Headlining the women’s blockbuster professional field of 60 triathletes for the upcoming Ironman World Championship in Kona is reigning champion Laura Philipp of Germany.

Nature can sometimes pull off some pretty neat tricks and in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria, a quarry lake has, with no human intervention, turned a beautiful deep purple, attracting visitors ...

A trio of Americans, headed by sprint standout Jack Alexy, finished in the second section of our rankings of top men's swimmers.

The Seine River in Paris has been closed to public swimming for more than 100 years, but it reopened to swimmers this summer. We talked to two people who took a dip.