medal. She has nine Olympic medals and with one more would break a tie with Merlene Ottey of Jamaica for the most Olympic track medals for a woman.

Ryan Murphy clearly believes there’s more he can say than what he said Friday after taking second in the men’s 200 backstroke, behind Evgeny Rylov.

Siobhán Haughey has her eyes set on another medal in the 100-meter freestyle final.

U-M graduate assistant diving coach Michael Hixon won the silver medal with diving partner Andrew Capobianco on Wednesday.

Bobby Finke of the United States has captured gold in the debut of the men’s 800-meter swimming freestyle event at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri grabbed the silver after leading most of the race, while the bronze went to Mykhailo Romachuk of Ukraine. Germany’s Florian Wellbrock grabbed the lead from Paltrinieri on the final flip, with Finke lurking back in fourth. But the American turned on a dazzling burst of speed at the end of the 16-lap race, passing all three swimmers ahead of him to take the gold. The men’s 800 freestyle was added to the Olympic program for the Tokyo Games, marking the first time that approximate distance was contested by the men since there was an 880-yard race at the 1904 St. Louis Games.

She did it in the first-ever Olympic women's 1,500-meter freestyle -- then she got emotional.

Swimmers Emma Weyant and Jay Litherland were among the first Americans to win medals for Team USA. They discuss what that experience was like on this episode of The Podium.

"Being third in the world is no shame but obviously you want to go out there and win," Murphy said. "That was the best I had this day. Hats off to the Russian guys."

The world needs joy. Especially now. Tunisian teen Ahmed Hafnaoui provided it Sunday morning in the men’s 400-meter freestyle.

The United States has won a medal in this race in every games it has competed in since 1912, claiming bronze in Tokyo.

Americans Emma Weyant and Hali Flickinger will proudly take the podium after the women's 400 IM, but there was no catching Japan's Yui Ohashi on Sunday.

TOKYO — Chase Kalisz won the first American medal of the Tokyo Games, taking gold Sunday in the men’s 400-meter individual medley. Kieran Smith grabbed another medal for the Americans with bronze in the men’s 400 freestyle. Kalisz, a protégé and former training partner of Olympic great Michael Phelps, touched first in 4 minutes, 9.42 seconds. That was the same format used at the 2008 Beijing Games, where Phelps won a record eight gold medals. He retired after Rio, having won 23 gold medals, but the Americans still have plenty of star power for the post-Phelps era.