McKeown breaks 200m backstroke world record
Australian Kaylee McKeown broke the women's 200 metres backstroke world record at the New South Wales State Open Championships in Sydney on Friday.
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Australia's Kaylee McKeown smashes women's 200m backstroke world record
Three-time Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown broke the world record in the 200-metre backstroke Friday at the New South Wales State Open swim championships.
Maggie Mac Neil's butterfly gold, relay bronze leads 4-medal day for Canada at short course worlds
Canadian swimmers continued to climb the podium on Wednesday at the world short course championships in Melbourne, Australia, including a gold medal won by Maggie Mac Neil in the women's 50-metre butterfly.
Tokyo 2020 day four: All the Olympic gold medal winners - in pictures
There will be a total of 22 gold medals up for grabs on day four of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and among the early golds handed out was a first-ever for Bermuda.
Birmingham sparkles as Commonwealth Games open to strains of Duran Duran
BIRMINGHAM: British pop giants Duran Duran headlined a glitzy Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Birmingham on Thursday as more than 5,000 athletes braced for battle.
Commonwealth Games set for glitzy launch in Birmingham
Commonwealth Games lacking several track and field stars but still boasting elite performers. Competitors from 72 nations and territories -- many of which are former British colonies -- will be vying for medals in 19 sports over a jam-packed 11 days in the Midlands. Away from the marquee athletics and swimming events, women's Twenty20 cricket makes its debut and 3x3 basketball will feature for the first time while sedate lawn bowls is a fixture. There is an integrated para sports programme in some events. The Games, held every four years, are often criticised as a quirky sporting relic but will be launched in style at Thursday's opening ceremony, headlined by 1980s pop band Duran Duran, formed in Birmingham. Sporting powerhouse Australia have topped the medals table at every Games since 1990 except in 2014, when England finished top in Glasgow -- the last time the event was held on British soil. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compete as separate teams during the Commonwealths rather than as a combined British outfit. In the pool, Emma McKeon, Ariarne Titmus, Kaylee McKeown and teenage sensation Mollie O'Callaghan will lead the charge for a star-studded Australian team. Double Olympic champion Titmus, 21, opted out of the recent world championships in Budapest to keep herself fresh for Birmingham. "I am so excited and I think we've got a great team going in. It's insane the depth we have," said the Commonwealth Games 400 metres and 800m freestyle champion.
Commonwealth Games daily highlight shows air on Olympic Channel
A Commonwealth Games highlight show airs daily at 6 p.m. ET on Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA and streams for Olympic Channel subscribers on NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app.
Katie Ledecky completes 4-for-4 swim worlds with 5-peat
BUDAPEST — Katie Ledecky won all four of her events at the world swimming championships, capping it with an unprecedented fifth consecutive title in her trademark event, the 800m freestyle.